Shimmy
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Me and my team just finished the 11 cities rowing marathon. It's traditionally an ice skating competition that has been adapted for rowing and cycling.
To give you an idea of the toughness of this rowing marathon. We raced it in 5 teams of two people (and 2 teams of 1 coxswain). It's 207 kilometres in total over open water, with lots of sharp bends, narrow bridges, rough lakes etc. It took us as near as makes no difference, 22 hours, with an additional half an hour to row to the start. We had a very old and badly balanced C2x boat which was altered for safety making it even heavier.
In total I had been up for 33 hours by the end of the race, having rowed over 46 kilometres in that period. Luckily, the conditions were absolutely perfect, the weather wasn't too hot or cold (during the night a layer of craft thermowear and a sweater did the job perfectly, during the day shorts and a shirt was more than enough). We didn't have any rain, and the wind was low.
Picks of amongst other things, my blistered hands, will follow.
To give you an idea of the toughness of this rowing marathon. We raced it in 5 teams of two people (and 2 teams of 1 coxswain). It's 207 kilometres in total over open water, with lots of sharp bends, narrow bridges, rough lakes etc. It took us as near as makes no difference, 22 hours, with an additional half an hour to row to the start. We had a very old and badly balanced C2x boat which was altered for safety making it even heavier.
In total I had been up for 33 hours by the end of the race, having rowed over 46 kilometres in that period. Luckily, the conditions were absolutely perfect, the weather wasn't too hot or cold (during the night a layer of craft thermowear and a sweater did the job perfectly, during the day shorts and a shirt was more than enough). We didn't have any rain, and the wind was low.
Picks of amongst other things, my blistered hands, will follow.