August - 2024

Aug 282 min read

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay ( ... Reservoir)

27 August 2024 Now that I have discovered the lovely West Reservoir Open Water Centre in Hackney , London, I feel like I need to get...

Aug 262 min read

Open Water in the City!

26 August 2024 While social media gets a bad rap, my interwebs presence, outside of my work stuff on LinkedIn, is pretty much all...

Aug 252 min read

Results = Reality - Expectations at Piscine Georges Drigny (Pool #694)

2 August 2024 Knowing how crowded Parisian pools are, I actively sought out 33M or 50M pools when I was in town for the first week of the...

Aug 232 min read

Dancing in the Dawn - Piscine Calypso 2000 (#698)

21 August 2024 Not planes, trains and automobiles, but my feet, metro and the "Wiener-mobile" ... (Transit modes through Brussels - click...

Aug 182 min read

My Longest Workout in ~40 years!

August 18th, 2024 After bonking on last Sunday's attempt at a 12,500-meter workout, I tried to prepare myself this week, through more...

Aug 172 min read

A Crowd-Free Parisian Paradise? (Pool #693)

1 August 2024 The city of Paris (and Lille, Nanterre, St.-Denis, etc.) put on a fantastic show for the 2024 Olympics. I went to Paris...

Aug 103 min read

Form is Function - Piscine Pailleron (#692)

31 July 2024 After a Wednesday morning watching beach volleyball at probably the coolest sports venue I have ever been to ... ... I took...

Aug 52 min read

I wish Leon had swum & won the 200 free instead of the 200 breast - Pool #691

30 July 2024 I firmly believe the 400 Individual Medley is far and away both the most fun event to race and the most fun event to watch...

Aug 32 min read

Watch Ripped Off in Paris - Pool #695

3 August 2024 I almost had a €200 lap swimming session this morning at Piscine Keller, on the western edge of Paris, a stone’s throw from...

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