If you have recently gotten into the Unsanctioned 250 underground rowing community, then this is a good place to start!
The U-250 rowing lab is set up in Golden, Colorado, and I built it fairly close to the original specifications of Rick Yukon for the U-250 rowing events. For those of you have never heard of the U-250, it’s kind of like Fight Club for rowers, but less secretive, and generally less painful, except for the actual Unsanctioned 250 meter row! Done properly, a one-minute U-250 row will feel like hours, as the pain builds in your muscles to levels you could not have previously imagined. And then, in a moment, the race is over, and yo feel like a million bucks.
Our lab is in Eternal Digital Gym in Golden, CO. And our “Pain Sled” is a pristine Concept II Model E rowing ergometer with Bluetooth data collection into a downstream analogue, LabView-enabled kinetics instrumentation rig. We also measure external and internal air quality to correlate to your rows. Anyone who would like to visit our lab, please let me know and I’m happy to give the whole five minute tour, followed by snacks at the cardboard honor box on the third floor, or get a beer or a drink in Downtown Golden.
Please follow us on Telegram for news about the Unsanctioned 250 rowing events, the upcoming 2023 U-250 Invitationals in Monte Carlo, and the new U-250 modified folding rowing calibration shell from Backpack Barge. If you are new to the U-250, you will find lots of help on the Telegram channel, from seasoned rowers, and new rowers. One of the fastest ways to bring down your time in the Unsanctioned 250 is to learn from your new community.