Day 8 Motivational words indeed 24:15.069N 20:31.773w
Row Across The Pond
Richard Hoyland and Steve Coe
Mon 11 Jan 2010 15:43
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Today we opened the first of my letters for the journey
that had been pulled together by my wife Louise, Steve and myself were in for a
great surprise. Lou had got some motivational words from James Cracknell for our
first week at sea (she got it spot on with this little present). We were told
that the painful rowing regime gets physically and mentally better over time and
that we should focus on chipping away at our goals in a slow and methodical
way...the journey is an amazing one and that it will teach you things about
yourself in the most unexpected ways. On a painfully hot labourious day of
rowing this little gift of a few words has transformed our moods..cheers Lou
:-)
Each day we await our mails with anticipation to see how we
are doing in the race..yesterday we were told that by some freak accident that
we were in second place. Even if the end sees us arrive down the pecking order
it is great to at one stage be mentioned with the frontrunners. Our progress now
totally depends on the weather systems we encounter...we have 600 miles left on
our current leg to reach the trade winds, where we will tick off the serious
mileage. We could be in the trades within a couple of weeks (finger crossed for
fair winds)....I swear our good luck so far was due to that bottle of champagne
we broke over the boat in Gomera ;-) (thanks to the boogiewoogie team for the
bottle)
No new wildlife to report...am waiting for the whales that
some teams said visit at night, a scary prospect during a night shift on the
oars.
So, we're plodding on hour after hour, rowing our way home
:-)
[a Richard blog]
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