My Training Blog by Elmore

On Monday I did a round of the current strength routine .  Tuesday was another warm and windy day.  I was on my own to paddle because Joe wa...

Having just competed in the Olympic Games the year before, the C2 team of Wayne Dickert and Horace Holden gets the 1997 season underway a...

Saturday was a warm but windy day.  The south wind was strong when I arrived at the river in the morning, and I stayed in the harbor , doing...

I spent Saturday night in Ocean Springs, and Sunday morning I went down to the "East Beach" section of the waterfront to do a 60-m...

We canoe and kayak racers are a frugal bunch, and we don't pass up an opportunity to couch-surf at friends' houses while travelin...

Now that the year's first race is under my belt, I reckon it's a good time to have a look at what's still to come in 2018.  What...

I woke up yesterday feeling stiff in my midsection.  I couldn't really think of an explanation other than maybe having sat in the car fo...

My  prediction  of how long the  Gen. Jackson  would continue to sit in Memphis was wrong.  The vessel resumed her voyage upriver early Tues...

The Gen. Jackson , a river excursion boat based in Nashville, has been docked at Beale Street Landing since March 1, and it's likely ...

By yesterday morning the Mississippi had dropped almost two tenths of a foot from its crest, but it was still plenty high.  I got in the boa...

I took my boat home and repaired that broken rudder pedal on Monday.  By Tuesday the boat was back on the water.  Joe had a conflict and cou...

I like some good old-fashioned Go Pro photography.  It had been a long time since I'd taken my camera out, so yesterday I did.  Here ...

Yesterday I did my annual time trial over one full loop of the harbor .  I discuss this ritual in more detail in this post I wrote last yea...

More heavy rain moved into the greater Memphis area this week, but I managed to schedule my paddling around it.  The deluge hadn't arriv...

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...