From Spain to Austria: recapping BCN and looking toward Lake Rocks

At the end of 5 weekends of back-to-back racing for many of the world’s best SUP racers, the spring season’s leaders Mariecarmen Rivera (Puerto Rico) and Shuri “Shrimpy” Araki (Japan) solidified their statuses as #1 with golds in the Barcelona World SUP Fest long distance race. But these two leaders won’t be racing at Lake Rocks this weekend. They’ll be in good company with many top names who’ve opted out of a sixth weekend in a row of racing, presumably to take some well earned re