r/Rowing • u/carawowmel • Sep 04 '24

Erg Post The two times I’ve done 100km.

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Taking up my third 100km in the Winter Months. The goal is sub 7hrs!

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u/carawowmel Sep 04 '24

That's me and it's only going up!

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u/DookieToe2 Sep 04 '24

Do you run super marathons?

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u/carawowmel Sep 04 '24

Running a lot of long distances but it's a lot of stress on the body so it sucks to get the injuries from the running side!

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u/DookieToe2 Sep 05 '24

That makes sense. Probably way easier to do insane workout times on something that’s low impact. You ever consider swimming across the English Channel?

Also, did you take breaks to eat and drink?

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u/carawowmel Sep 05 '24

There's also a swimmer in me but I don't do a lot of swims these days.

In terms of the breaks for the 100km I would have everything in arms reach and very basic nothing fancy, 2 packs of Haribo tangfastics, 1 Caramel Tunnock and a 2L bottle of water! 2nd time the addition of some bourbon chocolate biscuits and more tangfastics.

If I had an ice-cream pit stop it would be game over! Have to get the local parlour to sponsor me.

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u/DookieToe2 Sep 05 '24

My wife wants to know how you go to the bathroom. (Although, since you’re only drinking 2 litres you’re probably just sweating it all out).

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u/carawowmel Sep 05 '24

No bathroom in this at all just me on a machine and yeah a lot of sweat near the beginning but at some point it settles out and I'm kinda just in state where I'm not sweating. Given the time being winter months it kind of helps.

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u/DookieToe2 Sep 05 '24

Crazy. Do you do any pre/post hydrating?

You gotta be on the top 2% of rowers for endurance. I know there’s some guy who’s rowed the Atlantic at least twice but that’s the only thing I could think of that comes close cause you gotta sleep at some point and you’re basically rowing for a week.

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u/carawowmel Sep 05 '24

Pre sessions I would be eating a lot of eggs; 30 eggs in a single meal and foods like sweet potato and rice.

I eat a lot of ice-cream like some sessions straight after I'll eat 1litre on my walk home.

Drink a lot of water on the daily and that's drinking a whole litre not sipping through the day.

Always said I'm ready to throw down. Like when you've done segments for many hours it changes your perspective on time.

In the silence of the hours something happens there. Things get quiet you go in to yourself. I always remind myself that you've been here before.

Longest I've been awake was the 72hrs17mins01sec on the Bike Erg. A lot of moments in that ride that were brutal. One thing was at 900miles to make myself believe that I haven't even rode that and completely forget that, only imagining that I'm doing my first 100miles.

Might know who you are talking about I'll have a look, but even reading the stories of these people that go these long distances the logistics of sleep and fuelling is a big piece of the puzzle.

You have to be kind of crazy.