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I'm a J16 rower who has been rowing for about 3 years, given the current circomstance with covid and all it's been hard to compare times and stay on top of competition.

I am 74.5kg, 6"2 at 15 years old.

I currently am sitting at a 6:50 2k however I think I could push this down to a 6:45 if I put my heart and soul into it, which has been hard to do given that I'd probably prefer to dolphin dive onto a highway as opposed to erg alone inside.

if anyone knows a place to find a guide for what is expected for someone of my weight, age and height that would be great or knows simply other times that countries are going off for guidance on team selection or various other indications of skill that would be great.

Maybe try the C2 online rankings. You can see the 90th, 75th, 50th and 25th percentile results for your age group. Note this is only the people who choose to publicly show how fast they are.

Check here for 2K results for your age group. Example 50% percentile is 7:08.8 so you are already top half of those who choose to rank themselves. https://log.concept2.com/rankings/2021/ ... 8&gender=M The search page where I found the 2K results is here: https://log.concept2.com/rankings?_ga=2 ... 1604531010

Here is an article about ranking: https://www.concept2.com/news/using-onl ... ining-tool


ALSO: look into joining a virtual team. You can at least see who else rowed today. It's somewhat motivational. Maybe ask your Coach to set up a virtual team for you and your teammates.
https://log.concept2.com/challenges/vtc
https://log.concept2.com/challenges/vtc/2021/teams

Try the Rowing reddit if you haven't already, they have a lot of younger competitive rowers there
https://www.reddit.com/r/Rowing/