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What a 24 hours! The “3 Peaks Challenge” is a

What a 24 hours!

The “3 Peaks Challenge” is a famous UK endurance ‘race’ where you have 24 hours to climb the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales. The mountains range between 1000 and 1500m so they not ‘too’ hard.

However, they are over 400 miles apart! That means of the 24 hours, 12 or so are spent driving between the peaks! And you don’t sleep. So it gets a little tricky.

What makes it trickier still is me making this plan just 10 days, and then roping in 3 close friends who haven’t trained at all! BUT…. We did it! 23 hours and 45 mins 😂Legs are aching, beers are in the fridge and we’re off to Liverpool to recover and celebrate!

I really urge anyone in the UK or Ireland to support domestic tourism during this COVID madness, and there’s no better way to do that by jumping on the 24 hour challenge! The best guys in the business, @active_mountaineering DRAGGED the team up. They’re the most successful operator in the business AND the cheapest, so test yourself! Anyway can do this challenge, honestly. By boys didn’t train at all, and with sheer determination and an ounce of stubborness, it was possible! Not it’s you guys’ turn 💪🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💪🏻

“We can get so caught up with making a living th

“We can get so caught up with making a living that we can forget to make a life.”

For sure financial freedom is one of my main goals, and I encourage all of us to reach for it. But our job title, salary or net worth should never be the sole measure of our lives.

How we live each day, the joy and laughter we share with friends and family, the health - both physical and mental - we carve and then enjoy should all be kept in our scope too.

Just a little reflection on a week when I’m struggling to write my “Rowing across the Atlantic blog post”. Have a good week folks.

Credit @lizandmollie

NEW ADVENTURE ANNOUNCEMENT! And this one, you can

NEW ADVENTURE ANNOUNCEMENT! And this one, you can join!

After years of talk, I realised I had to be accountable for my ultimate dream. To summit Mount Everest. So enough talking johnny boy. I’ve signed up for a Mount Everest expedition in April 2023!

I have 2 friends who are (hopefully) joining me, and you guys are welcome to join too. 2 years gives us plenty of time to fundraise, practice and prepare. Scared, excited and very ready to focus on my biggest challenge yet. See you there 🤜🏻🤛🏻

ASK ME ANYTHING about rowing across the Atlantic!

ASK ME ANYTHING about rowing across the Atlantic! I’m gonna make a video and answer all your questions so hit me in the comments below please guys and girls 🤜🏻🤛🏻💪🏻

I’ve been back on land a week now, and I’m feeling very weird to be honest. Knackered, a bit off, but I’d be delighted to relive some of the crazy expedition by answering any queries you have. Let’s do it!

Massive thanks to @british_airways for allowing th

Massive thanks to @british_airways for allowing the whole team to lay flat after 51 days at sea (and of course the copious amounts of celebratory champagne!) 🍾🥂

Can’t wait to see my mum, sis and family today. What an experience rowing across the Atlantic was, but I can’t deny that im happy it’s behind me!! 🚣🏼🚣🏼🚣🏼

Rowing the Atlantic. A quick recap of me rowing ac

Rowing the Atlantic. A quick recap of me rowing across the Atlantic courtesy of BBC and @Mccrackenniall

They say there is a version of you before rowing t

They say there is a version of you before rowing the Atlantic and a version after. I think it’s supposed to be a spiritual change, however the physical versions are pretty different too 😳😂

Hey Antigua, what’s going on? ❤️🇦🇬❤️🇦🇬❤️🇦🇬

So, we just did it! We rowed 3200 nautical miles from the European Canary Islands across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean. ,51 days, some pretty horrific beards and even worse physical ailments and weather but we are in the Caribbean. Wow. It doesn’t feel real.

This is a long, emotional one. Apologies if it isn’t you’re thing. But I need to share this stuff from my mine. Feel free to share, like (or ignore) if you want 🙏🏼

I can safely say this was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Not the most physically challenging, or the most painful, or the scariest or most dangerous per se. But the hardest to endure? The hardest on my emotions, my mindset and mentality? The one I most wanted to escape from and quit? 100. The hardest thing I’ve ever done.

The daily level of fear, anxiety, isolation and discomfort over a period of 7 or 8 weeks was untrue. What I thought would be a hard physical challenge was something truly, truly different indeed. There is simply no respite. 2 hour rows. 20 minutes prepare food. Tend to your injuries for 10 mins. Try (and often fail) to sleep for 40 minutes or so. Wake up, prepare yourself for the next session. Repeat. 2 hours on, 2 hours off, every day. Every week. Every month. Into your 8th week. It’s relentless.

Since March 13th:
I haven’t take a single upright step in almost 50 days
I havent stood up straight in 50 days
I haven’t showered in 50 days
I haven’t eaten any fresh fruit or veggies for 50 days, just dehydrate powdered food with water
I haven’t used a real toilet for 50 days
I won’t have slept for more than an hour mins in 1 stretch, or more than 4 hours in a day
I will have rowed 12 hours every day since I last saw dry land back in early March

But we made it. And I hope the lessons I learned have brought me closer to the person I hope to be in the future.

When you see land for the first time in 50 days...

When you see land for the first time in 50 days.... 😍😍

See you tomorrow Antigua! Thanks for the love everyone, I’m going back to my row session. But after weeks of emotional outpouring, I wanted to share a big fat positive outpouring for a change. So here it is 🤜🏻🤛🏻🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬

Less than 100 miles until we reach our first dry l

Less than 100 miles until we reach our first dry land for almost 2 months. Antigua, we are almost with you 🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬

How’s it been going? Tough. We’ve had our toughest, lowest mileage days yet in these last few days. No pritch due to his back injury, Martin’s body giving up, but thankfully Billy is a beast and I try my best each shift to keep us ticking over. This weather has been one last punishment dished out by the ocean before we complete this thing. Nothing worth doing is done easy I guess. But a normal wind and a nice current would have been lovely to see us home. Not to be.

First, beard check.... 😱🤢😂 A (not-so) sexy blend of ginger and grey that has aged my 37 years by a solid couple of decades. CANNOT wait to chop this bad boy off when I reach the Caribbean!

And how about the team? Truth be told, counting the days, the hours and the minutes (thats 2,160 minutes if you’re counting) until I sleep in a bed again, have some privacy again, can video call my loved ones again, and even have a shower again!

The day to day actions I took for granted will forever be sweeter for me after this experience. It’s one hell of a struggle to earn that appreciation, but it’s a lesson I’m already grateful for now and I’m sure to be even more so just 2 or 3 days from now. Coffee with Jaa, travels with my mum, watching the footie, hitting the gym, beers with the boys. They’ll all be so much more valued.

It’s said that you have to know pain to know pleasure. And I’ve always believe that the amount of suffering one is willing to endure is directly correlated to the amount of success they will garner in their field. Never have I believed it more.

So often during the last 5 months since this all began, I cursed my discovery of ‘ocean rowing’.
Then I cursed my ego for signing up to something I knew so little about.
Then I cursed Monkey Fist for choosing me.
Then I cursed the ocean for behaving as it wants, and not to my desires.
Then my teammate for rowing slowly or out of sync.
Then, ultimately, myself for being me. And all that is associated with that.
I was adamant there’d be no epiphany. [Continued in comments]

Update from 290 miles to go, and it’s not good.

Update from 290 miles to go, and it’s not good.

Less than 6 days left in theory but alas yet more issues. Sadly Matt has pulled a muscle in his back. Not sure if he’ll be back on the pass before we reach Antigua. Don’t worry, it’s not life threatening! But it is super sh*tty for him, and the team. It means there’s no way he can row for at least a couple of days and maybe until we finish.

Help us wish him a fast recovery as he rehabilitates in the front cabin for a few days to try to rest and recover ❤️🤜🏻🤛🏻

So more delays? Very likely. Billy will be rowing his shifts solo now. I’ll be rowing with the lovely Martin, who at 62 has had more ailments than imaginable. Tendon issues he’s feeling in his right hand mean he hasn’t been able to row properly on his right side for the duration. And leg issues in his left calf meant he couldn’t use his left side properly for weeks. Tough times. But we are still pressing on. Time to step up and earn the hard yards.

We hoped to arrive Saturday or Sunday? More like Tuesday I guess now? So another 2/3 day delay. It’s tough to keep the morale up but we know we aren’t too far away now.

I can’t deny this is a massive blow to my morale. I am dying to get off this boat, and it does seem to be never-ending. I need to remind myself every mile is a mile closer. We’ll get there.

Thanks everyone ❤️

If you can - please donate to support the charities we are rowing for over at www.monkeyfistadventures.com/charity/

🙏

Mid-Atlantic Interview. "I found the first three w

Mid-Atlantic Interview. "I found the first three weeks.....no kidding.....the hardest three weeks of my life." 😲
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Wow....grab a drink, sit down, and make 5 minutes for this mid-ocean interview with Mr. Johnny Ward. 🗣️
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An incredibly telling, and very powerful look into Johnny's life and particularly into his state of mind during this crossing. 🧠
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No other words needed - Johnny says it all! 🙌
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If you have been inspired by this incredible expedition during these unprecedented times, please donate to the charities that Johnny and the crew are rowing for - www.monkeyfistadventures.com/charity/ 🙏
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LESS THAN 400NM to go!!! 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
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@_monkeyfist #oceanrowing #mentalhealth

10 days to go! 500 miles, the countdown has offici

10 days to go! 500 miles, the countdown has officially begun 😍

So how are we doing? Well, we’re happy that the journey is finally reaching the home straight. It feels almost surreal, we’ll be into our 8th week by the time we reach our provisional finish date of Sunday May 2nd. 8th week?! In this tiny boat. 4 of us. Without taking a step. Without standing up. Without showers, toilets, fridges or entertainment. Without sleeping more than 80 mins at a time, 4 times a day, if you’re lucky. Madness.

So we are 10 days behind schedule. We were due to finish yesterday, that’s quite tough to take. To think we could be free once more, but yet here we are still 500 miles, and a week and a half, away from the Caribbean. Away from safety, security, real food, privacy and a bed. Just. 10. More. Days. Suck it up.

For the first time in almost 2 months, I’ve allowed myself to dream of finishing. To imagine the release of emotion, and the relief, to live my life again. I dream about it every waking second now, having tried to avoid those thoughts for weeks. The reality of it being so far away was just too tough. But 10 days? We can do 10 days. One day at a time.

The team morale is good with the countdown in full flow. But physically we are falling apart. Martin, our oldest member, and my gem of a rowing partner, is on his last legs. Sleeping at every spare minute, limbs aching, feeling pretty knackered. He needs the break more than all of us. Pritch and Billy are having nightmares with their bums. Huge boils and cysts, infected, and then having to sit and smash out 12 hours of rowing each day is just pure punishment. As for me? I’ve got off lightly with the bum issue, but I’m paying for it with this rash across my groin (I’ll save you the pics 😂). Weeks now. Burning and we have no drugs left. Just have to suck it up until I rush to a clinic in Antigua.

So yeah, morale good despite the problems. 500 miles. Blistering heat but we are getting there. 10 days from now it’ll be rum and limes until the cows come home!

[Blog continues in comments]

This is a meat free boat, and therefore the lads a

This is a meat free boat, and therefore the lads aren't fishing for food.🚫
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However nobody gave that memo to the Atlantic Flying Fish population who seem to spend their energy TRYING to be caught! 🎣
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During the day they have generally been flying away from the boat, upto 200 metres in one go - but at night time they seem to fly towards the boat, and from time to time the boys are merrily rowing along and all of a sudden get a 30 mph flying fish to the chops!! 💥
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Often on ocean rowing expeditions, once the sun comes up you'll find dead flying fish on the deck - not so on this crossing...our compassionate crew stop what they are doing to find the stowaway, like with this lil' fish, before returning them back to the water. 🤗
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We say 'lil' fish...when it hit's you in the kisser at 30mph, it doesn't seem little. 🎏
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Keep going booooyyyyssss!!!! 💪
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#flyingfish #atlanticdash

not the best day!. Well....the dagger board couldn

not the best day!. Well....the dagger board couldn't stand the smell....snapped itself off and swam away...Billy explains all... 😬
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The dagger board looks a bit like a second rudder, but it doesn't turn, it can just be pulled up or down. ↕️
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When the wind is in the right direction, you want the dagger board up to create less drag - when there is a lateral wind, then you want it down to maintain a better course. 🧭
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It's a frustrating development, but it's not a safety issue, it just means that if the wind starts mis-behaving it will be harder to make the mileage they need. 📏
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But morale is good - and after over a month at sea, you can't complain about that! 🙌
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#oceanrowing #atlanticdash #swyd

This image encapsulates the vibe on board so well!

This image encapsulates the vibe on board so well!
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Taking a poo, with an epic view...this is a Dash well lived!!
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#poowithaview #atlanticdash

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