Training Table: Olympic Mornings
7 October 2024 While I've got a focus for the next six weeks or so on the USMS Virtual 3,000 yard event , I've already decided that I'll...
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1001 Pools
Oct 22 min read
Q4 Virtual Event Training Kickoff
30 September 2024 For many years, US Masters Swimming has run a ‘virtual distance event’ that includes the 3,000 yard freestyle. I’ve...
Sep 242 min read
My Kind of Main Set
24 September 2024 Since swimming Windermere on August 31st , other than racing a couple of one-day meets this month**, I have been pretty...
Aug 182 min read
My Longest Workout in ~40 years!
August 18th, 2024 After bonking on last Sunday's attempt at a 12,500-meter workout, I tried to prepare myself this week, through more...
Aug 172 min read
A Crowd-Free Parisian Paradise? (Pool #693)
1 August 2024 The city of Paris (and Lille, Nanterre, St.-Denis, etc.) put on a fantastic show for the 2024 Olympics. I went to Paris...
Jan 2, 20231 min read
My 44-Year-Old Self Coaches My 55-Year-Old Self
2 January 2023 The year I turned 45, 2012, was not just the best year of my Masters' swimming "career" in terms of performance, I'd put...
Dec 11, 20222 min read
Seven Days to Race, Three Days of Rest
11 December 2022 Race day for the Swim Ontario Masters IM Fast meet is in seven days and the psych sheets are out. With my swim...
Dec 7, 20221 min read
4,250 Day Lookback
7 December 2022 With 11 days to go before race day, I looked back to the 2011 short course yards season for taper ideas. That year, I...
Dec 3, 20222 min read
Women Beating Men
3 December 2022 I caught a few replays from this week's US Open long course championships, highlight reels featuring Katie Ledecky and...
Nov 30, 20221 min read
Last Day to be a Brute
30 November 2022 As the Davis Aquatic Masters Brute Squad virtual event closed today, I left myself no choice but to hit my local LA...
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