2 January 2023 The year I turned 45, 2012, was not just the best year of my Masters' swimming "career" in terms of performance, I'd put...

11 December 2022 Race day for the Swim Ontario Masters IM Fast meet is in seven days and the psych sheets are out. With my swim...

7 December 2022 With 11 days to go before race day, I looked back to the 2011 short course yards season for taper ideas. That year, I...

3 December 2022 I caught a few replays from this week's US Open long course championships, highlight reels featuring Katie Ledecky and...

30 November 2022 As the Davis Aquatic Masters Brute Squad virtual event closed today, I left myself no choice but to hit my local LA...

27 November 2022 I took Saturday off from training to travel back home from New Hampshire/Boston with a plan to do my official "race" for...

22 November 2022 I've been doing a version of this workout with 5 x 200 straight backstrokes followed by 5 x 200 broken freestyles across...

21 November 2022 I almost never get to exactly implement the taper plan I exactly want, but I at least started today on the plan,...

19 November 2022 After yesterday's "Fail & Bail" workout and an utterly crappy, maybe four hours of sleep last night (thanks to my...

13 November 2022 Back in the heyday of the USMS Forums (about a decade starting from the mid-to-late aughts), a vibrant virtual community...