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1001 Pools


Who's your Chlorine Daddy?
19 November 2022 After yesterday's "Fail & Bail" workout and an utterly crappy, maybe four hours of sleep last night (thanks to my...
Nov 19, 20222 min read


Empty Pool, Full Arms
14 November 2022 Our measly, maybe 10cm, first snowfall of the season must have scared away the swimmers as I arrived at my local LA...
Nov 14, 20221 min read


Aquageek & Chlorine Daddy Write My Workout
13 November 2022 Back in the heyday of the USMS Forums (about a decade starting from the mid-to-late aughts), a vibrant virtual community...
Nov 13, 20222 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 10, 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


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 2, 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,...
Nov 1, 20221 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 26, 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 25, 20222 min read
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