This post is a bit late in coming given that we’re now just two weeks from heading to the start line, but our boat is now wrapped in her fancy racing outfit! It was a bit of a rush getting her finished and ensuring all of the sponsors’ logos were in the right places but the team at Signman did…
Clive met up with the lovely Gillian from Citylets, who are one of our amazing sponsors, to record an episode of their “Let’s Talk” Podcasts. You can listen on Soundcloud below or find the podcast on any of your normal podcast providers. We think our ginger ninja did a fantastic job and it’s well worth a listen! Lets Talk ·…
We’re just back from an intrepid voyage South of the Border into deepest Yorkshire (specifically the barracks at Ripon) to have our boat inspected by the Atlantic Campaigns Team. This was a softer version of the pre-race inspection we’ll go through in La Gomera, where in the past teams have been failed and prevented from racing until their boat’s issues…
We’ve finally taken delivery of our boat from the Maclean brothers who competed as team BROAR in the 2019/20 race. It feels great to take on the baton from a previous Scottish crew and is even more fitting because it was this boat crossing the finish line on the pub TV that caused Dunc, Fraser and Ian to put their…
I suppose by now we thought we’d be able to get out and train together in the same boat or gym. To be honest we’d take training in the same garden right now! We’ve started using a great online platform called Ergworld which lets us link up our rowing machine monitors and train together virtually, but it’s not quite the…
Ross has been interviewed on the Reverse Rett Podcast by the charity’s founder Rachael Stevenson! It’s a great interview and answers a lot of questions we’re often asked about the challenge. Give it a listen by clicking on the button below. During the conversation, Ross and Rachael chat about what’s actually involved in racing across an ocean in a very…
Reverse Rett is our chosen charity as you know, and they host an annual fundraising dinner at this time of year. Ordinarily this is in a fancy London venue and everyone gets dressed up for an evening’s food, entertainment and enriching spirits. This year they decided to take this party online rather than cancel it altogether, and hosted a really…
Much to everyone’s relief, the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge will be going ahead as normal, with the race starting 1 month from now (squeaky bum time)! Atlantic Campaigns who organise the race have been working hard to ensure that competitors are able to stay as safe as possible during the pre-race run up in La Gomera and it looks…
Ross has started writing a blog for our chosen charity Reverse Rett to keep everyone involved with the charity up to date on our progress. There’s a copy of his first entry below but you can also stay up to date with the blog on the My Challenge of a Lifetime section of the Reverse Rett website. My Challenge of…
We enjoyed our first World in a Day event so much we agreed to do it again this week, but this time some of the participating rowers online suggested that doing only 20 miles when just another 6 would take you to a full marathon was just a wasted opportunity! The response from our crew was that the guys were…
Lockdown is a real problem for training. There’s the obvious lack of opportunity to train as a crew, but the bigger issue (at least for me) is trying to maintain the motivation to jump onto that ergo and row. Clive, Dunc, Ross and I all compete on the Scottish Coastal Rowing circuit and we, like many others, are staring down…
This post is a bit late in coming given that we’re now just two weeks from heading to the start line, but our boat is now wrapped in her fancy racing outfit! It was a bit of a rush getting her finished and ensuring all of the sponsors’ logos were in the right places but the team at Signman did…
Clive met up with the lovely Gillian from Citylets, who are one of our amazing sponsors, to record an episode of their “Let’s Talk” Podcasts. You can listen on Soundcloud below or find the podcast on any of your normal podcast providers. We think our ginger ninja did a fantastic job and it’s well worth a listen! Lets Talk ·…
We’re just back from an intrepid voyage South of the Border into deepest Yorkshire (specifically the barracks at Ripon) to have our boat inspected by the Atlantic Campaigns Team. This was a softer version of the pre-race inspection we’ll go through in La Gomera, where in the past teams have been failed and prevented from racing until their boat’s issues…
We’ve finally taken delivery of our boat from the Maclean brothers who competed as team BROAR in the 2019/20 race. It feels great to take on the baton from a previous Scottish crew and is even more fitting because it was this boat crossing the finish line on the pub TV that caused Dunc, Fraser and Ian to put their…
I suppose by now we thought we’d be able to get out and train together in the same boat or gym. To be honest we’d take training in the same garden right now! We’ve started using a great online platform called Ergworld which lets us link up our rowing machine monitors and train together virtually, but it’s not quite the…
Ross has been interviewed on the Reverse Rett Podcast by the charity’s founder Rachael Stevenson! It’s a great interview and answers a lot of questions we’re often asked about the challenge. Give it a listen by clicking on the button below. During the conversation, Ross and Rachael chat about what’s actually involved in racing across an ocean in a very…
Reverse Rett is our chosen charity as you know, and they host an annual fundraising dinner at this time of year. Ordinarily this is in a fancy London venue and everyone gets dressed up for an evening’s food, entertainment and enriching spirits. This year they decided to take this party online rather than cancel it altogether, and hosted a really…
Much to everyone’s relief, the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge will be going ahead as normal, with the race starting 1 month from now (squeaky bum time)! Atlantic Campaigns who organise the race have been working hard to ensure that competitors are able to stay as safe as possible during the pre-race run up in La Gomera and it looks…
Ross has started writing a blog for our chosen charity Reverse Rett to keep everyone involved with the charity up to date on our progress. There’s a copy of his first entry below but you can also stay up to date with the blog on the My Challenge of a Lifetime section of the Reverse Rett website. My Challenge of…
We enjoyed our first World in a Day event so much we agreed to do it again this week, but this time some of the participating rowers online suggested that doing only 20 miles when just another 6 would take you to a full marathon was just a wasted opportunity! The response from our crew was that the guys were…
Lockdown is a real problem for training. There’s the obvious lack of opportunity to train as a crew, but the bigger issue (at least for me) is trying to maintain the motivation to jump onto that ergo and row. Clive, Dunc, Ross and I all compete on the Scottish Coastal Rowing circuit and we, like many others, are staring down…
