Ass numbing is a better description.luckylindy wrote:For the big 100km and 24 hour rows, how do folks pass the time? I can barely imagine sitting on the erg for 3 hours, but anything longer seems mind numbing.
That's small potatoes compared to trans-oceanic rowing. Consider Gerard d'Aboville's trans-Pacific row in 1991. It took 134 days and included over 30 capsizes, especially one that lasted almost two hours before he could right it. He had almost run out of oxygen at that point. You can read about it in his book, "Alone."luckylindy wrote:Now, a 100k row OTW would be pretty neat ... I heard that a few people would row the 120km out and back on Cayuga Lake (Ithaca, NY) back in school, always thought that would be a great time.
Bob S.
