My Training Blog by Elmore

You just never know what you might find when you go down to your local river. Last Tuesday morning, when I took my whitewater boat to the Wa...

In most respects I've been feeling pretty good as spring gives way to summer.  One exception is the left knee discomfort I mentioned in ...

Planning for the Grand Canyon trip inches along each day.  There are so many details: renting the raft fleet that we need, figuring out what...

Whitewater paddling had a surge in popularity in the U.S. back in the early 1970s.  Reasons included the release of the film Deliverance in...

One of the big stories from this past week is that I got in the whitewater boat for the first time since last fall.  In last weekend's p...

Five years ago the deadly Covid-19 virus had the world in its grip and had largely shut down everyday life here in this country.  Thankfully...

For those of you who liked my photo of a Muscovy duck and her ducklings several weeks ago, here's another bit of wildlife on my dock. Th...

We've had a lot of rain this weekend, and there's more on the way.  On Saturday I got thoroughly rained on as I paddled my boat on t...

Well, another month has drifted on by with no new posts put up here.  If there's anybody left who hasn't given up on me yet, I appre...

  I've always loved old steel truss bridges, and we've got three of them crossing the Mississippi River here at Memphis.  This was m...

If I thought long and hard, I could probably come up with something to write about the paddling I've been doing lately.  But it's re...

  If you kept up with my sporadic posts this past winter, then you know I had a couple of "dry-land" workout routines.  Yesterday ...

Some interesting events have transpired since my last post.  The weather has been the biggest story, as an extremely wet storm system moved ...

Here's a picture I poached from the social media of my friend Nancy McDonald.  She and her husband Chris have been traveling the Southwe...

I did a bike ride Friday morning.  The rides I've been doing in recent weeks have been a little over an hour, and not terribly intense. ...

Well, a month has passed since my last post here.  I'd like to say that I've just been busy, but over the years I've almost alwa...

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...