My Training Blog by Elmore

As we prepared to depart Dauphin Island Saturday morning, we had this visitor on our deck.  I was surprised how close I was able to get t...

It was a lovely week down on the Gulf Coast.  I got some training in, of course, but the best part was the chance to relax and escape that m...

I spent most of Monday lying around like an absolute slug.  "Decompression," the hip people call it.  I got out of bed around 8 AM...

Last year my nephew Ben put my deep-water rescue skills to the test when he flipped his boat in Mississippi Sound off Dauphin Island on t...

It was a hot weekend in Memphis, but it wasn't bad yet Saturday morning when I went downtown to paddle.  I was tired from the sprints I...

By Tuesday morning my shoulder was feeling much better, and it felt fine when I paddled a loop of the harbor with Joe.  We saw one rather a...

So, what's next?  Well, in the month of June I have two races on the schedule and I hope to make it to at least one of them, if not both...

Saturday was the first time in about seven years that I had "bonked" in a race.  The previous time was at the Chicago Shoreline...

By Friday morning my back was feeling better and I was starting to get focused on racing.  I left home a little after 9 AM CDT and headed ea...

I do believe the weather has shifted toward summer for good.  Slowly but surely I'm moving into my summertime routines.  Lately it's...

A guy named Mark Richards has been posting some photos he's taken of slalom racing in his native Great Britain over the years.  Here...

I went down to the river yesterday morning under overcast skies.  There was very little wind and the Fahrenheit temperature was in the low 7...

I have made my decision of what race to attend on May 12: I'll be going to the region southeast of Lexington, Kentucky, for the Bluegras...

Because of my family's annual beach trip later this month, this routine consists of "portable" exercises.  Two of them are sim...

My friend John Kazimierczyk, the owner and builder at Millbrook Boats in Richmond, New Hampshire, is on vacation in Japan right now, and...

The weather was as gorgeous as we were promised on Saturday.  I got in my boat and warmed up and did three 8-stroke sprints , and then paddl...

Joe and I had a good day for our loop of the harbor Tuesday--it was slightly warmer than it had been lately, and the wind was light. Yeste...

Now that I've offered voluminous reflection on this past weekend's racing, let's look ahead!  Down below you'll find a list ...

Susan Jordan of Lucedale, Mississippi, navigates a particularly mighty Mississippi River en route to Vicksburg on Saturday.  Her "...

Hey, check it out!  I got my name in the paper!  The Vicksburg Post ran this article about Saturday's race in today's edition.