May 12 minAmphibious Assault1 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, 20212 minOut 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, 20202 minCompetition, the fountain of youth6 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, 20201 minA 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, 20203 minISL-ing the Not-Quite-Nationals Virtual Pool ChallengeMultiple days in November and December City of Barrie's Holly and East Bayfield Community Centres Masters Swimming Ontario has been doing...
Nov 25, 20202 minHeart rate test set: slower-higher, faster-lower24 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, 20203 minWatching Fast Swimmers Makes Me Swim Fast21 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, 20202 min#463 - 20 meters in Collingwood19 November 2020 So desperate am I to swim in new pools, to have some semblance of normalcy again, to add something that approximates...
Aug 6, 20202 minReality Returns: Racing and RaptorsIt's been about 5 months, but this past Saturday night, August 1st, was the closest experience to the 'old reality' I've had since the...
Dec 2, 20192 minRace Report: (Not so) Fast & (definitely not) FuriousI'm about three weeks late posting anything about my first swim meet of the 2019-2020 short course metres season, but I want to chart my...