My Training Blog by Elmore

Thanks to John and Tamsin of Cape Town Sport Photography, we have plenty of photographs of our Camp Mocke activities last week.  Here's ...

I felt surprisingly energetic yesterday morning after Friday night's racing.  We would be concluding our seven-day camp with two Miller...

As Thursday went on the wind shifted more to the southeast.  After studying the wind forecast, Dawid and Jasper decided to take us someplace...

As readers of this blog know, I laid out a training plan to get myself fit for my trip to South Africa.  But where I live there's not mu...

My body is getting better adjusted to this time zone that's eight hours ahead of my own, but dawn still seems to arrive awfully quickly....

The town of Fish Hoek, where I am spending this week, is one of many South African beach towns that have surf lifesaving clubs.  These clubs...

On Thursday and Friday in Memphis, the temperature was mostly below freezing with wind-chill values below 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah, it wa...

The first half of this week has been relatively warm; the next Arctic blast is set to arrive tonight and tomorrow.  So I've made sure to...

When I'm in South Africa next week I'll be participating in the fourth of four downwind camps that Dawid and Jasper Mocke lead each ...

Friday was not what I call gorgeous--overcast skies, temperature around 52 degrees Fahrenheit--but with some frigid winter weather moving in...

On Monday I did the bike ride I'd begged off of on Sunday.  The weather was definitely better--most importantly, the sun was out--but it...

Last year at about this time I was in Florida, doing some training on the Rainbow River with people like (from left) Chris Hipgrave, Alessia...

It was about 18 degrees Fahrenheit outside when I got up Friday morning.  Even though the sun was out for most of the day, the temperature n...

Last fall, as I was wrapping up a somewhat tiring and frustrating race season, I pondered how I would spend the coming winter, and I determi...

The temperature was around 75 degrees Fahrenheit (23.9 degrees Celsius) Saturday morning.  Here I am outdoors wearing gym shorts and no shir...

On Friday morning I followed up Thursday's workout with a good steady 80-minute paddle.  The river was shrouded in a beautiful light fog...

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...