Time was slippery and elusive and it got away from me today, so instead of rowing the usual 10 or more, I only rowed 5K.
Because of the heart problem recently, I restrained myself from jumping in and doing any fast rowing. Not right away at least. Instead, I started out with some featherweight rowing at about 60 Watts and then tried to gradually increase the pressure with each split. The splits for this session were 250 meters.
So the effort was sort of like climbing a hill that got steeper, every 250 meters. By the 16th split, I had worked up to about 300 Watts and kept it at about 300 Watts for that entire split, then used the last four splits, the final 1,000 meters, to warm down gradually so as to not set off any heartquakes in that persnickety heart.
Happy and persnicketiness-free rowing to you.