OAR NorthwestRight now, the smallest task feels 10x harder than it should be. Filling a water bottle, putting on sunscreen, writing this blog all require herculean stores of discipline, will-power & effort. We are adapting. That’s my mantra of the moment. We are adapting. New sleep schedule, finding sea legs, rowing 12 hours a day, new chores & habits. We are […]
Adam Kreek here. Yesterday, I woke up at 4 am to go on an adventure with a bunch of my friends at the Whitehall Spirit Rowing Club. We have white, slide seat rowing boats that have a copolymer thermoformed plastic hull made to look like the old whitehall boats rowed on the river Thames in […]
Today I skyped The British School of Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica to speak with some school children about adventure. My old friend, Ashraf Dean, asked that I spend 30 minutes speaking with the kids and answering some questions they prepared for the call. The kids were wonderful. Curious and excited, their energy […]
Rowing is not the best spectator sport. I believe it is still here and growing as a sport because it is one of the best sports out there to teach life skills and values to whomever embraces this sport as a discipline. A new friend of mine, Peter Mallory, sends out thoughtful emails on rowing […]
We often get the same questions asked of us about the Ocean row. I thought that I would answer a few in this post. What kind of seas and swells will you see on the ocean? Seas can be as calm as pee on a plate or as big as 50 foot swells. Most of […]