Steady Heart HM

steady-heart

Today’s training session was supposed to be a steady distance “recovery session” of from at least 8K to 15K.  Or more.  The session was supposed to be done with a rating of from 22 to 25 SPM.  Because tomorrow is a rest day and I will probably do no rowing tomorrow, I chose the distance of “or more” and rowed a half marathon.  Average rating was 24, which was within the 22-25 SPM boundaries.  As for the “steady” part, I mostly ignored the pace and just aimed to keep HR at a little higher than twice RHR.  So in other words, I sort of aimed for a steady heart rate. That seemed to work well,  because though I didn’t work up a sweat, it was enough effort to feel a bit of a glow afterwards.  You might say it was heartwarming.

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When there were a few hundred meters to go and I noticed that the average pace at that time was 2:18.4, I felt the urge to pick up the pace a bit so as to bring the average pace down to less than 2:18.
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Though the session report shows an average pace of 2:18, that is a glitch with RowPro 5 for the Mac (beta version), which rounds off the numbers in that column to the nearest whole number. The actual average pace was 2:17.8.
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charts for today’s session.

Happy trails to you.