After the advert in the Rowing®atta magazine, there has been a great deal of interest shown. We have had over 20 emails and phone calls asking for more information.
Take a look at www.britishrowing.org for more information. They have asked us to provide details for their news articles.
We have had interest shown from one of the main rowing clubs in Gibraltar too! So the net is widening our appeal already!
The armed services have also expressed an interest in putting in at least one team to raise funds for Help for Heroes charity. If this comes off, there will be a heap more interest from the media. Great news for us all when it comes down to getting sponsorship!
Let's see where is takes us.
Get your applications in now and beat the rush! Be one of the first to sign up and get ahead of the game. Your details will be posted on the web to show sponsors the true power of international advertising.
Thursday 30 September 2010
London2Paris2London for 2012! It's a first!!
Jock Wishart has decided to pass over the baton of running the very successful London to Paris Rowing Challenge to Shadows.
Our first Challenge will take place in 2012 and will see teams battling it out to see who can set the best times for rowing from London's Houses of Parliament to The Eiffel Tower in Paris. This usually takes around five and a half to six days to complete.
(See Page 45 of Rowing®atta Magazine's Issue #46 for September 2010 for our advertisement. Also see http://www.britishrowing.org/ ) for more information and other events to Challenge yourself.
The Challenge has been run as a bi-annual event until now. Our intention is to run it every year from now on in order to give more people the opportunity to take part.
The other very real difference starting from 2012, is that we intend running the Challenge as a two way event! Yes, that's right! A Challenge to row from London to Paris, and another to row the same course in reverse. Those wishing to can sign up to row both legs of the event!
Are YOU brave / strong enough to attempt that? If so, send me an email and I'll tell you more.
The other major difference this time round and for all events in the future, is that we will have to design and build our own boats. In 2012 it is not only the year of the Olympic Games in London, but is also Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Anniversary. This means that all of the Thames Watermans cutters that we have used to date, will be used for ceremonial duties and we cannot hire them at all.
This design stage is in it's infancy at the moment but we are very excited at the prospect of having our own craft to use - not just for the L2P2L events, but for others too. We have plans to run other long distance Challenges such as coastal rows from London to Plymouth or Southampton. Maybe even around the Isle of Wight too! Once we have our own seaworthy rowing boats, the world is our oyster...
Interested? Look at the website attached as a link http://www.london2parisrowing.com/ or email me for more details at rogergould@btconnect.com
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