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If anyone fancies a bit of competition. Scottish Rowing are running a virtual Championship on 21st November.
It’s open to anyone, no need to be in Scotland or be a member of a Scottish club. As well as lots of individual events (2k/1k/500m) at different age categories and Team events they are also offering events for Bike erg and Ski erg for the first time. More info available on the event website https://scottishrowingindoors.com/ Entries close on 9th November

Entries close at midnight (GMT) tomorrow (11th November), for those considering it

I'm in.....first ever comp

winniewinser wrote: ↑

November 11th, 2020, 7:31 am

I'm in.....first ever comp

I have finally entered too. It's good fun, not as good as a proper face to face competition, but it's worth doing

Signed up for the 500 and 1k, Welsh HW 50+

I don't expect this to be pretty !

I’m in first ever event. No problems with connection etc. Only question is do you get a countdown to the start? I assume you do. Not had any further details yet.

PawsyBear wrote: ↑

November 12th, 2020, 7:39 pm

I’m in first ever event. No problems with connection etc. Only question is do you get a countdown to the start? I assume you do. Not had any further details yet.

No countdown, but you get instructions to 'Sit Ready' and then 'Row'. You will lose a bit of time in reacting to the instruction, so don't freak out if you get a really slow average pace to start with. I had something like a 4:06 pace at the last 2k competition: it quickly comes down.

Dangerscouse wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 2:27 am

PawsyBear wrote: ↑

November 12th, 2020, 7:39 pm

I’m in first ever event. No problems with connection etc. Only question is do you get a countdown to the start? I assume you do. Not had any further details yet.

No countdown, but you get instructions to 'Sit Ready' and then 'Row'. You will lose a bit of time in reacting to the instruction, so don't freak out if you get a really slow average pace to start with. I had something like a 4:06 pace at the last 2k competition: it quickly comes down.

Presumably you can't use Ergzone to help pace things .... I'm so used to it now that I may need some practice sessions without it.

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Thank you. I just had no idea how I would know when to start I can run ERgdata at the same time to help pacing on my phone. I’ll have the power curve up to.

winniewinser wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 4:34 am

Presumably you can't use Ergzone to help pace things .... I'm so used to it now that I may need some practice sessions without it.

I'm not sure mate, but probably not as it's not programmed in by you.

Dangerscouse wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 6:12 am

winniewinser wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 4:34 am

Presumably you can't use Ergzone to help pace things .... I'm so used to it now that I may need some practice sessions without it.

I'm not sure mate, but probably not as it's not programmed in by you.

That's what I thought. I'll do some test starts too as I've never done that before.....I think you can program the PM5 to replicate that.

Any idea if I need to download/install software on a laptop for this?

winniewinser wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 11:43 am

Any idea if I need to download/install software on a laptop for this?

I assume you will have to, and they'll send something out soon.

You need to get a USB cable as well. I think it's an A to A cable, and get it as long as possible, as it needs to plug into a laptop and the monitor.

I don't think anything will properly prepare you for a race start, not least due to the adrenaline

There’s a test on the site. All you needed is web browser and A to B cable. It’s a printer cable USB one end printer / PM5 connection other.

Dangerscouse wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 2:27 am

PawsyBear wrote: ↑

November 12th, 2020, 7:39 pm

I’m in first ever event. No problems with connection etc. Only question is do you get a countdown to the start? I assume you do. Not had any further details yet.

No countdown, but you get instructions to 'Sit Ready' and then 'Row'. You will lose a bit of time in reacting to the instruction, so don't freak out if you get a really slow average pace to start with. I had something like a 4:06 pace at the last 2k competition: it quickly comes down.

Yeah exactly this.

When I did the Australian Virtual, it was also the same. I was absolutely bricking it because I was doing it at 4 am (London) and I didn't hear anything on my laptop, I wasn't sure if there was supposed to be a buzzer or anything, but the screen changed and I just went for it. I also didn't get any small boats on my laptop scree, wonder if that's normal? Or maybe my internet was poor. My result did record in the end tho!