Yearly Archives: 2020

The plan was to up my workouts this week (and, you know, start swimming again after more than a month off), but the weather had other plans. I did get…

Swim Camp is Official! (I can get there and everything) I was thinking I hadn’t gotten anything Channel related done yesterday (except to work on my website, which is tangential…

Getting soooo close to nailing down the travel arrangements for the Red Top Swim camp in Croatia. I found insurance that will work (Geoblue) and I contacted a travel agent…

Marcus Wadsworth put me in touch with one of his swimmers, who trains in Bournemouth and knows about schools and rentals. People are sooooo amaaaaazingly helpful! He, his wife and…

Catching up Haha – so much for my productivity breakthrough. Actually the productivity breakthrough is totally legit, but dammit, life, you get in my way. Monday started slow, which meant…

Talked to Marcus Wadsworth about living and training in Bournemouth. He runs the Durley training group, Durley Sea Swims. The details are probably not interesting to anyone who is not…

I'm still waiting to hear back from the swim camp guy. I finally make a decision, and now I can’t execute it. If his is full, I can go to…

Yoga good. Not yoga bad. Which is why it seems like a bad thing that I can’t remember the last time I did it (before this afternoon). Partially, that was…

"A mere ditch that shall be leaped" I can’t believe it’s been 13 days since I received all of the responses from the google group. Where has the time gone?…

Talked to Melanie Holland about Eddie Spelling’s piloting. Sooooo helpful! She also seconded the Bournemouth recommendations for where to live and train in England and put me in touch with…

Talked to Tracy Clark about Paul Foreman’s piloting. Sooooo helpful!

Jenny Smith is the bomb. I chatted with her today by phone after being put in touch with her by Ned Denison and, crazy world, it turns out we swam…

Massive breakthrough, but also a massive amount of work. I spent all day going through responses to my post to the Channel Swimmers Google Group. I posted two questions –…

I’ve gone and done it again – gotten busy and failed to blog in real time. A month later, it’s hard to remember all of the details, but the big…

I’m talking today to my kid’s group about one of my favorite sayings, “Failure is only permanent if you let it be.” Or perhaps I should go further, “Failure only…

I talked to Kathleen Wilson today, race director for the Swim Around Charleston and Channel Swimmer. In addition to spending lots of time answering my questions, she is also sending…

E doesn’t want to go to England. Or MIL doesn’t want him to.

You know you’re meant to swim the English Channel when… you actually prefer cold showers. [2020 Commentary – this comment was generated when we got back to our yurt from…

My stomach didn’t feel great yesterday, but I used the opportunity to let Bescher, Jessica and John in on my Channel plans – they are amazingly supportive. Then I got…

Yesterday I met with Bill about Marketing/Advertising for my coaching business, but he also suggested soliciting sponsorship for my Channel swim. That sits a lot better with me than the…