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1001 Pools


Bath-ing Beauty(-ies?) - #749 and #750
25 August 2025 Since Roman times, many people arrive in Bath, England with healing waters on their minds. I was no different when my wife...
Aug 28, 20253 min read


Pool #748: Not in Canada
22 August 2025 Of course, it makes sense that the city name Edmonton originated in the UK and not in Canada! However, as I have only...
Aug 22, 20252 min read


Racing Ugly, But Happy (#746 & #747)
9 August 2025 After I finished my first 400 LCM free of 2025, back at the K2 Crawley meet in mid-January , I wrote ... I still think I...
Aug 10, 20253 min read


Pool Review: My Kind of Lifestyle (#744)
27 June 2025 I think more London area fitness facilities should adopt this term - “Lifestyle Club” - over the much more dominant “Leisure...
Jun 27, 20251 min read


Excellent Egham (Pool #743)
25 June 2025 I had a business lunch meeting at a Thames-side hotel in Runnymede today, so I switched up my morning swim plan from the...
Jun 25, 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


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


Not Fawlty in Torquay - Pool #715
1 February 2025 As part of our adventure of living in London, my wife and I are determined to see as much of this part of the world as...
Feb 5, 20252 min read
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