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On Training: Efficiency and Friction
During any long session or race, most of each stroke converts cleanly into forward motion. A small fraction gets diverted into correction, stabilization, and adjustment. Some of that cost comes from outside: the ocean pushes, [...]
On Racing: Finishing Strong
Finishing well has little to do with who is most tired. Everyone is tired. What separates paddlers at the end of a race is not how much they have left, but how clearly they can [...]
On Racing: Expecting the Unexpected
The forecast you checked the night before is completely different when you wake up. The wind has increased, the swell period has changed, and there's a conversation happening near the water's edge about which direction [...]
On Downwinding: Reading Lines
The line appears before the decision to take it is fully formed. A shift in the water texture, maybe forty meters ahead, something about the way a long roller is organizing at an angle to [...]
On Training: Chain of Fools
The stroke catches and the boat runs. There is a feeling to it, a brief firmness in the water that holds long enough for the body to push through, and the boat moves with more [...]
Nationals: Meet the (Blackburn) Challenge
Every local racing community has a structure. You know who the fast paddlers are, roughly how you stack up against them, and what a good day on the water looks like for you. That knowledge [...]
18th Sakonnet River Race 2026
The 18th Sakonnet River Race went off without a hitch with a small group of New England surfski paddlers. Conditions were ideal for the 9.4 mile course. It was not the total grind up to [...]
On Racing: Current, Tide, and Timing
Current is the quiet architect of many races. Unlike wind, it rarely announces itself. There is no sound, no visible force—just the subtle difference between working hard and going nowhere, or moving efficiently with effort [...]
On Downwinding: Decision Scope
Around the ninety-minute mark, a bump builds ahead and gets left alone. Not because of anything physical. The opportunity was real. But a sprint that reads as obvious on a twenty-minute run reads differently when [...]
On Training: Recovery and Adaptation
The main concept behind "training" of any sort is that damage accumulates when work occurs, and adaptation happens during recovery. There's a well-established process at this point for optimizing our adaptation mechanism to quickly achieve [...]

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SurfskiRacing.com Race Series Recap and Winners!

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2013, Race Reports

SurfskiRacing.com Race Series Recap and Winners!

The SurfskiRacing.com Race Series began back in 2010 to include most of the races in New England but scoring it differently than the previous series as a way to encourage more local paddlers to attend the local races. If you are a local paddler(Northeast) then you get points for the series. [...]

2013 Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race Video by Vadim Lishchuk
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2013 Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race Video by Vadim Lishchuk

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2013 Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race Video by Vadim Lishchuk

Awesome video of the L2L Race held September 7, 2013. Vadim a professional photographer, Main Street Photography, shot this video of the kayak race. The paddlers featured most are Jesse Lishchuk(Vajda Hawx), Vadim's son who placed 4th overall, Reid Hyle(winner in Yellow SES), Borys (2nd in SES Ultra), Michele Eray(3rd overall [...]

Potato Race Gets a New Venue and Shorter Course
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Potato Race Gets a New Venue and Shorter Course

NE US Flat Water Race Reports, Race Reports

Potato Race Gets a New Venue and Shorter Course

I always look forward to the Potato Race since it is the last race, albeit flat water race of the season that began with the Narrow River Race in April. So it is a long race season, but there is a significant break between the last ocean race and this race. [...]

NE Surfski Downwind: Gulp… by Greg Lesher
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NE Surfski Downwind: Gulp… by Greg Lesher

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2013

NE Surfski Downwind: Gulp… by Greg Lesher

With winds at 15+ knots from an unfavorable ENE direction, the Board of Trustees made a day-before decision to shift the NE Surfski Downwind course from its normal Kittery-to-York route down to the North Shore of Massachusetts. We'd run 11 miles from Stage Fort Park in Gloucester to Lynch Park in [...]

The Greenway Challenge by Tim Hudyncia
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The Greenway Challenge by Tim Hudyncia

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The Greenway Challenge by Tim Hudyncia

Run-Kayak-Bike-Mtn. Bike-Kayak-Bike-Run… Collapse Two and half years ago my brother and I were at a rhythm festival in Uxbridge, MA (Steve, didgeridoo, me, djembe). Nature called as it tends to, and exiting the bathroom I spotted a brochure rack on my right. One of the brochures caught my eye. “Greenway Challenge: [...]

Kettle Island Run: 15.3 Miles of Radiant Bliss by Greg Lesher
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Kettle Island Run: 15.3 Miles of Radiant Bliss by Greg Lesher

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2013, Race Reports

Kettle Island Run: 15.3 Miles of Radiant Bliss by Greg Lesher

If you were going to schedule a race for the confused waters of Salem Sound, you probably wouldn't make it 15+ miles. Or schedule it in late September. Or choose a course almost guaranteed to beam slap you into submission. That's why you'll never be Ed Duggan. Ed once paddled shore-to-shore [...]