Today’s musical accompaniment for indoor rowing included a Buddy Holly song from the 1950s. The band was called “The Crickets” and the particular song being performed when the image above was originally formed was called Peggy Sue. Buddy Holly does some interesting, innovative things with the vocals when he sings this particular song.
One of the things that impresses me the most about Buddy Holly is that he looked like a total nerd or geek (although I don’t think either of those words existed in the 1950s), but his singing and musical talent are top notch. For those of you who are too young to know anything about Buddy Holly, he was a pioneer in American popular music and he died at the very young age of 22. Cause of death: airplane crash when he was a passenger in an airplane which was flying in bad weather that required flying by instruments but the pilot was not certified as qualified for instrument flight. The photo below shows a signpost near where Buddy Holly died when the airplane crashed.
Today’s indoor rowing accompaniment to the Buddy Holly song and other 1950s music was mainly a 30 minute piece with a target pace of 2:10/500 meters. I’m taking a break from the series of 5,000 meter season bests, because I don’t want to overdo it with the 5K season best efforts. The effort level for the 5Ks has risen to the level that I should probably do no more than from one to three per week at the most recent effort level. But if the 5K pace raises very much at all, I’ll have to limit them to no more than one per week.
Today’s main rowing piece was preceded and followed by 10 minutes of warmup and down.
Happy rowing to musical accompaniment to you.