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Tag Archives: swimming pool
We’ve all got our swimming crosses to bear
Today in the pool I swam next to two guys doing 100-meter repeats. One was clearly faster than the other, a tall gent who wore fins to keep up with his buddy. The faster swimmer alternated strokes from freestyle to … Continue reading
Why 2K is the answer of the day
Do you have certain training distances that make you feel like you’ve really “done something?” I have a few. Running at least three miles, for example. Riding at least an hour. For swimming, it is going at least 1600 meters, … Continue reading
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I never dreamed that I’d be missing the pool
With all the ups-and-downs, back-and-forths of Covid-19 precautions, it has been difficult to plan workouts at the pool. Currently our facility has an online schedule to grab workout times. It’s a pain in the butt. For a while during the … Continue reading
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Back in the swim
This morning marked the first day back at the pool. Our fitness center has all the precautions in place, including hourly deck-cleaning sessions to chemically treat the surfaces outside the pool water. It seems strange and extreme to watch people … Continue reading
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Early morning pool brain
“You’re too snuggly,” my wife admitted at 4:45 this morning when her cellphone alarm began beeping a third time. Guilty as charged. I had my arm over her warm body under the covers. The sweet smell of her hair in … Continue reading
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Tagged early morning pool brain, swim efficiency, swim stroke, swimmer, swimming, swimming pool
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The thoughts that bubble up in your mind
I’ll probably never be an Instagram star because my brain doesn’t work through algorithms or abide in the Principles of the One-Trick Pony. That is, my mind is too random and perhaps too creatively obsessed to attract the types of … Continue reading
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Tagged bubble but, bubble butt, bubbles in the pool, chorus frogs, Christopher Cudworth, convergent evolution, fuck all that, I hate to burst your bubble, ice bubbles, popping tar bubbles, social media bubbles, swimming, swimming pool, tarsnakes, thought bubbles
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A good stretch is hardly a stroke of luck in the pool
Definition; a stroke of luck: something good that happens to you by chance I headed to the swimming pool today because a rain storm threatened to swamp our region by mid afternoon. Part of me was considering a mountain bike ride, but with … Continue reading
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The Tar Bubble Chronicles
During my run today I looked down and saw a few small bubbles poking up from the surface of the tar at the edge of the road. I stopped and bent down to use the tip of my pointer finger … Continue reading
Some naked wisdom from the Old Guys at the pool
Many years back when I first took swim lessons with the aim of becoming a triathlete, I swam at a local recreation center attached to a high school. The pool was a 50 meter wonder once used by the perennial state-level … Continue reading
We used to play Nigger Under the Woodpile at the pool
By Christopher Cudworth The back of my hands smell like it. The pool. Like chlorine. I swam today the best I could, without treading too much water. Payed attention to the way my arms cut past my ears. The hands, … Continue reading
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