My Training Blog by Elmore

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

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Traveling to the mountains where the water runs white

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I'm back home from my short trip to east Tennessee and western North Carolina.  Last weekend I attended the centennial celebration at th...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Leaving town a bit later than planned

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My travel plans have changed.  My uncle died sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning, and the funeral is tomorrow afternoon up near Jackson...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Mike Davis shot this photo on the canoe dock at Camp Carolina for Boys just outside Brevard, North Carolina, around 1990.  I attended this c...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Post-Olympic letdown

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Since the Olympics ended a week ago I hardly know what to write about here. Basically it was another week of the same stuff I've been do...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Yuliya Trushkina, a member of the Individual Neutral Athletes delegation at the Paris Olympics, awaits the start of the women's 200-mete...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Loving the Olympics and hating them, too

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Yesterday was the final day of the Olympic flatwater sprint regatta at Vaires-sur-Marne on the east side of Paris.  Men won medals in the 10...
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Friday, August 9, 2024

The beat goes on at home; U.S. Olympians make a final

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We're having a break from oppressive heat here in the Mid South.  For the last couple of days the Fahrenheit temperature has been in the...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Many hot (as in world-class) athletes in France, one hot (as in hot) athlete here at home

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The Fahrenheit temperature reached the high 90s here in the Mid South Monday, and yesterday morning I could tell another hot one was shaping...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Monday photo feature

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The Olympic Games in Paris is now in its second week, and that means it's time for some flatwater sprint canoe and kayak racing.  Flatwa...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

A pretty good weekend workload

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It was a new month, so I started up a new gym routine on Friday.  This one consists of pushups, backups on the stability ball, and bent-over...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

A U.S. paddler medals in Paris

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The United States has its first whitewater slalom Olympic medalist in 20 years.  Evy Leibfarth of Bryson City, North Carolina, finished thir...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Many paddle strokes here in my city and in that city overseas

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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...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Monday photo feature

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The whitewater slalom competition is underway at the Olympic Games in Paris.  Coming into the Games, there was probably no favorite more sol...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

A little of everything for me, and action on the big stage for the Olympians

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It's been mostly overcast this weekend with rain moving through the area.  The temperature has continued to be below normal, and I'm...
Friday, July 26, 2024

An ordinary guy does his thing here at home while the gifted are ready to go across the ocean

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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...
Monday, July 22, 2024

Monday photo feature

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Sonny Salomon snapped this picture of me doing some surfing on the Caney Fork River in Rock Island State Park near McMinnville, Tennessee.  ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

I still have some higher rungs to reach for

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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 ...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Summer fun continues

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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 ...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Monday photo feature

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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...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Enjoying some variety

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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...
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