I believe that paddling is in general a good investment to your health. But, what about extreme forms of paddling including long distance marathon races like Texas Water Safari, WaterTribe challenges or Missouri River 340? Endurance events or even any training longer than 90 minutes are not exactly healthy. However, if your annual endurance race …
Invest in Your Health! Paddling? Endurance racing? Read More »
This is one of my new holiday greeting cards created this year. You can find more similar images with Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas and New Year themes in my stock photography portfolio. They available as royalty free images ready for digital download and licensing. Selected holiday pictures are also available at FineArtAmerica. They can be ordered …
10 years of MR340 Race: 8 official finishes, 1 missed race and 1 unofficial race course run. 5 different boats, but always solo. 10 years of experiments and adjusting my race strategy, preparation and training. I am sorting my pictures, data and stories and writing new articles. Perhaps, I should write an e-book. What do …
2006 Missouri River 340 Results: 10 Kayak and Canoe Finishers Read More »
Kettlebells provide my favorite weight lifting workouts these days. I used to work with kettlebells during my college years in 1970s in Poland. They have been growing in popularity as a fitness exercise in USA over the last decade or so. I rediscovered kettlebells and included them into my fitness training in 2011. Currently, I …
This is my imaginary window showing some of my paddling activities. To display all my boats I would need a bigger window. This year I am paddling mostly Sea Wind canoe alternating with a SUP – Bark Expedition right now, and inflatable Badfish for early spring river runs. I had also some photo paddling sessions …
More winter paddling pictures … I had two paddling photo sessions with my Alpacka Yukon packraft on the Poudre River in February. Both times I started at Kingfisher Point Natural Area in Fort Collins. There is about half mile of slow water behind the diversion dam there. My cruising speed in a packraft is about …
Packrafting on the Poudre River – Winter Paddling with Alpacka Yukon Read More »