27 February 2021 After feeling so abysmal in the water on Monday, I swam a drill/"get to know the water" oriented Masters workout on Tuesday evening and then a version of my Broken Mile workout solo Wednesday morning. Life and pool access was such that I couldn't swim on Thursday or Friday, so maybe I was already kind of tapered for today's Pulse Plot attempt. Or, maybe it was the purple suit. Whatever it was, amazingly I felt like myself again and put up a performance that

22 February 2021 When I jumped into the Sam Cancilla swimming pool at Barrie's Allandale Recreation Centre on Monday morning, I had been out of the water for 66 days. I knew that my swimming was going to be slow, slow, slow, but I wanted to see just how slow ... so I did my standard 1,500 meter warmup and then my 3 x 300 test set on 4:30, fast pace aiming to even split as much as possible. The comparison versus past performances was telling: 08-07-09: 3:36, 3:34+, 3:33 09-01

21 February 2021 Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow There'll be swimming Just thinkin' about tomorrow Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow 'Til there's none! My last swim before our latest COVID-19 lockdown was December 18th, 65 days ago, but our pools re-open bright and early Monday morning and I have a 45 minute session booked at 7am at the Allandale Recreation Centre. Beyond that excitement, I managed to reserve two more swims at the end of this week and we have our f