How does Jordan succeed on the Atlantic? Good training. Let’s start with some background… Jordan Hanssen’s rowing career began at University of Puget Sound in 2001. Since then he was a 4-time Northwest Collegiate Rowing Champion, gold medalist at WIRA, and voted “Mr. Crew.” The latter was to that point his biggest accomplishment (you know, if […]
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Obviously I had some work to do to prepare myself for a row across the Atlantic. Motion sickness, something I thought I had eliminated with my years of flight testing, needed to be solved. What was I to do? There was no way I would allow myself to become a useless human log, becoming a […]
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16-person Boat Going for a Record
I am currently in western Quebec (Bristol to be more exact) with very little internet and cell phone access. I have been enjoying the slower pace. Most of my time time is spent cursing at my computer screen while I withdraw ideas from my mind for my book. Trying is the key word here. […]
Throwing up. I thought it would be an interesting subject to elaborate upon. Not your run of the mill, “I was kicked in the stomach and yakked up” throwing up, or “doing pushups and drinking beer every repetition in the Muscle Garden at Jordan’s” throwing up, but worse. On our training trip down the Washington […]
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Christmas on the Sea
I am home with my parents in New Mexico for the holidays, thousands of miles away from the ocean. I can’t help but think about what my Christmas will look like in the middle of the Atlantic next year, or more to the point, what it won’t look like. It’s not going to look like […]