My Training Blog by Elmore

My favorite baseball team has gone home for the winter.  They were eliminated from playoff contention yesterday, and so today's season f...

This week has been a slow transition from damp and warm to drier and cooler.  Even though last weekend's rain brought lower temperatures...

Yep, I'm a national champion.  Says so right on my shirt. The reason for this post, besides the blustery braggadocio you've al...

I'm sort of plodding through these last few weeks of the race season.  Motivation continues to be a challenge.  Most days when I paddle,...

Mike Herbert races at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in the spring of 2016.  Photo by Doug Heller. Today's photo feature is a follow-u...

This past week I've been as busy as ever with out-of-the-boat concerns--some good and some bad, but all hectic and demanding of my menta...

Long-time readers of this blog should be familiar with Mike Herbert, with whom I've enjoyed many a memorable race.  Mike lives in the to...

The city of Saint Louis presents the Mississippi River paddler with vistas that are a mixture of glass-and-steel glitz and humming indust...

All these casualties on my race calendar are a good reminder of how much we should appreciate the race directors in our sport.  Putting a ra...

Fairly often I mention the various bridges we have spanning the Mississippi River here at Memphis.  Pictured here is a trio of bridges do...

In my last post I should have mentioned another contributor to my weary mood these days: the return of my plantar fasciitis.  My right foot ...

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...