Some races you go to for the competition, or the beauty of the place… but the Sound Rowers Mercer Island Sausage Pull is all about the post race BBQ sausage feast! I’ll explain more about the sausages later. We ARE there to race, too. So, a bit about that. There is a 6-mile short course and a 14.5-mile long [...]

This past year, with the hard work of a few local paddlers, Bellingham’s first outrigger canoe club became a reality. Bellingham Bay Outrigger Paddlers’ first OC6 canoe arrived in April. Busy with sweet baby Jazzy, racing surfski and SUP, chasing Hayden and all the many joys of life, it wasn’t until three weeks ago that [...]

It’s not just for SUP this year! PADDLE GRAND PRIX is open to ALLL paddle-craft. August 27th, two weeks from this Saturday, at Boulevard Park in Bellingham. NOW HERE’S THE THING: Entry fee is $35, and ***every red penny*** of that $35 goes STRAIGHT into Marshall Seaman’s and his family’s hands to help make a [...]

Is it possible to achieve Top Gun if you only train for your leg in just over a year?  No?  Well, you’re wrong!  Just ask 2011 Mountain Bike Top Gun Courtenay McFadden. She’s been doing the Ski to Sea for 6 years now but she started with the dreaded Downhill Run – which she swore [...]

Attention ALL Paddlers! Registration for 2011 Paddle Grand Prix is open and ready for you to sign up to THROWN DOWN! You have choices: You can register online by CLICKING HERE! Or, you can print this PDF, fill it out, and mail it in. OR, you can register the day of the race! The Paddle [...]

There are three weeks to go until Ski to Sea RACE DAY! Are you ready? Have you gotten your miles in? Pumped iron in the gym or torn it up on the trail for some cross training? Maybe entered a few races this spring? Then you are right where you want to be! Bring it on! But, there [...]

You read that headline right: Boundary Bay Brewery’s Sabrina Harper was Top Gun in 2009 in the Run leg of the race… Then she came back in 2010, having traded with teammate Brooke Gosling so this year she’d be doing the Downhill Ski leg, and she’s freaking TOP GUN AGAIN!!! Meanwhile, her team, Boundary Bay [...]

We’re proud to release the latest episode in the Top Gun Racer Podcast series. In this show, Episode #4, we visit with Max Taam of Boss Construction explain how living at altitude and “skinning to work” helped him achieve Top Gun in the 2010 Ski to Sea. Max is a member of the US Ski Mountaineering Team [...]

Feeding the insatiable need to keep experimenting with new media and just new ‘things’ in general, we’ve recently launched the new “Ski to Sea Top Gun Racer Podcast!” The premise is this: Interview as many of the current Ski to Sea Top Guns — that is, the fastest men and women from each leg of [...]

Tonight was my first ‘Wednesday Nighter’ of the year. This is our informal, once a week, 3.5-mile pick-up paddle race, where we gauge our fitness as we race the clock and about 60 other racers every Wed Night from March through Sept. When I was pregnant with Hayden I wrote about my Pregnant Athlete Workout, [...]

Windy and 50 F in Bellingham!!! What a Christmas present!!! A quick note to wish EVERYONE a happy and safe holiday, wherever you are! We’ve had our fair share of Christmases overseas or south of the border, and that’s always nice. But there’s nothing quite like being home, lights strung on the house, a Christmas tree [...]

Last January I traveled down to Seattle University to compete in the NW Ergomania Indoor Rowing Regional Championships. Long story short, it changed my life. I’d only first tried the sport of indoor rowing about 6 weeks earlier, when Heather and I bought a Concept 2 rowing machine as a replcement for cold-weather paddling. The [...]