Good results for X-Press crews in the Boston Marathon this year.

Congratulations to XP2 who beat their own novice record, setting a time of 4h01 - they're determined to come back next year to try and take 15 minutes off that!

The combined X-Press/Cantabs quad finished in 3h54, winning the S4 category. For them though, this was just a warm up for the Tour du Lac on Saturday. More details of this craziness here.

See the little camera on the stern of the quad? Well here's the video of the race!

On the 21st of September, five foolish rowers are taking on the challenge of rowing the 31 miles of the Boston Marathon followed 6 days later by the Tour du Lac, a 100 mile non-stop rowing race around Lake Geneva.

Clearly this is a pretty dumb idea. Well, actually, it's one pretty dumb idea followed by one really monumentally dumb idea. As with so many ideas of this nature, it all started with a bet in the pub...

The five rowers involved are: James Green, Alan Martin, and Joe Oldak from X-Press; Rob Milner from Cantabs; and Hamish Muiry from City.

In order that some good comes from our pain and misery, we're hoping to raise lots of money for ShelterBox. They're a great charity who provide humanitarian aid for people around the world who are affected by natural and other disasters. For more information on what they do, take a look at:
    http://shelterbox.org

Our donations page is at:
    http://www.justgiving.com/rowingfools

Note that all money you donate goes to ShelterBox - the crew are paying all their own expenses.