Run of the Charles: Bridges! Warmth! Pulled Pork!
With the addition of the 6 mile version of the Run of the Charles added to the SurfskiRacing.com point series, I expected to see a robust turn-out for this early season flat-water race. A beautiful spring day may have also helped coax a few more paddlers out of their lairs. With a dozen skis, participation was double what it had been the past couple of years.
This would be my first time at the Run of the Charles. Eager to help, several race veterans reviewed the 6 mile course with me. We’d start down the Charles, go under 14 bridges, through a set of locks out into the Harbor, where we’d circumnavigate Old Ironsides before making our way back to the start. Seemed like that’d be a pinch longer than 6 miles, but it’s always tough to judge distances in Boston…
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