My Training Blog by Elmore

For my second paddling session for the past week, I had a choice between Friday, which was forecast to be sunny but chilly, and yesterday, e...

I went downtown to paddle in the mid-afternoon today.  It had been a grey, chilly, cheerless day, and as I put on my paddling clothes at hom...

The Mississippi is fairly low these days--below 5 feet on the Memphis gauge.  So I thought I'd follow Memory Lane back to May of 2011...

This morning Joe and I did another 70-minute circuit in the harbor.  Though cool--mid 40s Fahrenheit--it was an ideal day to paddle.  The su...

As I said in yesterday's post, I didn't spend my time out of the boat just lying around.  I did all kinds of things both related and...

Well, it's been a while, and I wouldn't be surprised if every single one of my readers has given up on me by now. After some six w...

In late September the world championships for canoe and kayak marathon racing took place at Oklahoma City.  Mike Herbert (middle, red jer...

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 ...