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I am not a coach and this blog post will not provide workout lists or a week by week training schedule for tour rowing. There are excellent professionals who can do that. Rather, this post will discuss the more...

In a few days it will be six months since I flew home from our Martinique rowing tour. And have not been on a plane since or done much travel except a camping getaway, cottages visits and day trips. Everyone assumed that I would be missing travel, joking that I likely drive...

During these pandemic times we are adapting in many different ways. Virtual regattas have become the norm, whether the plethora available for indoor rowing or on-water ones, such as the NK summer series where you row your single with data collected by your Stroke Coach, upload it...

There are few good things about this pandemic. One for me is that I was able to go camping in 2020, something that I did not do in 2019. Last year I was too busy running trips, hosting visitors or attending regattas to enjoy the smell of woodsmoke from a campfire and waking up...

Things come full circle. A little test concept eight years ago has re-emerged as our new Independent Rowing Adventures. It has been a fun journey in between, starting with that first road trip to test a concept. Back in the autumn of 2012 I was evaluating whether it would be...

June 8th is World Ocean Day. Water and rowing are inextricably linked. In September 2019 World Rowing renewed a multi-year agreement with World Wildlife Federation (WWF) focused on freshwater initiatives, notably the Kafue River and Rowing Centre in Zambia. But what about salt...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the world, bringing death and economic hardship among many other disruptions. But there are encouraging signs in some locations and a return to rowing and to travel has begun. What does this mean for Rowing The World trips? This post...

To say that there is a connection between alcohol and rowing is stating the obvious. Consider all the rowing clubs which have a bar. Think Pimm’s and champagne at the Royal Henley Regatta. Remember how good a cold beer can taste at the end of a weekend workout on a hot summer...