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

Monday, June 30, 2025

Monday photo feature

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You just never know what you might find when you go down to your local river. Last Tuesday morning, when I took my whitewater boat to the Wa...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The darnedest thing, this human body

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In most respects I've been feeling pretty good as spring gives way to summer.  One exception is the left knee discomfort I mentioned in ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Expedition prep

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Planning for the Grand Canyon trip inches along each day.  There are so many details: renting the raft fleet that we need, figuring out what...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Monday photo feature

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Whitewater paddling had a surge in popularity in the U.S. back in the early 1970s.  Reasons included the release of the film Deliverance in...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Summer is here, and it hurts to look

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One of the big stories from this past week is that I got in the whitewater boat for the first time since last fall.  In last weekend's p...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Monday photo feature

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Five years ago the deadly Covid-19 virus had the world in its grip and had largely shut down everyday life here in this country.  Thankfully...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Lots of activity as the summer solstice approaches

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For those of you who liked my photo of a Muscovy duck and her ducklings several weeks ago, here's another bit of wildlife on my dock. Th...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Monday photo feature

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We've had a lot of rain this weekend, and there's more on the way.  On Saturday I got thoroughly rained on as I paddled my boat on t...

"Adventure" fitness

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Well, another month has drifted on by with no new posts put up here.  If there's anybody left who hasn't given up on me yet, I appre...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Monday photo feature

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  I've always loved old steel truss bridges, and we've got three of them crossing the Mississippi River here at Memphis.  This was m...

Weekend paddling footage

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If I thought long and hard, I could probably come up with something to write about the paddling I've been doing lately.  But it's re...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Monday photo feature

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  If you kept up with my sporadic posts this past winter, then you know I had a couple of "dry-land" workout routines.  Yesterday ...
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Water from the sky and from higher ground

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Some interesting events have transpired since my last post.  The weather has been the biggest story, as an extremely wet storm system moved ...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Monday photo feature

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Here's a picture I poached from the social media of my friend Nancy McDonald.  She and her husband Chris have been traveling the Southwe...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Physical struggles

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I did a bike ride Friday morning.  The rides I've been doing in recent weeks have been a little over an hour, and not terribly intense. ...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Feeling a bit rudderless, but paddling just the same

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Well, a month has passed since my last post here.  I'd like to say that I've just been busy, but over the years I've almost alwa...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Monday photo feature

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It's the "Battle On The Bayou" race at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in March of 2021.  Here we have the front pack led by Mike ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Jury duty was quick

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When I got down to the riverfront Monday it was 31 degrees Fahrenheit, but sunny.  I paddled for 60 minutes in the northern half of the harb...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Monday photo feature

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The year is 2019, and I'm standing near the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.  We have just raced nine miles down the lovely river.  I man...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Making my last free week count

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Another week went by with no call to duty at the federal courthouse.  So I was free for paddling and related activities. The early-week fore...
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