Apr 223 minBonked on three, cranked to five22 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...
Apr 121 minTrending the test in the right direction7 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...
Feb 252 minDoubling Down on Testing25 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...
Feb 92 minOnce More Unto the Breach9 February 2022 After I returned home to Ontario from Panama in early January, I came back to another COVID lockdown, with the three...
Dec 4, 20212 minWay more swimsuits than "suit"-suits3 December 2021 One of the things I've never liked about the working world is wearing suits; they're damn uncomfortable (even the...
Nov 10, 20212 minReframing the hothouse9 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...
Oct 3, 20211 minHopping to some 300s in a fair land3 October 2021 I love it when fellow swimmers point me in the right direction to a great pool. During my last trip to the greater DC...
Aug 30, 20211 minOne year later, one second faster29 August 2021 LA Fitness - Barrie (Cundles location) With swimming ill-advised due to water quality issues at Centennial Beach in...
Feb 23, 20212 minOut for 18%, slower by 20%22 February 2021 When I jumped into the Sam Cancilla swimming pool at Barrie's Allandale Recreation Centre on Monday morning, I had been...
Nov 6, 20202 minOne month, a handful of seconds (3 x 300 Test Set)6 November 2020 I'll be the first to admit that my month of October was not the greatest training month in the pool. While I got to the...