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National Series Notebook: A Red-Hot October
The USA Surfski leaderboard grew to 203 paddlers this week, with seven new names added in five days. Kieffer now sits just ahead of Wilson Reavley (A26), whose 1,959 points represent a full season of [...]
On Downwinding: Crosswind and Mixed Days
From the parking lot the water looks like nothing worth the drive. Wind chop runs in from the southwest, a leftover groundswell rolls in from the southeast, and where the two meet the surface has [...]
2026 Great Stone Dam Race
By Wesley Echols I really enjoyed myself today at the Great Stone Dam Classic, an 8.14 mile race in Lawrence, MA hosted by Shawn Burke, and Francisco. It was a perfect day New England day [...]
On Training: Decision and Commitment
A runner lifts behind you, and for half a second you know exactly what to do. Then the half second passes, and you're still thinking about it. The gap between the boat and the swell [...]
On Training: Orientation and Pattern Recognition
Your nemesis is two kilometers of confused water where the swell from the south meets a cross-chop off the eastern point of land. You've paddled it dozens of times. For most of those sessions it's [...]
On Downwinding: Leveraging Energy
The difference between flatwater paddling and downwinding isn't subtle. Grinding a flat stretch is the opposite: all work and no rest, every foot of distance earned stroke by stroke with nothing free about it. Catching [...]
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 [...]

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Happy as a Clam (or Oyster) at the 2010 L2L – by Mark Ceconi

‘With one deft stroke, the blade’s leading edge cleft a half moon shaped fissure along the slate gray trough; the smell of salt sea acrid in our nostrils, a trail of racers strung stern to bow in a ragtag line, breathing heavily, eyes focused hungrily on the prize…And this my friends, [...]

Lighthouse To Lighthouse 2010 – A Great Day, A Great Race – by Wesley Echols

I was looking forward to this race being the last big race of the season in the Northeast. It was also the last race of the SurfskiRacing.com series and would determine the top three places since the standings were extremely close by design. I was just one of over 100 paddlers looking forward [...]

Lighthouse To Lighthouse 2010 – by Wayne Lysobey
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Lighthouse To Lighthouse 2010 – by Wayne Lysobey

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2010

Lighthouse To Lighthouse 2010 – by Wayne Lysobey

I ran my own race. I ran my own race. I think I should be able to say that twice, maybe even squeeze out a third time. As the regatta chairman 7 years now, I do sometimes think of it as my race, or more to the point our race. The [...]

Jamestown Counter Revolution 2010 – by Wesley Echols

This was the second year of the JCR. Last years race was moved to the Seekonk River in Providence due to the forecasted hurricane that never materialized. This year’s race was quite different with a stunningly clear, sunny New England day. The race starts at Mackerel Cove in Jamestown, RI and ends 15 miles [...]

JCR 2010 – A Rower’s Perspective – by Wayne Lysobey

"You say you want a revolution...." The Beatles tune came out of the speakers right after Dan gave the awards for the Jamestown Counter Revolution. This was the second JCR, but the first one to run on the intended course, 15 miles halfway around the northern half of Jamestown Island, counterclockwise, [...]

Surfin’ the Nats! – 2010 US Canoe Association Nationals – by Steven Horney

The 2010 USCA (US Canoe Association) Nationals, held in Peshtigo, WI, during the week of August 9th – 15th, saw some of the fastest paddlers in the country battling for national championship crowns in flat water marathon racing. It’s an awesome event to witness, and even more so to participate in. It’s exciting [...]