My Training Blog by Elmore

Denis Lessard navigates the lower Mississippi during a 2006 expedition that traced the route of French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet.  ...

Since getting home late Monday afternoon, I've been catching up on some work and re-dedicating myself to healing the source of my naggin...

About the only picture that got taken of me on the Gauley this past weekend was this shot by Ruthie Norton, who had just arrived on the s...

This was a remarkable month for canoe and kayak racing in the United States.  The U.S. played host to not one, but two world championships....

I'm some kind of tired after three straight days on the upper Gauley River in West Virginia.  I'm spending tonight at a motel in Gra...

I'm still thinking about the slalom worlds last weekend.  Wow... I can't get over how good those paddlers are. For most of the hi...

I spent the last several days hanging around the town of Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania.  It's an interesting little town whose economy in based...

Well, what all can I say about my weekend at the slalom world championships?  All kinds of things come to mind. The worlds were actually a...

Here are a couple of photos for this fine Monday. I spent Saturday and Sunday watching the world championships of whitewater slalom up...

Yesterday I went ahead and bought tickets to the Saturday and Sunday sessions of the whitewater slalom world championships up at Deep Creek...

Here's another whitewater slalom photo in honor of the world championships starting this Wednesday at Deep Creek, Maryland.  The slal...

In the last several days I've done a couple of rounds of the September strength routine and paddled my whitewater boat in the harbor.  A...

This morning I did the September strength routine.  When I last did it I noticed that the exercise ball was a little soft, so I aired it up ...

With the world championships for whitewater slalom less than two weeks away, I reckon I'd better post a photo or two of this fascinat...

Today I did another round of the September strength routine, which, as I've mentioned before, includes my rehab exercises and some core ...

I have continued my rehab exercises, my exercise ball drills, and my whitewater boat paddling this week. In the boat I've been trying ...

I have been doing my rehab exercises pretty religiously, and I do think they're helping.  The pain is not gone--it lingers along my spin...

Here I am doing some surfing on the Caney Fork River in Tennessee's Rock Island State Park back in 1998.  That boat is still my main ...

Since my last post I have redoubled my efforts to restore my skeleto-muscular health.  The tipping point came a couple of Saturdays ago when...

Sonny Salomon surfs the glassy-smooth wave on the Caney Fork River in Rock Island State Park near McMinnville, Tennessee.  Photo by Elmor...