Joe and I did our customary paddle on Tuesday, and I did rounds of the strength routine on Monday, Wednesday, and today. Right now the strength work isn't ending there: those oak planks I'm dealing with in the workshop are still pretty heavy even though I've got them milled down close to their final dimensions.
The weather was gorgeous when Joe and I paddled Tuesday: sunny and calm with a temperature in the mid 60s Fahrenheit. That now seems a lifetime ago. We've had periods of rain the last couple of days, and for the next week we're looking at highs in the 40s and 30s. Meanwhile, the Mississippi River continues to be unseasonably high as a result of heavy rain in the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio watersheds. It's supposed to crest around 25 feet on the Memphis gauge in the middle of next week.
I try my best to make my training activities as understandable as possible, whether you've been reading this blog for years or you're looking at it for the first time. For instance, I've been building up a reservoir of pages I can refer the reader back to, like the one about the harbor, or my 8-stroke sprints, or my bridge-to-bridge sprint, or strength routines like the one I linked to above.
I can't really blame you if you haven't noticed, but lately I've been trying to make My Training Blog by Elmore a sure-enough multimedia experience. In the last several months I've been developing a modicum of video-production skill. I do mean a modicum: I don't expect anybody to be impressed by what I can do. But as a guy who's still stuck in the 20th century when it comes to technological know-how, I'm impressed with myself, and that's good enough for me.
Here's my latest creation: a video about my pre-exercise stretch routine. Just like this blog in general, I offer it not as the last word on the subject, but simply as an example of what one guy does. I hope at least a few people might gain some useful ideas and even a bit of inspiration from it.
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