My Training Blog by Elmore

This is where I was exactly two years ago: lounging in the Fish Hoek Beach Sports Club on the Western Cape of South Africa.  Seated at right...

The never-ending frigid spell finally ended last Sunday when the temperature rose above freezing to stay.  By Monday it was up around 50 deg...

I don't have any particularly profound regrets in this life, but I am kind of sorry that I never had an opportunity to get into cross co...

It's been a frigid week here in the Mid South.  Since last Sunday the temperature has risen above freezing for just a few hours, and it...

The first few times I ran Bull Sluice rapid on the Chattooga River, it was in a Blue Hole "OCA" canoe that could be paddled either...

After checking out of the rental house in Dunellon last Sunday, I drove a couple of hours south to Tampa, where I visited my friend Jonathan...

I suppose we could call this an updated version of the photo I posted last Monday.  It was shot by Vadim Lishchuk of Newtown, Pennsylvania, ...

Yesterday morning we said goodbye to Steph and Chris N., who were anxious to get back to Pennsylvania as much ahead of the winter storm that...

Yesterday morning's session was four 19-minute pieces with a one-minute break in between.  The prescribed stroke rate was 60 strokes per...

Monday was a rest day, and we "rested" by riding our bikes down the Withlacoochee State Trail for 21 miles to the town of Invernes...

I'm attending winter training camp in Florida for the third time.  I came here last year, and two years before that.  The picture above ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

"Good performers practice until they get it right.  Great performers practice until they can't get it wrong." The director of ...