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  • Four women will attempt to row 8,446-miles from America to Australia
  • They share their training secrets to building up mind and body for the feat
  • They want to be first female 4's team to row unsupported across Pacific
  • For six months they will sleep and row in two-hour intervals
  • Women, who have day jobs, say it will be 85% mental and 15% physical


''Apart from issues like sleep deprivation, adverse weather conditions, injury, salt sores, sun exposure and potential equipment malfunction, the coxless crew also need to train themselves to deal with psychological challenges of monotony, confined living quarters and limited contact with the outside world.

That's on top of the fitness and strength training needed to take on the momentous rowing feat.
Yet, the formidable foursome set to embark on this exceptional journey - in a 29ft long and 7ft wide pink boat called Doris - describe themselves as 'ordinary'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...two-hour-shifts-SIX-months.html#ixzz3VzBkHh00



Well they're not ordinary to me, ...they're awesome.. :D

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Nor me AC...and I couldn't have done it when I was their age either.. physical strength as well as immense strength of character is what will be needed in shed loads for them..
 
Think it's extremely ambitious and impressive --- I don't really ask why -- more like why not? I couldn't do it and wouldn't want to, but for some it's very goal worthy, like competing in the olympics.
 
When I first looked at their photos, I thought they were all in their 20s but only one is - and she's 29! But they all look extremely fit and healthy. I wish them a spectacular victory!!
 
Sigh. Another expensive air/sea rescue coming up.

We spend millions fishing lone sailors/kayakers and other adventurers out of the drink
and persecute asylum seekers, including children, who attempt to arrive here in leaky boats.

No discredit to the women but our values are topsy turvy.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Sigh. Another expensive air/sea rescue coming up.

We spend millions fishing lone sailors/kayakers and other adventurers out of the drink
and persecute asylum seekers, including children, who attempt to arrive here in leaky boats.

No discredit to the women but our values are topsy turvy.
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That's what I was thinking too DW. Those adventures lead to that many times and sometimes put the rescuers at risk.
 
Shalimar said:
Why are you assuming this venture will fail, may I ask? Some succeed, besides we are an adventurous species, it is part of our heritage.
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Long distance swimmers have their own backup teams with them. They may fail to swim the distance but they don't need international rescue.
From the US mainland to Hawaii these women will be your responsibility but if they get into trouble from Hawaii to Australia then we, and possibly New Zealand, will be searching for them at considerable cost, which is never recovered from their insurance. It usually happens in the Southern Ocean, which is not exactly easy to patrol.

Of course, if these women are being shadowed by aircraft, then my reservations don't apply.
 
Sorry Shalimar. I wasn't thinking.

To explain my rather jaundiced view a bit further, in cases where we have had to spend millions to rescue some adventurer, the result is that they then make a lot of money from interviews and book deals but never feel that they need recompense their rescuers.
 
So not like the olympics, Cookie. So very dangerous. Guess my mind set is focused on the danger, with that very small and low boat, in that vast ocean. Very frightening. Bless them, may they attain their goal.
 
ndynt said:
So not like the olympics, Cookie. So very dangerous. Guess my mind set is focused on the danger, with that very small and low boat, in that vast ocean. Very frightening. Bless them, may they attain their goal.
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I agree, very very dangerous, but when asking why, could the motivation to do something like this be similar to the achievement of a goal like winning Olympics or climbing Everest, or swimming English Channel, white water rafting, sailing around the world, etc. etc. etc.? (contestants can get very badly hurt in Olympics too, such as in downhill skiing competitions)
 
Josiah said:
I wonder how many stops they'll make to re-provision? I didn't see that in the news article.
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Four people, in that small boat, I was also was wondering how much room they would have for provisions. And where they would obtain them. There do not seem to be many islands between America and Australia...unless you go to Hawaii, the Polynesian Islands ....ect. ending up traveling the cost of Asia southward. I am sure they have considered all that and I am being too practical. No adventure left in this old soul. LOL
 

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