Geoff & Sandra's
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I started indoor rowing during the summer of 2002 , mainly to improve my strength and general fitness for the competitive Windsurfing. We have bought ourselves an indoor rower and I love it. We spent an extra few bob and got the one with the PM2+ monitor, this enables you to connect it to your computer for more varied workouts, and, and this is the best bit for me, with an extra bit of software, you can compete or train with rowers on line from all over the world! Brilliant! So, I am now a confirmed online rower and have joined a virtual rowing club! (Although at the moment, I am not currently active active in the online world, I am still clocking up the metres in preparation for something much more exciting - read on....

My incentive at the moment (I'm writing this at Christmas time 2004 / Jan 05) is to row a marathon in April 05 - to coincide with the London Marathon on the 17th. The Marathon for rowing is 42,195 metres - Unsurprisingly, I've not done that far yet, but I have done 1 hour in which I managed 14,359m - about a third of the way. A second incentive is to get all my personal best times to the current season. If I'm going to do a marathon, it seems a shame to put in all that effort and not get something from it, therefore I intend to row for Charity! Click on my Rowing Sponsorship page for the details - and an opportunity to sponsor me online! If you really want me to bore you, I have listed my training programme too. More.

Update 20 Apr 05. Phew, I've completed the marathon. For a full report follow the link. More

I have extracted mine to my own rankings page for you to have a look at if you wish. It will give you an indication of my current times for the various distances, so you could, if you wanted, try and work out my finishing time for the marathon.You can also see my results from my very first internet race and race replays from my early days. More.