While I can almost always wish I had swum faster, I had a pretty perfect day at the Downtown Swim Club's All-Out Swim meet, hosted long course at the Varsity Pool at the University of Toronto: I got to swim two of my favorite events - the 200 fly and 400 IM - and managed not to die on either of them, The schedule worked out perfectly to pop out for a lovely lunch with my second daughter, Monica, who happened to be up from Hamilton for the weekend, I left motivated to continue

I had a very solid month of training in January, at least in terms of consistency of being in the water and swim volume/effort. There were some flashes of faster swimming that encouraged me and today I repeated my 3 x 300 Test Set at my LA Fitness. I was much improved from early December, and closing in on times I had done back in January of 2016, a year when I raced very well. Standard Warmup (1,750 yards) 1 x 400: IM, kick-drill by 25s 4 x 100: on 1:30, freestyle swim, de