My Training Blog by Elmore

While it hasn't been as hot here this week as it sometimes gets in August, I'm feeling a bit sandbagged by the humidity.  Motivation...

It was a very competitive field in the men's kayak unlimited class a couple of weeks ago at the USCA Nationals at Syracuse, New York....

As predicted, hotter and stickier weather is moving back into the Mid South.  But it's still not as bad as it can be here in August.  Da...

I had my colonoscopy Monday morning and got just the news I'd been hoping for: "Colon looks great.  See you in ten years."  Ju...

Here's another update to the schedule of remaining races on my radar in 2018.  Apparently the "Gator Bait" race, slated for Se...

I mentioned yesterday that Conrad Anker was in town over the weekend.  That capped a pretty big week for Memphis in terms of entertaining...

I'm allowing myself a bit of a training break this weekend as I prepare for my colonoscopy tomorrow.  Today I am restricted to a diet of...

Though my out-of-the-boat life seems determined to consume every last microcalorie of my energy, I've managed a passable amount of train...

Now that I'm finally learning a few video-editing skills, I want to start posting footage of some of the things I often refer to in this...

At about this time two years ago I was paddling on the Hudson River near Peekskill, New York.  If you look closely you can see the Bear ...

The Mississippi River is settling down into the low water levels that are typical in late summer and fall.  This weekend it's below 5 fe...

I'm trying hard to settle back into some normalcy here at home.  On Tuesday I paddled with Joe in the harbor for the first time in almo...

Strength work sort of went by the wayside during my Western odyssey, and since I've been home I've had many, many things to deal wit...

Here are the results of this past weekend's race on Fontana Reservoir.  It looks like the times column got squeezed so you can't see...

Well, we're gettin' down to the short rows, as one of my farming ancestors might have said. Best of luck to everybody participatin...

This tire made it as far as mile marker 66 on Interstate 40 in Haywood County, Tennessee, on Friday. Then it had had enough.  What I thin...

The drive from Memphis to western North Carolina on Friday could have been smoother.  I blew out a tire in the first hour, and the traffic i...

The weather in the Mid South has been unseasonably mild since I got home.  We've had Fahrenheit highs in the 80s, and the overnight lows...

"The people who win aren't just faster, they are better.  They are better and they know more." These words were spoken by Sy...

This photograph is a symbol to me.  A symbol of my technological ineptitude. You see, my intention was to set my Go Pro camera to take ...