Sean Burgess fought exhaustion, sleeping for only six minutes in two nights as he rowed 421,954 metres in 50-plus hours – a distance equivalent to 10 back-to-back marathons. All photos: Sean Burgess
The Dubai resident completed the gruelling 50 hour, 17 minute continuous rowing challenge to raise funds for a school in Tanzania.
The indoor challenge aims to raise Dh25,000 for more classrooms in a school in northern Tanzania where the ratio of rooms to pupils is one to 165.
Sean catches a couple of minutes of sleep on mats near the rower on the second night of the challenge. Athletes must log at least 50 minutes of rowing every hour and are allowed 10 minutes to eat, stretch and for a bathroom break.
The British citizen challenged himself to cross the seven emirates of the UAE in seven days on foot last year and secure a Guinness World Record.
His daily routine of the 2021 challenge, during which he covered nearly 650km, was made up of eight-hour blocks of running or walking, followed by a four-hour break.
A member of his support team helps him stretch by the side of the road on a particularly hot afternoon after his hamstrings seized up.
He said watching the sun rise over the Empty Quarter was one of the highlights of his week-long journey in 2021.
Sean Burgess has also taken on the Bosphorus Intercontinental Swim between Asia and Europe, in 2019.
He climbed Kilimanjaro in 2018.
Sean Burgess fought exhaustion, sleeping for only six minutes in two nights as he rowed 421,954 metres in 50-plus hours – a distance equivalent to 10 back-to-back marathons. All photos: Sean Burgess
The Dubai resident completed the gruelling 50 hour, 17 minute continuous rowing challenge to raise funds for a school in Tanzania.
The indoor challenge aims to raise Dh25,000 for more classrooms in a school in northern Tanzania where the ratio of rooms to pupils is one to 165.
Sean catches a couple of minutes of sleep on mats near the rower on the second night of the challenge. Athletes must log at least 50 minutes of rowing every hour and are allowed 10 minutes to eat, stretch and for a bathroom break.
The British citizen challenged himself to cross the seven emirates of the UAE in seven days on foot last year and secure a Guinness World Record.
His daily routine of the 2021 challenge, during which he covered nearly 650km, was made up of eight-hour blocks of running or walking, followed by a four-hour break.
A member of his support team helps him stretch by the side of the road on a particularly hot afternoon after his hamstrings seized up.
He said watching the sun rise over the Empty Quarter was one of the highlights of his week-long journey in 2021.
Sean Burgess has also taken on the Bosphorus Intercontinental Swim between Asia and Europe, in 2019.
