Remembering Matthew

Today's plan was simply to focus on the Projected Finish and maintain a pace throughout the session which would result in finishing with about 14,000 meters.  A secondary plan was to start out with a higher than necessary effort and then reduce the effort throughout the session, with the aim of keeping heart rate near the top edge of heart zone 2.

After about 15 minutes, the secondary plan was abandoned in favor of achieving the first goal of 14K+.

Some of my thoughts during today's session were of Matthew. 

Matthew at age 5 or 6

Today was his birthday and he would have been 48 years old.  Matthew once told me that his favorite work was physical labor. He would have liked the wide range of experience possible in that regard with a rowing machine and would have enjoyed a session like this one today. But he probably would have aimed for 16K+ instead of the 14K which was my goal.

The projected finish is shown in the bottom field of the PM3 display in the photo below, which was taken about 15 seconds after finishing today's session.

Projected finish is the bottom line of this view of the PM3 display.

When the countdown reached 3 minutes, pace was reduced for warm down effort.

Total calories was about 100 more than I would have burned at my usual jogging pace.