My Training Blog by Elmore

Winter has settled in here in the Mid South.  The Fahrenheit temperature is expected to rise above 50 degrees only one day this week, and th...

One of those races I listed in yesterday's post is the Battle On The Bayou race at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.  This race starts in a...

Well, once again it's been a while since I've posted here, but I've been trying to keep at least a remnant or two of training ac...

Jennie Goldberg crosses the finish of the FIBArk downriver race in June of 2005.  The race, which covers some 26 miles of the Arkansas Ri...

I attribute my failure to post anything here lately to a busy week.  But that business did include some training activities. I did two set...

Nath Thompson, the late director of the summer camp I went to as a kid, was not great at any one camp activity, but he was good at a lot ...

I'm on a twice-a-week paddling program right now, and yesterday afternoon I got in my second session in windy, mostly cloudy, chilling c...

Joe and I typically go our separate ways during holiday weeks, but with Thanksgiving behind us we were back on the water together this morni...

In July of 2008, my niece Ada and I paddle a canoe down the White River alongside the City Bluffs near Calico Rock, Arkansas.

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....