My Training Blog by Elmore

The oldest whitewater canoe and kayak race in the U.S. is the FIBArk Downriver Race, a 25.7-mile race down the Arkansas River from Salida...

A front came through the Mid South overnight Friday night and Saturday morning, and we've enjoyed a weekend of lower temperatures and lo...

Teresa Faulk took this photo as racers charged out of the Wolf River and onto the mighty Mississippi last Saturday.  That's Mike Herb...

It's time for a change of pace from all the newspaper clippings and all the race talk and so on.  With hot, steamy weather moving int...

Race Day arrived yesterday, and the storms had indeed moved out.  Racers went down to the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi Rivers to f...

This morning I paddled for 40 minutes, doing four 12-stroke sprints.  I paddled through several brief but heavy showers, and it was quite wi...

Our weekly newspaper, The Memphis Flyer , has a cover story this week on the Mississippi River in general and the Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and ...

This article appeared in The Commercial Appeal of Memphis this past Sunday, June 14.

Today's edition of The Daily News of Memphis has an article about three-time Olympian, three-time world championships medalist, and Pan...

This week I'm doing what I usually do when I want to be in peak form for a race: some brief, easy paddling; some short sprints; and as m...

This photo, taken by Lance Murphey, ran on the cover of the May 1-2, 2010, issue of The Memphis News .  It was part of the pre-race publi...

On Thursday I did what is likely the hardest workout I'll do this year: ten pieces of 75 seconds on, 45 seconds off.  It's basically...

On Monday I did two sets of the May-June strength routine. Yesterday was another rather hot but lovely day out on the river.  I started wi...

This article appeared in The Commercial Appeal , the daily newspaper of Memphis, the day after the Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race...

The weather was unseasonably mild in late May, but with Fahrenheit temperatures hitting the 90s for the last several days it's beginning...

Yesterday I did two sets of the May-June strength routine, and today I was back in the boat, doing another workout with Joe. We did a ...

With the big Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race less than three weeks away, it's time to get down to serious business.  Today Joe and...

Here are a few tips from Dawid Mocke, one of the world's top surf ski paddlers for the last decade or so. I like this article for its...

The first Battle On The Bayou race took place in 2010 at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.  I won the first two editions of this event, but ...

I arrived home Friday evening after about seven and a half hours of driving.  I enjoy visiting the seashore and the mountains and all such w...