In the vein of “sometimes the goal is not to have a goal,” I did not start “season two” of my rowing obsession/practice with the intention of beating my meterage from 2023-24. If anything, I would have gracefully allowed myself to have lost some distance, considering a started a job with an earlier start time, longer commute, and longer overall hours.

But I noticed fairly close to the end of my second season that I was close to hitting the same distance I logged in 2023-24, and was happy about that. By looking at my daily average, I knew I’d meet-and exceed-last Year’s distance.

Hooray for all that.

That’s 20 to 30 minutes a day, most days of the week.

Here’s a fun screenshot: the notoriously inaccurate calorie meter in the PM5 reports that as of today, I burned 238,821 calories rowing. Roughly speaking, that’s 68 pounds. I lost more than that but that’s pretty close.