My Training Blog by Elmore

We've had another run of weirdly warm weather for this time of year, with the Fahrenheit temperature rising into the 70s.  And once agai...

The paddlers in this photo are navigating the same South African waters I'll be paddling at the end of next month (assuming, of course, ...

I started a new gym routine last Tuesday morning: a Smart Bell workout .  I'm scheduled to depart for South Africa just three weeks from...

As I paddled down the Mississippi River this past Friday morning, Fancher Smith captured one of those "Where's Waldo?"-style p...

Once again the weather forecast motivated me to flip-flop my plans for Friday and Saturday.  Friday morning it was rainy but otherwise calm ...

On Tuesday I did a gym session at home and then joined Joe for a lap of the harbor downtown. Yesterday I got on the bike and covered a litt...

Back in 2005 I participated in the 26-mile FIBArk downriver race on the Arkansas River from Salida, Colorado, to Cotopaxi, Colorado.  For at...

During periods like this one, when I'm paddling only a couple of times per week, I try to keep an eye on the forecast so I can arrange t...

Tuesday morning I did a gym session, and then went downtown to paddle in the harbor with Joe. I skipped a gym session late last week while ...

Jasper Mocke of Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa, competes in the PE2EL Surfski Challenge this past week. The event is a four-day, 250-ki...

On Friday morning I didn't feel all-the-way recovered from my booster shot reaction, but I think I was on the way back.  I still had a l...

I got a COVID-19 booster shot on Monday, and it's sort of set the tone for the week.  My body took very little issue with the original t...

I reach the finish line just over an hour after I'd started at the Ohio River Paddlefest at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2019.  Photo by Gerry J...

It's taken me all weekend to recover from that "bike-plus" workout I did on Thursday.  My quads and pecs have been quite sore ...

Tuesday morning I did a gym session and then joined Joe for a loop of the harbor . Yesterday afternoon I got on the bike and rode the Greenl...

Here she is in all her glory: my Raleigh M-20 bicycle. I bought this bike back in 1997.  Back then the Atlanta Center of Excellence was putt...

I did a gym session Friday morning: the same one I'd started a week earlier and plan to do for several more weeks.  Some bicep curls, so...

On Sunday morning I went out and did an 80-minute paddle on the Mississippi River.  I'm definitely feeling a bit rusty in the boat right...

One time the Memphis Daily News put Joe and me on the cover.  This was back in May of 2010. For more information on what this blog is about...

It's been an entire month since I last posted something here.  I can't really blame those readers who have given up on me by now.  I...