I had the worst possible preparation. The third polar vortex hit the Midwest at the end of March and the lakes were still frozen. Except for a few short weeks in California, I had been unable to get on the water. The days to the Molokai Challenge were ticking away [...]
My training this season beginning in February, is focused on the Blackburn Challenge, July 19th. The Blackburn consist of 19.4 miles with a mixture of 3 miles of flat water before you hit the ocean. Miles 13-17 are where your training or lack of training gets magnified in the rolling [...]
Come join us for the 5th Sakonnet River Race. With the Snow Row, Narrow River, ROTC, and Essex out of the way, we now turn our attention to the Bay or Ocean race here in the Northeast. This is my home training ground which is a wonderful place to paddle [...]
I am in Hawaii right now for the Molokai race on Sunday and wanted to give you a quick update on a very memorable paddle I had yesterday in Oahu.I got an email from Greg in the morning to tell me to be ready because he and Oscar were doing [...]
The Essex River Race is one of the best attended races in the Northeast because of the distance of 5.72 mile is doable by the casual paddler as well as the experienced racer. All classes were filled out from the rowers, to the stand up paddle boards, to the surf [...]
