The 5th Annual SkiErg World Sprints will be held this coming weekend, November 8–10, 2013.
This 1000-meter virtual race gives you the opportunity to compare your time against others worldwide in a one-weekend showdown of speed. You can participate in your home, at school, or at a club—all it takes is access to a SkiErg. Continue Reading ›
Since the SkiErg was introduced in June 2009, we’ve had thousands of entries in the Rankings, so we thought it was finally time to recognize some official records. To start off with, we only have World and American records for 500m and 1000m, but we’re sure that as more people catch the record-setting bug we’ll be adding extra categories in the future. Continue Reading ›
People row ultra-distances for various reasons. Sometimes it’s a personal goal, just to see if they have what it takes, or their teammates goad them into it and they succumb to the pressure. Other times, it’s good training for rowing across the ocean, or it’s just because there is a record to be broken. Matthew Rockett, however, a 28-year-old from Sheffield, England, set an ultra-distance world record on February 12 (Individual Longest Continual Row in 64 hours), and successfully raised money for Sport Relief 2012 and the family of his late friend and ultra-distance rower Roberta Dikeman. Continue Reading ›
