I had an 8am meeting at work today, so not enough time to do an OTW session. I decided to do a short recovery session at the fitness center at work.
I discovered that the erg at work is still non-functional. You can pull the handle. The fan still spins smooth as silk, but the PM5 is blissfully unaware that that fan is spinning.
So, a rational person would have stood up, walked over to the elliptical trainer and worked out. I, however, am not a rational person. I decided to do a recovery session.
The plan.
- 40 minutes (I decided to add on 4 more minutes while I was working out)
- Stroke rate 18 (by counting strokes per minute)
- Heart rate cap at 150. Adjust stroke pressure to stay at cap.
Well, it all worked out just fine. I had a lovely time and around the 30 minute mark, I decided to add 4 minutes at 20spm at the end with no HR cap.
Tonight I’m driving down to the cape.
Tomorrow: L2 – 4x2k / 5′ rest. This will be an adventure. I’m going to do it in my Maas. So the pace will be slow, and the intervals will be long.
That’s happened to me before with the PM5 and the problem was that the firmware was set for the wrong model erg, in my case with a model C, the PM thought it was a D/E. To reset it correctly, you have to connect the PM to a computer with the USB cable and use the Concept2 Utility to set it correctly.
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Well, let’s keep that between ourselves for now. I’m hoping that they buy a shiny new rower to replace this one. 😉
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