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One person's effort to do his best as a canoe and kayak racer

Monday, January 27, 2025

Monday photo feature

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Here's a photo taken in 2017 on Barnett Reservoir just outside Jackson, Mississippi.  I'm sitting in my boat either just before star...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Emerging from the deep freeze

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The frigid air that moved in last weekend hung around through the middle of this past week.  I responded with some workouts on dry land.  On...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Monday photo feature

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Joe Royer shot this photo of me out on the Mississippi River fifteen years ago.  I'm pretty sure I've shared this photo before, but ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Some Silver River wildlife

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I finally got around to looking at the video footage I shot on January 8 at Silver Springs State Park near Ocala, Florida.  What we have her...

Real-world goings on

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Since my return home from Florida last Sunday, training activities have been largely on pause.  The main reason is a big pile of nuisance ch...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Monday photo feature

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A manatee noses up to the surface of the Silver River for a breath of air.  I shot this photo during our visit to Silver Springs State Park ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Gutting out several more days

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For most of the past week I've had an itchy rash from my ankles halfway up to my knees.  That's because the access we use on the Rai...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Florida is letting us down

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The weather has turned nippy down here in Florida.  To full-time Floridians, I reckon it's downright frigid.  To me, these daytime Fahre...
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Monday, January 6, 2025

Monday photo feature

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I swiped a shot from Steph Schell's social media for this week's photo feature.  She and my other housemates arrived in Florida a we...

Greetings from Florida

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I arrived in the town of Dunellon, Florida, on Friday.  Since then I've been making the adjustment to an increased volume of in-the-boat...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

It's almost time to go to camp

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Well, it's been more than a month since my last post here.  Sorry for the radio silence, for those of you who have been checking in. I s...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Winter is fast approaching here where I live, but the opposite is true in the southern hemisphere. As the people on the planet's undersi...

Working up a plan for winter

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It's been the better part of a month since my last post, but I haven't been in hibernation. The unseasonably warm weather we had in ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Monday photo feature

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The father-daughter team of Mike Herbert and Savanna Wright finish up a race on the Tennessee River at Hales Bar Marina near Haletown, Tenne...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Paddling what little water we've got on a cool weekend

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I'd almost forgotten what a cloudy day looked like, but yesterday refreshed my memory.  In addition to overcast skies we had a brisk nor...
Friday, October 25, 2024

Warm weather fun

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This week we've had plentiful sunshine and near-record-high temperatures for late October.  I've had ideas floating around in my hea...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Here we have a before-and-after pair of photos--well, actually it's after-and-before, since the newer picture is on top.  We're look...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Healing and getting back in motion

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The last time I posted here I mentioned I was trying to get a response from my doctor's office about an X-ray I'd had taken.  They f...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Monday photos feature

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Yes, it's "photos" plural this week because I've got a number of them to share. The photo above, a screen-grab from WVLT-K...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Mountain devastation makes my troubles seem small

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I decided to go back to the doctor on Wednesday because of both the injury to my chest area and my continued coughing and chest congestion. ...
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