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1001 Pools


First Time Racing at London Aquatics Centre
17 May 2025 For all the times I have gone to swim at the London Aquatics Centre. I have never done two things there.  I’ve never raced...
May 162 min read


Race Report: Return to Reading
10 May 2025 My first major global professional role that brought me routinely through the UK started in 2002 and, by 2005, we had...
May 103 min read


Race Report: Tenths in Toronto
27 April 2025 I came from away to come back home to race. Well, technically, I came to Toronto to work, but then tacked on a weekend to...
Apr 279 min read


Pool Review: Killing it at Kildeskovshallen (#729)
13 March 2025 OK. I realize that Kildeskovshallen translates to something like the Spring Forest Pool, but the fine people of Gentofte...
Mar 163 min read


Race & Pool Report: Cranking in Coventry (#726 & #727)
8 March 2025 I headed up Saturday morning to Coventry* to race at the West Midlands Masters Championships . Naturally, the pool tourist...
Mar 93 min read


Training Table: Not Breaking on Broken 400s
3 March 2025 I love going to the London Aquatics Centre first thing in the morning, but it's oh so much nicer when you arrive as the sun...
Mar 31 min read


Pool Review: Couldn't Pass up Another Portuguese Pool (#724)
28 February 2025 After the very hard Breakthrough 100s set the day before, my plan on our last Friday in the Algarve was just to enjoy a...
Feb 281 min read


Pool Review: Slamming in Silves (#723)
27 February 2025 While I was truly quite happy with the pool in Lagoa , happy enough to have had two solid workouts there, I wish I had...
Feb 272 min read


Race Report: Hemel Hempstead (& pools #717 & #718)
23 February 2025 On Saturday the 15th of February, I went up to the 1st Hemel Hempstead Masters meet at the surprisingly fast (at least...
Feb 234 min read


Slothful in Slough - Pool #716
6 February 2025 I recall traipsing around Slough about twenty years ago and not being impressed. I was managing my company's global work...
Feb 72 min read
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