Monday, 22 October 2012

Completing the Challange



I am thrilled to say I have achieved my ten week goal of – rowing 45km in 50 minutes. I completed the row in 44:15:08.  I feel over the ten weeks I have become more flexible, stronger and fitter in many ways. When starting this ten week challenge I thought it was impossible to achieve this goal as I could only last up to five minutes on the rower before giving up. My friend Gina was rowing beside me and praised and encouraged me throughout the challenge. She was a massive help as she is very knowledgeable about rowing and knew what to say when I felt like giving up. I felt by not looking at how many kilometres or metres I had to go, was good as I was doing the best I could do as the time was making me stressed and frustrated therefore making my technique poor. When I was thinking of other things, I seemed to pull more and forget about how tired I really was. I still cannot believe I have completed this challenge as I thought it was impossible for me. I guess nothing is impossible when you put your mind to it and train for it. 





Left Photo: Before the 10 km Rown 






Right Photo: After the 10 km Row 

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