My Training Blog by Elmore

One person's effort to do his best as a canoe and kayak racer

Monday, February 28, 2022

Monday photo feature

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Well, I'm thrilled, because this morning I learned that my film "A Paddler's Journey" has claimed the "Viewer's C...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Plodding along

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After not doing any gym since just before my trip to South Africa, I finally started up a new routine on Friday.  It includes some Hindu squ...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Soggy and tired

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Tuesday was a very rainy day here in Memphis and the Mid South.  If you look back over my posts of the last few months you'll see a few ...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Monday photo feature

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As Scott Cummins and I finished up our paddle yesterday morning, it was SELFIE TIME !!!!  Getting out on Taylorsville Reservoir with my frie...

I'm back in my Old Mid South Home

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I arrived in Lexington, Kentucky, in the mid afternoon on Saturday.  The National Paddling Film Festival started at 4 o'clock at the Lyr...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Hard workout done for the week; on to the festival

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Tuesday was an utterly lovely day: sunny skies with a high around 68 degrees Fahrenheit.  I paddled steady and relaxed for 60 minutes Tuesda...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Just a reminder: watch and vote for A Paddler's Journey!

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This Saturday is "Awards Night" at the National Paddling Film Festival.  That means there's just a short time left to watch an...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Monday photo feature

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This Saturday I'll be attending the National Paddling Film Festival at the Lyric Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky.  They'll be announc...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Dreaming of the end of winter

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I spent most of Friday doing more ice storm cleanup work at my rental property and in the alley behind my place.  I used a chainsaw to cut t...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Laborious paddling and a cinematic escape

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The next race I intend to enter is six weeks from this Saturday, a 13.7-kilometer flatwater affair down at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.  For ...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Monday photo feature

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Am I even in a boat, or am I just standing around in the surf?  This is one of the more amusing photos that John and Tamsin of Cape Town Spo...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

Getting in the swing of things back home

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As Winter Storm Landon moved out early Friday, my city was getting some national attention as one of the hardest-hit areas.  That was defini...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Let's go to the pictures!

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I really ought to have spoken MUCH more about this here, but I've been so preoccupied with overseas travel that I haven't really fo...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

A short video from South Africa

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Winter Storm Landon is raging outside, but my electricity has stayed on long enough for me to bang together a little video from footage that...

A few random reflections

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A long journey on three airplanes through four airports has delivered me back to good old Memphis, Tennessee.  Jet-lagged and just plain bea...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Monday photo feature

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Thanks to John and Tamsin of Cape Town Sport Photography, we have plenty of photographs of our Camp Mocke activities last week.  Here's ...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

So tired... SO, so tired...

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

A tour and a race

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As Thursday went on the wind shifted more to the southeast.  After studying the wind forecast, Dawid and Jasper decided to take us someplace...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Some hands-on instruction

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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...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Seal Team Holmes

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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....
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