We have a little lake just up from the house. It’s about 1/3mi end to end.
How much water you need to do that? I have NO interest in indoor rowing really. I’ll ride Zwift. But just looking at this as a cross training option given the lake is there.
Also, neighbor has what appears to be a heavyweight used single scull abandoned beside their house. I’ve considered asking about it when I pass by. It has sat there for years.
Thanks.
We have a little lake just up from the house. It’s about 1/3mi end to end.
How much water you need to do that? I have NO interest in indoor rowing really. I’ll ride Zwift. But just looking at this as a cross training option given the lake is there.
Also, neighbor has what appears to be a heavyweight used single scull abandoned beside their house. I’ve considered asking about it when I pass by. It has sat there for years.
Thanks.
You can row 500m in less than 2 minutes if you know what you’re doing, so unless you want to do a lot of turning, I would say at least 1500 meters of length.
We have a little lake just up from the house. It’s about 1/3mi end to end.
How much water you need to do that? I have NO interest in indoor rowing really. I’ll ride Zwift. But just looking at this as a cross training option given the lake is there.
Also, neighbor has what appears to be a heavyweight used single scull abandoned beside their house. I’ve considered asking about it when I pass by. It has sat there for years.
Thanks.
It’s just a matter of how often you’re comfortable turning around, or how bored you get going back and forth in the same lane. 1/3 is just over 500m - maybe just under 500m usable since you’d want to stop gracefully before the end without doing the annoying crash stop maneuver. Which means you’re going to be turning around like every 1.5-3 minutes depending on pace, wind etc. Fine for interval training. And turning around isn’t a huge deal, though it certainly takes much longer than a swimming flip-turn.
Thanks all.
I’ll ask the neighbor about it.
This is one of those things though if it’s something usable and abandoned I’d try this. I’m not going out and buying somebody’s expensive used race boat as I realize they can get more expensive than superbike bicycles.
Ideally yes, but I do know one guy who won World Juniors (I think in the 1x) training from a lake which is about 6-700m long!
Rowing a 1x can be a transcendental experience, if you get the boat balanced and gliding smoothly. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Second only to rowing stroke in a bow coxed 4. All the scenery of the 1x but with more speed and no shrieking Cox in your face.
Maybe a prone paddleboard would be better for the size of the lake. You could paddle the circumference of the lake for a longer paddle. Great upper body workout that is very similar to swimming.
If it’s a transcendental experience, you’re not going fast enough.
Sculling is pure, distilled, misery in a boat.
And hence the purest form of rowing.
And bow coxed fours? Still no. 4x or 4-.
If it’s a transcendental experience, you’re not going fast enough.
Sculling is pure, distilled, misery in a boat.
And hence the purest form of rowing.
And bow coxed fours? Still no. 4x or 4-.
Fair enough. Retching is the sign that you did “enoughâ€, that your effort was adequate. Anything less is a sin. My favorite boat is actually a double; very fast, minimal drama, easy to steer.
My dumbass thought you were asking about the swimming drill/ technique known as sculling. And I’m like, “Pools are only 25 yards/ meters long. You can do sculling in a backyard pool. Why couldn’t he scull in a lake that’s 1/3 mile?”
Fair enough. Retching is the sign that you did “enoughâ€, that your effort was adequate. Anything less is a sin. My favorite boat is actually a double; very fast, minimal drama, easy to steer.
My favorite is a smoking fast quad. I was never an elite sculler but competent enough that one time I got to fill in for one practice in an Italian Olympic-grade quad when one guy had an injury. Holy shit that was fun. Doing a full-speed start with them completely recalibrated my notion of what a high stroke rate is. I was fortunate I didn’t end up getting ejected at high speed off the bow. (I was bow, since it was my home waters, and I could steer best).
Always found them hugely frustrating. So hard to get right, although easy to get to 80% or so.
A pair, however, that’s a great boat. Either amazing or horrible!
I have a single - 0.3 miles is not enough water. The bay I live on is around 2km long, which is fine (one end is open to the river). You don’t want to have to be constantly turning, whether it’s rowing in a circle or doing a 180 to go back the way you came… otherwise it’s just a pain in the ass. Unless you’re in a real clunker of a skull (the real beasts are more stable), it’ll be a bit of a learning curve and you may… unintentionally disembark… a few times. But it’s a real treat once you get it. Totally recommend, though it’s been some time since I got out in mine.
We have a little lake just up from the house. It’s about 1/3mi end to end.
How much water you need to do that?
10km in either direction would be ideal.
I’d say min 2200m at a minimum to make it worthwhile — and even that would be with a shitton of turning.
Sculling is pure, distilled, misery in a boat.
So you were 3 (or 4) seat in an eight, eh?
We have a little lake just up from the house. It’s about 1/3mi end to end.
How much water you need to do that? I have NO interest in indoor rowing really. I’ll ride Zwift. But just looking at this as a cross training option given the lake is there.
Also, neighbor has what appears to be a heavyweight used single scull abandoned beside their house. I’ve considered asking about it when I pass by. It has sat there for years.
Thanks.
You could use an elastic tether turning that single scull into a real world rowing erg. Cheaper than buying one.
Honestly, depended on who we had. If I was up the fat end it was an ok eight but not great. If I was 3 or 2 it was probably pretty sweet.
If I was sent off to row the single it was going to be a 5:20 low boat.
Fair enough. Retching is the sign that you did “enoughâ€, that your effort was adequate. Anything less is a sin. My favorite boat is actually a double; very fast, minimal drama, easy to steer.
My favorite is a smoking fast quad. I was never an elite sculler but competent enough that one time I got to fill in for one practice in an Italian Olympic-grade quad when one guy had an injury. Holy shit that was fun. Doing a full-speed start with them completely recalibrated my notion of what a high stroke rate is. I was fortunate I didn’t end up getting ejected at high speed off the bow. (I was bow, since it was my home waters, and I could steer best).
Ever been in an octuple? Zoom zoom!
You better not crab. #pneumothorax.
Ever been in an octuple? Zoom zoom!
Yeah! But it was a shitshow, unfortunately. Would have liked to have tried it with all competent scullers.
I did a 16 with sweep, but it was a giant barge, so it more slave merchant vessel than racer.