Broke the Water Break

19 August 2025

9 days! After racing in Manchester, I took a conscious break from swimming. I can’t say that I fully enjoyed this “dry time,” but it was the right thing to do.

This morning I finally got back in for a very EASY, largely drill & kicking focused 1,650 meters. I started PT last week for the forearm pain that emerged this summer, a side effect from the calcified bursa on my elbow which itself was a side effect from my hospitalization last fall for the infection I picked up after a fall on a Parisian pool deck. I will continue to take it easy and get that all working pain-free again before I start to amp back up any intensity.

The photo journey captures my short walk from the AC Hotel in Mainz to the Taubertsberg Bad (originally pool #660) on a glorious late summer morning.