Your session analysis

After every row, Norvin reads the session and tells you what it means. Open it from See analysis on Home, the finish screen, or any row in your history.

The page answers four questions, in order: did you row the plan, how did the pace go, how hard did it feel, and what now. Everything on it is worked out from your numbers by fixed rules, except the coach's note.

The summary

Under the picture of your row, two sentences say what was planned and what you rowed: "Planned: 43 minutes easy, at 2:40–2:56. You rowed 38 minutes at 2:21.9: faster than easy in every split, and fastest in the last 10 minutes."

On a steady row, a split is five minutes of the row, as your rower's splits view shows it. On an interval session the summary counts your reps instead: "You rowed all 8 inside the target, evenly, and the last rep was the fastest." A row with nothing planned says only what you rowed.

Plan

One answer to "did I row the plan?", such as Faster than easy the whole way, All 8 reps in the band or Stopped 5 min short of the plan. An arrow says which way you were off: up for harder than planned, down for easier or shorter. A tick means on target.

• The bars — one per split on a steady row, or one per rep on an interval session. The shaded part is the plan's pace band and the dot is what you rowed, so you can see at a glance which parts sat inside it. Faster is to the right. If you stopped before the planned time, the part you didn't row shows as a dashed not rowed line.
• The checks — up to three more figures against the plan: power, stroke rate, and time or distance on a steady row; stroke rate, reps and rest on an interval session.
• Plan vs rowed opens a table of every planned number next to what you rowed, and the gap. On an interval session it lists each rep too.

Power is worked out from your pace, the way your rower turns pace into watts. The plan's bands come from your 2k pace, so a 2k test resets every one of them. Your 2k pace.

Heart rate is never judged here: it's in All numbers, with your average and range, as data only. When the answer rests on something the page can't show as a pace, power or rate figure, it shows in grey with no arrow.

A row with nothing planned has no Plan card.

Pace through the row

One line on how the pace went, such as Faster as it went, fastest at the end or Even all the way, over a chart of your pace from start to finish. Faster is higher. The plan's band is shaded behind it, your fastest 10 minutes are marked, and the time you didn't row shows as a dashed outline. Touch and drag across the chart to read any moment: time, pace, stroke rate, and heart rate when it was recorded.

On an iPad the chart also shows each split's pace along the top, or each rep's.

All numbers opens everything else:

• Totals — distance, time, average pace, power, stroke rate, heart rate with its range, calories, the drag factor of a Concept2 rower, and where the row came from.
• Every 5 minutes — each split's metres, pace, watts, stroke rate and heart rate. On an interval session it's the parts instead: warm-up, reps, rests and cool-down.
• Heart rate and stroke rate on one timeline.

On a session made of several rows, tabs above the chart pick the row, and the chart and All numbers follow it.

Felt

Your effort rating, from 1 to 10, with its word. If you haven't rated the row yet, tap a number and it's saved. Edit changes it, and holds Your note too: anything worth remembering about the row. Rating your effort.

What now

If this row came out harder or easier than planned, it tells you how to row your next one in the same zone: "Next easy row: 2:40 or slower." Otherwise it names your next workout. Below it is the next session in your plan, with its pace and stroke-rate band. Tap it to see your plan.

After a hard session, one short line reminds you to recover before the next hard one. If your notes describe a symptom that needs a doctor, a line saying so comes first. Neither is ever folded away behind a tap.

Coach's note

Coach's note in the What now card opens it. One sentence about the session, and up to two more lines when you tap it. It's the only part of the page written by AI, and it says so. The training calls behind it — zones, targets, what counts as on-plan — come from fixed rules based on rowing methodology. AI only puts that analysis into plain language. How your plan adapts.

A note written before the page last changed can disagree with it. It then reads Out of date, and Analyze again writes a new one. If you've turned AI analysis off in Profile › Account & privacy, you get Norvin's rule-based summary instead.

Was it useful? Tell us with the thumbs under the note — it helps us improve it.

The coach's note is part of Norvin membership.

On the web, a session's page shows the verdict, the coach's note and the numbers in its own layout.

Session options

The Session options menu lets you tidy up a session:

• Analyze again — read the session again, for example after you've changed its rating.
• Split — move one row into a session of its own, when one session holds rows that belong apart.
• Combine with another session — when one row arrived as two.
• Discard this session — last in the menu. On a session made of several rows, Remove takes off just the one you've chosen. Either takes it off your history and training load, and can't be undone.

Rows from elsewhere

Rows that come in from a connected account are analyzed the same way. Rows logged by hand have only the totals you entered, so their analysis is shorter.