Building layers of resilience: how Karen Weekes rowed the Atlantic solo

A sports psychologist, she spent a lot of time preparing for the extreme mental and physical challenges that awaited on February 24

Karen Weekes

“There were two days when I had really, really big seas. There was the turquoise at the top of the wave and the white blowing off it... So your boat goes up the size of the wave, and then it goes down a bit, and sometimes you might surf it or whatever and they were so so steep.”

If Karen Weekes is describing a wave as “big”, you can be sure it had to be enormous.