She smashed record set 5 years ago by more than 40 seconds. FMTNews GeorgieRowe
Australian rower Georgie Rowe smashed record set 5 years ago by more than 40 seconds.
Like the rest of the Australian team, Georgie Rowe was training at home in Sydney by herself last weekend as she deals with the disappointment of not travelling to Japan this year for the Tokyo Olympics. It smashed the record for the heavyweight women’s half-marathon set five years ago by US rower Esther Lofgren by more than 40 seconds.
“It’s a mental challenge because you’re on your own and you don’t have your crew with you,” she told AFP.Rowe told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that her approach was to plug the distance into the machine then “put some music on and just go for it”.When Rowe realised a record was in the offing she admitted to some confusion about exactly how far she needed to row, 21,097 metres or 21,097.5.
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