
Can anyone decipher what I'm doing wrong here?
mitchel674 wrote:Seems I just hit a temporary server issue.
I completed my first online row this morning without a hitch. Joined a scheduled 10k row at 0800. The host never showed up, but a third rower and I completed the piece. He was a good bit faster than me (300m in the end), but I really enjoyed being on the machine with another live rower ahead. Certainly a good motivator for me.
Carl Watts wrote:
Its unfortunate that the online rowing appeals to only a very small number of people. You need to have a certain personality type that finds it motivating. I really thought it would be huge and looked forward to the day you could go online at anytime of the day and find 30 or even 50 people rowing with a mix of everything from racing to age group related distance and times training so something to suit everyone but its yet to happen.
Carl Watts wrote:How old is old ? I'm 51 in a weeks and still row online.
Carl Watts wrote: It is however as I suspected a psychological problem for 95% of people that they simply are not happy to just do their own thing and be seen to come last, be it by only a handful of people in the world that they will probably never even meet so who really cares ?
Carl Watts wrote: The 30 minute is still better than a distance, at least you all start and finish at the same time, its way worse when people start finishing over 5 minutes before you and don't stay in the chat afterwards and are gone when you finish.
Carl Watts wrote:The numbers joining RowPro will increase, it needs to move to a mobile application and all the gyms need to eventually catchup with the PM5 monitors for it to happen. The numbers will increase at least five times what they are now but its going to take years because the technology in the hardware/software for the rower is 10 years behind where it should be.
I keep hoping things will improve, which I why I still stick with it, but I really don't see the current setup and graphics as being at all appealing to folks of my son's age, let alone those of my grandson's age. RowPro feels a bit like being stuck with software on a Playstation 1 at the moment. And whatever happens, the future will have to be wireless - there is no way that gym's are ever going to let the punter plug wires into their (rusting and lumpy) C2's.
grahamf wrote:Carl Watts wrote:
Its unfortunate that the online rowing appeals to only a very small number of people. You need to have a certain personality type that finds it motivating. I really thought it would be huge and looked forward to the day you could go online at anytime of the day and find 30 or even 50 people rowing with a mix of everything from racing to age group related distance and times training so something to suit everyone but its yet to happen.
I'd hoped the same thing. I've had RowPro for a couple of years or so and, although I row "online", I rarely join in with other rowers because I have found it badly demotivating. It is utterly soul destroying to join a row labelled as "30min easy, open to all" and then have the rest of the field storm off at 1:50/500 for the whole half hour while I plod along at 2:15 literally miles behind. At least when I am rowing on my own, I'm not having my nose rubbed in it that I'm old and unfit.
(When I pointed out afterwards about "Easy", I was informed that this was easy because the others were rowing at less than 20 SPM. I'll stick with my own company, thanks).
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