26 September 2026 I knew I was going to see Maia down at the K2 Crawley SCM meet the last weekend in September because I love racing the individual events session and her Brighton & Hove masters team seems to always come up for the evening relay-only session. With me swimming the 400 IM and 200 backstroke in the afternoon individual session and the relays starting after that, I had expected to be able to say hi, hang a bit and watch a few of her swims. What I didn't know un

21 July 2026 Note - this is a very belated post that I thought I had published on August 7, 2022 after my father and I swam at the 2022 USMS LCM National Championships in Richmond, Virginia. I was chatting with my swimming family about trying to get our gang back together for some family relays at next summer's 2027 USMS LCM Nationals in Richmond. I wanted to look back to this post ... which I found unfinished in my drafts! It's high time I finished this. I had written thi