| At sea. Atlantic Rowing Race: Pacific Pete thinks adrenal gland will burst |
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| Sunday, 15 January 2006 | |
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Chris Martin: The last thing you need after your nerves are shot after capsizing and having to right the boat yourself in large waves is your first day back at the oars to be in huge waves with lots of surf. My adrenal gland is about to rupture due to overuse and anytime a wave so much as looks at me my heart has taken to missing a beat. There is of course the old saying that the best thing to do after falling off the horse is to get back on but at least you normally get the option to not enter a rodeo straight away. That is the one thing that makes ocean rowing such a special (and at sometimes irritating sport) there is nowhere to get off. The thing I long for now is a bed that doesn’t try and throw me out of it at night, a patch of floor that doesn’t move or a solid stationary chair. Following on Pete’s comments about people called Pete I think it’s a great reason to introduce people to Peter Bird (Pacific Pete), the first man to row across the Pacific and the ocean rower to spend more time in an ocean rowing boat more than any other. Please follow this link, http://www.oceanrowing.com/Oceanrowers/peter.htm, to learn more about the man that this boat is named after. Aurora has got to the Rowgirls and has just launched a rescue. She’s now on the support yacht until it berths sometime in January in Antigua. Love to you all Chris xx Chris Martin in Pacific Pete is from Surrey UK and is the only male solo competitor http://www.transatlanticforce.co.uk/ Event website http://www.atlanticrowingrace.co.uk |
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