Thanks to both my Dad (who is still racing in his 70s) and my coaches growing up, I built the habit of maintaining training logs from an early age. Historically, those were in notebooks, but for almost a decade starting in late 2008, I maintained a swimming training blog on the US Masters Swimming website. For a long time, there was a vibrant, online community where swimmers shared ideas on training and racing, with each of us picking up pointers for drills, sets, and entir