In these Coronavirus days we need something to encourage us to keep going. Enter the Concept2 World Erg Challenge for which we’ve formed the “Chesterton RC” team. As of our group “outing” this Sunday morning we’ve done a total of 682,066m and are #243; it’s all to play for up to April the 15th. I should add that this is the “men’s” virtual outing; the women had one on Saturday. But the WEC team is mixed.

OK, it’s now over. How did we do? Here’s our Team Meters:

1	Ralph Percival		Over	        GBR	333,333m

2	Simon Emmings		Cambridge	GBR	220,000m

3	Conor Burgess		Sawston	        GBR	200,002m

4	Steve O'Row		Coton	        GBR	180,435m

5	Paul Holland		Cambridge	GBR	168,754m

6	David Byrne		Cambridge	GBR	139,447m

7	William Connolley	Coton	        GBR	135,000m

8	Joanna Raskin		Cambridge	GBR	132,958m

9	Ian Foster		Ely	        GBR	112,210m

10	Anne Roberts		Cambridge	GBR	104,356m

11	Thomas Pryke		                GBR	0m

And overall? Final score was #165, with 1,726,495m, ahead of the US Marines, and quite a lot of other people. And of the "on water" teams of our (6-20) size, we were #32. Some impressive distances from the mad people at the top of the leader board, Ralph's carefully arranged 3's meshing nicely with Conor's response to Simon's 2's. And I should mention that Ralph and Paul did the "April Fool" challenge too.