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Posted: **January 17th, 2020, 7:26 pm**

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ecord.html

Small excerpt below

In 35 days, nine hours, and nine minutes, they rowed their 28ft-long, £50,000 lightweight R45 Rannoch rowing boat across 3,000 miles of shark-infested waters, waves reaching heights of 40ft, heavy storms, and busy shipping lanes.

Completing 1.5million strokes by keeping to a strict schedule of rowing for two hours and sleeping for one, the siblings overcame seasickness, and blisters and sores.

At their lowest, the MacLeans battled dehydration and extreme fatigue in 40-degree heat, burning 12,000 calories a day and losing around 20% of their body weight.

Posted: **January 17th, 2020, 9:30 pm**

So let's see:

35 days, nine hours, and nine minutes, and 3,000 miles

[ ( 35 x 24 + 9 ) x 60 + 9 ] = 50949 minutes

3000 miles = 4,828,000 meters

500 m x ( 50948 / 4828000 ) = 5.276 min / 500 m

Or a pace of 5:16.6 min / 500 m

Wimps !!!

Just kidding of course. That's one heck of an achievement. I heard about it a while back on the BBC (radio)

Posted: **January 20th, 2020, 12:52 pm**

I cant imagine being stuck on a row boat that long. Doing a half marathon is tedious enough haha.

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