Desprite times!
Red Arrow
Rich Hume & Tom Barnes
Thu 18 Feb 2010 12:44
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Hello everybody.
Since you have been reading my blogs, i hope i get
across to you that i write as i see things for what they are. As a result, can i
appoligise in advance for my language as ive had a shit time the last 24 hours.
I feel i must appoligise firstly to tom for having
a rant at him at 2am this morning. He talked about stopping and having a rest, I
told him where to go! Sorry bud!
Ok, we have made great progress since our big stint
on the sea anchor and i was really beginning to feel like antigua was in our
sights. More recently, the wind and waves have all been spot on but for some
reason we cant move the boat. It is doing my head in!!!!! Last night was aweful,
i just wanted to quit. Infact i was ready to jump at one stage with rope in hand
as to tow the boat as in the past i have swam in 2 hours what it has taken
us 7 hours to cover.
What have we done to deserve this? I dont
know.
When human error meant that we missed our original
start date in december, i was mentally in pecies. You work for 3 years to get to
a date that then gets taken away from you. I hadnt prepared myself to be rowing
mid/late feb, early march and im struggling with it. We have covered 29 miles in
24 hours, its bullshit! At this rate we have around 35-40 more days to run, and
i cant even begin to get my head around that. I have had enough.
Im bored with the food, shitting in a bucket, not
having walked a step in 45 days, not having had a shower, not having seen
anybody else and basically just not being able to value what i have. How
much do i long to be walking in Richmond Park right now, i cant even put it
into words. We are rowing in glue.
On top of this, we heard charlie pitcher was going
so fast that he was covering 70 miles a day. OH, and he isnt even rowing, he's
going too fast. Whats fair in that?
I hope it changes, i hope we make progress. I want
to go home, i want to get back to my life that has been disrupted for the last 4
months now. I need to earn some money, i need to get out of the sun.
Whats really anoying is that tomrrow we maybe
flying and i wont even remeber feeling like this.
It will get better, it needs to get better. This is
just how i see it!
rich
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