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Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, their sponsored Thames rowing event has been postponed, along with a number of other AHOY fundraising events, leaving them without their usual funding streams. While we hope that can still take place next year, AHOY have set up a Rowvember challenge, in which we can choose to do something else to raise money for this worthy cause this year.

As such, because we’re locked down and I won’t have consistent access to a rowing machine during this time, I have decided to do 300 press-ups a day for the rest of this lockdown or until 1st December, whichever is later (thereby especially hopeful that lockdown ends at the end of November).

I hasten to add, that this is not 300 press-ups in a row, though I will generally want them over and done with ASAP, so it won’t be at a rate of 12 and a half per hour and it will hurt, because I hate them.

That makes 5400 press-ups until the end of the month, from tomorrow, and if we get over my £300 target I will round that up to 6000, regardless of when lockdown ends. Feel free to break that target ASAP, so I can spread the extra 600 over a couple of weeks, rather than the last two days… 😉