Older ergers

[Cyclingman1]

I hate to bring it up, but there is an ongoing "event" that renews every year in conjunction with C2 rankings that makes a reasonable effort to handicap rowers by age. It tests rowers across ten distances from .5K to M; bodybuilders/sprinters never win. It is imperfect but such rowers as TJO, Justine Reston, Anne Bourlioux, and even Elizabeth Gilmore get to the top of the standings. Of course it is not realtime. I'm surprised it does not have more participation. Many undoubtedly do not know of it. It is at nonathlon.com.

There is another method to rank rowers that takes age out of the equation. And that is P/AR calculation, Watts/Age Reserve [120-current age]. That was recently discussed in the Competition sub-forum, P/AR all time 2K leaderboard thread. It's not a calculation that fits well with an age divided ranking system, like C2, or the nonathlon system. I'm wondering what others think of it. Is it legit. It's not skewed to older rowers. It is a revealing list. Is it too obscure to be of any interest.

[atblsb]

There was a comment about what drag factor people use and someone commented that I use max drag - not true. For 2k's I set my drag at 125 (or at about a 5 setting). For a sprint, I bump it up to 140 but never max.

Andy Benko