23 February 2025 On Saturday the 15th of February, I went up to the 1st Hemel Hempstead Masters meet at the surprisingly fast (at least...

7 February 2025 I really love the concept of test sets, sets that one does exactly the same way over & over again to track progress. I...

6 February 2025 I recall traipsing around Slough about twenty years ago and not being impressed. I was managing my company's global work...

1 February 2025 As part of our adventure of living in London, my wife and I are determined to see as much of this part of the world as...

27 January 2025 Part of keeping my commitment to train for the 400 long course freestyle this year means repeating my 3 x 300 test set...

24 January 2025 As I was cooling down in Lane 5 this morning, one of the two "fast" lanes during lane swimming sessions at the London...

18 January 2025 When I raced at this long course meet last year at the (generally) excellent K2 Crawley pool ... ... I wrote that it, "...

17 January 2025 While I cannot recommend Hoppers restaurant as performance food when you get their prix fixe feast, it’s some of the...

13 January 2025 I cannot enter a year without setting some goals for my swimming. Not every year's goals are about times and racing. ...

6 January 2025 Europe has really good passenger protections when it comes to disrupted trains, resulting in healthy refunds of train...