The title of today’s blog post is from among the words in a recent message generated by the sleep-tracking app that I’ve been using for quite a while. The app has a feature called “Discover,” which, if enabled, tries to find significant correlations between the health information that it has been given access to and my nightly sleep. As you see in the screenshot of its recent “Discover” message, there is more reason to believe that exercise is healthy for you.
Today’s indoor rowing was shorter than recent usual. Instead of doing at least 10K, I did only 5K. I will be doing shorter sessions between now and November 24th. On November 25th, I’ll start doing longer sessions of from 10K to half marathon or more per day and will continue doing longer sessions through December 25th. The reason for that is because Concept 2 is having its annual charity challenge and for everyone who participates, Concept 2 donates a few cents per 1,000 meters to one of the charities that they have pre-selected.
Today’s 5K piece was done online with 3 others. Two of the others were in Europe and one, besides myself, was in the U.S. The original tentative “plan” for today’s 5K was to do it at a pace of 2:02 or faster, so as to move up in the 5K world rankings at least one position. Those were very tentative plans. I ate lunch about 30 minutes before the rowing session and didn’t have time for any warm up.
After a little over 2,000 meters, I decided to slow down and do the remainder of the 5K at a warm down pace. When the remaining distance was 1,000 meters, I increased the pace to whatever it took, to keep the overall average pace at about 2:15. There was no particular reason or motivation for doing it that way – it’s just what I happened to feel like and agree to within my own mind, during the piece.
Happy rowing to you, whether short or long distance.