Time traveling back to 50 at Canadian Masters Nationals!
20 May 2022 You really couldn't ask for a better pool setup for a national championship than the double-ended, 10 lane x 25 meter setup...
1001 Pools
- Feb 27, 2021
- 1 min
Aerobically, I've still got it
27 February 2021 After feeling so abysmal in the water on Monday, I swam a drill/"get to know the water" oriented Masters workout on...
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 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 4, 2020
- 1 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, 2020
- 3 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 20, 2020
- 2 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 12, 2020
- 2 min
#462 - A New, New Pool (Finally!)
11 November 2020 My opportunity to add new pools to my 1001 pool list has been severely hampered by the pandemic. Not that I am...
- Nov 7, 2020
- 1 min
The Chlorine Fog Challenge
November 7, 2020 Well, the City of Barrie Aquatic staff must have been reading articles like this ... ... and decided to double, triple,...
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
One 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...
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
First 3 x 300 Test Set in SCM in Canada
5 October 2020 I had a double treat this morning to kickoff a week's staycation - I got to train with my eldest daughter, Maia, who came...