My Training Blog by Elmore

This photograph appeared on the CNN website this past week.  It's part of an article about the low flows on the Mississippi River.  You ...

I went back down to the riverfront yesterday and found the water even lower than it had been on Tuesday.  At -10.76 feet on the Memphis gaug...

I'm on a bit of a break from blogging.  Apologies to anybody who's been checking here multiple times hoping for something new. Not m...

The first slalom race I ever did was one of those "citizen" races the Nantahala Racing Club used to put on. You could enter in wha...

This was a week of ups and downs in terms of how I'm feeling and what sort of physical activity I've managed to do. I spent Monday d...

When my friend Rob came to visit last week, it was the first time I'd seen him in person in six years.  Back in 2016 I visited his home ...

My best friend Rob came to visit for a few days this past week.  We visited a couple of local museums, went out to eat, explored the outdoor...

Last week was much like the weeks that preceded it: I paddled Tuesday and Saturday, did a bike ride Thursday and yesterday, and did lots of ...

In recent years I've been traveling out to the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon-Washington state line for the purpose of downwind surf...

I can't say that last week offered much of interest to those wanting to read about canoe and kayak training.  I did my rehab exercises, ...

Here's a quick video I made of this past weekend up at Burkesville, Kentucky.  Piecing together a tolerable rendition of "My Old Ke...

The canoe and kayak race on the Cumberland River at Burkesville, Kentucky, was just one part of a big festival.  There was also live music, ...

I got a reasonably early start Friday morning and arrived in the town of Burkesville, Kentucky, before 3 o'clock in the afternoon.  Scot...

I did another round of my rehab exercises Tuesday morning.  The exercises are intended to strengthen my scapula so that it'll take press...

It's the 2001 edition of the Outdoors, Inc., Canoe and Kayak Race on the Mississippi River at Memphis!  That's me paddling my old ...

We finally got a break from the humidity on Friday, as a north-northeast wind brought some drier air.  When I stepped out on my back deck fi...

The residents of my city are, frankly, like the residents of most of the United States in that they are heavily reliant on private automobil...

It's August of 2018 on Fontana Reservoir near Almond, North Carolina.  That's Pete Greene of Beaufort, South Carolina, in the foregr...

I could tell first thing yesterday morning that it would be a steamy day.  The rain had moved out but the humidity was still plenty high, an...

The Fahrenheit temperature rose back into the 90s in the first half of this week.  I paddled for 60 minutes on Tuesday morning and then enjo...