As a fundamental building block to any successful row nutrition is a key area to get right for future ocean rowers. What lessons did your crossing teach you in nutritional terms, what worked what didn't. What would you change and what would you swear by on another row.
Andrew Giles -
By profession I am a mechanical engineer. I had some prior experience
of endurance events such as 1000 mile push bike races, various marathon
distance running races etc, but had zero rowing experience before
embarking on the challenge. All that changed quite rapidly once we were
committed to the 2003 Woodvale race! I completed that race with Faye
Langham in 56 days and 4 minutes.
Andrew
Wrote:
We made our own vacuum packed dehydrated meals because to buy them ready
made was horrendously expensive - about £4000 compared to £2000 to do it
ourselves. They were fiddly to do and we were a little limited in terms
of menu which was Chilli con carne, shephards pie, soup, porridge,
cereal, scrambled eggs, curry. But we took loads and loads of sweets and
Faye also came up with a system to make bread which was an absolute
lifesaver.
Our biggest mistake was to take lots of chewy sweets becasue
we expected that chocolate would melt. That wasn't the case! The small
amount of chocolate we took was fine, but the chewy sweets went all
gooey and were a pain to unwrap. If we did it again we would take
mountains of chocolate. We also took loads of powdered drinks
suppliments with us, but didn't use any of it! That was about 4kgs of
unneccessary weight. Despite their costs we did take three or four of
the ready made 'Adventure' meals with us as treats and they were lovely.
