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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


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


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


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


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 23, 20254 min read


Race Report: Crushed (again) by K2!
18 January 2025 When I raced at this long course meet last year at the (generally) excellent K2 Crawley pool ... ... I wrote that it, "...
Jan 18, 20253 min read


Having a Blast in Basingstoke - Racing & Pool Reviews
21 December 2024 These days, I like to enter some sort of competition at least once a month. Imagine my delight and surprise when,...
Dec 24, 20244 min read


(Belated) Pool (#670) & Race Review from Guernsey
6 April 2024 I was very slow to “officially” post pool #670 on my #1001Pools quest, the interesting, spacious and aptly beautiful Beau...
Apr 8, 20242 min read


Race Report: Crushed by K2
20 January 2024 A beautiful pool named after the world's second tallest mountain should be inspiring ... ... and it was. But, racing...
Jan 21, 20243 min read


Race Report: Leg Day (400 Kick-For-Time)
29 December 2022 Though I made a solid effort at the 400 Kick-For-Time a couple of weeks ago, I felt like my training this fall had...
Dec 29, 20222 min read
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