Pulling Rank

The RAFOTA Rowing and SkiErg League has been established to bring staff together through competition, fitness and teamwork across the Academy. The league provides personnel with an opportunity to develop physical and mental resilience, encourage healthy competition and build stronger working relationships through a series of 500m, 1K and 2K erg tests — all whilst questioning why anyone voluntarily signs up to suffer for time on a machine that goes nowhere. Designed for all abilities, the league promotes consistency, accountability and wellbeing while building a positive fitness culture across RAFOTA. Whether it is surviving the explosive pace of the 500m test, holding things together during the painful middle of the 1K, or battling through the final few hundred metres of the 2K, the league is about camaraderie, resilience and enjoying a bit of healthy suffering together.