20 May 2022 You really couldn't ask for a better pool setup for a national championship than the double-ended, 10 lane x 25 meter setup...

27 February 2021 After feeling so abysmal in the water on Monday, I swam a drill/"get to know the water" oriented Masters workout on...

22 February 2021 When I jumped into the Sam Cancilla swimming pool at Barrie's Allandale Recreation Centre on Monday morning, I had been...

3 December 2020 Holly Community Centre - Barrie - 25 meters ... is always easy to do when you do something for the first time! In my 45+...

Multiple days in November and December City of Barrie's Holly and East Bayfield Community Centres Masters Swimming Ontario has been doing...

19 November 2020 So desperate am I to swim in new pools, to have some semblance of normalcy again, to add something that approximates...

11 November 2020 My opportunity to add new pools to my 1001 pool list has been severely hampered by the pandemic. Not that I am...

November 7, 2020 Well, the City of Barrie Aquatic staff must have been reading articles like this ... ... and decided to double, triple,...

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...

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...