June - 2017

Stepcount Tri-Meet

Continuing my adventures in counting steps, one day this week I strapped on three different devices to compare step counts: My iPhone SE...

Harvard and London 2012 - LA style

Sometimes it takes a little extra sleuthing to find new pools and a way into them, but the return is always worth the effort. I like to...

Always be learning

Someday, with my incessant quest to enumerate things, I'll go through my pool list and create a parallel list (or at least count) of the...

Olympic Dreams - Unrequited

Part Three - The Bucket List I have already recounted the Olympic Pools I swam in, as well as my near misses. This final post covers all...

Aqua-town USA: Mesa, AZ

I imagine that, when most people think about swimming towns, Mesa, Arizona doesn't automatically rise to the top of mind, but I think...

Pool crush: The Richmond Plunge

When I was doing a bit of research into architect Julia Morgan's pools, I came across this article from the National Trust for Historic...

Great Olympic Decision

As a slow-twitch distance swimmer myself and fan of watching distance events (see this video for the best 1650 race ever), I was always...

In what countries have you swum?

My pool list has a few fundamental problems when it comes to enumerating the full-range of my globe-swimming adventures: it only covers...

El Cerrito-Richmond Walkabout

My perfect morning when traveling for business is to wake up around 5/5:30am, down some cold espresso and then head out for a walk to a...

Try Masters and defy time

We're approximately mid-way through the June 1st to 11th "Try Masters Swimming Week." You might think this 11 day week is yet another...

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