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Walking it in with the Bears (Photo: B. Kitch) Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well, that's how we feel, at least. TL;DR: We've got a bunch of new stuff on the way for you. Hopefully you've been enjoying the social media we've been keeping up over the past few months (by the way, how did this video of an erg relay blow up so much?)—it's not quite the same as keeping things up to date here, but it's good to stay connected. Now, however, it's time to kick the tires and light the fires once again. New things on the horizon... This moment of #rowingzen from a morning on the water with @calwrowing 🔊 #rowing #rowingrelated #dawn A post shared by rowingrelated (@rowingrelated) on Feb 13, 2018 at 10:20pm PST Here's the plan: Over the next three weeks, we'll be rolling out a three-part post on the Top 30 Greatest Rowing Coaches of All Time . As in the past, it'll contain opinions, but it'll also contain facts. Interes...

A look inside Issue No. 2 of SportUp's Between The Lines magazine A lot has changed since 2010. It's fair to say that the Internet is a different place—the landscape of social media 'disrupted' blogging, just as blogging had disrupted publishing. The sport of rowing has grown online, too. Strange but true: RowingRelated and Instagram got started within days of each other, in October 2010. Since then, I think it's fair to say we've had similar levels of success. (Ha.) But seriously, Instagram, and other social networks, have changed the way we consume media. (You don't need to look any further than  analysis of the U.S. presidential election to find evidence of that.) It has also changed the way that publishers, writers, and artists communicate with their audiences. Which brings me to my main point: This isn't goodbye, and we never left. I referenced Instagram earlier—the network's meteoric rise to prominence carried a lot of people with it. ...

Indoor rowing, the Internet, and the future of our sport (Photo: E. Dronkert/Flickr ) Op-Ed: The discussion about publicly sharing erg scores and test data has been taking off in the rowing world. So, what does it all mean for the future of our sport?

We've had a lot of fun at RowingRelated in 2015—our biggest year yet. And we couldn't have done it without you. Here's what we mean by that.