My Training Blog by Elmore

My mother and I decided to come home Monday, and I'm glad we did.  I've had a bunch of nuisance chores to deal with this week, and w...

Since I've been in North Carolina this weekend I suppose a paddling photo from that state is appropriate.  This is from 1989, and I'...

The big winter blast arrived right on schedule Thursday afternoon, and the Mid South got quite a bit more snow and ice than I'd expected...

My left arm continued to hurt as the week got underway, especially the biceps area.  I woke up in the early hours of Tuesday morning and fou...

Austin Kieffer of Asheville, North Carolina, competes in the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials for whitewater slalom at Charlotte.  Photo by Jon Nels...

I woke up Friday morning with a painful crick in my neck--the sort of thing you get when you sleep in a bad position, I think.  It sort of s...

I started up a new gym routine Tuesday morning.  I replaced the bench press I'd been doing with pushups, and instead of doing dumbbell r...

When I paddled last Tuesday, this critter was on the bow of my boat when I put in from the dock.  She stayed there as I paddled out of the h...

It's gotten cooler this weekend after a particularly balmy week.  It's not really cold --the Fahrenheit highs both yesterday and tod...

I did a gym session Monday afternoon, and Tuesday morning I was back in the boat.  This has been a rainy week here in the Mid South, and on ...

As I mentioned in a post last week, my film "A Paddler's Journey" is now available for viewing.  This screening will last for ...

I'm encouraged by the progress of my right Achilles tendon since I injured it on Thursday.  As of this writing it's still giving me ...

I started Tuesday with a gym session.  In case you're wondering what I'm doing for a gym session these days, it's bench press wi...

For me, 2022 began with the submission of my first feature-length film, "A Paddler's Journey," to the National Paddling Film F...

"The Doctor," one of the biggest races on the international ocean surfski racing calendar, took place on Saturday at Perth, Wester...

I did a gym session Friday morning.  My left biceps and forearm muscles bothered me a lot--not necessarily during the exercises, but just in...

I did a gym session Tuesday morning, and then went downtown and got in the boat to paddle a mostly-easy 60 minutes.  My left biceps area bot...

While chilly temperatures are settling in here in North America, spring is blossoming in the southern hemisphere, and in no place is the act...

Yesterday morning I went down to the river for the first time in eight days.  On the Mississippi River, a lot can change in that length of t...

Three days after my truncated First Run In 20 Years my left calf muscle is still sore, but I think it's definitely improving.  Maybe by ...