oooohhh, I'm 30k away, I should get over it as I got a 3000m, four 10000m, 13250m and 21097m left in my advent row on the Leeds Liverpool canal.
Since I had a 2000m row to do on this and everywhere that talks about rowing talks about "your 2000m training time", I gave it a go. Boy do I not like that kinda exercise - balls out, fighting to breathe, sweating like a waterfall. It took me a good 45min to get over this horror and I could still feel the effect of it 2 days later. So I'm not going to try out for another 2k training time ever again.
I'm a thoroughbred pootler, stop for cake activity kinda guy.
Give me a nice steady 10k row, including warm up, at around 45min, with a show on the telly box.
I've lost weight doing that and feel fitter too. No whatsoever need to HIIT* the waterrower at all.
* I see some of these HIIT and the like use the rower as a part of it. But getting on and off the rower takes time. Get comfy, feet in, check that you are sitting right, got your back and core sorted. Jump on to do 500m, jump off to do 30 of bla to then get back on to do 3x15 of this etc etc. Just asks for you to not get your position right and end up pulling something that will take weeks to get over.