Yearly Archives: 2021

Happy New Year! It feels fitting to sum up the end of my holiday training on the last day of 2021. I’m not much for arbitrary symbols and celebrations, but…

Hard things are hard I’m savoring my last few hours before double workouts start back up again, and realizing that If I don’t get a post up now, it’s not…

This one’s for you, Blithe Bad jokes are back this week! Where does Santa Clause go swimming? The North Pool What did the Christmas trees wear to the lake? Swimming…

Hilariously, my go pro somehow got set to "Burst" mode before or during my 6-hour swim last week. No fault to Mike, I ended up with thousands of close-ups of…

It all looks easy in the rearview mirror A six-hour qualifier is on the books!!!!!! As usual, I have a few thoughts I’ve accumulated over the week, then I’ll get…

"One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow."Matshona Dhliwayo This One is for Me I’m gonna throw this one up here and move on -…

Me! (Photo credit: Sam!) On Writing and Humanity I’ve read several times that it is a good sign when you look back at your old writing and think that it’s…

So, last week was a bit of a lost week in many ways, culminating in Friday the 12th being pretty much actually lost to the Moderna booster - shivering and…

My blog pictures would be more representative of my actual life in training if they were 90% murky water and 10% sunny beaches :) Recovery Week (Nov 1-7) I am…

Coastal Masters FUNvitational A fun, if exhausting, weekend in Wilmington - 7 of my swimmers competed in the Coastal Masters FUNvitational, which totally lived up to its name. Thanks to…

Thank You Everyday There are so many people I am thankful for this week. And I will likely post about them again and in detail, but I feel like I…

Pure Joy “Days like these are far too rare to cheapen with heavy handed words.” But I’ll give it a go anyway. (Bonus points for anyone who can identify the…

The Tale of the Loop that Wasn't This post does include my race report for Swim the Loop 2021 - skip down if my other musings do not entertain you…

Test sets all the way down For giggles, I’ve been giving each practice a theme. If there was a theme for this week in its entirety, it was “Test sets…

Just a good week Emblematic of my week... hard, but good How often do we fail to appreciate weeks that are simply… good? Like drops of dew sliding along a…

The Assumptions We Make Making assumptions about one another is part of being human, as is crafting a persona that attempts to control the assumptions that others make about us.…

World's Worst Open Water Jokes Joke’s up front today. I feel really good about providing this essential bad joke service to the world (or the 10 people who read my…

The Final Year of English Channel Training Begins! https://youtu.be/MAqV0p8Lf_o And, true to form, I record the video vertically. Good thing I'm better at swimming! How did it go? It feels…

Year 0 I’m initiating my final year of training for the English Channel. Now when people ask when my window is, I can finally say THIS July! Optimism My first…

The Tale of the Charlotte 10K I completed my second 10K race yesterday. What a gorgeous day! It was comical how little I worried about it (none) compared to my…