1. You consistently finish less than 3 minutes per hour behind first place.
2. Good canoe racers say yes when you ask them to race with you.
3. Good canoe racers ask you to practice with them.
4. Non-canoeists tell you they thought of you whenever they hear about a canoeist drowning.
5. You practice paddling upstream in a solo racing canoe by yourself.
6. You know how to ride the side wakes of other racing canoes without hitting them.
7. You know how to ride the stern wakes of other racing canoes.
8. You practice canoe racing after the racing season’s over and it’s too cold outside for most paddlers.
9. Good canoe racers call you for anything.
10. Your partner outpaddles others who have outpaddled them and you’ve beaten your partner racing with those same others.

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