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Jan 172 min read
Training Table: FA(s)T Friday
17 January 2025 While I cannot recommend Hoppers restaurant as performance food when you get their prix fixe feast, it’s some of the...


Jan 132 min read
Training Table: Broken 400 Free Test Set
13 January 2025 I cannot enter a year without setting some goals for my swimming. Not every year's goals are about times and racing. ...


Jan 54 min read
Dutch Masters - Pools #713 and 714
6 January 2025 Europe has really good passenger protections when it comes to disrupted trains, resulting in healthy refunds of train...


Jan 12 min read
Training Table: Test Set - 3 x 300 (LCM)
1 January 2025 With British Masters' Long Course Nationals being held at the London Aquatic Centre (LAC) in mid-June, I am determined to...


Jan 11 min read
2024 Year in Review: Quant Jock
1 January 2025 A quick summary of 2024 in numbers: 800,190 total meters swum 3rd highest volume in my Masters Swimming history (since...


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,...


Dec 21, 20242 min read
Fun with 400s Kick-for-Time
20 December 2024 I think I'll get a lot more takers on this fun main set versus the last set I posted ;) I first did the MEMO (Marcia's...

Dec 9, 20241 min read
Fun with 1500s (almost)
9 December 2024 I first created and did this workout in SCM back in August of 2009. The intervals were faster back then, but I do like...


Dec 7, 20242 min read
Canadians 1, English 0
7 December 2024 One would think, in a country that both invented the English language and a country whose ground exists in a (largely)...


Nov 25, 20244 min read
A small cut can bleed a river
19 October 2024 " Fortunately, I escaped with just a bloodied elbow … and very wounded pride," was how I described the very small cut I...
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