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1001 Pools


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


Dancing in the Dawn - Piscine Calypso 2000 (#698)
21 August 2024 Not planes, trains and automobiles, but my feet, metro and the "Wiener-mobile" ... (Transit modes through Brussels - click...
Aug 23, 20242 min read


Form is Function - Piscine Pailleron (#692)
31 July 2024 After a Wednesday morning watching beach volleyball at probably the coolest sports venue I have ever been to ... ... I took...
Aug 10, 20243 min read


I wish Leon had swum & won the 200 free instead of the 200 breast - Pool #691
30 July 2024 I firmly believe the 400 Individual Medley is far and away both the most fun event to race and the most fun event to watch...
Aug 5, 20242 min read


Pool #689 - Parliament Hill Fields Lido (London)
July 14, 2024 I think I lost any Canadian street cred I might have had when I walked onto the deck of the Parliament Hill Fields Lido in...
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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