Announcing: The January Challenge

Happy New Year folks! We are so excited to roll out a number of additions and improvements to our programs in 2012. Stay tuned for more info. For now, we are announcing (drum roll, please)…the first of our monthly challenges.

For January, our monthly challenge will be a 2000m row. Bragging rights go to the top three men and top three women with the fastest times. Anyone can participate in this, really, so please don’t bow your head and decline the invite. Take it on! You will learn something from the experience, I promise. And, this is a chance for your training this month to have specific focus, if it doesn’t already. What do you need to do to be a better rower and get the fastest 2k you can?

The Rules:

-The PM must be set to 2000m and run down to 0, leaving you a score to the hundredths of a second. There is no rowing up to 2k.
-A coach must be present to verify score.
-Challenge scores can be performed before or after class any day from January 25-31.
-You can try as many times as you want for a better score! We encourage you to first do a 2k row around now, early in the month -  to feel it out, develop strategies, and come up with a target time that you want to hit. Reading and using the monitor, paying particular attention to split time and strokes per minute, will be essential.

The Concept 2 website has tons of information to help you in this if you want to geek out: Technique Videos, an explanation of the Damper Setting, or a how-to of the Fish Game (have you seen that on the PM3s?)

We look forward to the Challenge! Now get rowing…