Hi guys!
Thank you so much for visiting my fundraising page.
I am attempting to set a Guinness World Record by becoming the first person to row around the world on a land rowing machine. Situated in The Malls Shopping Centre in Basingstoke, north Hampshire, I will raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer by rowing 40,075 km (25,047 miles) - the total distance around the earth's equator. In order to complete this challenge, I will row between seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week, for the next two and a half years.
The row began in Basingstoke on 28th May 2008 and will follow a virtual course across West and Eastern Europe, Russia, Western Canada, Western USA, Central America, the northern region of South America, the Atlantic Ocean and North West Africa before heading back up through South West Europe, around the UK and returning to Basingstoke on 18th December 2010.
Please donate as much or as little as you can afford, every bit helps.
If you would like more information on the row, please visit www.worldrecordrow.com where you can also read the latest rowing blog - the challenge has it it's own facebook group and daily progress can be followed on twitter
Thank you so much,
Dave x
As of 30th August 2010...
Current location - Tichit, Mauritius - west Africa
Distance rowed - 35,217 km (22,011 miles)
Distance remaining - 4,858 km (3,036 miles)
News of endurance rowing records set so far -
On Saturday 8th May 2010, Dave and Ollie Trinder set a new tandem endurance world record of 103 hours at the Hilton, Reading. They also set a new world record in the 20-29 age category for fastest tandem million metre row in a time of 102 hours and 32 minutes.
On 30th April 2010, Dave set a new world record of 17,111 km for most number of kilometres rowed in a single season.
On Saturday 6th November, Dave set a new lightweight world record for endurance rowing of 30 hours.
On Wednesday 7th October 2009, Dave set a new lightweight world record for the fastest million metre row in a time of 227 hours and 43 minutes.
On Sunday 5th July 2009 Dave and James Burrows set a new 24 hour tandem world record in the heavyweight 20-29 age category at Fitness First, Basingstoke. They rowed a combined distance of 312.726km (195.5 miles).
On Sunday 24th May 2009 Dave and his brother Jonathan set a new 100km tandem British record in the heavyweight 20-29 age category at the Newton Longville Festival of Transport in a time of 7hrs 31mins 29.9secs.
