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My 44-Year-Old Self Coaches My 55-Year-Old Self

2 January 2023 The year I turned 45, 2012, was not just the best year of my Masters' swimming "career" in terms of performance, I'd put...

Four Week Taper Starts Now

21 November 2022 I almost never get to exactly implement the taper plan I exactly want, but I at least started today on the plan,...

New Season, Repeat Testing

26 September 2022 After principally focusing on cycling since USMS Nationals ended on August 7th, I dove back into my local LA Fitness...

Lightly Testing

22 August 2022 Following US Masters Long Course Nationals, I entered a period where swimming is taking a backseat to biking as I prepare...

Bonked on three, cranked to five

22 April 2022 I figured I'd build on yesterday's ambitious goal setting by raising the bar on both intensity and duration for my Friday...

Trending the test in the right direction

7 April 2022 After my weekend of racing in Houston, I had to race around the USA for work, heading to New York Sunday night through...

Doubling Down on Testing

25 February 2022 No ... not COVID testing: freestyle race testing! As I hadn't yet done my heart rate test set, and it's been almost 3...

Once More Unto the Breach

9 February 2022 After I returned home to Ontario from Panama in early January, I came back to another COVID lockdown, with the three...

Way more swimsuits than "suit"-suits

3 December 2021 One of the things I've never liked about the working world is wearing suits; they're damn uncomfortable (even the...

Reframing the hothouse

9 November 2021 Lately, I've been trying to apply cognitive reframing to certain areas of my life, to see if a simple shift in my...

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