stories about paddling
Forty-eight hours after the race started on a beautiful but breezy Saturday morning, the wind was picking up at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida. It had already been the windiest, coldest Last Paddler Standing ever: when temperature dropped to 50°F (10°C) on the first night, strong racer
What a weekend! By most measures (every measure except for DQs and beach starts, perhaps), the ICF SUP World Championships in Sarasota, Florida was a success. 2024 has been a pretty good year for world championships, and with most (not all) top names attending both the ISA and ICF events, it looks l
9 SUP and prone paddle boarders started the inaugural Thames 200 Ultra. 4 finished. Gavin Symonds set a new record for fastest SUP of the Thames: 29 hours 19 minutes. What was the race like, and could it really be the UK's answer to SUP 11 Cities?
James Fletcher aka “that prone guy" is the type of person who looks at the craziest endurance challenges for stand up paddle boarders and thinks, “I can do that prone.” And then he does. He's set records before, but 200 km down the Thames is like nothing he's ever done - will he pull it off?
"I can do anything now." Devizes to Westminster (DW) is Britain's oldest and most iconic "type 2 fun" ultra paddling race.
Old-school canoeing in Britain is finally embracing SUP as a paddlesport. What does being paddlesport-ified mean for the future of SUP globally?
Two of your favourite SUP athletes just earned medals at World Championships. Nope, not ISA Worlds or ICF Worlds. They won these medals sitting down.
