2017 Blackburn Start by Olga Sydorenko
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Blackburn Challenge: Northern Hospitality
You may remember the cliffhanger finish to last year's thrilling episode of the Blackburn Challenge, in which we were all left wondering whether our heroes would ever be paddling around Cape Ann again. With several boats literally falling apart mid-race, a third of the field DNFing, and many other racers [...]
2016 Blackburn Challenge, #14
This is half of the race. My Garmin Virbs ran out of juice as I almost did in the first 8 miles in the flattest section. I wanted the footage from the just prior to Dog Bar that would have captured my 2 mile interval finish with Peter Kahn who [...]
2015 Blackburn Challenge, A Race to Remember with Video
At the Captains Meeting Rich K., the Race Director, went down the line asking the 300 plus paddlers: " Who is here for the first time?" hands raised and cheering ensued. " Who has done this 5 times", 10 times, 15, 20, 28 times. I raised my hand on 15. [...]
Blackburn Challenge: Process of Elimination
The forecast for the 29th Blackburn Challenge was promising, at least for those of us who make their living writing about sudden and unexpected immersion. Winds of 10-12 knots from an atypical summer direction meant that it'd be a perfectly credible (and excusable) exaggeration to claim that the race was [...]