The diary of a pint-sized rower
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2013
My legs are shaking as my foot stamps ineffectually on the brake. The car slides another foot backwards. I’m right in the middle of the road on a sharp double bend on the most notorious hill in the county. The snow is falling thick and fast and even rugged 4x4s are sliding all over the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2012
There are a lot of non-rowers out there amongst my readers – and some pretty impressively fit ones, I’ll be the first to admit. Now, I’m guessing some of you runners and triathletes and body builders have had a go on the rowing machine in the gym every now and then (forgive me while I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2011
It happened when I was having an extended moan about my latest erg score. About two minutes in, my long-suffering husband – clearly keen to talk about something (anything) else – dealt his trump card. “Well”, he said, “You’re looking very good on it.” This should have been a dead cert, guaranteed to stop me [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 11th, 2011
If this morning’s weather is anything to go by, summer is drawing to a close. For rowers that means only one thing. As regattas give way to heads, we have to face… the Return of the Erg. Of course the rowing machine is not confined to winter training; who can forget the pain of the [...]
