My Training Blog by Elmore

The weather this weekend has been warm and muggy, but nowhere near as bad as Memphis summer weather can be.  Thunderstorms in the area have ...

I usually paddle with Joe on Tuesdays, but this week Joe wasn't feeling well, so I was on my own.  When I got down to the dock, I made a...

I've started up a new strength routine to carry me though these several weeks leading up to the Gorge Downwind Championships .  It's...

On the downtown Memphis riverfront, there's no surer sign of spring and early summer than the purple martins.  Most of the residentia...

Summer has arrived in Memphis and the Mid South.  That amazing weather we had seems something of the more distant past than the week before ...

I've bought my plane ticket to Portland, Oregon.  The Gorge Downwind Championships are about an hour east of there at the town of Hood ...

After we'd finished the race at Batesville last Saturday, Andy Capel and I spent a few minutes in an eddy catching our breath, and we ch...

I snapped this photo moments after the Batesville Canoe and Kayak Race on Saturday.  The man in the red shirt is Dale Burris of Russellvi...

I was up before dawn yesterday to make the two-and-a-half-hour drive across the lovely Arkansas Delta to Batesville, Arkansas.  Located abou...

By the beginning of this week I was feeling energetic enough to resume most normal activities.  On Monday I did a round of the new strength ...

My health woes have kept me from diving into this routine as vigorously as I would have liked, but I've been doing at least a light vers...

I'm not somebody who posts "memes" on social media, but this one spoke to me.  I fail to understand why some people think i...

By Friday evening it seemed that I might be through the worst of my illness, but yesterday I woke up feeling as grim as ever.  Nevertheless,...

Well, my plan to race up in Kentucky this weekend has been scuttled.  I've gone and gotten sick.  It started as sort of a chest cold ear...

Now that racing has resumed, it's time to take a look at what's coming up.  There's a race each of the next two weekends, and I ...

No task is too menial for Joe Royer, the founder and director of the Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race.  Late last week he could be fo...

We've had lovely, not-so-humid weather here in the Memphis area for the last couple of days.  The heat and humidity are supposed to be c...

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....