Robots have some good uses, but when spammers use bots to try to post comments on a blog, its a real drag to have to look at all the spam, to see if there are any real comments among them.
The title of today’s post is in reference to the addition of another step necessary for anyone to submit a comment. To submit a comment now, you first must demonstrate that you are not a robot.
Today’s training session was only 2K and it was patterned as 2x100r750 within that 2K. In order to get a few more meters and bring the total up to around 10K, it was supplemented with another session. The supplemental session was 7K done online with another member of the RowPro Rowers.
Note that RowPro 5 for the Mac still has a bug in that if the last split distance is not equal to all the previous split distances, it shows an incorrect average pace for the last split. That same error is carried over to the graph of the session, where it incorrectly shows an impossible burst of speed on the graph for the last split.
When I did an image search using the terms TGIF rowing, this was the happiest looking of all the results.
Although I’ve been rowing every day possible, for some reason today’s energy level seemed higher than the past few days. Maybe it was the spirit of TGIF, boosting the energy.
Before rowing, there was a strength-training session of push-ups. The thing that takes the longest about doing the push-ups is the rest time between sets.
To be more specific than today’s post title, there were no oars to bend, because today was another day of indoor rowing. But if today’s rowing had been done OTW like those in the photo above were doing, no oars would have been bent, like you can see the oars are being bent in the boat in the foreground of that photo.
It was a rest and recovery row, gently done. It was accompanied by another strength training session of push-ups.
Today’s training session was 3x100r1000 within a 6K. I wasn’t inspired, stopped a few times and did quite a bit of rowing with only one hand while operating a remote control with the other.
It goes without saying that solo indoor rowing requires no teamwork. But the team effort of a rowing crew sure does look like fun.
Today’s training session was not done as training. It was done very lazily, just to do the meters. It was supposed to be 4x1000r750 within a 10K but I just did it as a very easy 10K while switching from one youtube video to another.
Today’s rowing was a doubling up of two sessions into one day, which resulted in being caught-up again in the training schedule. The first session was a recovery 6K which was done easy. The second session was a 4x250r250 within a 6K and that was done even easier.
It’s always nice to see smiles on the faces of people who are rowing.
Today’s happy rowing on Friday started late because first I had to take the car for emissions inspection & registration renewal. Today was one day before it was too late and the registration expired. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. The lines were long, so there were plenty of others who had put it off until the day before the last day also.
After that, I ran an errand to the store and noticed that one of the tires was almost flat. So I stopped at the tire dealer to get that taken care of and learned that the six year old tires needed to be replaced.
By the time I could do today’s rowing and pushups session, the afternoon was almost over.
Today’s rowing was 4x1000r750 within a total distance of 8K, with a 2,750 meter warmup/down added on.
The spreadsheet display of pushup session results for today will be the last image below.
Descriptive details of today’s sessionfinish screen for the 8KSession reportGraphs for the 8K
The results for today’s strength training pushups session is on the line for Week 5, F(riday) in the image below:
The title of today’s post is actually a non-sequitur to today’s rowing. It just popped into my mind, probably as the result of seeing news today about the “mother of all bombs” which was used for the first time in battle.
But since it was in my mind, I searched for an image using the terms mother and rowers and the above is one of the relevant results, if you can say anything is relevant to a non-sequitur.
Today’s rowing session was 3x200r1000 within a 6K.
