Concept2 offer a range of online challenges to keep you motivated throughout the year.

In order to participate you will need to create yourself a Personal Online Logbook to record the metres you row. Read "How to Join" in the right hand column.

Download 2010 Calendar Here

JANUARY 1-31

Virtual Team Challenge

Create a virtual team of friends, family, co-workers or long-lost school mates from anywhere in the world and participate in the Virtual Team Challenge. The goal is to collectively row as many metres as you can in the month of January. Each team member contributes to metres to the total - it doesn't matter how fast or slow your row. Deadline for entering meters: February 3, 2010 by midnight ET.

FEBRUARY 9-14
Valentine’s Day Challenge 

• IF you row a total of 14,000 meters between 12:01 a.m. on the 9th February and midnight on Valentine's Day the 14th February.
• AND you enter it in your Personal Logbook,
• THEN you can download your choice of C2-designed Valentine's Day cards to send to your friends and loved ones!

All those who row 14K will be listed on our Erg Lover's Board. Note that you can edit your Personal Profile to include a special Valentine's Day "message for others to see". If you make the Erg Lover's Board, fellow rowers will be able to see your creative message.

The goal is to see how many people around the world will row a marathon or half marathon between April 16 and 30 in one sitting.  Enter your time online and earn a downloadable certificate. See the Marathon Training Section for individual training programs.

Full marathon - 42,195 metres.
Half marathon - 21,097 metres.

MAY 1 
New Ranking Year Begins
Start entering your new scores online now and see how you go compared to others around the world with our World Rankings Page. 

JUNE, JULY, AUGUST

Summer Sweeps

Row 5000 meters as many days as you can during the months of June, July and August.  On ten randomly selected days throughout the months of June, July and August we will draw a winner’s name from everyone who rows at least 5000 meters that day.

JUNE 21
Summer Solstice Row
In honor of the longest day of the year, we challenge you to a long row of 21,000 meters. On-water metres are allowed for this challenge only!

The metres can be accrued from several workouts throughout the day or from one long workout. While you're at it, you may just as well row an additional 97 meters and make it an official half-marathon of 21,097 meters (the half-marathon does have to be rowed in one sitting, small breaks are allowed, but the rest time needs to be included in the final time for ranking). 

OCTOBER 25 - 31
Skeleton Crew

Earn your Halloween candy with this one-week challenge. Row at least 31,000 metres between Oct 25 and Oct 31, log all the meters in your online logbook and download a spooky Skeleton Crew certificate and iron-on transfer!


NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 24
8th Annual Holiday Challenge

This challenge will keep you healthy and fit through the holidays. Row your choice of 100,000 or 200,000 meters, kids row 50,000 metres from US Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Eve. Log your results in your personal Online Logbook and earn prizes!

DEC 31 
Blue Moon Row

Celebrate the second full moon in December by rowing 5000 metres twice on Dec 31st. 

Since we announced the 1st Blue Moon Row in 2004 several customers have written to let us know that there are two different definitions of "blue moon". It turns out that this is a good thing because we can have Blue Moon Rows more often! The first definition is when a full moon occurs twice in one month. In this case, the second full moon is called a blue moon. The second definition of a blue moon is when there are four full moons in one season, and when this occurs, the third full moon is the blue moon. Indeed, it appears that this second definition is the original, and correct one – though the other definition has become more widely known.