Elizabeth Gilmore Gets After It
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Elizabeth Gilmore’s insanely meteoric trajectory from indoor rowing newbie to indoor rowing champion and world record holder, to Head of the Charles course record breaker all started with getting on the erg to rehab a running injury.
Then came the Concept2 Logbook and challenges. Then virtual racing (and winning), before stepping onto the gym floor at Erg Sprints for her first in-person event where she took home two gold medals.
She was scouted by Capital Rowing Club where she learned to row sweep on the fly with the competitive women’s program, and today is to training for a row across the Atlantic.
And all of this in the span of just two years.
QUICK LOOK
00:00 - Episode lead-in
04:20 - The Huddle: Get to know Elizabeth in a minute
05:07 - Rowing Week on a scale of 1 to 10: 7 - good training, bad weather
05:53 - Hot Seat Q&A
08:44 - When ball sport coordination is lacking, run
10:57- Elizabeth’s rowing origin story began while rehabbing a running injury
13:57 - COVID and the rise of virtual indoor rowing training and racing
16:04 - Elizabeth’s first in-person indoor rowing event: Erg Sprints
18:54 - Getting scouted by Capital Rowing Club and how learning to row with the competitive women’s program was like drinking water from a firehouse
25:35 - Endurance rowing: training to row the Atlantic in 2024; December 2023 erg 100k with friends; passing the time on the erg; Lessons in Chemistry
31:25 - What’s next in 2024?
EPISODE Mentions
APPS
ErgZone
BOOKS
Lessons in Chemistry
CLUBS
Capital Rowing Club
Sandy Run Scullers
Small People Union Indoor Rowing Club
COACHES
Guennadi Bratichko
Cameron Buchan
MEDIA
Row2k
REGATTAS
Chicago River Half-Marathon
Head of the Charles
USRowing Masters Nationals
ROWERS
Libby Garbis
Lauren Fisch
This episode was written, produced, hosted, and edited by Tara Morgan and Rachel Freedman. Tara provides additional audio engineering and is our sponsor coordinator. Rachel manages the website, social media, and e-newsletter. Our theme music is by Jonas Hipper.