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 [...]

What started out as a favor for a friend became a phenomenon. Meet John Barron, owner of Barron Heating and the man behind the awesome team that dominated the 2011 Ski to Sea and became overall winner of the race. His sponsoring a Ski to Sea team started as favor for his friend Dan Bass [...]

We just returned from a weekend of racing and camping out on the Columbia River at the 2011 Gorge Outrigger Races, in Stevenson, WA. That place ALWAYS delivers, even through rain and relative lack of windy conditions. Just this year, Bellingham welcomed its own outrigger club, BBOP, and new OC-6, and this was the club’s first experience racing [...]

The Ski to Sea Podcast, as most of you know, has broadened its reach to cater not only to Top Guns and racers, but also to anyone who has a story worth sharing about the Ski to Sea. I had the pleasure of interviewing a man that has a unique and special relationship with the Ski [...]

Have you ever heard of “The Holly Brooks Special Recipe”?  No?  Well, it’s because this is the first time anyone will ever hear it!  Listen in as Holly Brooks, Olympian and 2011 Women’s XC Ski Top Gun, tell us how she got to where she is right now — From being an average, middle-of-the-pack racer [...]

A lot of people were anticipating the ‘ceremonial ringing of the bell’ at Marine Park at the end of the Kayak Leg on race day but to the dismay of both racers and race fans, only a few were able to experience that.  The reason behind this?  The Kayak Leg was CANCELLED late afternoon leaving [...]

If you’re hanging on the edge of your seats dying to find out what happened to Zsolt in the 2007 World Surfski Championships in Molokai, Hawaii – Wait no more!  Here is the second installment of my interview with him. If you haven’t heard the first part of the interview, click on this link before [...]

If you’ve met or even heard of our podcast guest today, Zsolt Szadovszki, then you’ll agree with the old saying: “Heroes are made, not born.” At the very young age of 7, as a child in Budapest, Hungary, he already started training and entering races.   So it was ironically fitting that he was the [...]

In this interview Brian Gregg will share the details about how — by any measure — 2011 could be the biggest and best year of his life — so far! First off, he married his sweetheart, former All-American runner/2010 US Olympic Team Member, Caitlin (Compton) Gregg. Second, he and his lovely wife bought a cute little bungalow [...]

Debbie Chadwick of the Boundary Bay Women’s Team! She is 1/2 of the canoe team (her partner is Deighen Blakely).  She has been racing for the team for 10 out of their 11-year victory-reign. In this final interview before the 100th year anniversary of the Ski to Sea, Debbie will talk about some tips to [...]

Philip Mitchell, the fastest runner in the entire Ski to Sea – raced for 2nd place team Barron Heating in 2010. He was Top Gun in the Running Leg by nearly TWO MINUTES! Though he put his team on the lead, something went wrong along the way that cost them the lead. So this year, [...]