My Training Blog by Elmore

In this photo I'm using an axe to shape a chair part during the class I took at the Maine Coast Craft School near Bristol, Maine, in 202...

My illness continued well into this past week.  By Sunday evening I was developing a bad cough, and by Tuesday I knew it was time to see a d...

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that the Gauley River in West Virginia is an annual destination for paddlers.  That's because every Se...

I mentioned at the end of my last post that I was taking a few days off, and probably wouldn't paddle again until this weekend.  Well, m...

For those who haven't been paying close attention: I grew up paddling whitewater, but did very little of it in the last eight years or s...

Yesterday afternoon I went downtown and did a short paddle in the surfski.  Then I carried the whitewater boat up the ramp and put it on my ...

One of the things I did when I visited camp the weekend before last was go by the site of the photo I posted here two weeks ago. Back when ...

This weekend we've had some thundershowers in the area that have kept the temperature down a bit, but not the humidity.  It was as muggy...

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...