Today’s rowing session was about an hour. The goal was to do the preset distance of 13,500 meters and to keep heart rate in the painted-on-screen target zone … except when taking a break. It was primarily a do-the-distance session.
While rowing, I watched a few youtube videos featuring interviews with one or the other of the two people pictured above. Their website is called fatchancerow.org and it focuses on their amazing journey, unsupported, rowing as a team across 2,750 miles of Pacific Ocean.
Each of them spent about 18 hours daily rowing. They each had 6 hours off to sleep, eat, etc. They tell about it on their website and in interviews they each did which are featured on youtube.
What I did today was about 1/18th of what each of them did during their trip.
What Meredith and Sami (listed in alphabetical order) did was inspiring… especially considering that they left their divorce papers, which they took along in a water-proof bag just in case, untouched during and since the trip.
I wonder what it would be like…. to row on the Concept 2 for 18 hours for just one single day? The wheels of thought are turning…
Happy trails.