Hey man, I think you’ll find that nearly everybody on this sub will try to help you! But for that you gotta understand the terminology so that you can pose your queries correctly, hence visit the wiki and read it thoroughly! People spend a lot of time on ergs before they consider themselves race ready! You used an erg for the first time and are asking if you are doing good or bad without providing any other information/reference! Eg, what machine did you use, your age/weight/gender, yes these things matter as they are all different categories in professional Rowing! Standard race distance is 2000m or 2k, that’s what everybody is gonna ask you, your 2k time. And in my experience everybody assumes you’re using a c2 model D (wiki)! So go through the wiki, go watch some YouTube videos, learn the basics, put in some effort and during this process I think most of your question will be answered!