Sunday Indoor Rowing 09-24-2017

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The above image was among the very first results when a search for today’s blog post image was done using the search terms “sunday indoor rowing”. It is a photo on a Dublin (Ireland) High School website and the page includes the three words used in the search.

Today’s rowing should have been interesting and requiring a degree of mental focus, but instead it was boring and got almost no mental focus.  It was a 10,000 meter distance that was scheduled online almost 3 hours before start time.  But nobody who rows online noticed it or was able to join it at the scheduled time.

So I rowed it alone.  Rowing alone doesn’t have to be boring, but other things on my mind, plus the subject matter of a documentary I chose to view while rowing… all seemed to have a summary effect of suppressing enjoyment of the rowing.

On the positive side, the distance was accomplished and heart rate was elevated slightly for almost an hour, which is a health benefit.

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10K finish screen
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This report is accurate with no software glitches. The unusually long Time recorded for Split # 11 is because the documentary I was viewing stalled. I had to troubleshoot the Apple TV and finally had to shut it down and restart it, to get the documentary to resume playing.
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You can see the interruption very clearly on the top graph, where the 11th split is listed.

Happy, interesting rowing to you.