twinkie test

A term used in the rowing world to refer to one of the most demoralizing and embarrassing forms of seat racing: a boat races a set distance for time, and subsequently replaces one of the oarsmen with a twinkie and races the same distance a second time. If the boat goes faster with the twinkie in place of the oarsman, then that rower has "lost the twinkie test," meaning that they are worse at rowing than a twinkie.

Bill missed practice today, so we twinkie tested him for a 5k race piece. He definitely lost.

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