29 July 2022 ... was paved with great training intentions ... if not the most logical, consistent or coherent of implementations! I have been looking forward to going back to my "growing up" hometown ever since USMS Long Course Nationals were originally planned for the wonderful SwimRVA pool, a pool that was originally the temporary pool built for the 2008 Olympic Trials: ... a pool that I first swam at in October of 2012 (making it #114), and a pool I was at earlier this yea

28 July 2022 I'm entered in US Masters Long Course Nationals next week, with my first event being the 50 fly on Thursday, August 4th. This makes today seven days out from racing, so I figured that I had better get rocking on a taper. To kick my taper off, I decided to do my Hackett 200 IM test set after a quick 1,000 yard warmup at my local LA Fitness: 1 x 400: IM, kick drill by 25s 3 x 100: on 1:20, free gentle descend with snorkel (1:14, 1:12, 1:08) 1 x 100: on 2:00, IM k

25 July 2022 My company had a big awards trip planned for the Dominican Republic at the Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana resort over this past weekend. This was a huge event that many people in the company had been anxiously awaiting as it had not happened since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I admit that I was a little less than excited to go, as it meant me missing finally seeing Hamilton in Ottawa, a gift we had given our youngest daughter for Christmas of 2019 ... which also e

15 July 2022 The small world of swimming came back to me in a big way over the last two days swimming at this very wonderful 6 lane 25 yard pool at Club One Fit Chester, just across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from Annapolis: My company had an offsite meeting a few miles away, so I popped in here both Thursday and Friday mornings for 3,100 and 4,350 yard workouts, respectively. It was ultra clean, with wonderful skylights, cool water and just enough swimmers to make it feel en

9 July 2022 There are some swims that are legendary, swims that were either so far ahead of their time or swims that broke through time barriers that the community, at the time, thought were either impossible or, at the least, very, very hard to do. Swims the equivalent of Bob Beamon’s 1968 long jump (which took 23 years to be broken) or Roger Bannister breaking the 4 minute running mile. Many swimmers steeped in the sport can rattle off some of the “barrier breaking” swims