Today started a bit later than usual so I had coffee and breakfast first, instead of working out first. Then there was a father’s day phone call that lasted about 90 minutes. By the time I got around to doing today’s workout, it was early afternoon.
So I was a bit surprised after changing into rowing clothes, strapping on the heart transmitter and sitting on the erg, to see heart rate at only 44 BPM.
44 beats per minute was the lowest it dipped during the night while I was deeply, soundly asleep. (I wear a watch while sleeping and it monitors heart rate all through the night.) I was now wide awake. Breakfast, 4 cups of coffee and moving around to change clothes should have raised it a bit. But… as I sat there and watched, it even dropped as low as 43 BPM while I looked at the bottom right corner of the RowPro display.
It seemed remarkable enough that I decided to do something I haven’t done for a while and make a screen-recording of today’s rowing session, in case I wanted to replay it and watch how heart rate had behaved. So there is a screen recording of today’s 10K, for those of you who’d like to row along with it or use it as background noise while you fall asleep. It is on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K at 2m17sec:500m avg pace 06162019
Though heart rate started out surprisingly low, in the mid 40’s instead of in the 60’s where I would have expected it, it behaved very well during the entire 10K piece. So… I won’t be watching the screen recording.
After the 10K rowing, there was a SkiErg session of alternating work/rest intervals and did the work intervals a lot harder than yesterday’s restrained effort level due to yesterday’s heart strangeness.
No heart strangeness today, unless the surprisingly low heart rate while sitting at the start line counts… and it might… so this blog post is therefore tagged with a “heart strangeness” category label for that reason.
Happy rowing to you!