Ruth Marr

Ruth Marr
May 17, 2024
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To Set a World Record You Need Data

Setting an official Guinness World Record requires extraordinary training and determination plus you need evidence. A 2015 world record for endurance SUP paddling still stands, as verified by SpeedCoach SUP data. As the ultimate authority and adjudicator of world records, Guinness World Records needs proof. They need data and other evidence that ...

Ruth Marr
Apr 3, 2024
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Top 10 Tips to Get the Most from Your CoxBox

Maximize your investment in the essential coxing tool. Ten tips to help you get the most from your CoxBox from charging,sprint' storing, cleaning to simple repairs. Whether a newbie or an experienced coxswain, there are always things to learn and ways to do things better. Including getting the most from your CoxBox. Here our top 10 tips to ...

Ruth Marr
Mar 25, 2024
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Support for CoxBox 08 Ending Soon — Transition Now to Improved Technology

Beginning July 01, 2024, Nielsen-Kellerman (NK Sports) will cease repairs for the CoxBox 08 model. We remain committed to offering the best rowing and sports performance equipment and customer service. Many CoxBox 08 repairs require a new board. NK Sports will soon be unable to make the boards because of obsolete parts. We have several solutions ...

Ruth Marr
Feb 27, 2024
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Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing

Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing Collegiate club rowing offers students leadership experience and community but requires solutions to improve safety, provide more education and awareness, and build better governance support. Collegiate club rowing is getting talked about. The hottest topics are the loss of athletic department status, ...

Ruth Marr
Feb 21, 2024
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The Inside Story on Your Megaphone

Revealed: The Story Behind the Blue Ocean Megaphone The Blue Ocean® Megaphone sports an interesting name, a sleek appearance, extreme durability, and cool functionality as the only digital megaphone. This is the story behind the innovation. You may have seen them lined up on the coach's bench. Or in a single file at the back end of a ...

Ruth Marr
Nov 27, 2023
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Concrete Canoes and SpeedCoaches

Competitive canoe racing is growing. Data and analysis delivered by canoe SpeedCoaches are critical to making boats go faster, even when they are concrete canoes. When you have Olympic ambitions, data and analysis are critical, regardless of your watersport. Anuar Akchurin knows. He is aiming to compete in the canoe sprint event at the 2028 LA ...

Ruth Marr
Oct 11, 2023
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Discovering the SpeedCoach GPS2 as a Masters Rower

NK Sports' SpeedCoach® GPS 2 performance rowing monitor delivers value with on-water readings, built-in workouts, and superb analytics for a Masters rower without a coach, training hard but not competing. Do any of these describe you? You are a Masters rower who has completed a Learn to Row and now has one or two years of experience. ...

Ruth Marr
Sep 20, 2023
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Heat Stress Danger: Red Flag, Stop Rowing

Preventing heat stress for rowers includes staying aware of conditions and communicating when to reduce or stop rowing practices or competitions. NK’s Kestrel Heat Stress Flag Kit is the perfect tool. Hammering down a 1,000 m or 2,000 m racecourse, there are many things to pay attention to besides your bursting lungs and screaming legs. You ...

Ruth Marr
Aug 14, 2023
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Becoming a Para Coxswain

Johanna Knight has an ambition. Actually, she has several, but the one that stands out is being selected to be the para coxswain for the US national team. As one of the first recipients of the revised NK Sports Grant Program, Johanna used her $500 grant to purchase a CoxBox GPS amplifier with a pink bumper. She has the dream to use that CoxBox® in ...

Ruth Marr
Jul 17, 2023
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What Every Rower Needs to Know About Dragon Boating

NK's own Katie Godfrey celebrates 19 years on the US national dragon boat team and shares what is the same and different from rowing. Nineteen years in any sport is a long time. Nineteen years on a national team is a remarkable achievement. Katie Godfrey, who has been selected to the US National Dragon Boat team for the 19th year, doesn't miss a ...