Today was the day for me, if not anyone else, to do the May 2017 C2CTC challenge which was called BW Rowing Sprint Monster. Before doing that, I did 15K at an easy pace while listening to music from a youtube playlist called “music for erg half marathon or longer” … even though the distance I rowed was quite a bit less than a half marathon. I listened to the music in the order it is listed (did not choose to shuffle it) and by the time the 15,000 meters was done, the 9th selection was still playing.
Did not do any strength training today. Am still putting it off until next week, but my sleep is starting to suffer from lack of the strength-training supplement to rowing.
One little nuisance thing I notice about RowPro 5 for the Mac compared to the RowPro windows version I used previously is that when I do intervals like today’s BW Rowing Sprint Monster, RowPro does not add up the distances separately for active and rest portions. So, to get the total meters rowed during the active portion I had to use a calculator and add those 10 distance manually.
When doing the series of 10 sprint intervals, I decided to go kind of easy and do the first one about 2:00, the second one a little faster, etc all the way through all ten of them. I chose to do it that way, because I’ve noticed problems in the past, when I’ve gone all-out from the start on comparable short interval sets. The results in total meters aren’t great, but there were no problems afterwards.
Above are screenshots from the 15K and below are screenshots from the 10X sprint intervals.
Happy erging to you.