My Training Blog by Elmore

I had another fairly intense Tuesday morning.  Following a run and a gym session at home, I went down to the river and did a threshold worko...

Here she is: the new (to me) whitewater boat I acquired last week.  Thanks again to William Ashton of Whittier, North Carolina, for helping ...

I woke up sore Friday morning, definitely from the logging work I'd done Thursday afternoon, and probably also from the unfamiliar movem...

The first half of this week has been crazy, with all kinds of things to deal with in both my athletic and non-athletic lives. I spent most o...

It was January of last year when I made my second trip to South Africa to attend a downwind paddling camp hosted by surfski legends Dawid an...

On Friday morning I took a run around the block and then did a gym session.  I was still fairly sore from my first iteration of the new gym ...

Tuesday was a pretty beefy training day.  It started with a run around the block, followed by a new gym routine I'd drawn up.  This one ...

Native Memphian Boyd Ruppelt has been spending some time paddling Canadian big water this spring.  Here he runs a gauntlet of semi-truck-siz...

On Friday morning I took another run around the block and then did a gym session.  I backed way off from the bent-over rows I'd been doi...

I started Tuesday with an around-the-block run and a gym session, and then I headed down to the riverfront to paddle for 60 minutes.  It was...

It was four years ago today that I delivered a lecture to a small audience at Outdoors, Inc., in Memphis.  And a stern lecture it was!  Ther...

I did another run around my block Friday morning.  My body might be getting a bit more used to it.  I don't have any particular running...

I signed up for the Blackburn Challenge on Monday, so I guess that made Tuesday the official start of training for it.  I started Tuesday mo...

I'm looking forward to summertime, when it's actually fun to get wet.  That's what I'm doing in this photo, shot by my frien...

My big change of plans for the summer means some changes to the race schedule.  As I mentioned in my last post, the venerable Blackburn Chal...

Well, as if on cue, my plans for this summer have suddenly come into sharper focus. Last fall I tried to enroll in a woodworking class sched...

Just in case anyone was wondering... yes, I'm still here.  Posting stalled out for a few days.  It was partly because of a little existe...

On Tuesday morning I did a gym session and then headed for the river to paddle.  My arms were achey and tired as I warmed up in the boat, pa...

Amelia Taylor of Cosby, Tennessee, admires the wildflowers on the Loosahatchie Bar last Thursday.  Regular readers of this blog know that I ...

I mentioned in my last post that the weather was quite lovely when I paddled with Amelia Thursday afternoon even though there were scattered...