Do you log all your meters? ie, the piece, warm-up, cooldown

[Thomas]

Do you log all your meters? (ie, the piece, warm-up, cooldown).

I do. I was just looking at the annual meters board and was calculating what I would need to finish at the top of the 5,000 meter board, which is an average of 7,499 meters. I need to average 13,057.32 meters over the next 149 days (today is day 216). I am going to try for this goal, which is not too bad of a goal. I have been better at doing cooldown and warmup rows and found them to be helpful in setting personal (season) bests. I have found the cooldowns just as important as the warmup meters in avoiding stiffness. For rows such as 10k's and 30-minutes, the pace is usually low enough that I sometimes don't do any sort of warmup and warmup as I go along. Sometimes I am so out-of-breath after a piece that I don't want to do anything but sit and breathe.

[John Hendrie]

I post every meter I row including warm up (I don't normally warm up but start out slow) and cool down (typically 2000-3000 meters at 2:30 pace. I read here some time ago that if your bum is on the erg you should take credit for every meter

[johnlvs2run]

I usually log every meter, in the steno pad that I have by the erg.

However, there have been times of not rowing much that I've not logged anything.

[michaelb]

In the past, I logged all my meters. If you use rowpro's built in warmup/cooldown feature, those meters are not uploaded to the C2 log. So I warm up and cooldown in separate rows.

Now with the new RP software, you can warm up while in the check in screen for an online race. Those meters are not saved in any way that I can see. I don't row that much after checking in, but don't bother to remember how much I rowed, so I am not recording those meters.

[Thomas]

Do you log all your meters? (ie, the piece, warm-up, cooldown).

I do. I was just looking at the annual meters board and was calculating what I would need to finish at the top of the 5,000 meter board, which is an average of 7,499 meters. I need to average 13,057.32 meters over the next 149 days (today is day 216). I am going to try for this goal, which is not too bad of a goal. I have been better at doing cooldown and warmup rows and found them to be helpful in setting personal (season) bests. I have found the cooldowns just as important as the warmup meters in avoiding stiffness. For rows such as 10k's and 30-minutes, the pace is usually low enough that I sometimes don't do any sort of warmup and warmup as I go along. Sometimes I am so out-of-breath after a piece that I don't want to do anything but sit and breathe.

I may have to revise this gaol and aim for being at the top of the 2500 meter board.

[Rockin Roland]

I view my workouts completely opposite to that of a "Ancient Mariner" and I'm proud of it. I understand that there are plenty of people out there that just love collecting meters. But that's not my thing as I'm no junkyard dog.

I believe that it's important to map your progress by analysing only your meters from quality workouts. No need to complicate things with all the clutter from junk meters. I don't want to be a leader board hero with a zillion meters to my name. That means nothing to me. I don't even bother looking up to see whose accumulating all those meters.

My situation is different to most because I have two ergs and eventually will have my own Rowperfect erg as well. At the moment I have a Model C erg with PM2+ monitor connected to Rowpro via a box computer. I also use a Model D erg with my own slides and PM4 monitor (including Suunto hear rate belt) at the rowing club. This will soon be connected to Gym/school edition Rowpro via my own lap top computer(hence I'll have two versions of Rowpro but on seperate computers). This is so that I can workout together with my other crew mates that I row with on the water. There are three other Model Ds at the club but they only have PM3 monitors so I might even purchase another PM4 so that it gives us the option of a local wireless venue race (both on slides) without the need for Rowpro.

Consequently, I'll be adding to the two different logbooks that I have already further complicated by all the on water meters plus Rowperfect meters. Hence I'm only interested in the quality meters. All the rest is discarded as JUNK.

[johnlvs2run]

Personally I feel it is the people, and our actions that count.

Not any electronics or devices, or counting any meters.

However, any of these can spur us on and help with motivation to proceed.

If there was no erg, I would probably not sit on a floor and rock back and forth.

[Thomas]

I need to get my meters per month up and number of session up. For the 2009 season, I am currently averaging about 120,000 meters a month and about 13 sessions a month, with some decent results. In the past years, my best results came when I averaged over 250,000 meters a month and averaged over 22 sessions a month. However, those 250,000 meters were just that--250,000 meters. I should have done cooldowns and warmups as part of those sessions and take credit for those meters to encourage me to warmup and cooldown.

I just saw their will be a January 2009 Virtual Team Challenge. RowPro Online had a team for 2008. Rowpro Online finished seventh. It maybe too hard to finish in the top three since most of the members probably rowed those meters strenuously, which would limit the quanity. However, it is something to do.