My Training Blog by Elmore

Here's the set of strength exercises that I'll be doing for the next little while. 1.  Supine extension (demonstrated at 3:29 of t...

It hasn't really sunk in yet, but the start of a new race season is now less than three weeks away.  The ninth annual Battle On The B...

When I got up Saturday morning the Fahrenheit temperature was in the high 60s.  It felt warmer out on the back porch than it did inside the ...

It's been a rainy week and it's shaping up to be a very wet month of February here.  Last night the weatherman on the Channel 5 news...

At this time two years ago, I was in the Aloha State!  Here I am paddling in Kaneohe Bay on the east (windward) side of Oahu.

The Fahrenheit temperature rose all the way into the 70s on Thursday.  When it gets that warm at this time of year, it's usually accompa...

On my first day of jury duty Monday I never made it out of the general pool.  Seven or eight times the commissioner called up groups of fort...

In observance of my jury duty that starts today, here's a photo I took of my friend Lanier Fogg back in 1994, as he was running El Ho...

Yesterday morning the rain fell on me for all sixty of the minutes I paddled.  Fortunately, it was not absurdly cold; with the temperature a...

Fairly often I tell somebody that 32 degrees and sunny and calm is a better paddling day than 10 degrees warmer and windy and overcast.  The...

For several years in the middle of the last decade, early February was a time for me to escape to the Florida Keys.  Back then there was ...

It was around 50 degrees Fahrenheit when I got down to the river yesterday.  It seemed delightfully warm after a day in the 30s on Friday. T...

Joe and I did a loop of the harbor on Tuesday.  It was cold--mid 30s Fahrenheit--but the bright sunshine and calm conditions made it an oth...

It's time for a new routine.  Several of the exercises that follow come from Lindsey's video , and I've listed the time in the v...

Pete Greene of Beaufort, South Carolina, charges down the Mississippi River with Eric Mims of Isle of Palms, South Carolina, on his wake....

I paddled for 60 minutes Thursday morning.  My deltoids and biceps felt tired and a bit sore, and the only cause I could think of was the Ha...

I let a milestone slip by two days ago.  On January 23, 2012, I put up the very first post on this blog.  That's right: My Training Blo...

I found the harbor ice-free when I went down to paddle yesterday morning.  The Fahrenheit temperature was headed for a high in the mid 60s. ...

Having just finished a race at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, I ponder the whole state of affairs.  I think the year is 2015.  Photo by Robe...

It was 13 degrees Fahrenheit outside when I got up Thursday morning, but the high was predicted to be in the high 30s--our first time above ...