29 March 2021

By Tim Koch

Tim Koch wonders what is normal.

It is now over a year since Britain went into lockdown and, as in the rest of the world, life in the country has changed dramatically in that time. The hackneyed phrase, “the new normal”, naturally comes to mind – though I am not going to try and predict what this state of affairs will eventually become. I will simply mark the one-year anniversary by looking at examples of rowing’s old norms and hope that v2.0 of the aquatic ordinary will eventually turn out to be very similar.