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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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2009 Nahant Bay Race – by Mike McDonough

The Nahant Bay Race took place yesterday in ocean conditions slightly milder than normal for this time of year. A southeast wind blowing 10 kts and a long-period, almost imperceptible 2' swell from Hurricane Bill were not enough to create good rides across the open water section, but a solid group [...]

2009 Nahant Bay Race – by Wesley Echols

Despite the predictive poor weather from the storm “Bill”, the weather was fantastic, sunny and flat. Mike McDonough(Race Director did a super job with his organization of the race providing chase boat, setting turn buoys, providing laminated charts of the course, big race numbers, and had expert help from his wife, daughter, [...]

Running With the Outriggers – Milford 2009 – by Wayne Lysobey

All of my races this year have been around 200 miles away from my home in Norwalk, CT. I started thinking about the Outrigger Race which was 20 miles away up the coast in Milford, run by Blake Conant, and thought wouldn’t it be nice to be able to race close [...]

2009 Milford OC1 Canoe and Surfski Race Summary – by Wesley Echols

One of the nice things about the Milford Race is that Blake Conant, the Race Director, makes you feel so welcome when you show up for the race so the karma is great from the beginning. This year’s race had a good showing of OC paddlers and there were actually 2 [...]

Double Beaver 2009 – by Wesley Echols

Joe Glickman off a sub par Blackburn Challenge due to the flu was feeling 100% today and he walloped the local boys by 5 minutes leading from the get go. Tim Dywer, host, was on his home turf so he wanted to have a good show despite the extra pressure of [...]

2009 Double Beaver Race: ‘The Year of the Weebles’ – by Mark Ceconi
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2009 Double Beaver Race: ‘The Year of the Weebles’ – by Mark Ceconi

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2009

2009 Double Beaver Race: ‘The Year of the Weebles’ – by Mark Ceconi

‘Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down,’ or hopefully, in, as the situation may warrant. This was the catchphrase of the day for the 2009 running of the infamous ‘Double Beaver’ Race, innocently named for the out and back course that twice rounds Beavertail Lighthouse in historic Jamestown, RI, just a [...]