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1001 Pools


Five Days of Rest in Five Pools
17 December 2022 While it is certainly not my preference to have a business trip right before a taper meet, this happens more often than...
Dec 17, 20223 min read


Seven Days to Race, Three Days of Rest
11 December 2022 Race day for the Swim Ontario Masters IM Fast meet is in seven days and the psych sheets are out. With my swim...
Dec 11, 20222 min read


4,250 Day Lookback
7 December 2022 With 11 days to go before race day, I looked back to the 2011 short course yards season for taper ideas. That year, I...
Dec 7, 20221 min read


Cap-Channeling Olympians
6 December 2022 Thanks to a late night of work stress, I gotess sleep l than desired, even more so because my body woke me up with my...
Dec 7, 20222 min read

Two Weeks Out = Pulse Plot
4 December 2022 I should not have been surprised that I couldn't really hit anything like peak speed today. I have not taken a day off...
Dec 4, 20221 min read


Women Beating Men
3 December 2022 I caught a few replays from this week's US Open long course championships, highlight reels featuring Katie Ledecky and...
Dec 3, 20222 min read

Last Day to be a Brute
30 November 2022 As the Davis Aquatic Masters Brute Squad virtual event closed today, I left myself no choice but to hit my local LA...
Nov 30, 20221 min read


A Lite Brute for a Sunday
27 November 2022 I took Saturday off from training to travel back home from New Hampshire/Boston with a plan to do my official "race" for...
Nov 27, 20222 min read


The Best Black Friday Deal (Pool #557)
25 November 2022 Forget the deals in the stores, I got the best deal around for a pool tourist when I dropped into The Workout Club in...
Nov 27, 20222 min read


Waking, Walking & Wonderful in Boston (Pool #556)
23 November 2022 A last-minute, temporary hiccup in our plans to spend an extended American Thanksgiving weekend with friends in New...
Nov 26, 20222 min read
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