My Training Blog by Elmore

Here's the section of the Mississippi River I'll be racing on this Saturday.  The start will be at the mouth of the Saint Francis...

Yesterday morning I did the strength routine for the last time before I race next Saturday .  I think I've made some nice gains in the s...

This has been one of those weeks in which I've struggled with motivation.  It happens. On Tuesday I did a round of the strength routin...

Here's the briefest of sneak-peeks at the video project I've been working on all season.  The release date will be shortly after...

It's been quite warm this weekend--highs around 90 degrees Fahrenheit--but some less-humid air has moved in and that's brightened my...

This week I learned of this race on the Mississippi River down at Helena, Arkansas, on October 5.  Not only is it a short drive (Helena is ...

This is the view of downtown Memphis from the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River.  I paddle along here quite often, including yester...

With my last race of the year coming up in several weeks, the next ten or twelve days is my last chance to get in two or three workouts that...

Work continues on my beastly qualities: I did the strength routine Tuesday and yesterday and plan to do it again tomorrow morning. Summer...

Racers fire off the starting line at the 2007 Arkansas River Canoe and Kayak Race at North Little Rock.  Leading the charge are Mike Herb...

I had some company on the river this weekend: my friend Heather, a fellow racer and all-around lovely person who lives in the Lake Lanier ar...

With Joe away on vacation, I was on my own for paddling Tuesday morning, and I was very tempted to skip it.  My body was still not recovered...

I shot this photo of Memphian Sonny Salomon as he surfed a lovely wave on the Caney Fork River at Rock Island State Park near McMinnville...

I was up a couple of hours before dawn yesterday, giving myself what I hoped would be ample time to make the noon start of the Rock Island R...

The last several days have been hot, yet noticeably more pleasant, as we're getting a break from the soul-crushing humidity that has hun...

I've been told for years that I look like Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Tom Glavine.  I have finally put together a side-by-side test...

I'm leaning in favor of attending  this race in middle Tennessee next weekend, and I figured that yesterday was my last chance to do a ...

After being abnormally high all winter and spring and well into the summer, the Mississippi River is now dropping to the kind of levels that...

I'm in a throwback mood this week.  Here's a photo I dug out of a shoebox full of prints from the 2000s decade.  If I ever had a ...

I have completed my two-week training break.  I spent the second week feeling a lot better physically than I had felt in the first week.  Mo...