15 March 2022 ... some. I had been wanting to go to the Great Whales exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum for awhile now, but never quite made the logistics work out until this past Sunday morning. My wife and youngest daughter needed to be at the airport relatively early to head east to check out Dalhousie University as a potential choice for post-secondary education, so I took the "free Sunday" and made it my own in the heart of Toronto. Since I had two hours between airpor

8 March 2022 I've been swimming Masters a tad over 20 years, having entered my first meets (aside from a little dabbling in graduate school in the early 90s) in 2001. I generally tried to compete most years, though there were times when work, family commitments, "life" and/or motivational lows kept me from pushing myself hard. Throughout all of this time, when I did try to "gear" up to compete, my primary target event has been the 400 IM. I find it a sublime, beautiful eve

4 March 2022 After Thursday's 400 IM Test set, I wanted to go longer and more aerobic. As I drove to the pool, I was thinking about 30 x 100, but didn't want to swim all freestyle, so I riffed on that idea. After a 1,050 yard warmup, I went: 6 rounds of 5 x 100 followed by 1 x 50 All 100s were descend to aerobic pace, while all 50s were easy scull on about 1:30 to 2:00, depending upon where the clock was and how I was feeling Odd rounds were free on 1:30 and I generally went

3 March 2022 After a day of rest yesterday, I kind of thought I would perform better on my 400 IM Test Set, but, other than a bit of movement on my 200 IM, I'm kind of stuck in a plateau. I did my standard 1,750 long warmup and then powered through this at my Barrie LA Fitness. 400 IM Test set (2,100 yards) 8 x 50: on 0:55, 2 each stroke, build the odds and make sure the evens are at target 400 IM race pace My dream splits would be 29+ fly, 31+ back, 36+ breast, 29.0 free 10

1 March 2022 These next two weeks will be the most intense of my short preparation for my "Welcome to being 55" meet in 31 days. Today was my fifth day in the water, notching up just shy of 15K meters over that time , so I was feeling a bit sore even when I started, made all the more so by a fairly intense weightlifting session yesterday morning. It's been a long time since I actually blogged about a main set I often do, my ZipFizz 200s set, so I wanted to try it on the orig