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Nov 7, 20201 min read
The Chlorine Fog Challenge
November 7, 2020 Well, the City of Barrie Aquatic staff must have been reading articles like this ... ... and decided to double, triple,...


Nov 6, 20202 min read
One month, a handful of seconds (3 x 300 Test Set)
6 November 2020 I'll be the first to admit that my month of October was not the greatest training month in the pool. While I got to the...


Oct 19, 20202 min read
Hacking away at my IM pace
18 October 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie - Cundles Short Course Yards Back in 2013, I had the great fortune of doing a 1-1 workout with one of...


Oct 5, 20202 min read
First 3 x 300 Test Set in SCM in Canada
5 October 2020 I had a double treat this morning to kickoff a week's staycation - I got to train with my eldest daughter, Maia, who came...


Oct 3, 20202 min read
Training Table: IM making progress
2 October 2020 Though I typically like to repeat my test sets roughly every 4 weeks, I felt like doing some IM work this morning at the...


Sep 28, 20202 min read
Training Table: Broken Mile
September 27th, 2020 I got into doing a Broken Mile as a relatively routine test set / workout as far back as 2009 when I was back at my...


Sep 21, 20203 min read
Training Table: 400 IM Test Set
21 September 2020 As part of my return to pool training, with the distant dream of being able to compete sometime in the...


Sep 18, 20201 min read
Training Table: 3 x 300 return to pool training
September 17th, 2020 It's taken me almost two weeks to feel like I had recovered after the glorious, but apparently hard on my body 10K...


Aug 24, 20203 min read
FlowSwimmer Threw Down the Ironman Gauntlet
2020 has been unlike any other, especially for us swimmers locked out of pools. Early on, back in May, Mark Johnston of lovely Polson,...


Aug 10, 20201 min read
Sunrise & seagulls
As the days get shorter, the sunrise here in the Great White North has reached an optimal point for a sunrise swim. I awoke at 5am, got...
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