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Marble Arch to Arc de Triomphe – 300 miles of running, rowing and cycling

August 9, 2012by heightsofmadness 1 Comment

Party poopers. That’s the French. We had run 90 miles in relay from Marble Arch in Central London to Dover; we had rowed 26 painful miles across a lumpy, brown […]

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Arch2Arc, Cycling, England, Rowing, Running
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London to Paris: running, rowing and cycling – please sponsor!

July 20, 2012by heightsofmadness Leave a comment

PLEASE SPONSOR TEAM ARCH TO ARC HERE Remember comedian John Bishop crossing the English Channel in a rowing boat to raise money for Sport Relief? Bishop raised more than £3million for […]

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Arch2Arc, Cycling, Rowing, Running

The hardiness of the long-distance rower

July 17, 2012by heightsofmadness Leave a comment

I am well-acquainted with the loneliness of the long-distance runner; now I understand a little of the hardiness of the long-distance rower. It was on the second of two four-hour […]

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Arch2Arc, Rowing
Our first row

Rowing the English Channel: a (tricky) introduction

June 17, 2012by heightsofmadness Leave a comment

I have long admired the graceful fluency of rowing that masks the reality of the brute force being applied. This fluency is more apparent, naturally, the more there are in […]

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Arch2Arc, Rowing

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