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1001 Pools


Dec 24, 20244 min read
Having a Blast in Basingstoke - Racing & Pool Reviews
21 December 2024 These days, I like to enter some sort of competition at least once a month. Imagine my delight and surprise when,...


Oct 6, 20242 min read
Pool Review: Palais des Sports de Puteaux - Indoors
1 October 2024 This was almost the definition of a perfect, if too constrained on time, morning biz-trip swim. I had managed to find a...


Sep 7, 20245 min read
Windermere Chillswim - Event Report
7 September 2024 First, the good and the great. Look how happy Maia and I were on packet pickup and on the bus to the race start! It's...


Aug 23, 20242 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 10, 20243 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 5, 20242 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...


Jul 15, 20242 min read
Pool #689 - Parliament Hill Fields Lido (London)
July 14, 2024 I think I lost any Canadian street cred I might have had when I walked onto the deck of the Parliament Hill Fields Lido in...


Apr 8, 20242 min read
(Belated) Pool (#670) & Race Review from Guernsey
6 April 2024 I was very slow to “officially” post pool #670 on my #1001Pools quest, the interesting, spacious and aptly beautiful Beau...
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