My Training Blog by Elmore

I'm starting to grind the gears back into motion in preparation for summertime racing.  On Tuesday I started up a new gym routine--some ...

It looks like a pretty nasty rash, but it's just a few superficial burns.  On Friday evening I was cooking a swordfish steak in sesame o...

I've been busy with all kinds of stuff this past week, but I've managed to maintain a general fitness routine.  I paddled for an hou...

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, my film "A Paddler's Journey" is available for viewing for ONE WEEK ONLY!  You can go wa...

This past weekend brought us another stretch of cool, rainy weather that makes me wonder if those warm, sunny, carefree days will ever arriv...

If you haven't managed to catch my film "A Paddler's Journey" yet, you now have another chance: I've got it posted on ...

As I paddled away from the dock Tuesday morning I found myself paddling into a stronger-than-usual south wind.  I felt sure it had to be ove...

Once in a while somebody asks me "Why would you want to paddle on that polluted river?"  I think that's the wrong question.  T...

On Tuesday I paddled for 60 minutes.  The session was utterly unstructured; just a chance to get out and use my muscles for a while. I spent...

Yesterday I paddled around the Loosahatchie Bar for the third time this year.  Maybe this is a good time to remind readers what this route l...

I was out of the boat all week until Friday.  I had an overabundance of nuisance matters to deal with, and trips to the river moved to the b...

At the Ocean Springs race on Saturday, the overall winner of each boat class was awarded a First-World-War-style combat helmet.  Just how au...

The weather on the Gulf Coast was gorgeous, and I savored it after the race on Saturday.  Once the awards had been handed out, I went back t...

For the twelfth time in the last 13 years, racers got in their boats and assembled in the cove near the Gulf Hills Hotel this morning for th...

Winter is trying its best to hang around.  The middle portion of this week was chilly and wet.  It poured down rain for much of Tuesday, so ...

The year is 2010, and it's the first Battle On The Bayou canoe and kayak Race on Old Fort Bayou at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.  I'm...

I did a gym session Friday morning.  My left deltoid is still quite sore and I have no idea where the strain came from.  I doesn't reall...

My first North American race of the year is fast approaching: it's a week from this Saturday at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.  Several wee...

I took this picture of my boat on a snowy dock in December of 2012.  The scene was quite similar this past weekend.  The snow fell Friday ni...

It was lovely outside Friday morning: sunny skies with a temperature around 50 degrees Fahrenheit.  But the weather was expected to make an ...