A wonderful, athletics-fueled weekend
August 14th to 15th, 2021 Tennis Canada Aviva Centre and Welland Canal This past weekend felt more like the 'good old days' (e.g.,...
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1001 Pools
Feb 23, 20212 min
Out 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...
Dec 12, 20202 min
Data Geeking on Virtual Racing
11 December 2020 With the completion of my 1500 meter freestyle today, I finished the full lineup of pool events (along with some fun...
Dec 6, 20202 min
Competition, the fountain of youth
6 December 2020 I was over at my local LA Fitness today, testing my progress on my 400 (yards) Kick For Time, a virtual event that I've...
Dec 4, 20201 min
A lifetime best ...
3 December 2020 Holly Community Centre - Barrie - 25 meters ... is always easy to do when you do something for the first time! In my 45+...
Nov 29, 20203 min
ISL-ing the Not-Quite-Nationals Virtual Pool Challenge
Multiple days in November and December City of Barrie's Holly and East Bayfield Community Centres Masters Swimming Ontario has been doing...
Nov 25, 20202 min
Heart rate test set: slower-higher, faster-lower
24 November 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie Cundles Road - 25 yards It's been about a month since I last did my Dave Salo's Pulse Plot test set...
Nov 23, 20203 min
Watching Fast Swimmers Makes Me Swim Fast
21 November 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie Cundles Road - 25 yards Anytime over the last few weeks I have done a workout after watching one of...
Nov 20, 20202 min
#463 - 20 meters in Collingwood
19 November 2020 So desperate am I to swim in new pools, to have some semblance of normalcy again, to add something that approximates...
Nov 13, 20201 min
Breaking my legs over a mile plus
12 November 2020 I had fun this past Sunday taking my Saturday main set and doing it as a kick-only set, so I figured I'd do the same by...
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