Atlantic Angels Update
Did you row over the holidays? Perhaps a 100k ergo challenge? 200k? How about rowing across the Atlantic, with 12 hours on and 12 hours off for two months straight? The Atlantic Rowing Race is going on right now and that’s exactly what the competitors are in the middle of. You can track race progress on their great website. Current race leader Pura Vida has put in 1716 miles with 836 to go.
As previously reported here, the Atlantic Angels crew is a women’s four from Britain attempting to break two records, the all-female crossing record and youngest rower–one member of the crew, Rachel Flanders, is 17. The Angels have been at sea for 34 days, having covered 933 miles with 1619 to go. There’s a great documentary video on Youtube covering the origins of the team and their launching (see after the jump):
Posted: January 5th, 2008 under ocean rowing, women's rowing.
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Comment from almost puked doing my 5X1500 this morning
Time: January 28, 2008, 10:25 am
Its been over 20 days since your last post. What happened? Where’d ya go?
Comment from S T Ray Talker
Time: March 31, 2008, 10:30 am
Even in a world ridden with hype, few subjects attract more bullshit than ocean rowing. Those guilty rely on public ignorance to elicit a “wow” response. In 2001 maximum publicity focussed on a female “Eddie the Eagle” of ocean rowing. How many times have I read articles about rowers who are just about to break records for crossing the Atlantic. Women’s crews are especially given to rowing with their mouths. Recently the Atlantic Angels, a crew of four women, claimed to have broken the record for a crossing by an all-women’s crew. That record is still held by a crew of only two women who took a little over 50 days in 2001, but is ignored because the pair concerned Kiwis Jude Ellis and (one-time Geordie) Steph Brown rowed with their oars, sought no accolades and then quietly got on with the rest of their lives.
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