The MOVEO 1000 km Project

Tyelander · Post by **Tyelander** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:05 pm

Remarkable achievement

Well done Sir Plummy

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:12 pm

Good to hear you are safely home Dave. Just remains to wish you a speedy recovery.

Post by **Rodger** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:21 pm

Take a bow, Plummy (if you can)!
I hope you will regain your health and sanity soon.

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sander · Post by **sander** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:03 pm

I am very impressed by your achievement, Plummy.

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Incredible, and crazy. Wishing you a good recovery!

JonathanA · Post by **JonathanA** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 6:29 pm

Not been here for a while so I have missed this unbelievable achievement!

Heartfelt congratulations Dave on the achievement. Complete awe at the endurance displayed.

Wishing you a speedy recovery...

strider77 · Post by **strider77** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:48 am

Astonishing achievememt Dave well done, incredible stamina, last 2 days were your best ¬¬

plummy · Post by **plummy** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:02 pm

I can assure you Alan - the last two days were the worst. I have never, ever been so utterly exhausted in my life. I didn't even look at my erg when I went in the room where I keep it - she and I will not be together for a little while.

nervtoeter · Post by **nervtoeter** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:08 pm

More then one week? Recover and enjoy the rest.

Paul Victory · Post by **Paul Victory** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:26 pm

plummy wrote:I can assure you Alan - the last two days were the worst. I have never, ever been so utterly exhausted in my life.

Which is why it was so outstanding. Supreme example of mind over matter. Totally inspirational.

Paul V

Wolfmiester · Post by **Wolfmiester** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:05 am

wow.
HUGE congratulations Dave, take care to recovery properly and fully.

spidermac · Post by **spidermac** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:00 pm

Absolutely mind blowing Plummy - probably more metres than I have done in my total erging career!! Showed real mental grit & think how nice to see that extra box on the end of your signature times - won`t be many peeps with a time for 1.000.000metres

( definitely not me EVER) Again very very impressive - well done
spider

kirbyt · Post by **kirbyt** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:02 am

You stubborn brave crazy soul, Plummy. I'm not even going to put any smilies in here 'cause there aren't any for what you just did. You must have one sore butt! Congrats!

plummy · Post by **plummy** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:32 pm

Just added up my metres on Rowpro and they work out (thankfully) to 1 million. I've sent the logs off to C2 USA but Dena who looks after such things isn't in until Monday so Anke & I will have to wait until next week for anything official back.

I added up the calories burned according to Rowpro and they added up to 53140 - !

I suppose I could claim a spot in the PB thread

- it's been a while since I had one

I changed my signature - looks kinda mad now with that last column

kirbyt · Post by **kirbyt** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:45 pm

Plummy said:

I changed my signature - looks kinda mad now with that last column

I changed my signature - looks kinda mad now with thoselast four columns

There, fixed.

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:36 pm

How are you feeling now Plummy?

plummy · Post by **plummy** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:28 pm

Stan wrote:How are you feeling now Plummy?

Thanks for asking Stan...

Honest appraisal is not too bad physically, although my legs seem to hurt more now than they did a couple of days ago so maybe the change from a million in a week to zero in a week is confusing my muscles. I got close to an exploratory row yesterday as I was re-fitting my C-Breeze and thought "hmmm - maybe just a few hundred" and then didn't.

My more telling issue is sleeping, I find that I can drop off in the evenings at spurious times and simply can't keep my eyes open which is something almost unknown to me as evening time is when I'm usually most "awake". To give you an idea, I nodded off yesterday for 20 minutes during the early evening TV football, then couldn't stay awake beyond 10:30pm (usually bed time is 11:30~12:00 midnight) and have just fallen asleep watching Top Gear (favourite program).

I think it maybe that I'm not "superficially tired" e.g. the feeling that you may have after one bad night's sleep etc but I'm "deeply" tired if there is such a thing. I anticipated a couple of weeks of re-adjustment after coming back and I will climb aboard the metal mistress on Saturday at the latest if not a couple of days earlier for 20~30 minute paddle to stretch some muscles.

In addition to the fatigue I suffered, I did genuinely strain my left calf so I have no intentions of risking re-pulling that so it will only be steady paddling.

I'm going to enrol in some 1~1 Pilates classes for inner core and stability classes soon as well as the state of my knees at the end of the 7th/8th days was SO out of sync/alignment it was ridiculous. I figure it can't do any harm.

Dave

nervtoeter · Post by **nervtoeter** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:43 pm

Good to hear that you are taking your time for recovery Dave!
I guess as you mentioned, your tiredness is the body takes what he needs.

A fan of Top Gear, nice to hear, I love the guys, I took my English lessons with Top Gear some years ago, was a good training for listening, and of course I love fast cars and so the show

Happily you could watch them all in the internet without any problems like US shows.

plummy · Post by **plummy** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:12 pm

Got it validated and verified. Here's the entire list of people that have ever done the million metre row:

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Obviously there aren't too many people daft enough to try it - but I'm happy to be amongst such a short list of record holders

Post by **Grobi** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:09 pm

And you have every reason to be happy Dave! Well done again! =D>

Paul Victory · Post by **Paul Victory** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:34 pm

Great to get the formal recognition, Dave. Congratulations again.

plummy · Post by **plummy** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 11:10 pm

Don't worry everyone - I'm not doing it again!!!!

Just been re-reading the comments and amazing support I got through this event and decided it probably wouldn't hurt to put the full write up here if anyone was interested. It's certainly no great feat of wordsmithery but feel free to read it if you are bored or have insomnia (assuming the link works - let me know if it doesn't)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-rt38 ... sp=sharing

Den-J · Post by **Den-J** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:04 am

I was deep into my mothers dementia problems when all this happened so knew nothing about it but I just read the entire thread and it brought tears to my eyes you are one seriously mad ba&%£rd m8 and an inspiration to us all
I'm not sure if you are an outlier on the bell curve of normal or if you just have your own bell curve

piggydwarf · Post by **piggydwarf** » Sun Dec 01, 2024 2:03 pm

plummy wrote: Fri Jul 11, 2014 11:10 pm Don't worry everyone - I'm not doing it again!!!!

Just been re-reading the comments and amazing support I got through this event and decided it probably wouldn't hurt to put the full write up here if anyone was interested. It's certainly no great feat of wordsmithery but feel free to read it if you are bored or have insomnia (assuming the link works - let me know if it doesn't)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-rt38 ... sp=sharing

I feel very odd responding to a post written over a decade ago, but I'd be absolutely thrilled to read the full report if it's still available - I tried to request access via the link but it was unsuccessful. Cheers!

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