Training when the rowing club is closed
Training when the rowing club is closed - and when there's nothing in the diary to train for - is a massive challenge. One of the great things about rowing is the accountability. When your name's on that squad list and you're committed to a crew session, you can't...
Covid-19, the sequel
Wow. When I said yesterday that things were moving rapidly, I really had no idea, had I? Since then things have changed so fast with the government's revised covid-19 advice that we are all left reeling. The inevitable flurry of emails last night (not helped by my...
Coronavirus – how we’re dealing with Covid-19 at the rowing club
Crikey, things have moved fast, haven't they? When I last blogged just over a week ago, our minds were taken up with the floods. Now we've moved swiftly on to pestilence. So this post isn't about the environment, after all - it's time to talk covid-19 and how we...
Water, water everywhere – after the flood
Unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island you will, I’m sure, be aware that much of the country has been under water recently. Sadly this included my rowing club, for the second time this year. So far, so normal; we flood fairly frequently and have a good...
Get your sweat on – indoor rowing classes on trial
Girl on the River tries out indoor rowing classes in both Toronto and London and finds out whether they live up to the hype.
Pete Reed – the spirit of an athlete
Unless you've been out of the country for the last week or so you're almost certainly aware that triple Olympic rowing champion, Pete Reed, has given a candid and incredibly moving interview to Sir Matthew Pinsent about life since his spinal stroke in September this...
Girl on the River’s ultimate wild swimming kit list
In the last few months I've been taking every opportunity I can to plunge myself into cold bodies of water. I've swum in the River Usk, two spots on the River Wye and even in a sailing lake in the Cotswolds and I'm planning a few British sea swims later in the...
What do Rowers Wear Under their AIO?
It was just a regular Thursday afternoon when I accidentally split the rowing community in two. All I did was tweet a fleeting thought that had passed through my mind, little imagining that the next 24 hours would be taken up in a flurry of intense notifications,...
