A summer of change

The summer of 2011 brought a significant change to my life. For most of my adult life I had ridden…

Kum-ba-yah Race on the James River, 2011

A little less than a month after the Rivanna River Race in May, 2011, I entered the Camp Kumbayah Downriver…

The week following the Tye River race in 2011 I decided to try to paddle my Cobra Viper kayak down…

I paddled as much as I could throughout the Fall and Winter of 2010 and into the Spring of 2011.…

Shortly after the Wye Island Regatta kayak race in Sept. 2010 I purchased a wing paddle. Wing paddles came into…

I began my search for a fast, racing-style kayak after that Rivanna River Race in 2010. I spent many hours…

So the second Saturday of May (May 8) 2010 rolled around and I was ready to compete with the best…

So Spring 2010 rolled around and I had, what I thought at the time, was a very fast boat and…

As the weeks and months passed after my first solo kayak race on the Tye River, I realized that I…

My first solo kayak race was actually not on my local river. Paddling buddy Konrad told me about another race…

My first kayak race was in the Spring of 2007 on our local river, The Rivanna. I was paddling with…

June 28, 2015 was my most recent race and it was also the longest race I’ve ever attempted. The James…

Summer camp as a kid growing up in the 1970’s provides some of my best memories. The very best memory…