The Rowing Podcast

By Matt RungSports

The Rowing Podcast episodes

September 11 How to Write a Rowing Novel: Charlotte Lillie Balogh
Capsized took eight years to reach a shelf.
Charlotte rowed at Community Rowing in Boston and then at Syracuse, moved to LA for television, and stumbled into a coaching job at RowLA that she's held ever since. Capsized started as a 55-page TV pilot she never finished, became a novel after a stranger at a house party told her it should be, and is now back in development as a series at Hulu.
We get into how the crooked path actually went: writing a different book first to get through the door, cutting fifty pages on an agent's say-so, and the difference between why you start something and why you keep coming back to it for eight years.
She also walks through her five keys to writing a rowing novel — get up early, pace yourself, build your team, know there's no race day, and train off a plan — plus why publishing feels like a void to someone used to watching her split in real time, and a wall-sit story from RowLA that explains the whole sport in about ninety seconds.
📖 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812893/capsized-by-charlotte-lillie-balogh/

1 hr 9 min
September 19, 2023 Bryan Alston: A Voice to Row to
I chat with Bryan Alston, the coxswain behind one of the most watched collegiate rowing videos on YouTube. A walk-on with a stutter, Bryan eventually steered the Dartmouth varsity lightweights to a silver medal finish at the 2011 Eastern Sprints and bronze at the IRAs, as well as numerous gold medal wins for the Marin Masters Men.

We discuss a range of topics, including how growing up with a stutter impacted his coxing, why listening to coxes in foreign languages is a shortcut to success, the underappreciated benefits of Masters rowing and much more.

Watch/listen to his Sprints recording here: https://youtu.be/LDvx9VCWZeo?si=nJ8-yutHPZb81wVY

Learn more about what he’s up to here: https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/bralston

Dutch language coxswain tape: https://youtu.be/B2EJ5CVb7pk?si=F_sk8CCVqqz8N-BK

1 hr 6 min
January 10, 2023 Nich Lee Parker
A chat with Nich Lee Parker, easily one of rowing's best new trailblazers.

https://gocolumbialions.com/sports/lightweight-rowing/roster/coaches/nich-lee-parker/2786
1 hr 2 min
April 10, 2021 Larry Gluckman
In memoriam of Larry Gluckman. We talk about the revival of Trinity Crew and the HRR win that changed the program forever.

Well rowed, Larry.

1 hr 23 min
March 10, 2021 James Tomkins of the "Oarsome Foursome"
I chat with James Tomkins of the famed "Oarsome Foursome," nerding out over rhythm, power, and ocean kayaking.

https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/james-tomkins/

1 hr 7 min
January 25, 2021 Megan Cooke Carcagno - "Never Give Up"
https://goduke.com/sports/rowing/roster/coaches/megan-cooke-carcagno/3838

45 min
January 06, 2021 Arshay Cooper and Jenn Gibbons - The George Pocock Rowing Foundation
https://www.pocockfoundation.org/
42 min
October 25, 2020 Tori Murden McClure - First Woman & American to Cross the Atlantic
https://www.pocockfoundation.org/donate

https://www.amazon.com/ROW-Dawn-Landes/dp/B08JZKTWQN

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4600888-a-pearl-in-the-storm
50 min
September 28, 2020 Linda Muri - The Rowing Rocket Scientist
https://www.rocketsciencerowing.com/about

46 min
August 09, 2020 Yaz Farooq - "Be thankful and be persistent. Love is stronger than hate."
https://gohuskies.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/coaches/yasmin-farooq/5259
44 min