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1001 Pools


Aquatic Friends in Africa (Pool #741)
27 May 2025 "I get by with a little help from my (aquatic) friends." No single lyric** could more aptly describe the support I've gotten...
May 27, 20252 min read


First African Pool - Lilongwe, Malawi (#740)
25 May 2025 Technically, I have swum in a number of pools in four African different countries - eSwatini (formerly Swaziland), South...
May 25, 20252 min read


First Pool in Croatia (#739)
21 May 2025 File this one under the “whining on the yacht” or “mal de vivre” category. I am in Dubrovnik for a work conference staying...
May 20, 20251 min read


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 16, 20252 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 10, 20253 min read


Pool Review (#735): Jeff Rouse Swim and Sports Centre
1 May 2025 Back in the day, at the start of my high school years in the early 1980s in Virginia, I thought for a while that I was a...
Apr 30, 20251 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 27, 20259 min read


Pool Review & Racing Prep: Acton Centre (#732)
18 April 2025 My original racing plan for 2025 did not include tapering and shaving for the Ontario Provincial Championships . Racing...
Apr 17, 20252 min read


9 Races, 8 Trains, 3 Lifetime Bests & 2 New Pools (#730 & #731)
13 April 2025 With my wife leaving London in early April for an extended work engagement in Africa, I decided to distract myself from the...
Apr 13, 20254 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 16, 20253 min read
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