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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


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 9, 20253 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 28, 20251 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 26, 20252 min read
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