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1001 Pools


Nov 12, 20223 min read
Life Time Love & The Virtual 3,000 (Pool #555)
12 November 2022 If there's a North American fitness chain that understands swimmers, it is Life Time. When they opened their first...


Nov 10, 20221 min read
Legs On Track, D-Race Tomorrow
10 November 2022 I've needed to essentially make this whole week a taper / rest week to recover from racing four measly events this past...


Nov 10, 20221 min read
Recovering for the 3K
9 November 2022 I have to remember how much racing takes out of me. I was feeling a bit better this morning, now ~3 days since Sunday's...


Nov 8, 20221 min read
Bailed on the Brute
8 November 2022 After racing on Sunday and taking Monday largely off exercise aside from a morning gentle hike and some...


Nov 8, 20221 min read
Chasing Alex Baumann
6 November 2022 OK ... not quite ... but I was certainly inspired by this plaque on the wall behind the start end of the competition pool...


Nov 2, 20221 min read
Dragging ... not a Dragon
2 November 2022 After my bonk on something long and freestyle-centric yesterday, I planned a shorter, IM-oriented workout today, a...

Nov 1, 20221 min read
Failing and flailing the 3K
1 November 2022 After my third longest volume training week of the year, a week that also included three fairly intense dryland workouts,...


Oct 26, 20222 min read
Whoop-Ass Wednesday: Broken Mile and 25s Fly
26 October 2022 I had a vision to do a 5,000 (or so) yard workout today, but my original intention was to have this focused only on...

Oct 25, 20222 min read
Long axis, fast effort 200s
25 October 2022 I did a repeat of a workout I had done back in 2015 and re-done recently, only this time on the Broken 200s, I went...


Oct 23, 20222 min read
Bulk up the volume to Bonk
23 October 2022 After my roughly seven week break following US Masters Nationals in early August, where I averaged on slightly more than...
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