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1001 Pools

Passport to training
22 September 2021 Ontario's "vaccine passport" requirement to enter most indoor facilities, including gyms/pools, went into effect today;...
Sep 22, 20212 min read

A great place to race, IF ...
25 July 2021 Greensboro, North Carolina I absolutely LOVE the Greensboro Aquatic Center and was delighted to be able to make it to the...
Jul 27, 20212 min read


Why don't we have more pools with retractable roofs?
24 July 2021 Morrisville, North Carolina I'm down finally visiting my family in America and dropped in for a quick swim today at the...
Jul 24, 20211 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...
Nov 23, 20203 min read


Breaking my legs over a mile plus
12 November 2020 I had fun this past Sunday taking my Saturday main set and doing it as a kick-only set, so I figured I'd do the same by...
Nov 13, 20201 min read


MEMO to my legs: December's coming ...
... and that means I've got to get in shape for the MEMO (Marcia's Enthusiastic Masters of Oakland) 400 Kick For Time! I first did this...
Nov 8, 20201 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 19, 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...
Oct 3, 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 28, 20202 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 21, 20203 min read
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