Girl on the River
Patricia Carswell, aka Girl on the River, loves to row and loves to talk, so it makes sense that in her podcast she'll be chatting to guests from all around the rowing and sporting world about anything and everything to do with rowing. Always informal, occasionally silly, sometimes serious, often informative, she delves into questions such as how athletes become champions, how to promote diversity in sport, the secret to staying alive on an ocean, how to improve your erg score and what to do to keep your body and mind in one piece. Her guests include Olympians, health experts, Atlantic rowers, kit companies, indoor rowers, TV presenters - in short, anyone with something to say about rowing and its place in the world. The podcast isn't just about Girl on the River and her guests, though. Community is everything in rowing, so you, the listener, are an important part of the show. There'll be regular Q&As and listener debates, and if you have suggestions for fantastic guests, she's all ears. Patricia can be contacted at girlontheriverpodcast@gmail.com or on social media at @girlontheriver on all channels - come and have a chat .And until then... next stroke, easy oar.
Girl on the River
Lawrence Farquarson - London Youth Rowing
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Patricia Carswell
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Season 3
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Episode 4
S3 Ep.4 If you heard my interview with Andy Triggs Hodge last year you may remember him talking about the brilliant charity, London Youth Rowing, which does fantastic work changing young people's lives through rowing. I was keen to get one of their coaches on the podcast to talk in a bit more detail about their work. So step forward Lawrence Farquarson.
Lawrence has been a coach at LYR since 2012. In this interview we talk about:
- How Lawrence got involved in LYR
- NJIRC (National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships) and why they're so great
- What LYR does
- A day in the life
- Why avoiding rowing jargon is helpful
- Why the young people in the LYR programmes aren't expected to row on water unless they want to
- The biggest misconceptions about rowing
- The perceptions about rowing among working class kids
- Expansion of LYR into Yorkshire
- The difference that rowing makes to young people
- The importance of promoting exercise because of how it makes you feel, not how it makes you look
- Whether there's a difference of approach between male and female rowers
- How you can support London Youth Rowing
- Race the Thames 2022
You can find more about London Youth Rowing here
The email for enquiries that Lawrence mentioned is admin@londonyouthrowing.com
If you'd like to get involved in Race the Thames (and I strongly recommend it), the link is here
Find out more about NJIRC here