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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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RePost of 2011 Nahant Race by Greg Lesher
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RePost of 2011 Nahant Race by Greg Lesher

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RePost of 2011 Nahant Race by Greg Lesher

2011 Nahant Race Summary by Greg Lesher. This weekend, August 18, 2012, Mike McDonough, Race Director, along with his daughter Katie will be presenting the awards. Race starts at 10am. All details can be found in the race section of this site. Katie McDonough with the Trophies for Nahant [...]

Nahant Bay Race: Francisco Urena Steps Up for 3rd Place
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Nahant Bay Race: Francisco Urena Steps Up for 3rd Place

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2011

Nahant Bay Race: Francisco Urena Steps Up for 3rd Place

Today we had a beautiful but flat day once again for the Nahant Race. The course was changed this year to make it slightly longer and to use ocean buoys and rocks as the turn markers. Today was the exact opposite of last week's Double Beaver Race with super flat conditions. [...]

A Long Story – Blackburn 2011- by S.S. Weyers
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A Long Story – Blackburn 2011- by S.S. Weyers

Blackburn Challenge, NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2011

A Long Story – Blackburn 2011- by S.S. Weyers

A Long Story S.S. Weyers - Southampton, Bermuda The Intro: All the cool titles for articles on the 25th Blackburn had already been taken by Echols, Spies, Ceconi, Carter and Lysobey. I thought of naming it There and Back but then I remembered that one was already used by Tolkien. Mein [...]

Double Beaver Race Video – By Mike Tracy

Check out Mike Tracy's Video from the 2011 Jamestown Double Beaver!!

Records at the Blackburn
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Records at the Blackburn

Blackburn Challenge, NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2011, Race Reports

Records at the Blackburn

Records Abound at 2011 Blackburn This was the 25th year of the Blackburn and it ushered in many records in attendance, course, and personal. The first record broken was for the overall course record in a single powered boat. Dan Gorririan who has come close many times , chose to race [...]

Forward Strokes, Ischemic Strokes, and No Backstrokes by Rich Carter
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Forward Strokes, Ischemic Strokes, and No Backstrokes by Rich Carter

Blackburn Challenge, NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2011, Race Reports

Forward Strokes, Ischemic Strokes, and No Backstrokes by Rich Carter

Photo Credit to David Cox, Good Morning Gloucester Once again I find myself at Gloucester High School, home of the Fighting Fishermen,bearing up beneath dark storm clouds and a gale of calendar pages. I’m staring down the barrel of my 56th birthday and Father Time’s itchy finger grows heavy on the trigger. [...]