Racing a Witless Automaton

I prefer to do these rowing sessions online in the virtual company of other people but once again today the Oarbits server was non-reponsive so I had to do this indoor rowing session offline. It was set up as a 6,000 meter race against a witless automaton (AKA a pace boat).

The pace boat was set to row at a pace of 2:26/500 meters and a rating of 28 SPM. Because the pace boats are witless, it was easy to win the race. My strategy was to stay about even with it until about one minute remained and then to row hard for ten strokes. That was enough to guarantee a win because the pace boat was oblivious and did not react at all when I changed pace.

If you’d like to either view or row along with the screen recording of today’s session it is available at this link: May 29th, 2021 online rowing session.

Data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To see a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.

Happy rowing to you!