{"id":8078,"date":"2024-06-11T22:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/setupjunkie.net\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:03:41","slug":"the-worlds-toughest-row-meets-the-wildest-story-in-rowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/setupjunkie.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/the-worlds-toughest-row-meets-the-wildest-story-in-rowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018World\u2019s Toughest Row\u2019 Meets the Wildest Story in Rowing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When a pair of best friends in the U.K. decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean, <\/strong>it’s safe to say that expectations were low. For Charlotte Harris and Jessica Oliver, the idea of joining this grueling, 3,000-mile race across the world’s second-largest ocean just sounded like a fun challenge.<\/p>\n Harris and Oliver had no rowing experience, unlike many of the professional athletes they were competing against. When they showed up in Spain’s Canary Islands to start the race in December 2021, the two friends were sufficiently inebriated that race organizers almost didn’t let them compete.<\/p>\n Then the incredible happened \u2014 they won<\/a>. Harris and Oliver beat out 35 other teams, arriving in Antigua a full 5 days earlier than the next closest team. They even smashed 5 days off the previous world record for women, making the trip in 45 days, 7 hours, and 25 minutes.<\/p>\n “It was the most emotional, overwhelming experience ever,” Oliver told the Metro<\/a> in 2022. “I\u2019m still in shock. I can\u2019t believe it.”<\/p>\n Now the two women, or Team Wild Waves, aim to make history once again by rowing across the Pacific Ocean as part of The World’s Toughest Row<\/a>. Oliver and Harris \u2014 along with eight other teams \u2014 departed from Monterey Bay, Calif., on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n