This weekend, I will be competing in the Jacksonville Kayak Fishing Tournament. This year, it looks like the expected numbers of participants will make this the world’s largest kayak fishing tournament! This is absolutely unreal! To think that little old Jacksonville will hold the world’s largest anything is fantastic! I am really looking forward to [...]

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Kinetic Half-Ironman Race Report: April 19th, 2008 Lake Anna State Park, VA Weather Conditions: Perfect for race conditions: mid-50’s in the morning, 80 at end of race, light wind, sunny This race is one of the first Half-Ironman races in the southeast. It is a good test to see how your early season condition/training has [...]

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Last weekend, I was in central Illinois to visit some family and while I was there I just had to do some geocaching. This is my favorite part of caching is exploring new and different places. It gives me a motivating reason to get outside and go places in a new area. This is my [...]

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I was in central Illinois for a trip to see my Dad and his side of the family. Shortly before leaving town, I convinced my cousin and his girlfriend, with whom I was staying, to go out and give geocaching a try. We went and snagged the only cache in town — cache density and [...]

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I thought I would share some more video of some hare scramble practice. This one is from a practice course in Deland, FL. The trail terrain is very representative of the types of trails we encounter in our races in Florida. You will also get to see some close calls from the rider’s perspective! Very [...]

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Last weekend, I was supposed race in the Osteen Hare Scramble in Osteen, Florida. Due to family commitments, I was not able to race. This turned out to be a good thing, as the race was canceled due to track conditions; apparently, emergency vehicles could not manage to get back to the trail to provide [...]

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According to the Outside Magazine blog, Trek has filed a motion in Federal court to end their relationship with Greg LeMond and LeMond Cycles. I say it’s about damn time. LeMond has been spouting off for years about Lance Armstrong and the rest of Trek’s team doping in the Tour de France. Granted, the doping [...]

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IMBA has issued an action alert calling for help opening access for mountain bikers to the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. You can help by sending a message to the Forest Service before April 21.  Click on this link to go to a form to fill out.  This takes two minutes to complete and [...]

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I found out through the GetOutdoors Blog that Google has added contour lines to their terrain maps. While, as you can see in the image below, this really won’t help me in my home location, this could be a welcome addition when I go to the lower Appalachian mountains for some hiking and mountain biking. [...]

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I decided to take the family on a little outdoors adventure this morning and took them to the Cradle Creek Preserve in Jacksonville Beach for a nice little hike. This is just a hop, skip, and a jump from our house, so it was easy to get to on a beautiful Sunday morning. The temperature [...]

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