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...

3 December 2022 I caught a few replays from this week's US Open long course championships, highlight reels featuring Katie Ledecky and...

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...

27 November 2022 I took Saturday off from training to travel back home from New Hampshire/Boston with a plan to do my official "race" for...

22 November 2022 I've been doing a version of this workout with 5 x 200 straight backstrokes followed by 5 x 200 broken freestyles across...

21 November 2022 I almost never get to exactly implement the taper plan I exactly want, but I at least started today on the plan,...

19 November 2022 After yesterday's "Fail & Bail" workout and an utterly crappy, maybe four hours of sleep last night (thanks to my...

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...

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...

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...