Racing Time is Here Again: Beaten Up in Baden
22 January 2023 I am so thrilled that we seem to have gotten back into the swing of competitions. Our first event of 2023 was a morning...
top of page
1001 Pools
- Jan 2
- 1 min
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...
- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
Race Report: Leg Day (400 Kick-For-Time)
29 December 2022 Though I made a solid effort at the 400 Kick-For-Time a couple of weeks ago, I felt like my training this fall had...
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
Race Report: IM Fast(er) Masters Challenge
18 December 2022 It's been over a decade since I last tried tapering for a meet where I switched out my normal mid-to-long distance focus...
- Dec 17, 2022
- 3 min
Five Days of Rest in Five Pools
17 December 2022 While it is certainly not my preference to have a business trip right before a taper meet, this happens more often than...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
Seven Days to Race, Three Days of Rest
11 December 2022 Race day for the Swim Ontario Masters IM Fast meet is in seven days and the psych sheets are out. With my swim...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 1 min
4,250 Day Lookback
7 December 2022 With 11 days to go before race day, I looked back to the 2011 short course yards season for taper ideas. That year, I...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Cap-Channeling Olympians
6 December 2022 Thanks to a late night of work stress, I gotess sleep l than desired, even more so because my body woke me up with my...
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
Two Weeks Out = Pulse Plot
4 December 2022 I should not have been surprised that I couldn't really hit anything like peak speed today. I have not taken a day off...
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
Women Beating Men
3 December 2022 I caught a few replays from this week's US Open long course championships, highlight reels featuring Katie Ledecky and...
Tags
bottom of page