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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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2012 Narrow River Race-New Faces
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2012 Narrow River Race-New Faces

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2012 Narrow River Race-New Faces

This race always is a small affair so I was pleasantly surprised that most of the guys came quite a distance to paddle the 10 mile course. Matt in his sea kayak came down from Marblehead. I give Matt a lot of credit, he made the trip, paddled hard for almost [...]

Snow Row 2013 – by Greg Lesher
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Snow Row 2013 – by Greg Lesher

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2013

Snow Row 2013 – by Greg Lesher

Reprinted with permission from Greg's Blog: Full Tilt Snow Row: Now with Cryptosporidiosis! The Snow Row, sponsored by the Hull Lifesaving Museum, is traditionally the first race of the New England season. I had always assumed that the Snow Row was thus named because people were rowing and it was March. [...]

Blackburn Challenge 2012 Video – by Vadim Lishchuk

Vadim Lishchuk from Keystone Kayaks and owner of Main Street Photo and Video has produced another awesome video - The Blackburn Challenge 2012. Be sure to check out Vadim's other videos... Make sure you maximize and watch in full screen by clicking the graphic between "HD" and "Vimeo". Thanks Vadim for the [...]

2013 SurfskiRacing Series Sponsored by Stellar Surfskis
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2013 SurfskiRacing Series Sponsored by Stellar Surfskis

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2013 SurfskiRacing Series Sponsored by Stellar Surfskis

April 6th starts off the SurfskiRacing.com race season with the Narrow River. I have added the a few more races to the Series to include more flat water races and the Ride the Bull Race which I am very excited about. Below are the races for the upcoming season. Details can [...]

Chattajack,31-mile Paddleboard by Karen Mirlenbrink

While I used to paddles surfskis with my husband Rob, I switched to paddleboards after some back issues. A few months ago I competed in the Chattajack 31, a 31-mile race on my Stand Up Paddleboard on the Tennessee River through the Tennessee River Gorge on October 13th. I really want [...]

Potato Race on a Brilliant New England Fall Day
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Potato Race on a Brilliant New England Fall Day

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Potato Race on a Brilliant New England Fall Day

Adam and Wendy Gelinas put on a great race with help from a brilliant New England Day and a great turnout of racers. The eight mile Potato race is the last race of the season held on the Connecticutt River in Hadley, Massachusetts. The sun was out and the temperature was [...]