Schools Indoor Rowing League

Children in Need Row 2026, 2 to 13 November. £6,914 raised by 17 teams so far.

Train

Pace calculator

Work out a 500m split, a finishing time or a distance from the other two, and see how many watts that pace takes.
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Time
Pace per 500m

Fill in the other two boxes to see the answer.

How it's worked out

Pace on a Concept2 monitor is the time it takes to row 500 metres, so the calculator scales your time to 500m (time ÷ distance × 500) and works backwards the same way when you ask for a time or a distance. For example, to row 2,000m in 6:32 you need a 500m split of 1:38.

Watts use Concept2's formula, watts = 2.80 ÷ (pace ÷ 500)³ with pace in seconds. Because power rises with the cube of speed, taking two seconds off a 1:50 split needs more than three times the extra power of taking two seconds off a 2:30 split.

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