My Training Blog by Elmore

This morning I did a gym session before heading down to the river.  Oppressive heat has returned to Memphis and the Mid South, and the tempe...

The whitewater slalom competition is underway at the Olympic Games in Paris.  Coming into the Games, there was probably no favorite more sol...

It's been mostly overcast this weekend with rain moving through the area.  The temperature has continued to be below normal, and I'm...

I did a gym session Tuesday morning.  I didn't get down to the river until the afternoon because of a morning obligation.  I paddled for...

Sonny Salomon snapped this picture of me doing some surfing on the Caney Fork River in Rock Island State Park near McMinnville, Tennessee.  ...

I did a gym session Friday, and that wasn't the only weight-bearing exercise I got that morning.  I had a steel ladder that I wanted to ...

Tuesday morning I did a gym session and then headed down to the river for some paddling.  When I reached the mouth of the harbor I saw the ...

I didn't spend a whole lot of time in Minnesota last month, but I thought the landforms along the state's north shore of Lake Superi...

I did a gym session Friday afternoon.  I'd worried that working my biceps and triceps would bring back the chronic soreness I dealt with...

Hurricane Beryl came ashore in Texas and Louisiana on Monday, and by Tuesday were getting some of the remnants here.  The heart of the count...

Here I am paddling in Nipigon Bay on the 25th of June.  This is before the weather turned crazy on me. I thought this was the loveliest part...

We're getting a little bit of a break from the sweltering heat this weekend.  The Fahrenheit highs have been in the high 80s and low 90s...

Monday was my first full day back home, and I got a break with the weather: I think the Fahrenheit temperature stayed below 90 degrees. Tues...

Here's a short clip from my paddling session on Lake Michigan on the afternoon of June 19.  That morning I'd seen some awesome downw...

As I mentioned in a recent post, I paddled in the state of Minnesota for the first time ever last week.  There are now just two states in wh...

IT'S PADDLE-TO-THE-SEA!!!!!!!!!! Last week I visited the town of Nipigon, Ontario, home of a nice little exhibit in honor of the story ...

I woke up around 4 o'clock Friday morning and it hadn't started raining yet, and I thought maybe it would hold off long enough for ...

Here’s some follow-up to my last post.  Before I left the Nipigon-Red Rock area yesterday morning I took a little hike up the Nipigon River ...

I left Michigan Sunday thinking I'd left the rain behind.  The Internet radar was showing no serious rain approaching the area I was tra...

Here's one of several shots of Rob Hartman that I got during his gig in Grand Rapids last Monday.  He and his mates in the John Shea Tri...