My Training Blog by Elmore

One person's effort to do his best as a canoe and kayak racer

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Detective work and race prep

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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 lost an old friend

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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...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

More Olympic trials

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While I'm focused on racing at Vicksburg this weekend, flatwater sprint athletes in this country will converge on Lake Lanier at Gainesv...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Monday photo feature

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

Relishing the season as my next race approaches

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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...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Another pretty good workout

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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....
Monday, April 18, 2016

Sprinting

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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...

Monday photo feature

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Charles Thompson blasts through the foam of Stairsteps rapid on Big Laurel Creek near Hot Springs, North Carolina.  I shot this photo on ...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

More pace work on the big river

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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 ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

It's an Olympic year

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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 ...
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What makes a winner?

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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...

Monday photo feature

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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...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Beat to the socks

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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 ...

I have been globally positioned

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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...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Sometimes the strokes just flow

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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...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

What I'm doing these days

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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...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Monday photo feature

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

What's next?

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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...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

A trip around The Bar in pictures

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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...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Saturday's results

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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...
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