Rowing: Best stroke rate for a 1000m race 

This reminds me of one of my first coaches saying “The rating is set on the drive”. I like your recommendation to use a Speedcoach to experiment.

Thanks Aram, that was good confirmation for me, right now we are working on this in the pair, and I have been closely monitoring the spit through differnet rates at training. i have found our split the same numbers between 32 and 36, our coach also pointed out to us be carful hunting for boat speed that is not there at the moment. We are always hunting and I like using the numbers as the gauge for how the boat is performing as you say its all about boat speed at the end of the day. See you in no mans land.