My Training Blog by Elmore

I have completed the first leg of my journey to South Africa: a trip by automobile from Memphis to Atlanta.  I'm staying with a cousin o...

Jasper (left) and Dawid Mocke paddle the "Miller's Run," an area of South Africa's False Bay that contains some of the ...

By Friday morning the rain was down to just a stray shower or two.  But it was still grey and cheerless with the temperature not expected to...

Tuesday marked six weeks since I first noticed the pain in my right ribcage area.  The injury has progressed to a state that I would describ...

Hollie Hall of South Point, Ohio, navigates Flare Rapid on the Allegheny River at Warren, Pennsylvania, last August.  She was there parti...

I got up Saturday morning with the intention of doing another bike workout in the park near my house.  Outside it was pouring down rain with...

Sunday evening and all day Monday I felt just awful.  I wasn't sick, but my whole body ached and my eyes were tired and watery.  It was ...

Three weeks from now I'm scheduled to be in Fish Hoek, South Africa, studying the art of downwind surfski paddling.  One of my tutors...

Some strong storms hit Memphis and the Mid South in the pre-dawn hours yesterday.  I was among the fortunate residents: my electricity was o...

I got in the boat Tuesday and paddled very easy in the harbor for 80 minutes.  I could definitely feel some pain in my right ribcage area. ...

Anybody who owns a Go Pro camera might appreciate this collage of photos.  Anytime I mount my camera on my boat to shoot video of a paddl...

Since last Tuesday, I've been centering my training around some hard bike rides. Like so many, I learned to ride a bike when I was a k...

It's been eleven days since I last posted something here.  I haven't paddled a stroke during that period. I'm now convinced th...

Carol Lee Royer (front left) and a couple of fellow female racers pose with South African surf ski legend Oscar Chalupsky after the 42-mi...

I struggled with motivation this weekend.  Maybe it was the weather (overcast, Fahrenheit temperatures in the 40s and 50s, rainy today), or ...

I've changed up the strength routine.  I need something portable because I'm going off on a holiday road trip for a few days.  Also,...

This week hasn't gone the way I'd hoped it would.  The plan was to get a couple of good hard workouts in before spending most of nex...

Another star of my motion picture that premiered back in October is Alessia Faverio of Asheville, North Carolina.  In addition to doing...

I'm still hopeful that this chest muscle strain is something that will run its course in a few days, but right now it sure does hurt.  I...

When I got up Tuesday morning another chilly spell had moved into the Mid South.  I did a round of the strength routine and then headed dow...