My Training Blog by Elmore

On Tuesday morning I put my boat in the water behind our rented house overlooking Mississippi Sound, and paddled for 40 minutes.  In the mid...

Here I am charging down the Mississippi River in April of 2014.  That's Rick Carter of Eutawville, South Carolina, just a boatlength ...

I've had a mostly-lovely couple of days at Dauphin Island.  The warm, muggy, sunny weather is conducive to a whole lot of lazing around....

The beat goes on with my arm woes.  I'm managing them the best I can.  I don't think my achy biceps are as bad as they were before m...

Here's another photo from the 2012 Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race, taken by Roger Cotton Photography.  Linda Weghorst charges t...

I saw my nephew get his degree on Thursday, and my mother and I began the journey home on Friday.  And what a horrible journey it turned out...

I'm staying with my mother and my sister's family in a rented house in a rural area outside Lexington, Virginia, where my nephew is ...

This photo, taken by Roger Cotton Photography moments after I'd finished the 2012 edition of the Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race...

My plan for the weekend was to do easy- to medium-intensity paddles to get the blood flowing in the relevant muscles and, as always, practic...

I had a good paddle with Joe on Tuesday, and on Wednesday evening I delivered my talk on being a lifetime paddlesports athlete.  I'm gra...

I will be out of town Monday through Friday of next week to attend my nephew's college graduation. Because of that, I want a strength ro...

My lecture this Wednesday evening has been moved to a different location. The original plan was for me to speak at the Midtown location...

I've had this yard sign for eight or nine years now.  I don't really have a yard to put it in, so it's become an annual tradi...

By yesterday morning the pain in my left lower back had eased considerably, but the arm woes seemed about the same.  I headed down to the ri...

I'm starting to feel like a broken record, talking about how beat-up I've been feeling in the last several weeks.  I didn't do m...

A week from today I will be giving a presentation at the Midtown location of Outdoors, Inc., here in Memphis.  I would love to see you th...

I've been to many canoe and kayak racing events, and have seen the full array of "extras" race organizers try to offer for ...

I was up bright and early yesterday morning to make the hour-or-so drive down to Morgan City and then a few miles west to Patterson.  Patter...

I've made something of a spur-of-the-moment decision: I'm going to enter a race on the lower Atchafalaya River down at Patterson, Lo...

I got the bad news Tuesday that the Bluz Cruz Canoe and Kayak Race, an event I've been participating in for years on the Mississippi Riv...