Slower Than A Speeding Bullet

The plane in the sky is flying slower than a speeding bullet but I worked out a lot slower than that this morning.

This morning’s workout was 11,500 meters rowing. It was planned to be slow rowing for warmup during the first 10 or 20 minutes and then there would be intervals of 500 meters alternating with slower rowing for 500 meters, all the way to the end.

But heart rate was UNCOOPERATIVE, so it was all slow and relatively boring paced rowing. I found that it helped a lot if I would periodically tell myself, “Be patient!” That seemed to work very well for a few minutes, after which I would again tell myself, “Be patient. Patience is good.”

After enough time had passed that I felt I should be adequately warmed up, I increased the pace a bit but heart rate reacted by going too high. I slowed down and heart rate dropped, but then it went high and stayed high even though I continued to row slowly all the way to the finish.

For the afternoon session, heart rate was more cooperative. Maybe the choice of music made a difference? The music I listened to in the afternoon was from an album by Ensemble Galilei, titled “Surrounded by Angels”

During the afternoon session I was able to do alternating pace-change intervals of 10 Calories slow, 10 Calories a bit faster and heart rate acted normal. So it wasn’t boring. The beautiful music helped also.

Screenshot of graph for afternoon workout session.

Any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!