22 February 2026 The sun set long ago on calendar year 2025, but a busy start to 2026 ... and time for reflection ... has delayed my "So what did I learn from all my training and racing in 2025?" post. So what did I learn from all my training and racing in 2025? Much of this is about re-learning old lessons, as I'm an inveterate forgetter. Race early, race often After much of my 2024 training being oriented towards endurance for completing the Lake Windermere end-to-end swim

1 February 2026 I tackled the easiest question - where geographically did I swim in 2025? - in my last post and I'm punting the hard thinking - what did I learn from 2025? - for my third post, but this one's not that easy either. I swam in 77 different pools in 2025 and two bodies of water ( off the coast of Crete and near Zug ): what were my favorite pools of 2025? One way to answer this is by understanding where I kept going back to, again, and again, and again. There'

11 January 2026 " It was not true that travel was a false god and that you took your troubles with you and nothing could change.  There was the unimaginable and unforeseen thrill of being away, of renewal, and remembering that the world was huge and various, and you and your concerns were small.” => Ian McEwan, What We Can Know I will hold myself forward as world-class in appreciating the unimaginable and unforeseen thrill of being away. I got my first passport as I neared g

1 January 2025 A quick summary of 2024 in numbers: 800,190 total meters swum 3rd highest volume in my Masters Swimming history (since...

2 January 2023 Reflecting on the swimming highlights of the year: #1 - Swimming with Family I come from a swimming family, then created a...