Winter 2026/27 · Nov 30 to Feb 28

A smart room, not a smart device.

This winter the City Island Rowing erg room becomes a smart room. It captures every stroke of every workout, files it in each athlete's own logbook, and turns her winter into goals, targets and progress she can see. No phones on the erg, nothing to type, nothing to remember.

15RowErgs 5BikeErgs 13data points every stroke 1logbook for her whole time at CIR
Live Erg 7 · Sample 2K –/500m–spm
Split–/500m
Watts–W
Stroke rate–spm
Heart rate–bpm
Force curve · last four strokesPeak – lbf
Force curvein centre
Distance–m
Time–
Drive length–m
Ratio–rec : drive
Our erg room monitor screen, playing a sample 2K in real time. The force curves are shaped from strokes recorded in our erg room.

The smart room

What it means for your athlete.

Every workout, logged

Sensors built into our training rooms capture every erg, every bike and every heart-rate monitor. Coaches and coxswains make sure each piece goes to the right athlete. Home workouts and runs are logged too.

Her own logbook

A private link for every athlete, shared with her parents. Every piece and every stroke, a written report every Saturday, and a report card at mid-season.

Goals that pull her forward

She sets her goals for the winter's tests. After every test her targets move with her, and on test day the monitor gives her a pace boat to race.

A team that pushes each other

Our own team board. Athletes post their workouts, cheer each other on, and earn Puddles for every bit of encouragement they give.

The Indoor Logbook

Her own logbook, built stroke by stroke.

Every piece she rows in the erg room lands in a private logbook that she and her parents can open any time. Try it: this one belongs to a sample athlete.

Indoor LogbookSample athlete · U17
Week 6 · Jan 4 to 9
Training8h 50m
Erg meters41,880
Sessions5 of 5
Where the time went
Highlights
2K · 7:36.0 New best, by 5.3 seconds
Peak watts · 512 New best
500 m · 1:42.4 Equal to her best

Her best 2K yet, and paced the way she planned it: 3:47.7 for the first 1,000 and 3:48.3 for the second. Her 4:30 Train base was on target for 96% of strokes this week. Next target: 7:32.0, her new best split minus one second.

Sample data · A new report every Saturday

Private, and hers for good

One link, texted to her once, that works for her whole time at City Island Rowing. Parents open the same link. Nothing to download, no account, no password.

Every stroke, every number

The monitor sends each stroke as it happens. All of it is kept, so any piece can be opened later and replayed at up to 20× speed.

TimeDistanceSplitStroke rateWattsHeart rateDrive lengthDrive timeRecovery timePeak forceAverage forceWork per strokeForce curve

Her winter, side by side

The same standard workouts come back on a fixed rhythm, so every result sits next to the last one. She can see her own line move from December to February.

What parents can expect

  • The same link as your athlete, for her whole time at City Island Rowing.
  • Every Saturday, her week: hours, meters, where the time went, and her highlights whenever she sets a new best.
  • A mid-season report card on her goals, her tests and her records.
  • A note from her coach whenever there's something to add.

Goals and her pace boat

Goals she sets. A pace boat that holds her to them.

At the start of winter every athlete sets her goals for the three tests: her 2K, her 500 m and her peak watts. After every test her next target is her best split ever, minus one second. On test day her monitor carries a pace boat at that target, so every test is a race against the best version of herself.

Her best7:41.3
Pace boat7:37.3
Margin–
Her
Pace boat

0:00.0 · 0 m · the sample 2K, played at 10× speed

City Island Athletes

A team board that runs on encouragement.

Our own private board for athletes and coaches. Every workout an athlete logs posts itself as a postcard, sweaty selfie and all. Teammates react and comment, captains post reminders, coaches cheer. Only the team can see it.

PuddleThe everyday like.
FireThat's awesome.
CrabBad luck, we feel for you.

Puddles

Every post, reaction and comment earns Puddles, and her total sits beside her name on everything she posts. The athletes who lift everyone else up are the ones who stand out.

1for a post1for a reaction2for a comment
City Island Athletes+ Post
Pinned for today
AC
Avery Cole Captain
8:05 am

Let's wear pink today. Team photo on the dock after practice.

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SR
Sam Reyes · 142
12 min ago
her selfie
Run
Distance
5.0 mi
Time
38:12
Pace
7:38 /mi
Longest run yet

Bronx River loop in the rain. Held it to the end.

911

Lena Kowal (88) In the RAIN. Absolute machine.

Priya Shah (215) 7:38s!! see you Saturday

LK
Lena Kowal · 88
2h ago
Split, every strokefrom her PM5
Erg Verified
Distance
5,000 m
Time
21:04.0
Split
2:06.4
Rate
22

Home erg before school. Negative split the last 500!

128

Coach Katie Coach That finish is exactly the plan. Well rowed.

MO
Mia Ortiz · 57
Yesterday

Home sick today, so sad to miss the pink photo. Back Saturday.

165

Sam Reyes (142) feel better!! we'll save you a spot in the photo

The touchscreen on the wall

The whole room, racing at once.

A screen in the erg room shows every erg as a boat, left to right, with marks every 250 meters. On test days the room becomes one race.

Fifteen ergs on a 2K, played at 10× speed.

How it works

She rows. The room does the rest.

Every monitor in the room already measures every stroke. We're building our own system that listens to all of them at once and files every piece under the right name.

The erg room

15 RowErgs and 5 BikeErgs, every one of them recorded.

The station

Built into the room, it listens to every erg, bike and heart-rate monitor at once.

The cloud

Every stroke is stored exactly as the monitor sent it, so a replay is the piece itself.

Her logbook

Filed under her name, ready on her link and her parents' as soon as the piece ends.

  1. She sits on an erg

    Any erg in the room. She can switch between pieces.

  2. Her name goes on it

    A coach or coxswain puts her name on her erg. It takes a second, even mid-piece.

    Erg 7Choose athlete

  3. She rows

    No phone on the erg, nothing to type, nothing to remember to save.

  4. It's in her logbook

    Every stroke, filed and ready. Home workouts count too: a home erg records the same way, and runs and lifts are logged from her phone.

What the team sees

The big tests are shared. Everything else is hers.

In the Team Room

The test results, as always.

The tests go into the results table behind the Team Room door, filled automatically from the erg room. Each test is ranked, and the table shows the distance each athlete actually rowed.

  • Peak watts
  • 500 m
  • The 2K, the 1.5K and the 1K
In her logbook

Every piece, privately.

Her logbook holds everything else, for her and her parents only. Long steady pieces are kept as her own records and never ranked.

  • Every piece and every stroke
  • Her weekly reports
  • Her records on every standard workout

The winter it records

Thirteen weeks, built to be measured.

Three phases, six standard workouts and six testing weeks. The same pieces come back on a fixed rhythm, so the logbook can put every result beside the last one. Tap any week.

Aerobic baseThresholdRace prep

The six standards

The tests

Every testing week

Peak watts

A handful of all-out strokes, alternating with a partner. Always first in the testing session.

Every testing week

500 m

After peak watts and a five-minute flush. The start and the finish, in one piece.

Week two

The prognostic test

3 × 750 m for U19 and U17, 3 × 500 m for 9th grade, 3 × 400 m for middle school. Its average split becomes her first target.

Every testing week

2K · 1.5K · 1K

2,000 m for U19 and U17, 1,500 m for 9th grade, 1,000 m for middle school. Raced to her own plan, then a 20-minute flush.

Choose your winter

Five days, or the days that fit.

SquadMonTueWedThuFriSat
U194:00–6:004:00–6:00Off4:00–6:004:00–6:007:30–9:30 am
U174:00–6:004:00–6:00Off4:00–6:004:00–6:007:30–9:30 am
U16Off5:30–7:155:00–7:005:30–7:15Off9:30–11:30 am

U19 and U17 train five days a week. U16 athletes choose a two, three or four-day program, with Wednesday and Saturday as the anchor days. We suggest at least two days for seventh graders, three for eighth graders and four for ninth graders, and we encourage every athlete to do as many as she can. Effort in, reward out.

Key dates

Mark the calendar.

Mon 11/30Winter season begins
Tue 12/8The prognostic testBuilds each athlete's 2K plan
Wed 12/16Athlete Holiday Party
Tue 12/22First 2K of the winter
Fri 1/1New Year's Day practiceEveryone who is home. Team tradition
Sat 1/2Jacob's Ladder #1
Mon 1/18MLK Day: practice as normal
Sat 1/30Jacob's Ladder #2
2/11 to 2/17Winter Training TripU19, U17 and invited U16s
Tue 2/23Final 2K of the winter
Sun 2/28ErgathonOur annual fundraiser
Coming from another club?

We'd love to hear from you.

If you're thinking about a winter with us, get in touch and we'll show you around the smart room.

[email protected]
Already on the team?

See you on November 30.

Your athlete's logbook link arrives before the season starts.