My Training Blog by Elmore

The father-daughter team of Mike Herbert and Savanna Wright finish up a race on the Tennessee River at Hales Bar Marina near Haletown, Tenne...

I'd almost forgotten what a cloudy day looked like, but yesterday refreshed my memory.  In addition to overcast skies we had a brisk nor...

This week we've had plentiful sunshine and near-record-high temperatures for late October.  I've had ideas floating around in my hea...

Here we have a before-and-after pair of photos--well, actually it's after-and-before, since the newer picture is on top.  We're look...

The last time I posted here I mentioned I was trying to get a response from my doctor's office about an X-ray I'd had taken.  They f...

Yes, it's "photos" plural this week because I've got a number of them to share. The photo above, a screen-grab from WVLT-K...

I decided to go back to the doctor on Wednesday because of both the injury to my chest area and my continued coughing and chest congestion. ...

Times are tough for a part of the world that's near and dear to me.  The mountains of western North Carolina are where I fell in love wi...

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...