My Training Blog by Elmore

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...