The $16.40 Sleeping Pill

The sleeping pill I labored for today was none of the above.

So as to get a good night’s sleep tonight I spent 65.58 minutes laboring on the ergs.

Labor doesn’t have to be extremely hard to act as a sleep aid, but it has to last a while. Thirty minutes or more seems to be the minimum for exercising aerobically to serve as an effective sleep aid.

Ergs have a magical effect on sleep if they are used for a sufficient time at a moderate aerobic pace.

Each of the two workouts today was done at RPE Level 2.

Perhaps you wonder why today’s blog post title mentions a $16.40 sleeping pill. Do you? The answer is this: if you were to assign a value of $15.00 per hour to the 65 minutes and 35 seconds work on the ergs today then the wages for that time would amount to $16.40.

You might favor different value for an hourly wage of physical labor, but the value of a good night’s sleep is priceless.

Chart and data for the first of today’s two workouts, 200 Calories on the SkiErg.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing session.
Graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!