A Focus Factor Finding

Yesterday there was a problem with getting started.  After getting started yesterday, there was a severe lack of focus.

This morning the problem of getting started was addressed by "just doing it" - sitting down and starting rowing- before even making coffee.

The problem of focus was addressed by once again resorting to music.  I had read recently that familiar music from times of childhood and youth can activate parts of the brain that are most closely connected with mental ..... sharpness ... acuity (to abbreviate the longer explanation).  So I looked for and found a playlist in Spotify which consisted entirely of music from the 60's, when I was in my late teens.

It may have been the "focus factor" in today's rowing session because maintaining a constant effort level to keep heart rate within the painted target zone on the RowPro heart rate display was almost effortless.

For the session, a distance of 10K was chosen partly for the sake of the two Concept 2 challenges in which I'm currently involved as a member of the RowPro Rowers team: Mud Season Madness and World Erg Challenge.

Constant effort level was maintained until the last minute when reduced for purpose of warming down. The downward spikes in effort level were to mute and un-mute sound when advertisements came on and ended.

The RowPro session report