Wow, you don't do things by half measures.

Please, blog / use your profile or something else to record your progress. Actually, could a blog go on your new website .... show the real Dean etc, and drum up longer term business in that way? Something to think about. I for one would love to read about your experience ... this is not just about the race itself but the run up to. Goodness, a nervous anticipation here ... and not even doing it!

Good luck!

Sometime before you actually attempt this whole thing maybe. I'd imagine that's not the kind of thing you can cram for the night before.

I hope you can swim....

Looks like a great goal and great motivation. It sounds fun and exciting and maybe the next go around I could join ya

WOW Dean that is a brilliant, brilliant goal to work towards!
I am so happy for you, way to go!

awesome dean!! im excited for you!!! keep me/us posted please!!!

That sounds nuts! Did they run a battery of tests on you to see if you were in good enough shape? Also, what will you guys eat? I imagine you'll need a lot of healthy stuff all the time.

Man, rowing across the Atlantic sure makes running a marathon look small.

37 days in that small boat and row across Atlantic. What a fantastic goal! You are great, Dean. All of us will love to hear the story of your journey. I bet it must require very tough training, like marine.

Thats doing nothing for my nerves Tim, the sphincter is working overtime now

Was just reading an article about a guy who got catupulted 100ft from the boat, while his mate was asleep! He said if it hadn't have been day light at the time he would never have got back to the boat!!

On one hand I'm thinking... dude, you're insane!

On the other hand... I'm so uncontrollably jealous I can't even begin to tell you!

Now if I could just figure out why I'm jealous lol

Yes, this seems to be a good idea and one that is coming up regular. I am not generally very good at documenting things though looking at it I'll kick myself if I don't have a record of this. It'll give me something to read when I'm old and grey. Maybe then the grandchildren might actually believe that I was young once while I offer them werthers originals.



Thats what I'm talking about!! The reason I take on such challenges is to show what can be done if you put your mind to it. I'm just an ordinary guy, and I'm not trying to prove that I was born with super genetics (trust me, I wasn't. You just got to look at the photo). My ambition in life is to motivate others to push further and show them it actually can be done. I'd love to see you there Ara!



Not yet. I think it is more whether your nuts enough than how fit you are. Ha ha



I've been reading up on guys eating the flying fish that land in the boat as you're rowing along?? I don't know the rules fully but food seems to be heavily regulated as part of the challenge. In the bottom of the boat is some emergency rations, but if you eat them you have failed.



I'm half considering writing a book about the whole experience starting from now. In fact I think I will start a journal at the very least to document it. I got that idea from you guys. I'll probably call it 'The Will of a Warrior' or something like that. What do you think? Then if I ever actually do it, I'll have to give all of you guys a copy for giving me the idea and keeping me motivated.

There's a warrior in there somewhere and you know it!!

Now is a good time to have the nerves go crazy. That way you can get all that out of the way. You won't have time for the nerves later, so enjoy them now

Wow - 100 ft. It is stuff like that that would make me nervous too. However, you are subconsciously looking for the things to scare you right now since you just committed. Over time that will subside (a little) with the excitement I am sure.

What am I saying - there is a lot that would make me nervous. I have been out on a 60ft fishing boat in the Golf of Mexico and know how small I felt then..... not to mention the Atlantic in a much smaller boat.... without and engine.

OK - I will stop now. Time to just sit back and enjoy. I am sure I am not helping.

Oh NOW you're just trying to scare me lol

I like it - very cool name.



Signed I am sure - hand delivered

On that note - I am off to the gym. It has been a week because of work etc keeping me too busy and my body needing to give a little. Now - back to it!

See you after a bit!

I wonder, are there "stand-ins", like actors use, should one team member have an injury or illness? 'Cause I'm guessing the rowing just won't work properly without the right amounts of ores in the water, right?

Or, is once a team member becomes compromised, that team is eliminated? MAN THAT WOULD SUCK FOR THE REST OF THE TEAM.

That comment regarding the dude off-boat, and if it would have been at night is mind-meltingly frightening to me.

No. It appears to be a system of 2 hours rowing 2 hours kipping for at least 16 hours a day.



Even if a member dies, a boat comes along takes away the body and the remainder just crack on.



I know!!!!!!!!

It would be a great excuse just to catch up with the real deal in the flesh. Not sure how much my squiggle would really be worth but it would be priceless to catch up someday.

Wow, it's beyond hardcore, it's THEEEEE CORE.

And 'scuse my ignorance, but what is "kipping", Skipper?

Snoozing, sleeping, catching some zeds. At some point like I said before we will maybe rest up as a team, feast and go overboard for a dip. Also we have to clean the bottom of the boat to make sure the old barnacles and crap aren't messing with the aerodynamics.



It is with that attitude!! I'm trying to visualise it as a walk in the park but its taking some work

A walk in he-man's park perhaps, heheh!

It's gonna be HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE and I'm real happy for you Dean, real happy.

Whooooo Hooooo! I knew something Minu didn't! But I do have English neighbors..... I also know what Knackered means too



Wow! That is all I can say.... Wow!
Right now it is worth about as much as that check is written for Who knows, it may be worth more once you are known worldwide as a Warrior, not just here on Traineo

Heheh! Well, at least I already had "knackered" in the ole RAM.

It's not too often I can say that I know something someone else doesn't so I need to glory in those times

I wonder about the accuracy of this statement, Mr. Tim. After how far you've come and how much you cultivated during your fitness journey, I'd say that you surely know a BUNCH.

Now that really would be living the dream!! If this challenge don't do it, I'll swim it the next year until they do recognise me!! Ha ha

You don't even get a replacement? Please tell me it's your dry sense of humor. Holy moly!

Sorry, no jokes here.

Was just speaking to guys about people who did it completely unsupported, and any chance of even taking the body away would have been non-existent then??!!!

Seems like a lot of people have done some crazy stuff like this, so I'm trying to think of ways to make the attempt bigger and better??

Thats all there is to it. I have to work out how I am going to break the record!

So my next question is, how many men have died doing this? Considering the fitness level of the people that would do this, it's amazing to think there are casualties. It is an intense experience though!



You definitely have the required support! The well wishes and support of others can lead to amazing things along with your ambition!

There you go - and if you get to it let me know - maybe I will be ready for a swim by then