Back In The Routine Again

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This looks like fun but it is OTW rowing. My rowing today was the usual indoor rowing, alone.

After taking two days off from training, I was back at it today.  Started out with strength-training/pushups session and finished with a belated-by-2-days rowing session.

The rowing session was patterned as 4x500r500 within 8K and there was a total of 2K warmup/down.

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Don’t take the details too seriously but the pattern shown is correct. Below the details are graphs of pace and HR for the warmup.
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finish screen for 8K training session.
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The official session report
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Graphs of the 8K portion.

If you are looking for results of today’s strength training session, they are on the bottom line of the image below:

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Happy rowing to you.

More Fun Indoor Rowing

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These OTW rowers are mostly smiling, but the other part of the picture doesn’t convince me that they are having more fun than I did today with indoor rowing.

Today’s training session was a rest and recovery 6K.  In addition to the 6K there was a total of 4K warmup/down.

Before the 6K, another strength-training pushups session was done, with a tiny bit of progress overall. The pushups results are in the last image below.

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Training details for today, with graphs of the 2K warmup below it.
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Finish screen of today’s 6K rest and recovery.
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Session report
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Though today’s session didn’t call for much mental effort, I was a lot more focused today than yesterday and it shows, in the pace per stroke graph.

For today’s strength training, the total number of pushups done in the session decreased by 1 compared to the previous session but the number of consecutive pushups done in one set increased by one, from 10 to 11.  So I count that as a tiny overall improvement.

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Happy rowing to you.

Mental Effort High For Smooth Rowing

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Does she have a headwind or is it a tailwind making the water so sloppy?

Today’s training session was 4x1500m within a distance of 10K. Warmup/down meters totaled another 1,250 meters. The session details asked for high mental effort which would have resulted in smoother graph results.  But I was focused more on the TV, so my results were quite sloppy today, though I did manage to keep the stroke rating within the guidelines of 18-22.

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I complied with all the training details except the part calling for high mental effort. Instead of focusing on the rowing, I paid too much attention to what was on TV and the result was a sloppy graph (see last image, for the graph)
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finish screen
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Session report
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The lack of attention shows, with the sloppy graph of pace in the bottom graph.

Happy rowing to you.

Another Day Of Desert Rowing

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I don’t know where this is, but it looks like desert. Indoor rowing, outdoors!

Today’s training session of indoor rowing was to do three 200 meter intervals within a distance of 8K.  It was patterned as 3x200r1000 and you can see and read more of the details in the first image below.

Before the rowing session, I did another session of strength training with the pushups program.  Results for that are shown on the bottom line of the last image below.

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Descriptive details for today’s training session.
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Finish screen view of the 8K portion.
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Session report
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Graphs of training session 8K

The strength-training pushups results are on the bottom line below:

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Happy rowing to you.

Shorter Than Long Rowing Session

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These rowers look like they are ready to start having some fun.

Judging by the descriptive details for today’s rowing session, it seems that it was supposed to be a hard session.  But it was another case of contradiction between the description and the heart rate zone boundaries.  The HR zone boundaries could only be complied with by rowing easy. I didn’t totally stay within the HR zones where applicable (no HR zones for the two 500 meter sprints) but mostly did.

The pattern for today’s session was 2x500r750 done within a total distance of 10K.  There was another 2,750 meters of warmup/down.

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The puzzling description for today’s training session. Below the description are graphs of pace and HR for the warmup.
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Finish screen of the 10K.
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Session report.
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Session graphs.

Happy rowing to you.

More Fun Indoor Rowing

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These Australian rowers don’t appear to be having the kind of fun they anticipated. Boats capsizing in shark-infested waters is probably not considered fun by most Australians. I had more fun indoor rowing today, I’m sure.

Today’s training session was a 3x200r1000 within 6K.  Warmup and warmdown meters of 4K brought the day’s total to 10K mostly very easy meters.

There was also another strength-training pushups session done, the results of which will be on the bottom line of the last image posted today.

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Details.
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6K finish screen
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Training session report
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Training session graphs.
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I took one minute too little rest between the 3rd and 4th sets and it shows, because I could only do 3 reps in the 4th set.

Happy rowing to you.

Keeping It Fun

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This looks like fun. OTW rowing definitely has more possibilities for fun than does indoor rowing. But I’ll stick with indoor rowing as long as I live in the desert…

Today’s RowPro-scheduled training session was 6K designated as a time trial.

A time trial is supposed to be done as a race, as fast as humanly possible.  I wasn’t in the mood for a solo race today, so I eased back on the pace, to vigorous but definitely less than race pace and alternated each 1,000 meters between that and a slow and easy pace.

It was fun and still felt like a healthy bit of rowing.

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Descriptive details for today’s session, which I mostly ignored. The graphs are of the warmup.
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Finish screen after the 6K
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Final finish screen after final warm down.
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Session report
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The 6K session graphs.

Happy rowing to you.

Too Fast Can Become Too Slow

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This seems to be an OTW version of indoor rowing. With the lines attached to each boat, the rowers can row as fast or slow as they want and they will always stay in the same place.

Today’s fun in rowing was supposed to be an attempt at the April 2017 C2CTC challenge. But it seems that I started out too fast.  It was composed of 7 short intervals of 177, 177, 177, 777, 177, 177 and 177 meters with 7 minutes total rest arranged anyway a person wanted to divide it up between the intervals.  But I guess I did the first 3 of the 177 meter intervals too fast, because I started to have trouble in the middle interval of 777 meters and had to slow way down.  So the whole session was spoiled and far from optimal but I finished it anyway.  Maybe I’ll try doing it again sometime this month.  (A person can do it over as many times as desired during the month but can only make one official entry which would be the best one from among the multiple attempts).

When I went to the C2CTC site to record the results, I discovered that they had changed the challenge from the seven intervals described above, to doing one round of the “Fish game” on the PM.  Oh well.  Maybe I’ll try doing the Fish Game tomorrow.

I also did a training session but first, here is the data and screen shots for the C2CTC attempt (which was done in vain…):

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The session was setup with a rest distance specified after each of the first 6 intervals which would add up to exactly 7 minutes if I rowed each rest distance at the exact average pace of 3:10/500m
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This is how the session looked before it commenced.
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Session report for the botched attempt at this month’s C2CTC challenge
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Finish screen for this attempt at the April 2017 C2CTC challenge
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Watts & HR graphs for the C2CTC attempt. The problem is with the HR.

Now, for the images and data of the training session, which was 2x100m within a total session distance of 2K.

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Details for the training session, with warmup graphs shown below
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Training session finish screen.
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Training session report
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Training session graphs

Happy rowing to you.

Some Laid-Back Rowing

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Definition of laid-back |ˌlādˈbak| adjective, informal: relaxed and easygoing.

Today’s training session was a laid-back “recovery” session, 6K distance.  There was a 2K warmup and 2K warm down. Before the rowing, there was a strength-training push-ups session which will be listed at the end of this post.

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Descriptive details for session, with warmup graphs displayed below.
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Finish screen for 6K portion. The painted target HR zone was ignored because after examining a book written by the designer of the training algorithm, I realized that it is using a maximum heart rate value that is too low. So for the time being, I will just row by how it feels.
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Session report
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Graphs for 6K

The strength-training session results for today are on the bottom line:

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Happy rowing to you.

2 X 500 And That Was About It

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Today’s rowing training session was two 500 meter intervals done at a low rating.  That was about it, except for the rest of the distance which was the remainder of 6000 meters, all done at an easy effort level.  There was a total of 4,000 meters for warmup + warm down.

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Descriptive details displayed after warmup for the upcoming training session.
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Finish screen of the training session.
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Session report for everything, including warmup/down
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The other session graph wasn’t interesting so it is omitted.

Happy rowing to you.