My Training Blog by Elmore

When the Mississippi River is very low, it's a long, steep hike up the ramp from my marina to the parking lot.  No matter how tough a se...

After a very warm September followed by some unseasonably chilly temperatures, we're finally having a few days of near-perfect fall weat...

I'm a sucker for wilderness adventure nonfiction.  The best-known titles I've read include Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Int...

The quest for a pain-free existence goes on.  I finally got in a follow-up visit with the spine surgeon after my second transforaminal (nerv...

Low water continues to be the top story down at the Memphis riverfront.  As you can see here, my dock is pretty useless these days for the p...

Yesterday I went down to the paddle for the first time in two weeks.  Paddling was out of the question last weekend because of my involvemen...

For the first time in 2023, my dock has run aground.  This is the scene that greeted me Saturday morning.  The Mississippi River was flowing...

Since I last put up a post here I've done a little bit of paddling but spent a lot more time doing non-athletic stuff, including working...

In my country the sport of whitewater slalom had its heyday in the 1980s, when the U.S. team won a big pile of world championships medals in...

Paddling has been minimal since I got home from my trip two weeks ago.  I've had a big pile of nuisance chores to deal with, and I'v...

The big trip I just got home from brought me tantalizingly close to achieving my goal of paddling a boat in all 50 states. On July 13 I pick...

It was good to see a pair of Arkansans racing all the way over in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Saturday.  Stephen Lynn (stern) and Don Walls too...

I was up by 5 AM EDT yesterday, and after some coffee and breakfast I headed to Governor Ned McWherter Landing Park on the bank of the Tenne...

I said goodbye to Rob Wednesday morning and headed south.  By late morning I was in the western reaches of northern New Jersey, and I stoppe...

The northeastern United States is enjoying a very pleasant weather pattern right now.  It moved into the area of Maine I was staying in Sund...

The author of this blog wears several hats, and he spent most of last week wearing the hat of a woodworker.  (Yes, I know that's an Outd...

My eight-day class at the Maine Coast Craft School is complete, and while it was a good experience, I'm glad to be moving back south at ...

Okay, here's one more quick post before I disappear into offline oblivion.  Greg Lesher, who took second place among male single surfski...

I've spent this week wandering--sometimes aimlessly, sometimes with great purpose--around New England. The summertime daylight hours up ...

It's always great to see smiling faces after several brutal hours of racing.  Here we have Greg Lesher, Rob Jehn, and Mary Beth Gangloff...