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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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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 [...]

Bird Island Challenge 2010 – by Wesley Echols

In 2007 there was a group of surfski paddlers including myself that were encouraged to participate in this race by Paul Cordella, a local kayak racer that can be often found on Wednesday nights training on the Charles River with the local paddlers including surfski racer Ellen Stewart who just recently [...]