My Training Blog by Elmore

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....