Creating a race schedule
Before race day you'll need to set out a schedule with the races and the participants in each race, listing which erg each person will race on as part of the race planning.
You'll need to make each participant aware of their race ID and time, and which erg they need to go to before the start of the race. This is usually done by posting race / competitor lists on web sites and on the walls of the venue.
Creating races in RowPro
You will also need to create races in RowPro, one for each race in your race schedule. You can save the races as you create them, so they will be listed in Session Setup / Venue ready and waiting on race day.
Note the races you create and save in Session Setup / Venue remain there until you delete them, they don't currently 'disappear' from the list once you have raced them.
To create each race:
| • | Open Session Setup / Venue and click Create Venue Race. |
| • | Make up a race name that will mean something to you later when you see it in a list of races, for example "Boys U17 Lwt Doubles" and enter this in the Row name box. |
| • | Set the Duration of the race, for example 2000m. |
| • | Use the Ergs drop-down to set the number of ergs that will be participating in the race. The maximum number of ergs you can select is set by your RowPro license and the number of ergs you have previously set up in the Indoor Rower Layout utility. |
| • | Use the Crew drop-down to set the type of boats that will be used in the race: |
| • | 1x means single sculls or "singles" - each erg is treated as a separate boat. |
| • | 2x means double sculls or "doubles" - ergs 1 and 2 are treated as the two seats in a double scull, ergs 3 and 4 are the two seats in the next double scull, and so on. |
| • | 4x means quadruple sculls or "quads" - ergs 1 to 4 are treated as the four seats in a quadruple scull, ergs 5 to 8 are the four seats in the next quadruple scull, and so on. |
| • | 8x means octuple sculls or "octuples" - ergs 1 to 8 are treated as the eight seats in an octuple scull, ergs 9 to 16 are the eight seats in the next octuple scull, and so on. Note these boats are not referred to as "eights" because in an eight each rower has only one oar, whereas in an octuple each rower has two oars. |
| • | You will notice if you select 2x, 4x or 8x, red brackets will appear on the left of the list of ergs to show how they will be arranged into boats, and the list will only show one entry for each boat. |
| • | You can choose to either leave the default Name, Gender and Crew Colors for each boat in the list, or you can type in a name, select a gender, and arrange your own choice of colors. |
| • | Once you're done you can click Save Venue Race to save the race arrangement in the race list that appears when you click Session Setup / Venue. |
| • | Now you can repeat all this to create more races. |
Editing races in RowPro
If a race changes, for example there is another entry or someone drops out, you can edit races in Session Setup / Venue / Edit Venue Race. You can do this anytime, right up to the start of the race.
