Choose the test
Select a supported timed or distance benchmark and choose free rate or a fixed stroke rate.
INDOOR ROWING · PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
Choose the test. Set the target. Learn from the result.
Prepare a recognised time or distance benchmark using a result you have actually achieved as the pace reference. Row the test, bring the result back and see how the complete effort was paced.
- One Rowing Peak account
- Comparable results stay explicit
- No invented predicted score
PREPARED TESTTARGET
BENCHMARK2,000 m
STROKE RATEFree
BODY PACE REFERENCE1:50.0 /500 m
PACING PLAN
LaunchSettle quicklycontrolled
Body1:50.0/500 m
FinishBuild lateif available
Illustrative plan · the pace reference comes from a comparable achieved result
Prepare a recognised benchmark
Execute against your pace reference
Learn from the result and pacing
THE BENCHMARK LOOP
Make the next attempt comparable.
Target keeps the test definition, machine and stroke-rate constraint attached to the result so the next comparison answers the same question.
Choose the reference
Use your last attempt, best in the last 12 months, all-time best or a specific comparable result. A first attempt starts by feel.
Review the effort
Bring the result back and review the headline score, opening, body, finish and rate control where it was prescribed.
COMPARABLE EVIDENCE
The result is measured. The reference stays honest.
Target uses an achieved pace as an anchor rather than presenting an opaque prediction as though it were a result you are guaranteed to produce.
Same benchmark
Compare the same time or distance instead of manufacturing equivalents between different tests.
Same machine context
Keep the ergometer family with the result rather than assuming every measured watt is interchangeable.
Same rate constraint
Keep a fixed-rate benchmark distinct from a free-rate maximal effort when comparing attempts.
CONCEPT2 + SMARTROW
Bring back the test you actually rowed.
Use a Concept2 Logbook result or supported workout file, or upload SmartRow evidence. Target keeps the achieved benchmark and its source attached to the analysis.
Open TargetRecorded resultUse the completed benchmark, not an estimate
MeasuredBenchmark historyChoose the comparison that matters today
ComparableREADY FOR THE NEXT TEST?
Use the result you have to prepare the attempt ahead.
Choose the benchmark, reference result and stroke-rate constraint before the first stroke.
Prepare a benchmark