Arriving on the north shore of Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island.

Waiheke Island.

START: MOTUIHE ISLAND

FINISH: WAIHEKE ISLAND NORTH SHORE

DISTANCE FROM AUCKLAND: 23.5KM

DISTANCE FROM TONGA: 1975.5KM

THIS will be the last daily blog on my attempt to row the South Pacific on a indoor rowing machine, otherwise these will get tedious.

Today was the longest time I have ever spent on a rowing machine, a whopping 50 minutes, and good God did my arse tell me, almost non stop for the last quarter of an hour.

But like a cyclist and his saddle or human being and a new pair of shoes, a comfortable relationship between rower and seat is one that is forged over time.

So anyway, I have made it onto the north side of Waiheke Island after today completing 10.5km on the Concept2 machine in Les Mills gym, rowing one-minute sprint intervals followed by a standard pace.

I am about one third of the distance to the Coromandel Peninsula, which I hope to have reached and left by the time I upload this blog next Sunday. There’s a long way until I complete the first leg of this trip, Auckland to Tonga.

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