Peak Paddle Performance Podcast

Today’s podcast guest is the always affable, ever insightful, and fun loving Carter Johnson. Carter is now best known as the founder and organizer of the Gorge Downwind Paddle Festival in Hood River, OR. After just two year this festival has established itself as the biggest SUP, Outrigger, and SURFSKI event in the US and is drawing a significant international crowd. 2017 is already 2/3 sold out and may well be completely sold out before the end of the year. A little less known is the fact that Carter holds two Guinness world records for distance paddled in 24 hours on an inland water and distance paddled in 24 hours on flowing water, and at one point he even held the record in every major  long distance race in the US.   Not too shabby for a self described "technique hack" In this podcast we have a lot of fun as we cover: Carter’s early days growing up in Indiana as a wiry kid and how he landed in gymnasticsCompeting, traveling the country, and most importantly partying on the Purdue gymnastics circuit