My Training Blog by Elmore

On Tuesday morning the weather was about as gorgeous as we have any business asking for in the Mid South at the end of June.  When I got dow...

Adam Davis of Memphis knows how to make the best of a hot day in late June.  In the background is the Hernando DeSoto Bridge and the downtow...

I did a gym session Friday morning, and rode my bike a bit in the afternoon.  The chiropractor had told me my arm would probably continue to...

My arm was still hurting Tuesday morning, but I would have to wait until this afternoon to see my chiropractor.  Because I haven't been ...

Back in the 1990s I was driving out to the Rocky Mountains every summer for some whitewater paddling.  A couple of times I caught the elusiv...

I did a gym session Friday morning, then got in the car and departed Dauphin Island.  As I mentioned earlier, it was some ten degrees cooler...

Yesterday morning I did a gym session and then took a light swim down at the beach. I saved paddling for the afternoon, and the Gulf was muc...

Even though I'm not doing anything super-organized, I do hope this will be a good training week down here at Dauphin Island.  Even in ca...

When you see a house up on stilts, you know you must be in some coastal area where a big old tidal surge can happen.  Here on Dauphin Island...

I did another gym session yesterday morning.  Last night and this morning my left deltoid/biceps area was hurting worse than ever, and I thi...

I started a new gym routine Tuesday morning.  It's the Smart Bell workout I've done for years, and you can see what it looks like he...

Danish athlete Emma Broberg prepares to compete in the 2020 edition of the Amager Rundt, a 45-kilometer race at Copenhagen that includes dow...

Down at the riverfront yesterday morning I warmed up and did three 8-stroke sprints in the harbor .  The soreness continued in my left bice...

The temperature rose above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for a couple of days this week.  As summer weather settles in more and more I'm doing w...

The Loosahatchie Chute, located on the far side of the Mississippi River from downtown Memphis, is a beautiful place to paddle, but it's...

Aside from a gym session Tuesday afternoon, I took a few days completely off.  I felt like I needed to clear my head a bit.  I didn't ge...

Paddling into the shore break is one of the fun little challenges of ocean kayaking.  That's what I'm doing in this picture at Fish ...

This past week has had its share of ups and downs.  That's definitely been true of the weather, as the week started out rather cool, the...

In July of 2008, my nephew Joel and I did some canoeing on the White River.  That's the town of Calico Rock, Arkansas, on the bluff in t...

The hot weather relented a bit on Friday.  This weekend the Fahrenheit highs have been in the 80s, with bits of rain here and there. I did a...