And all it took was a global pandemic to lure me back.

OK, that’s not entirely true – it’s only part of why I’m here – but being 3.5 weeks into this new quarantined reality with quite literally nothing else to do seemed like as good of a time as any to log back in and reconnect with everyone.

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked, emailed, or DM’ed “what happened to the blog” over the past two years, I probably could’ve paid my very expensive New York City rent for at least two or three months. The long answer is … well, long … but the short answer is that I needed a break. Like everything else about this sport, writing this blog requires a lot of inspiration and passion and frankly, I just didn’t have it anymore. I’d been running on fumes for about 6 months before I stopped writing anyways and once the fumes ran out I just lacked the motivation to figure out how to refill the tank. I obviously can’t extricate myself from rowing completely but abandoning the blog was (at the time) the simplest solution to a more complex problem.

Fast forward to April 2020 and all of our seasons are cancelled, our daily schedules are dictated by our new Zoom overlords, and you’re probably super pissed that right as you were about to get back on the water, you got sucked back into that winter training feeling of “what should I even be doing right now to get better”.

Which brings me to … Ready all, row. I think there’s a lot of ways to come out the other side of this as a better coxswain and if I can help you do that, I want to! I’ve got my own ideas for how we can navigate this weird period of time together but I’d love to hear from you – what do you need right now and how can I help?

Shoot me an email or DM me on Instagram and let’s talk!