My Training Blog by Elmore

It's the "Battle On The Bayou" race at Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in March of 2021.  Here we have the front pack led by Mike ...

When I got down to the riverfront Monday it was 31 degrees Fahrenheit, but sunny.  I paddled for 60 minutes in the northern half of the harb...

The year is 2019, and I'm standing near the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.  We have just raced nine miles down the lovely river.  I man...

Another week went by with no call to duty at the federal courthouse.  So I was free for paddling and related activities. The early-week fore...

The second Mocke Paddling / Paddle Africa downwind camp of 2025 is underway on the Western Cape of South Africa.  Kenny Howell, an Alabama ...

The first week of my jury duty has come and gone, and I have yet to set foot in the courthouse.  Each evening I called the telephone number,...

In August of 2016 I spent some time in the Hudson Valley of New York.  Here I'm paddling the Hudson River where it runs between the town...

It was another week of tailoring my workouts to the weather's whims. On Monday I went down to the Greenbelt Park and did my outdoor dry-...

Here's a photo taken in 2017 on Barnett Reservoir just outside Jackson, Mississippi.  I'm sitting in my boat either just before star...

The frigid air that moved in last weekend hung around through the middle of this past week.  I responded with some workouts on dry land.  On...

Joe Royer shot this photo of me out on the Mississippi River fifteen years ago.  I'm pretty sure I've shared this photo before, but ...

I finally got around to looking at the video footage I shot on January 8 at Silver Springs State Park near Ocala, Florida.  What we have her...

Since my return home from Florida last Sunday, training activities have been largely on pause.  The main reason is a big pile of nuisance ch...

A manatee noses up to the surface of the Silver River for a breath of air.  I shot this photo during our visit to Silver Springs State Park ...

For most of the past week I've had an itchy rash from my ankles halfway up to my knees.  That's because the access we use on the Rai...

The weather has turned nippy down here in Florida.  To full-time Floridians, I reckon it's downright frigid.  To me, these daytime Fahre...

I swiped a shot from Steph Schell's social media for this week's photo feature.  She and my other housemates arrived in Florida a we...

I arrived in the town of Dunellon, Florida, on Friday.  Since then I've been making the adjustment to an increased volume of in-the-boat...

Well, it's been more than a month since my last post here.  Sorry for the radio silence, for those of you who have been checking in. I s...

Winter is fast approaching here where I live, but the opposite is true in the southern hemisphere. As the people on the planet's undersi...