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...
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1001 Pools
Sep 2, 20222 min read
The Gall of My Ambition
28 August 2022 After my positive-feeling negative split on my bike race on Saturday, I executed a disastrously negative-feeling POSITIVE...
Aug 28, 20223 min read
First ever Olympic (distance) Aquathlon
27 August 2022 Olympic Distance Aquathlon (1500 m swim / 40km bike) Wasaga Beach, Ontario First off, I could not have asked for better...
May 1, 20222 min read
Amphibious Assault
1 May 2022 I live about 25 minutes away from the largest training establishment in the Canadian Armed Forces, CFB Borden, and have known...
Feb 23, 20212 min read
Out for 18%, slower by 20%
22 February 2021 When I jumped into the Sam Cancilla swimming pool at Barrie's Allandale Recreation Centre on Monday morning, I had been...
Dec 6, 20202 min read
Competition, the fountain of youth
6 December 2020 I was over at my local LA Fitness today, testing my progress on my 400 (yards) Kick For Time, a virtual event that I've...
Dec 4, 20201 min read
A lifetime best ...
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+...
Nov 29, 20203 min read
ISL-ing the Not-Quite-Nationals Virtual Pool Challenge
Multiple days in November and December City of Barrie's Holly and East Bayfield Community Centres Masters Swimming Ontario has been doing...
Nov 25, 20202 min read
Heart rate test set: slower-higher, faster-lower
24 November 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie Cundles Road - 25 yards It's been about a month since I last did my Dave Salo's Pulse Plot test set...
Nov 23, 20203 min read
Watching Fast Swimmers Makes Me Swim Fast
21 November 2020 LA Fitness - Barrie Cundles Road - 25 yards Anytime over the last few weeks I have done a workout after watching one of...
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