Training for the James River Rundown

I had the day off today for Good Friday and after waiting a bit to see if it was going…

First day of Spring in Charlottesville

So this past Sunday, 3/20, at the last minute, I decided to hit my local river, The Rivanna, for some…

2015 was an odd year and my outdoor training took a huge hit. We made a local move to a…

2014 was a different sort of year for me in terms of paddling. I paddled 378 miles in 2013 but…

I travel a lot for my job and spend countless hours in cars and airplanes. For years I’ve been making…

Yesterday I registered for the James River Rundown, an epic kayak and canoe race in Central Virginia now in its…

The weeks passed during the summer of 2013 and I continued on my journey to shed some pounds and get…

And then one month later I built a contraption for which I am most proud. A combination of a kayak…

But one of my most memorable trips was French Creek in Northern Pennsylvania. I felt like I was half kayaker…

Two weeks later on Saturday morning I woke up early and decided to take a bike ride before the rest…

On May 19, 2013…the very next weekend…I decided to attempt to ride my first Century on a bicycle. (For those…

One rainy week passed and as a result the rivers were up the following weekend for my local Rivanna River…

I spent much of Spring 2013 either on my bike or in a kayak getting in shape for racing season…or…

I decided to take kayak training a little more seriously and work on my balance skills so I built myself…

One of the first things I did in the new year in 2013 was to purchase a road bike and…