Author: gogglereflections

Swimming wise 2016 has started off with a bang! I have been tracking my swimming via my USMS Fitness Log (FLOG) since 2011 and January 2016 has started off as a record year. This month I swam 21 days for 27 hours and for a total of 83,951 yards or 52.3 miles! My goal for… Continue reading A good start to the year…

The New Year has started off and one would assume I am needy and seeking positive affirmations with the title of my blog. Quite the contrary “Fishing for Compliments” is the name of my new swim suit from Australia made by Budgy Smuggler. It was Christmas gift from Shannon.* Isn’t it low key and demure?… Continue reading Fishing for Compliments

Today is New Years Eve and none of my pools are open for an early morning swim (thankfully). In preparation for this evening ones attention tends to turn to bubbles aka champagne to be enjoyed while ringing out the year and welcoming in the new. We will certainly enjoy indulging in some champagne bubbles tonight… Continue reading Of bubbles, beards and year end things…

Goal accomplished! The USMS website has a section called  the Fitness Log (FLOG). The FLOG has feature called Go The Distance that allows you set an annual swimming goal of how many yards or miles you want to swim in the year. I have been tracking my distance for the last five years. My goal… Continue reading FLOG…Go The Distance

California Dreamin’ the classic 1970’s summer of love song by The Mama’s & Papa’s took on some added meaning this Thanksgiving break. Rather than having Ryan fly back to Boston for the holiday we flew to SoCal to bring Thanksgivng to him! It was going to be a quick trip only Tuesday through Saturday so… Continue reading #73 California Dreamin’ & Thanksgiving 2015

The week of Thanksgiving always brings a special treat to a handful of us at MIT Masters the Tough Turkey Throw Down (newly coined name by Coach Bill). Urban legend has it that I came up with this set-I beg to differ. I prefer to believe that it was a collective effort between a couple… Continue reading Tough Turkey Throwdown 2015

This weeks travels brought me to Manahttan neighborhoods that I rarely spend time in Wall Street, NoLita and Chinatown. I was in town for John Hancock Investments Bell Ringing Ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange for the launch of our exchange traded fund suite. There were a couple of pools to choose from in… Continue reading #72 Chinatown YMCA, New York, NY

Two cities in the United States have the motto, “Keep (insert city name) Weird”–Portland, Oregon and Austin, Texas.   The really weird thing is I was in both cities this week and swam in two new pools. First Portland (blogpost 10/12/15) and then Austin. I had never been to Austin before but everyone you talk… Continue reading #71-Keeping it Weird…Barton Springs Pool, Austin, Texas

Pool #70 is a pool I had the opportunity to swim in many times in the past. The past, being in my youth 34 plus years ago-that’s a long time! The pool was at the prestigious Multnomah Athletic  Club in Portland, Oregon founded in 1891. It’s a big club with a long storied history of… Continue reading #70-Multnomah Athletic Club & Keeping Portland Weird

Walking into MIT’s Z-center this morning I pulled out my identification card to get into the pool locker room and noted the following on the top right corner of the card; member since 9/30/2005. I have been swimming with Tech Masters formerly known as MIT Masters for 10 years! Wow-I can’t believe how time flies!… Continue reading 10 Year Anniversary