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The Challenge

It’s 2017.

One 59 year-old, high-risk class III (morbidly) obese, man with a bad back and a dodgy knee.

Three years.

1096 days

9.6 million+ metres (that’s 9,614,721)!

Average of 8773 metres per day – EVERY DAY!

One rowing machine.

One Journey – from Woolton Hill in Hampshire, UK to the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan.

That’s Obese Man Rowing’s TOKYROW 2020

 

 

 

Well it was.

Until 2020, a few months to go and then came Covid-19

and the Olympics were postponed for a year.

SO what to do?

Quit; the dream is over?
Never going to happen.  I may fail but I’m never going to quit.

Carry on as normal and finish on July 24th 2020?
This does not have the “in time for the Olympics” element. Also the last few months before Tokyo were supposed to be spent raising money and the profiles for the four charities at events, public appearances etc. Lockdown ended that.

Go with the new date?

My first thought on this was no – it makes it easier.

So I did then consider doing some extra distance (a third extra).

This however would have lost the “door to door” from Woolton Hill to Tokyo element and I had thought of rowing “via” somewhere virtually but this seemed “messy”.  The original goal was also to row to Tokyo, not “Tokyo and a bit”. 

Although going with the new date does seemingly make the challenge easier on a daily basis, during lockdown things have been tough and it had already become very difficult to maintain the motivation to simply get on the erg.  I lost about seven or eight months momentum or “mojo”.

Rowing for the extra year was actually going to be tougher for me than covering any extra distance.

Even with the extra time the original TokyRow distance of 9.6 million is still a major task for me – although now it may be more of a mental rather than physical challenge but in a way, given that MIND is one of the charities, that seems somehow appropriate!

It does also hopefully mean that all the charities could still get the profile in the months leading up to the opening of the Games.


So there it is.

It was supposed to be over three years.  Now it is four. 

Sorted.  That’s it.  TokyRow continues. We KEEP ON KEEPING ON.

Obese Man Rowing

Twitter

Well you can have a reTweet from me. Comhghairdeas! twitter.com/jfmaiken/statu…

Yesterday from ObeseManRowing's Twitter via Twitter for iPad

RT @kendraquinn12 It’s that time of year again! #HenleyRoyalRegatta #HRR22 (Message me if you’re interested in any of the art!) pic.twitter.com/Gih0zJmgNu

About 2 days ago from ObeseManRowing's Twitter via Twitter Web App

RT @Westers1401 I set up @charityoars & @RBRactive after surviving a massive bilateral pulmonary embolism in 2011. Yesterday, I secured a deal with an international business travel management company. We need our office opening, should we ask @ShaileshVara or @HelenMorganMP or @RichardFoordLD ?

About 3 days ago from ObeseManRowing's Twitter via Twitter Web App

I know rules are rules but the penalty seems harsh. It did not affect qualifying so no disrespect shown and there were clearly other crews (in other events) not going full beans. Brookes were actually just more HONEST about it. A quiet word would have been better IMO. twitter.com/HenleywRegatta…

About 2 weeks ago from ObeseManRowing's Twitter via Twitter Web App

RT @boots_bike 25% over speed limit. But reported as if not important pic.twitter.com/zsYW9KsSM8

About 3 weeks ago from ObeseManRowing's Twitter via Twitter Web App

RT @brokenoarspodc1 : @ObeseManRowing @PBDRC @Deborah_C16 @DSBC1847 @Dan_Cooper1985 @Row_Mighty @BritishRowing @markxdavies @tamr94 Need something to listen to on those long regatta drives? @brokenoarspodc1 has new episodes from @TyneUnitedRC, @drewginn and many more. podbean.com/ew/pb-xn5dy-12…

About 2 months ago from ObeseManRowing's Twitter via Twitter for iPad

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