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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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Ride The Bull Video – by Borys Markin
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Ride The Bull Video – by Borys Markin

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Ride The Bull Video – by Borys Markin

Check out this great video Borys took from his boat at the race!!

RePost of 2013 Ride the Bull, Summary and Pics, Super Fun!
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RePost of 2013 Ride the Bull, Summary and Pics, Super Fun!

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RePost of 2013 Ride the Bull, Summary and Pics, Super Fun!

This winter I thought there should be another race before the Blackburn Challenge and after the Sakonnet River Race since there was a seven week gap. So I came up with the Ride the Bull Race, conferred with Tim about the course off and on during our winter paddles. So today [...]

Ride The Bull Race
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Ride The Bull Race

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Ride The Bull Race

Join us for this exciting nine mile rough water ocean race. Can you Ride the Bull? This series is part of the SurfskiRacing.com Series sponsored by Stellar. We laid out the course to go along the rocks and small cliffs to test your rough water skills. Course starts at Fort Wetherill, [...]

Sakonnet River Race Report by Greg Lesher
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Sakonnet River Race Report by Greg Lesher

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Sakonnet River Race Report by Greg Lesher

Sakonnet River: Huki! Huki! Huki! Mary Beth and I pulled onto the beach at McCorrie Point an hour and a half before the start of the Sakonnet River Race and watched in growing anticipation as car after car parked alongside us. When the last stragglers arrived from points West, there were [...]

Sakonnet River Race: Great Turnout, Glorious Conditions, Great Fun!
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Sakonnet River Race: Great Turnout, Glorious Conditions, Great Fun!

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Sakonnet River Race: Great Turnout, Glorious Conditions, Great Fun!

Thanks to everyone for coming and to my wife Betsy with registration, pics, and timing. Thanks to Chris and Razz for taking pics. We had 24 paddlers today coming from all over the Northeast, making it an excellent turnout for the 5th Sakonnet River Race. Conditions were as good as they [...]

June 1st, Saturday, 10am, Sakonnet River Race, Home of SurfskiRacing.com!
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June 1st, Saturday, 10am, Sakonnet River Race, Home of SurfskiRacing.com!

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June 1st, Saturday, 10am, Sakonnet River Race, Home of SurfskiRacing.com!

On June 1st, get out of bed, grab a cup of joe, load your ski or kayak, grab your paddle, pfd, leash and 70 ounces of hydration and join us on the Sakonnet River for 12 miles of race pace paddling. It could be a gale like last year or flat [...]