On the rower

On the rower

Sunday 3 May 2009

Preparation for the rowing challenge

I started rowing about two months ago and have so far rowed about 180KM. All my rowing has been done on a Concept 2 rowing machine. I usually row four times a week, anywhere between 2Km and 10Km and have so far included one half marathon. This challenge started on May 1st, which is the start of the new rowing season. To achieve 1 million metres in a year i'll have to row roughly 20Km a week, which is about 5Km each time i row. Obviously with holidays etc, i'll need to row some longer distances to keep up, so this will really be a challenge for me.

I've also set up an online donation page, created this new blog and created a map to show the progress i would be making if i were really rowing round the UK. I've also rowed my first 10km, so there are only 990,000m to go!
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4 comments:

  1. Caroline4 May 2009 at 13:40

    Hi Richard - I'm Caroline who is also doing a one million metres row for my mum. You will be able to access my just giving page if you follow your one million metres tag. Good luck for your challenge, i am on track so far - and so are you!
    If you want to join my rowing team 'Empty the tanks' for the Fall rowing challenge in September it would be a great incentive for us to be able to row for PSP & MS and try to get into the top 30 teams world-wide too! i have a 17 strong team and we finished 36th out of 230 teams in the recent World Rowing Challenge.
    Keep up the good work on the C2 - pull, pull and pull some more!

    Caroline

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  2. Richard4 May 2009 at 21:24

    Hi Caroline - I am new to this blogging business so not sure whether to reply here or on your page. I started logging my rowing on Concept 2's site in March, when i wanted motivation to keep rowing. Saw you on the weekly winners page and thought that it was a good idea to maybe do something myself. As you've probably noticed i copied bits from your fundraising page and your idea to plot a map. Hope you don't mind, it's all in a good cause. I'll think about joining the team. How does it work? Richard

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  3. Caroline4 May 2009 at 21:33

    Hello Richard, I'm fairly new to the blogging stuff too. If you do want to join the team - go to the 'teams' tab on your on-line log book and there will be options to join an 'open team', Empty the tanks will be in the listings. Don't worry if you can't get it sorted - there is plenty of time! I can't get the cool just-giving widget that you've got on your blog to work on my page?! Any tips?
    Keep up the good work - i see you've got a good amount of sponsorship already!
    Caroline

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  4. Richard5 May 2009 at 20:59

    1.Highlight the code from the justgiving site and right click then copy.
    2. Click on 'customise', top right of your blog.
    3.Click on a section on your blog layout where it says'Edit'.
    4.Paste it into the content section of the panel that opens up.
    Click 'save' and that should be it.
    Hope that helps; If i'm still rowing when the challenge comes up i'll certainly join your team.
    Did another £10k today. Keep going too! Richard

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