Beautiful day for a row.  Around 40F, and a light wind from the west.  The water was perfect.  We had 8 people this morning so we boated a quad, and two doubles.  I was in one of the doubles with Joe.  Joe is the guy who taught me how to row and is the backbone of our club.  Right now, he is nursing a shoulder injury, so we took it pretty easy today.

At this point, the lake is mostly ice free.  There is still some icy spots at the south end of the lake.  We headed down lake and turned around one of the islands, then headed north until the Gazebo.  There were a bunch of 8+s out getting ready for some racing.

Most of the row was nice steady state at around a 20 rate.  I was doing my best to keep my legs down until my body position was right for the catch.  I was also working a little bit on trying to keep from going too deep at the catch.  This was pretty sloppy though.

When we turned around the island, we took a short break to try out the drill that I posted.  We took turns trying it, with the other just setting the boat.  That’s the great thing about a double.  You can work on things like this without risking a swim!

Forgot my Heart Rate Monitor, so the graph isn’t nearly as pretty.

Based on feedback from Sander I decided to get the XGPS160 bluetooth unit to use with CrewNerd.  It worked flawlessly.  With it the Crewnerd pace display responds instantly to changes in boat speed, and you can turn the smoothing all the way down without seeing erratic displays.  So, instead of a Speedcoach GPS II for $400 that provides a 5hz update rate, I have a $149 unit that supports 10Hz updates, and has a better display with my iPhone6.  I think I like the idea of bluetooth enabled accessories and the the iphone as a hub.  Now, if someone releases bluetooth force gauges and impeller, you’d have everything you need to be fully instrumented in the boat!

I had to make some modifications to my spreadsheet, since it is now generating 10x more data.  But that took only a few minutes.