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• World Records, the Kiwi Pair and Moving Down the Evolutionary Scale: Girl on...

  

  I’m not quite sure what the etiquette is when you’re introduced to rowing royalty. Is a curtsey in order, or just a handshake? What’s the correct form of... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Advice for New Rowers

  

  There’s nothing quite as daunting as being the new kid at school. Clutching your pristine school bag, looking warily at the sea of unfamiliar faces, you long fo... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Racing: Does Anyone Really Enjoy It?

  Throughout our Spectacular Summer of Sport, I found myself regularly baffled. It wasn’t the sudden and unexpected ability of GB to win at sporting events (thoug... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Olympic Legacy Starts Here

  

  It took me a while to realize what was going on as I turned up for my usual Saturday morning row. The car park was full to bursting point and there were people... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Better Than Valium – Why Rowing is the Best Therapy I Know

  

  There’s no getting away from the fact that 2012 has not, so far, been the easiest year chez Girl on the River. Without boring you unnecessarily with my woes,... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Girl on the River Needs Your Votes!

  

  There have been many thrilling moments since Girl on the River first took to the airwaves (or, ahem, whatever it is that makes the interweb work…) just over a... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Paralympics – Time to Join the Mainstream?

  

  LTAMix4+. Picture courtesy of Intersport Images/GB Rowing TeamI’ve been watching this evening’s Paralympic opening ceremony with an overwhelming feeling of... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• From the Land of My Fathers to the Land of the Free: Girl on the River Crosses...

  

  If you’re wondering why things have been quiet lately at Girl on the River, here’s a little clue: Yep, Girl on the River has been Stateside… and lovin’ it. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Why Rowing Makes Grown Men Cry

  

  Photo – BBCIt doesn’t take much to make me cry. Adverts with babies in them. Weddings. Jerusalem. Rolf Harris’s Two Little Boys. Even, on one shaming occasion,... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Heroic Bert and Dickie – No Better Than the Match-throwing Badminton Players?

  

  There has – rightly – been much huffing, tutting and booing at the female Chinese, south Korean and Indonesian Badminton players who yesterday appeared to be... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, SPORTS

• Olympic Disappointment – Why I Wept for the Ukrainian Gymnasts

  It must have been the longest 10 minutes of their lives, as the contestants in the Olympic gymnastics men’s team final waited for the results of an inquiry. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Didn’t Get Olympic Tickets? Girl on the River Has the Answer

  

  Up until the Olympics began I was fairly sanguine about not having managed to secure any tickets at all. It would be much better on the telly, I told myself. Th... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Bert & Dickie: the Olympics Start Here

  Girl on the River will be Girl on the Couch tonight, glued to the BBC’s perfectly timed Olympic drama, Bert & Dickie, starring Matt Smith (aka Dr. Who) and... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Is Rowing Hard?

  

  Redgrave carries the torch but will he light the flame? Photo courtesy of London 2012 / LOCOGOne of the searches that most frequently leads people to Girl on th... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Are Sports Products a Rip-off? Panorama, Protein Powder and Puff

  

  Sports people are an advertiser’s dream. We’re all desperate to get the edge on our competitors, to make the boat go faster or to run that little bit more... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reasons to Be Glad You’re a Rower

  

  So yesterday we heard the sobering news (in research published in the Lancet) that physical inactivity has been linked with a worrying 5.3 million deaths a... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Book Review – Cox by Kate Lace

  

  Cox by Kate Lace is a brand new, Jilly Cooper-style novel set in the world of elite rowing, so needless to say I’ve had it on order for a while. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rowing: a Sport for Old-timers?

  

  Monmouth’s Golden OldiesOne of the great and unexpected joys of rowing is the fact that at 40-*cough*-something I am considered a bit of a spring chicken. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Train Like an Olympian: the GB Rowers Tell Us How It’s Done

  Anyone following the GB rowing squad as they prepare for the London 2012 Olympic Games can’t have failed to notice that the guys and girls representing us are... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION

• The River is Not Safe. Be Warned

  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... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2012 FITNESS, SELF EXPRESSION