Week 6 - the North Pacific Ocean
Well done guys for another great week of training. Some amazing stuff going on, and big shout out to those knocking out half marathons. 🏃♀️👀 Rather you than me.
We left Kitakyushu on Monday and passed through Tokyo on Wednesday morning. I found this video of Bill Barry, who won a silver in the Tokyo 1964 Games in the coxless four, and thought it was quite a nice sentiment: https://www.olympic.org/…/silver-medallist-barry-relives-ol…
We’ve unfortunately spent the rest of the week rowing across the North Pacific Ocean, which for the most part doesn’t have a great deal going on, so I’ve found some facts about the Ocean for this week’s update. We are almost level longitudinally with the west coast of New Zealand.
The Pacific Ocean 🌊 is the largest, at 165,250,000 square kilometres and has the deepest section out of any ocean – the Mariana Trench at 10,823m deep – more than 5 Holme Pierreponts! 😲
The fastest solo row 🚣♀️ across the Pacific was completed by a British man, John Beedon in 2015 – he rowed for an average of 15 hours each day for 209 days! Crazy. You can read about him here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-35186209
If we have a good week this week, we might be out of the Pacific Ocean and my tenuous links. We’re approaching the west coast of the USA!
Graphics courtesy of Jess Lewis : madebyjess.co.uk
We’re keeping track of every mile and every heartbeat on Strava, and the team participate in frequent group calls to keep communicating and laughing.
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