The diary of a pint-sized rower
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2012
Rowers everywhere (and especially on the Thames): do not go out on the water without watching this. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. This video was brought to you by the fantastic students at Cheney Falcon RC. Show them your support with whatever you can spare.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2012
So yesterday we heard from some lightweight rowers about their quest to stay strong and stay trim. But what about the rest of us? Let’s face it; in the real world, most of us aren’t lightweight and most of us have to devote large amounts of our time to jobs and families. But wait! All [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2012
Like many rowers, I spend a fair bit of time wading around in the river and, like many rowers, I’m a little bit obsessed by wellies. Needless to say, I’ve developed some fairly strong views on what wellies (or rain boots, as I believe my American friends call them) are the best for rowing. First [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2012
There are two things I really, really want to achieve in rowing this summer season (in addition to nailing my first win). The first is to get out in a single scull (though not until the water warms up a lot). The second is to try rowing in a pair. For rowing virgins out there, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2012
As it’s Valentine’s Day, I’m going to be inviting you to share the love a little today. No, not a mass, online love-in. No garage-forecourt-flowers, chocolates or teddies, either. Just a heart-felt plea to be a little kinder to your fellow athletes. I can’t help noticing that there’s the rivalry that naturally exists between different [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2011
It was a while into my appointment before I came clean. I was having my shoulder looked at, having injured it lifting some bad-ass weights which were, frankly, too heavy for me (I’d been showing off; I can’t deny it). Finally I came out with it. “I’m… a rower”. “Ah”, said the osteopath. “And how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2011
Sitting in a business meeting with my bleeding knuckles a scarlet accessory to my painted nails, I couldn’t help but question the sanity of a sport that inflicts so much pain and discomfort. So other sports might bring on a bit of stiffness and breathlessness, but few of them involve anything as hardcore as rowing, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2011
Just found this interesting and thought you might, too: the GB team’s efforts to stay injury-free. Now, for those of us who don’t row at international level, dealing with every little niggle straight away is a luxury we can’t always afford, but I do think there’s something even the cronkiest club rower can take away [...]
