October - 2022

Oct 26, 20222 min read

Whoop-Ass Wednesday: Broken Mile and 25s Fly

26 October 2022 I had a vision to do a 5,000 (or so) yard workout today, but my original intention was to have this focused only on...

Oct 25, 20222 min read

Long axis, fast effort 200s

25 October 2022 I did a repeat of a workout I had done back in 2015 and re-done recently, only this time on the Broken 200s, I went...

Oct 23, 20222 min read

Bulk up the volume to Bonk

23 October 2022 After my roughly seven week break following US Masters Nationals in early August, where I averaged on slightly more than...

Oct 22, 20221 min read

World Swim Day - 2009 / 2011 Flashback

22 October 2022 Just like Hallmark created holidays, the swimming app MySwimPro created World Swim Day, a day to celebrate swimming ......

Oct 21, 20222 min read

React and recover

21 October 2022 I've had no negative side effects from any of my prior COVID vaccines other than some sleepiness and a tad bit of...

Oct 19, 20222 min read

Going long in Upper Marlboro

18 October 2022 The first swim team I ever joined was a summer league team at this pool to the right in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, about...

Oct 16, 20222 min read

Heart & Rating Ithaca

16 October 2022 My wife and I went down to lovely Ithaca, New York for a weekend getaway. My father had spent part of his boyhood years...

Oct 15, 20223 min read

Brighton 5K Riff

14 October 2022 Trading great workouts has been a training tradition for pretty much all of my aquatic life. Back in the 70's and 80's,...

Oct 12, 20222 min read

Third Smart Goggle Look - 2K for time

12 October 2022 Today's focus on the road to the USMS 3,000 virtual event was a 2,000 yard swim for time, done at my still-cool-water LA...

Oct 10, 20222 min read

Thanking the 400 IM

10 October 2022 Celebrating Thanksgiving up here in Canada with some gentle yoga to get loose for my first attempt at my 400 IM Test Set...

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