When Georgie Rowe hopped on her indoor rowing machine, she had no intention of breaking a world record. But she may have just overtaken an Olympic gold medallist.
"I'm six foot two, or six foot one — I'm not small, that's for sure. I think that definitely helps," she said."Maybe all those kind of personality traits help me when I'm in that pain cave that you get into."Like almost everything else, the coronavirus pandemic has caused upheaval in the world of professional rowing.
So when the national championships were cancelled, Rowing Australia turned to the innovative idea of an indoor rowing competition. The idea was simple: states would still compete against each other, but rather than be in the water the athletes would do their kilometres on indoor machines that record their times.The machine maker Concept 2 has long tracked world record times and they are held in high esteem in professional circuits.
The current world record holder in the 19-29 age bracket for heavyweight women's half-marathon is Esther Lofgren. Lofgren is an American rower who won gold in the women's eight team at the 2012 London Olympics, and has also amassed an impressive number of medals at world championships.Fast forward to last Saturday, and Rowe was on the machine in the makeshift national competition."To be honest, I just wanted to get some kilometres up for NSW in the interstate indoor regatta," she said.Her time: 1.19:28.4 — more than 40 seconds faster than Lofgren.
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