Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

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Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by MartijnvBebber » July 20th, 2014, 8:25 am

Is there any link to the 500m splits and stroke rates for his 5:3x 2k times? I heard he rowing on low DF so I'm curious to see what his stroke rate was.

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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by jamesg » July 23rd, 2014, 1:12 am

There are many people of around his size who competed at BIRC with times under 6'. The results pages link to their race data. Typical seems to be 29-31. Afloat, somewhat higher.
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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by hjs » July 23rd, 2014, 3:00 am

jamesg wrote:There are many people of around his size who competed at BIRC with times under 6'. The results pages link to their race data. Typical seems to be 29-31. Afloat, somewhat higher.
No no, top racers, even the taller guys rate higher. Although I don,t have a clue about Waddle, its more 33/36 for the real fast guys. They simply have the fitness to rate that high.

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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by hjs » July 23rd, 2014, 3:02 am

hjs wrote:
jamesg wrote:There are many people of around his size who competed at BIRC with times under 6'. The results pages link to their race data. Typical seems to be 29-31. Afloat, somewhat higher.
No no, top racers, even the taller guys rate higher. Although I don,t have a clue about Waddle, its more 33/36 for the real fast guys. They simply have the fitness to rate that high.

http://www.nkindoorroeien.nl/Uitslagen. See this example for the SA class. Big guys pulling sub 6 way above rate 30

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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by NavigationHazard » July 27th, 2014, 5:56 pm

Waddell rated 33.5 when he broke the WR at the time at Crash-Bs in 1998. See http://books.google.com/books?id=okcEAA ... ng&f=false

Apparently his damper was set on 3 1/2. Drag factor as a number wouldn't have been displayed back then.
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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by MartijnvBebber » August 1st, 2014, 5:25 am

NavigationHazard wrote:Waddell rated 33.5 when he broke the WR at the time at Crash-Bs in 1998. See http://books.google.com/books?id=okcEAA ... ng&f=false

Apparently his damper was set on 3 1/2. Drag factor as a number wouldn't have been displayed back then.

Thanks! Wasn't able to find this article by myself. Seems like I really have to work on getting fitter and improving my stroke rate.

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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by dwalk » August 1st, 2014, 11:50 pm

He laid out his 2k strategy in an interview I saw online, can't find it now, but he said he liked to rate around 34. Which would line up with the 33.5.
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Re: Splits/Stroke rate of Rob Waddell's 2k?

Post by sharp_rower » August 7th, 2014, 11:29 am

Here are the splits and stroke rates of the top 3 finishers at this year's CRASH-Bs:

Andrew Stewart-Jones, 5:47.8: 1:26.0 (35), 1:26.6 (34), 1:27.7 (34), 1:27.5 (35).
Semen Yaganov, 5:51.0: 1:27.2 (34), 1:28.2 (33), 1:28.5 (33), 1:27.1 (37).
Kyle Peabody, 5:52.2: 1:28.2 (33), 1:28.0 (33), 1:28.7 (33), 1:27.3 (34).
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Other PBs: 1k @ 1:39.9 (March 2015).

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