This is the third part of a series of articles on Rowsandall.com and the Empower Oarlock. The first article covered intervals, flex charts and force curves, the second part covered tools to compare and extract useful
In cycling, power meters have been widely available for a relatively long time. When we are cooped up in our basements during long winters, rowers get accurate and simple power measurements from our ergs. But
Randall Foils are small foils that can be added to the top edge of the oars. The developer of the Randall Foil has made some remarkable claims about the speed benefit of using them. This
How can you race, when you are allowed to be on the water, but can’t hold races? For rowers on Lake Quinsigamond, the answer has been GPS Speed Orders. What is a GPS Speed Order,
What happens when you take multiple Head of the Charles age group champions, lock them them in their homes for months because of a pandemic, then tell them that there won’t be any regattas? The
What is a GPS Speed Order? GPS Speed Orders are casual competitive challenges for rowers. A course and a time window is defined, competitors row the course while recording with some sort of a GPS
It’s hard to believe that our first GPS Speed Order challenges started a month ago. So much has happened since then. When we began with a test run following the Head of the Charles Course
Towards the end of May, we began an adventure when we started organizing online challenges for On The Water rowers. These challenges are called GPS Speed Orders and after a trial event in Boston, Massachusetts
By now, you’ve heard of the GPS Speed Orders. These are head race style challenges, enabled by GPS tracking data from Smartphones, fitness watches, or speedcoaches and managed by software on rowsandall. If you haven’t
Masters rowers have a love/hate relationship with handicaps. Almost everyone would prefer to have narrow enough age groups and compete on an equal footing within those groups. But in informal events you might not have