Today was a bit of follow-through from yesterday. That is, I followed through with yesterday’s determination to avoid procrastination by joining a scheduled rowing session and this morning I kept the appointment online and rowed with several others. The other rowers were at various places in Europe and the United States.
I tentatively decided to pace the slowest person in the group and maybe let it turn into a race. But that person, though he started out at a doable pace, slowed down a bit too much. So there was no race for me, but I rowed a little bit faster than the best time this season and therefore set a new season best, which was entered into the online rankings for 5K in my age category.
Today’s rowing session was only “reminiscent” of a race, because I didn’t row hard enough for it to qualify as a race. I’ve been rowing at an easy pace for so long, that I had a hard time deciding how to categorize today’s effort but finally settle on “medium” since the only part of the session that increased respiration rate even a little bit was during the last few hundred meters.
A screen recording of the session can be found at this link: Indoor Rowing Online 5K and warmdown 09132018
The first part of the screen recording has the 5K and then there is a 2K warm down on the screen recording, which I did with one other guy who had been in the original group.
Happy rowing to you.