My Training Blog by Elmore

This morning Joe and I paddled for 80 minutes in the rain.  Even though it was the misty variety that sort of oozes out of the sky, the rain...

Normally he's my training partner, but at this moment he's my nemesis: Joe Royer is hot on my heels as we make a buoy turn at the...

I closed my 2015 season with a brief immersion into a more surf-ski-centric world, and that gave me all kinds of things to think about.  I...

After breakfast yesterday morning, Rick and I headed for the Isle of Palms.  We left my car at the Fort Moultrie beach access, drove north a...

Reid Hyle of Rockledge, Florida, fends off the challenge of Jesse Lischuk of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to win the 2014 North Shore Cup.  ...

The results of the 2015 North Shore Cup are now posted here . It turns out I was the 13th fastest overall finisher.  I was 11th among the ...

The 12-mile North Shore Cup took place this morning on Lake Marion near Summerton, South Carolina.  I am now exhausted and haven't had a...

I must be fairly far from home, because all the rivers are flowing to the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Mississippi River or the Gulf of Me...

I apologize for the radio silence of the last ten days.  Although I did manage to paddle a loop of the harbor with Joe on both Tuesday and T...

I went down to the river on a beautiful sunny morning today.  I think the temperature had warmed above 70 degrees Fahrenheit by the time I w...

Lee Sanders competes in the spring slalom race on Alabama's Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River in 1997.

Yesterday I did a set of eight 2-minute pieces with two minutes recovery in between.  Just like in the workout I did last weekend, I shot fo...

I'm happy to say that the aches and pains I complained about earlier in the week have abated.  I'm not so happy to say that some new...

I took trips down to Key Largo, Florida, in 2004, '05, and '06.  Each time I made sure to visit the mangrove tunnels in Florida B...

In last Wednesday's post I mentioned that my lat and shoulder woes had eased.  But in the second half of last week I found myself with a...

I'm pleased to say that my upper back and lat-muscle area is feeling better.  Yesterday I paddled a moderate pace in the harbor with Joe...

Tinsley Taylor snapped this photo of me just after I'd crossed the finish line at Saturday's Gator Bait race outside Jackson, Mi...

This morning I went downtown and paddled easy for 50 minutes.  I'm still having this soreness in my lat muscles, and the only thing I ca...

When I woke up this morning I was still feeling some discomfort in my right lat muscle.  I had breakfast and did some stretching in my motel...

I'm spending tonight in the opulent Candlewood Suites of Flowood, Mississippi, ahead of tomorrow's Gator Bait race on Ross R. Barnet...