Loping Along with Loperamide

Today's rowing session was another 61 minute arrangement of guided heart rate through focused adjustment and maintenance of effort level.

It was an all-in-one session that started out slightly fast for a quick warm-up and gradually slowed down by a measure of about one more second per 500 meters each minute from the start until 15 minutes into the session. 

Then, the effort was reduced to what amounted to a gentle pace of 2 minutes 20 seconds per 500 meters and held as constant as possible until the time counted down to 10 minutes remaining. 

The last 10 minutes were rowed at an effort level low enough to reduce heart rate to just a little above 100 beats per minute.

The blue graph is effort level and the red one is heart rate.

Today's session seemed more invigorating but no more taxing than the previous two days.

The title, "Loping Along with...." refers to the fact that last night I had to resort to a dose of loperamide hydrochloride to bring things under control when a partial repeat of food poisoning symptoms got a bit out of control.  Things in that regard seemed totally normal this morning.  It would have spoiled the rowing session, if I'd been forced to interrupt it for something like what loperamide is used against.

Last night was the first time I've needed to resort to a dose of loperamide in about 10 years.

If it seems to you that I'm being a bit vague or avoiding saying some explicit things, you are right and you can look up loperamide, if you don't know and want to know what it is used for.