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1001 Pools


Aquatic Friends in Africa (Pool #741)
27 May 2025 "I get by with a little help from my (aquatic) friends." No single lyric** could more aptly describe the support I've gotten...
May 27, 20252 min read


First African Pool - Lilongwe, Malawi (#740)
25 May 2025 Technically, I have swum in a number of pools in four African different countries - eSwatini (formerly Swaziland), South...
May 25, 20252 min read


First Pool in Croatia (#739)
21 May 2025 File this one under the “whining on the yacht” or “mal de vivre” category. I am in Dubrovnik for a work conference staying...
May 20, 20251 min read


First Time Racing at London Aquatics Centre
17 May 2025 For all the times I have gone to swim at the London Aquatics Centre. I have never done two things there. I’ve never raced...
May 16, 20252 min read


Race Report: Return to Reading
10 May 2025 My first major global professional role that brought me routinely through the UK started in 2002 and, by 2005, we had...
May 10, 20253 min read


Race Report: Tenths in Toronto
27 April 2025 I came from away to come back home to race. Well, technically, I came to Toronto to work, but then tacked on a weekend to...
Apr 27, 20259 min read


Pool Review: Couldn't Pass up Another Portuguese Pool (#724)
28 February 2025 After the very hard Breakthrough 100s set the day before, my plan on our last Friday in the Algarve was just to enjoy a...
Feb 28, 20251 min read


Having a Blast in Basingstoke - Racing & Pool Reviews
21 December 2024 These days, I like to enter some sort of competition at least once a month. Imagine my delight and surprise when,...
Dec 24, 20244 min read


Pool Review: Palais des Sports de Puteaux - Indoors
1 October 2024 This was almost the definition of a perfect, if too constrained on time, morning biz-trip swim. I had managed to find a...
Oct 6, 20242 min read


Windermere Chillswim - Event Report
7 September 2024 First, the good and the great. Look how happy Maia and I were on packet pickup and on the bus to the race start! It's...
Sep 7, 20245 min read
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