The Gall of My Ambition
28 August 2022 After my positive-feeling negative split on my bike race on Saturday, I executed a disastrously negative-feeling POSITIVE...
1001 Pools
- Aug 28
- 3 min
First ever Olympic (distance) Aquathlon
27 August 2022 Olympic Distance Aquathlon (1500 m swim / 40km bike) Wasaga Beach, Ontario First off, I could not have asked for better...
- May 1
- 2 min
Amphibious Assault
1 May 2022 I live about 25 minutes away from the largest training establishment in the Canadian Armed Forces, CFB Borden, and have known...
- 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 6, 2020
- 2 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, 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 25, 2020
- 2 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, 2020
- 3 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, 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...