Yesterday's hour of rowing was labeled a recovery because the day before yesterday had mostly consisted of an effort level that kept heart rate in the "FORBIDDEN ZONE" for anyone who is aiming to maintain an 80/20 ratio of heart rate during daily aerobic work outs. That is, it is FORBIDDEN for more than 20% of the time during workouts. Races.... are something else.
So I considered the day before yesterday a race and am therefore fully in compliance with staying within the 80/20 safety zone.
There were no ill effects yesterday. Ill effects of working too much at too hard a pace in the past have included irregular heart rate and extreme tiredness. But yesterday everything looked and felt okay.
And today, everything looked and felt even better than yesterday. Resting heart rate before today's session was low enough to indicate that it had recovered and had not been excessively strained by the workout of two days ago.
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| Resting HR while sitting before today's hour began was 49 to 51 bpm. |
So with all that in mind, I decided to do today's hour at an effort level that would keep HR near the boundary of Zone 1 and Zone 2 (the center of the RowPro generated pink zone on the heart rate graph below) and to skip doing any warm down. It felt good, with no strain and resulted in a little more than 13,000 meters for the hour.
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| The finish screen after today's hour of rowing. |
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| Today's session report. |
So the "plan" that is forming with regard to the next few rowing sessions is to continue taking it easy and maybe even do some sessions entirely in Zone 1, then to try for a "season best" to enter into this season's rankings for the hour. The distance to exceed would be anything greater than 14,029 meters for one hour.
It's nice to have a goal, even if it is a short term goal in one of the rankings that most people don't pay any attention to.
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