DaveGetsFit

Since I did my lifting on Sunday, I got in a quick round of Tabata on the rowing machine today.  Distance and stroke rate per interval:

1. 97    42
2. 99    42
3. 92    42
4. 93    42
5. 93    42
6. 93    45
7. 89    45
8. 88    45

Hmmmm—stroke rate up but distance down towards the end.  I’d say those strokes lacked some quality.  I’m sure part of that is due to not having full use of both legs on the catch.  My foot is feeling a little better today but I went ahead and set up an “urgent” appointment for tomorrow rather than wait another two weeks.  I’ll probably end up having to wait for a podiatrist consult anyway.

I headed the gym at lunch time today for an appointment with the Concept2 rowing machine.  I warmed up 15 minutes on a recumbent bicycle,  another five minutes on the rower, and then did a round of Tabata.  I wrote down my distance and stroke rate on each work portion, but I can’t find the piece of paper (it’s probably sitting on my desk at work).  Wish I had realized that before I worked on the html code for 15 minutes to put in the table!   But I can say that my average was around 92km at 42 strokes per minute for each of the eight work intervals.  I also checked my heart rate at the finish of the last two intervals and it was 155bpm each time.  The old standard 220-age forumula puts my max heart rate at 163.  Now I’m sure that isn’t accurate in my case but I was definitely in the anaerobic threshhold range.  I was hampered by having to place my foot so that I didn’t put pressure where I’m experiencing the pain, so that hampered my performance somewhat.  It was still, however, a good workout.

EDIT: Sure enough–the paper with my rowing results was on my desk.  Here’s the distance in km and strokes per minute for each interval:

1. 95  42
2. 97  42
3. 93  45
4. 92  42
5. 88  42
6. 90  42
7. 91  42
8. 91  42

Morning weight:  206lbs