Olympic Dreams - Fulfilled
I've got various partial attempts at a 'Bucket List' of pools I need/want to swim in, as well as recommendations from friends strewn...
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1001 Pools
Jan 3, 20171 min
Years In Review / Year in Preview
I was a busy little pool tourist in 2016, outpacing all previous years .. ...and putting me well on my way to achieving the 1,001 goal. ...
Sep 30, 20163 min
Pool crush(es): Julia Morgan's Berkeley Beauties
I fell in love with Julia Morgan back in high school, only I didn't know it at the time. Sometime in the early 80's, I was out in...
Sep 4, 20163 min
Milestone: A Rosy #250
I really wanted to make this milestone - 25% of the way towards the goal - a special, if not iconic pool. I got some really good...
Aug 21, 20161 min
What should be pool #250?
While my fitness level has suffered this summer due to a lot of travel, even by my standards, my pool list has burgeoned. With this last...
Jun 21, 20161 min
Three Days, Three Workouts, Three Pools
Eighteen days into the month where I was supposedly going to really pick up the pace of "pool adds" and I was sitting at the same,...
May 31, 20161 min
2016: Summer of Pool Tripping
I added my 236th pool today, thanks to the local Valley of the Sun JCC re-opening their main training pool after a complete re-build and...
May 6, 20162 min
Pool crush: Cactus Aquatic Center
Here's how much I love Cactus Aquatic Center in Scottsdale, Arizona ... ... after living in the Valley of the Sun for 7 years, when my...
Apr 25, 20164 min
Beyond the Goggles: Be a Snorkel Dork
In my second post, I had laid out the bare essentials for your swim bag, but there's a growing and sometimes dizzying array of "swim...
Apr 17, 20163 min
Views from the Six
It would have been perfect had I been able, over my recent six day stay in Toronto, to notch up one new pool a day to make this post "Six...
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