19 October 2024 " Fortunately, I escaped with just a bloodied elbow … and very wounded pride," was how I described the very small cut I...

10 October 2024 After my lazy September, I started October with a renewed training enthusiasm, with an intent to focus my training on the...

7 October 2024 While I've got a focus for the next six weeks or so on the USMS Virtual 3,000 yard event , I've already decided that I'll...

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...

30 September 2024 For many years, US Masters Swimming has run a ‘virtual distance event’ that includes the 3,000 yard freestyle. I’ve...

25 September 2024 As it had been over three weeks since I added a new pool, I was itching to get back out there as a Pool Tourist. I...

24 September 2024 Since swimming Windermere on August 31st , other than racing a couple of one-day meets this month**, I have been pretty...

9 September 2024 This pool has been on my London “Aquatic Bucket List” since before I even moved here as my daughter Maia had swum here a...

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...

27 August 2024 Now that I have discovered the lovely West Reservoir Open Water Centre in Hackney , London, I feel like I need to get...