My Training Blog by Elmore

Here's a picture from last year of me paddling the channel from the main Mississippi River to Dacus Lake.  I was back paddling in thi...

Soggy is the word for what most of this past week has been.  Back on Monday the TV weatherman said we'd be getting a month's worth ...

A few more event directors have announced their dates, so I figure it's a good time to refresh the working document that is my 2019 race...

Some serious rain was supposed to move in here before lunchtime on Tuesday, so I tried to get down to the river as early as I could so I cou...

I offer up this week's photo feature just in case anybody's curious to know more about where I paddled yesterday.  The ribbon of ...

The motivation to get myself down to the river was hard to find yesterday morning.  The skies were overcast, a frigid north wind was blowing...

When Joe and I met Tuesday morning for a lap of the harbor , the conditions were classically blustery.  The Fahrenheit temperature was in th...

Here are the strength exercises I plan to do for the next several weeks: 1.  Front and lat raises 2.  Torso twists with medicine ball (d...

It's hard to beat a good picnic on a sunny spring day.  The Mississippi River was up in April of 2008, and on a patch of high ground ...

Around here we've yo-yoed back into cold weather.  Lately I've been maintaining two piles of paddling clothes at home--one for milde...

The last couple of weekends here in the Mid South have been sunny and warm, while the business weeks have been cold and mostly overcast.  Bu...

I took this photo yesterday while paddling around the Loosahatchie Bar. A couple of summers ago I posted this photo of the same house....

When I got down to the river around ten o'clock yesterday morning it was sunny and 58 degrees Fahrenheit.  I'd be wearing significan...

Right on schedule, the latest round of cold air moved into the Mid South Monday night.  When I got to the river Tuesday morning it was 29 de...

In March of 2010, I participated in the inaugural Battle On The Bayou canoe and kayak race on Old Fort Bayou at Ocean Springs, Mississipp...

We've enjoyed a nice weekend for this time of year--sunny skies with Fahrenheit temperatures in the 50s.  I've tried to savor it bec...

On Sunday afternoon I told one of my non-paddling friends that I'd paddled that morning, and he was awe-struck by the thought of somebod...

On this day in 2012, My Training Blog by Elmore put up its very first post .  At the time I didn't have any particular goals for the blo...

My friend Chris Hipgrave of Bryson City, North Carolina, has just returned from a sea kayaking expedition in Antarctica.  He's ...

A system of rain and thunderstorms moved in Friday night, and the temperature rose above 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the early hours of yesterd...