My Training Blog by Elmore

  The Mississippi River was quite low--2.0 feet on the Memphis gauge--when Adam Davis and I paddled on Saturday.  Hurricane Laura having bro...

Yesterday Adam Davis and I got together for a somewhat more ambitious outing.  Adam had never paddled the section of the Mississippi River f...

It's been a mostly unremarkable week of paddling.  The remnants of Hurricane Laura are passing through the Memphis area today and I'...

  Eric Mims of Hermitage, Tennessee, catches his breath after beating yours truly across the finish line at the 2006 Outdoors, Inc., Canoe a...

I met Adam Davis at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and we paddled for 90 minutes.  Adam's G.P.S. device recorded where we went: There ...

William T. Endicott spent many years as the coach of the U.S. whitewater team that competed internationally in slalom and wildwater racing. ...

There's a broken toe inside the right shoe, and it hurts.  But at this moment I'm enjoying a respite from that and all my other worr...

Saturday morning brought an activity I hadn't seen in a while: a group paddle.  I was planning to meet Adam Davis like I had many times ...

Pasted below is a piece that appeared on the Think Surfski Company's Face Book page.  World-class racer Sean Rice discusses "wash r...

I had a freak accident in my home Sunday evening.  I slipped on a wet floor and smashed my right foot into a chair leg, breaking the pinky t...

The 1960s and 70s were the golden age of whitewater canoeing in the United States, and I sometimes lament having missed out.  But I did get ...

Adam Davis and I got together for a rousing 100-minute paddle yesterday morning.  We met beneath the A.W. Willis Avenue bridge in  the harbo...

I haven't mentioned it in a while, but I've continued to have that feeling of dull achiness in my arms.  Last Thursday I finally got...

As Adam Davis and I were paddling in the Loosahatchie Chute a couple of Sundays ago, a low-flying airplane came cruising upriver. The pl...

Yesterday morning seemed like a day in late October or early November.  There was a steady drizzle falling outside and the temperature was 7...

The milder weather brought to us by the outer bands of Hurricane Hanna has continued this week.  Most days the Fahrenheit high has been in t...

A group of paddlers gets ready to put in at Miller's Point, where the legendary Miller's Run in South Africa's False Bay begi...

I woke up yesterday morning and saw the sun rising in a clear sky, and braced myself for another scorching hot day.  But then I headed out t...

I've missed racing this year in that I've missed gathering with like-minded people and testing myself against athletes who take the ...

I pay a hundred bucks per quarter to keep my boat down at Harbortown Marina, and it might be the best $400 I spend each year.  The hassle...