My Training Blog by Elmore

I've spent the week trying to get some rest ahead of the Bluz Cruz Canoe and Kayak Race at Vicksburg this Saturday.  The distraction of ...

I've just achieved a milestone in my paddling career that was long overdue, I guess.  Before Monday I'd never had a boat stolen.  Bu...

While I'm focused on racing at Vicksburg this weekend, flatwater sprint athletes in this country will converge on Lake Lanier at Gainesv...

The rapids are a thrill, of course, but part of the fun of any mountain stream is wandering through those "house-sized" boulder...

This is shaping up to be as lovely a spring as I can remember.  We've had a good bit of wind and a good bit of rain, but the temperature...

This morning I got in my boat, warmed up for ten minutes, and did three 8-stroke sprints.  They felt somewhat smoother today than yesterday....

I paddled for 60 minutes this morning, warming up and doing three 8-stroke sprints first.  Regular readers know that I do these sprints ofte...

Charles Thompson blasts through the foam of Stairsteps rapid on Big Laurel Creek near Hot Springs, North Carolina.  I shot this photo on ...

I put my boat in the water amid mild temperatures but a pesky southeast wind.  As I paddled southward toward the mouth of the harbor my bow ...

The Games of the 31st Olympiad will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later this year.  Canoe and kayak racing will be included. Mind ...

I don't really follow golf, but I've always regarded it with the respect it deserves as a test of skill, athletic ability, and compo...

Ride 'em cowboy!  That's ME out there on the Ocoee River during the 2000 whitewater slalom U.S. Olympic Team Trials!  My mom, pe...

As I said in my last post, I did four one-mile pieces yesterday, preceded by a long paddle up the Mississippi and followed by a paddle back ...

This past week I finally gave in and bought a GPS device.  So far I'm having some fun playing around with it in training, but I'm qu...

My next race is down at Vicksburg three weeks from tomorrow.  The next ten days or so are an important window for doing some work that my bo...

For this period leading up to the longish races awaiting me in late April and May, I seem to be settling into a pattern of paddling long and...

The weather was simply gorgeous over the weekend, and I believe spring is beginning to assert itself.     I expect I'll be seeing som...

Now that one race is in the books for 2016, I realize that I haven't said much about my plans for the rest of the year.  Here are the ev...

I don't do as much "overdistance" training as I used to, but with several sort-of-long races coming up I want to get a few lon...

The results from the 7th annual Battle On The Bayou race are now posted here . I should point out an unfortunate error in my post yesterda...