Border Rowers
Shackleton Escape

Border Rowers, our next challenge is recreating Sir Earnest Shackleton's escape from Antartica in 1915 have the SS Endurance became trapped in the ice and sunk on the 21st of November. The 100 days challenge mimicking their voyage from the Weddell Sea off Antarctic to Elephant Island and then finally the remaining 800 miles to South Georgia Island, in total roughly 2,200,000 meters. 

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Our Challenge will begin on June 14, 2025 at Noon Boston time and will go 99 days to September 21, 2025 at Noon.  Rowers will be asked to row roughly 5,600 meters per day in teams of up to 4.  You can have teams that are smaller, but it will mean a lot more meters

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The cost will be $65 for US Citizens and $75 for international as you will be awarded  a medal at the end that need to be mailed.  As a side 

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I will be providing bi-weekly updates and insights into the voyage...usually on Monday.  WhIle I encourage you to row as hard as you can, this is a challenge not a race, though we do give those exceptional rowers some attention. 

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You can use any rowing machine or meters obtained from rowing on the water.  If you don't have a rowing machine and only have a spin bike, you can still join, but your meters count for half.  (spinning is faster)

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If you don't have a team, I can assign you onto a team.

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Best of luck!