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1001 Pools
Sep 242 min read
My Kind of Main Set
24 September 2024 Since swimming Windermere on August 31st , other than racing a couple of one-day meets this month**, I have been pretty...
Sep 92 min read
Another Luscious London Lido
9 September 2024 This pool has been on my London “Aquatic Bucket List” since before I even moved here as my daughter Maia had swum here a...
Sep 75 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 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...
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