Virtual Round Brownsea Race.

All Hants and Dorset Clubs.

Virtual Round Brownsea Race

Poole RC are wishing to revive the Round Brownsea Island race, but in line with

these current times with a little twist – a virtual one from the comfort of your own

home.

In conjunction with some clever people at Runcorn RC we are able to offer an ‘App’

which entrants can download and connect to their ergo and allows us to link people

up from the same club to form crews and race against crews from other clubs. We

can form crews of 2, 3 or 4 people in various age/gender classes if we have enough.

We will split the event up into divisions so that a family can use the same ergo in

different divisions.

The hope is to run the event in March and also to have footage of the course around

the island so that you can watch your progress around the island as you ergo.

On our couple of test events we have found that the key is the technology – the app

only runs on a pc or laptop, it does not run on an ipad or iphone. So you need an

ergo, a pc or laptop and a printer type cable to hard wire the two together. Plus a

decent wifi/internet connection so a remote gym or garage may not be perfect.

This is a pre invite to gauge the level of interest from clubs, we hope this is a great

way to start getting our competitive juices going and bringing the association back

together after such a long time apart – we are missing you all!

So could you push out to your members let me have an idea of the level of

interest/ability to meet the technology requirements from your club by Friday 26 th

February on pjacobs757@aol.com

Many thanks

Pete Jacobs, Club captain

Matt Sewell, Event Organiser