I know that I need to build up both my speed and my 'endurance speed,' so I went over to LA Fitness this morning and did my Zipfizz 200s...

As the days get shorter, the sunrise here in the Great White North has reached an optimal point for a sunrise swim. I awoke at 5am, got...

Over this past week, by availability (pools are open), by choice and by weather (thunderstorms), I spent more time swimming indoors in a...

It's been about 5 months, but this past Saturday night, August 1st, was the closest experience to the 'old reality' I've had since the...

Oh yeah! I was back in the water at my local LA Fitness in Barrie at 0600 today. The last time I swam here was the day before Ontario...

When my wife and I decided in 2018, after a couple of decades of toying with the idea, to move to her homeland of Canada, we didn't quite...

I think I learned everything I needed to survive the COVID-19 pandemic during my time in the Peace Corps in Swaziland in the early 1990s...

Ahh, this is a special set of 11 pools, as it encompasses my first few months settling into our new life in Canada. We crossed the...

These 10 pools cover a tight and important time - March and April of 2019 - when we were still brand-new to living in Canada and just as...

Had I known that my March 16th, 2020 swim of 1,750 yards was going to be my last for a while, I would have cranked out more. The...