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Until I read your blog, I couldn't imagine why a young man would be spending so much time on the rower that he was at the top of the 10K pages! I notice that you're skirting by California on your virtual trip, but I'll raise a glass of something in your honor when you're vaguely east of me. Good for you, and good luck in your quest.
Chris
I salute you! You are amazing.
Wow, I started indoor rowing in February 2009 to loose weight and have fallen in love with it the sport! I also want to start a fund raising foundation to raise funds through rowing marathons!!! I did a 100km row in a day in April to raise funds for a school. it wasn't too successful but I still want to do this.
Happy rowing, Dave.
Mark
Would just like to say what a fantastic job your doing. I'm trying to cover the distance twice around the equator on a stationary exercise bike on the red funnel ferries. Guiness book of records told me i had to have medical staff on a cycle and two independent witnesses (the independent witnesses are easy to find). The main problem was that i could only take five mins break per hour, which was a bit much in the process of covering 50,000 miles. What rulings do you have to stick in order for yours to be a record?
I have empathy for your reason for doing it. I'm doing mine in memory of mum, dad and brother.
Best of luck
Gus Mckechnie
I was looking through the top people in the fall rowing challenge (I'm currently at 276K and targeting somewhere between 300 and 333 for the month, so I'm not quite in the same category but I've already set a PR for a month challenge) and happened to notice your link. My wife and both of her sisters have had breast cancer before age 50, so of course I find your story heartening, and I do plan to donate.
I row regularly for fitness -- I'm not a very good sprinter (my best 2K is 6:47.5), but I do relatively better at longer distances (typically 8100~8250 for 30 minutes -- 1:49~1:51 pace), but I'm going a bit slower in the challenge, maybe 1:54 or so. Sustaining 1:51 for an hour day after day is a bit more than I can do, and I tweaked my back a few weeks ago which slowed me down some although I'm getting most of my speed back.
Good luck on your 40M! This is really neat.
Robert Krawitz
My Name is Kirsting and you went to my daughters school today (Manorfield Junior School - Monday 19th October) and she hasn't stopped talking about what a wonderful job you're doing! I think she promised we would bring you some of our home made truffles, which of course we will but I really wanted to say thank you, my daughter came home asking what she and I could do to help you raise money and is really inspired, it also initiated a huge conversation on a much broader scale about people who's lifes aren't always as blessed as ours and it was great to hear her thoughts and ideas. Any way, good luck with your mission and we'll be along with truffles in November, in fact you may even get to be chief taster on any new ones we are trialing!
Kirstin
Hi Dave, good luck, looks as though you about through halfway. Just done 600k in one month for the C2 Fall Challenge and was, until reading your stuff, quietly chuffed with myself! Really respect your mental toughness, keep going to the end - the second half is always, somehow, easier than the first half. I think it is the fact that you have got less to go than you have already done, at least that's what I tell myself on really long rows. Best of everything.
David
