Endurance Training & Avoiding the “Bonk” – by Erik Borgnes
The second of Erik's training articles. A follow-up to "Surfski Training"
Mayors Cup 2009 – A Race to Survive – by Tim Dwyer
What, no Surfski?! I abandoned my surfski for this race. Yet I was itching to go all the way around Manhattan this year as conditions last year were tough enough to be cancelled mid-race. As ungainly and awkward as they might be for racing, a tandem sea kayak is a [...]
Mayors Cup 2009 – by Erik Borgnes
The pre-race evening started innocently enough; I had the pleasure of staying with the exhaustingly-inquisitive Joe Glickman (the Glicker), old man Greg Barton, drop-waist jeaned and jovial Sean Rice, and the surly-appearing, crossword puzzle manic Bevan Manson. Our dinner conversation began with the predictable immature banter about our waitress's finer qualities [...]
Lighthouse To Lighthouse 2009 – by Wayne Lysobey
Outriggers, kayaks, rowing shells, competition, blue sky, 175 friends, food, sunshine, waves, “talk like a pirate” day, beer, clams and oysters. How many stories might be written with the above words? How many days see all of the above? Such a day was September 19, 2009 at the Soundkeeper’s Lighthouse [...]
Providence Counter Revolution – by Kinley Gregg
I have become very parochial in my old age, rarely leaving the southern Maine town in which I live. But I know I need to venture out more, so when a 15 mile open water race in Narragansett Bay was advertised, I thought "Kinley, you should be able to struggle [...]