November - 2020

ISL-ing the Not-Quite-Nationals Virtual Pool Challenge

Multiple days in November and December City of Barrie's Holly and East Bayfield Community Centres Masters Swimming Ontario has been doing...

Heart rate test set: slower-higher, faster-lower

24 November 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie Cundles Road - 25 yards It's been about a month since I last did my Dave Salo's Pulse Plot test set...

Watching Fast Swimmers Makes Me Swim Fast

21 November 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie Cundles Road - 25 yards Anytime over the last few weeks I have done a workout after watching one of...

#463 - 20 meters in Collingwood

19 November 2020 So desperate am I to swim in new pools, to have some semblance of normalcy again, to add something that approximates...

Breaking my legs over a mile plus

12 November 2020 I had fun this past Sunday taking my Saturday main set and doing it as a kick-only set, so I figured I'd do the same by...

#462 - A New, New Pool (Finally!)

11 November 2020 My opportunity to add new pools to my 1001 pool list has been severely hampered by the pandemic. Not that I am...

MEMO to my legs: December's coming ...

... and that means I've got to get in shape for the MEMO (Marcia's Enthusiastic Masters of Oakland) 400 Kick For Time! I first did this...

The Chlorine Fog Challenge

November 7, 2020 Well, the City of Barrie Aquatic staff must have been reading articles like this ... ... and decided to double, triple,...

One month, a handful of seconds (3 x 300 Test Set)

6 November 2020 I'll be the first to admit that my month of October was not the greatest training month in the pool. While I got to the...

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