Today’s indoor rowing session was supposed to be fun but it turned out not to be and I think the reason it was spoiled was because I skipped doing a thorough warmup.
The session was setup to be two intervals of 15 minutes each, according to the requirement for this month’s challenge on the c2ctc.com website. The rules are: “Row two unrestricted reps of 15 minutes with 3 minutes rest between each rep. Start each 15 minute row from a standing start. No rolling starts. Record the distance rowed for the slowest of your 15 minute rows. So you can’t do one easy and one hard. You need best effort for both. ”
The problem that happened was that after the 3 minutes rest, heart rate wouldn’t slow down and remained above 140. Another contributing factor in addition to me not having warmed up sufficiently might be that after the first 15 minutes, I totally stopped rowing, got off the erg and walked around the house for most of the 3 minutes rest time. The heart is supposed to have its very own little brain and I probably should have kept rowing at an easy pace, to avoid confusing that little brain.
So… the results for today’s session won’t be entered on c2ctc.com. I can get a faster result for the slowest 15 minutes of the two, if I do them both again but slower and thereby don’t confuse the heart’s brain into doing a repeat of what it did today. You can see what it did today, graphically, on the graphs among today’s screenshots.
Today’s rowing session fail was uploaded to YouTube and is available as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 2×15 min R3 min Fail 03042018“.
Happy rowing to you.