My Training Blog by Elmore

One person's effort to do his best as a canoe and kayak racer

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Winter camp!

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After a couple of weeks out of the boat due to holiday travel and various preoccupations, I'm shocking my body back into a more serious ...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Monday photo feature

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As I was leaving the riverfront yesterday I saw this barge rig carrying a load of wind turbine blades up the Mississippi.  It was the first ...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

Staying in motion, if only just barely

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I suppose my life wouldn't be complete without some aches and pains, and not to worry: I've got some.  That discomfort in my right c...
Friday, December 15, 2023

If you want it, attain it!

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"Attainment" is a paddling term for moving one's boat upriver, against the current.  On a slow-moving Class I river, attaining...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

A few thoughts about running

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As some readers might know, I was a runner when I was younger.  I ran track and cross country for my high school and college teams.  I was a...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Monday photo feature

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Can you see them?   CAN YOU???  They're right there in front of that pile of rocks on the far bank: a pair of big canoes taking some cu...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Not moving freely, but moving just the same

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As I said a few weeks ago, for now I'm just living with the discomfort brought on by the vertebrae that are impinging the nerves running...
Monday, November 13, 2023

Monday photo feature

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Roy Roberts, a racing friend of mine from Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been canoeing the entire Mississippi River with his friend Rich.  They...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Best practice

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"Good performers practice until they get it right.  Great performers practice until they can't get it wrong." The director of ...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Monday photo feature

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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...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Physical health and environmental health and robust river flows: somehow they're all connected

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After a very warm September followed by some unseasonably chilly temperatures, we're finally having a few days of near-perfect fall weat...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Monday photo feature

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I'm a sucker for wilderness adventure nonfiction.  The best-known titles I've read include Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Int...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Dealing with aches and dealing with mud

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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...
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Monday, October 2, 2023

Monday photo feature

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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...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

I'm still paddling a little

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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...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Monday photo feature

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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...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Getting what I can out of this period of doldrums

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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...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Monday photo feature

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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...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Trying to keep something going as we move into late summer

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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...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Americana fun (2023 edition)

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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...
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