Today’s session was another 10K and today’s goal was to achieve an average effort, in Watts, of one Watt more than yesterday’s average Watts. It didn’t feel any different. There is probably a margin of error of about 1/2 of an average Watt.
Comparing today’s session report to that of February 7th (yesterday) the total calories increased by one calorie, the pace was faster by -0.2 seconds per 500 meters and the ending heart rate was the same today and yesterday, at 133 BPM. It should be noted that officially the number of calories increase from yesterday to today was one “unofficial” calorie because it is in layman’s terms, which is a “large” calorie or… in official physics terms the “kilogram calorie” or one “kilo-calorie”.
There are so MANY official calories in the food we eat that the number is made to seem a smaller and also more easily manageable number by dividing them by 1,000 and using an unofficial term for units of energy. The link immediately preceding this sentence is to a Wikipedia article and though many things in Wikipedia are untrue, biased or part of the truth is censored… the article on calories seems accurate. (I took a few courses in high school and college physics.)
So… that little Snickers candy bar (yummy!) which is listed as having a “mere” 250 calories actually has 250 kilo-calories which in normal physics terms is 250,000 actual official calories. Yes, it is a lot of energy.
Tomorrow’s goal: Increase average power by one more average Watt.
Happy rowing to you.