Milestones are meant to be celebrated! This week was cause for a couple of milestone celebrations. The first, I hit my 100th pool in the desert, at the Palm Springs Swim Center! It’s spacious outdoor aquatic complex with a 50 meter x 25 yard pool set at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains. It… Continue reading #100 & #101~Milestones
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Baywatch Bob
After 37 years I became a Red Cross certified life guard this weekend -yet again. Not since the glory days at the Lake Oswego District Pool or the Forest Hills Easement on the Lake (thank you Mr. Chisholm) in the early 1980’s have I been a certified lifeguard. Courtney needed to get re-certified for her… Continue reading Baywatch Bob
1650~Birthday Wishes
This weekend was Distance Day at New England Masters Short Course Champs held at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. Distance Day is the weekend before the meet officially starts and they only hold two events the 1000 free and the 1650. I wrestled a bit with whether or not to enter as the 1650 is a bit… Continue reading 1650~Birthday Wishes
Shaking the winter blues
It’s late February and I am feeling the winter blues. It’s cold, damp and dark. It snowed earlier in the week and now it’s a slushy mess. It’s still dark in the morning going to the pool but not quite as dark driving home from work. The spring equinox is only 24 days away…and I’m… Continue reading Shaking the winter blues
A fairy tale ending…
Yesterday was a fairy tale ending and an end of an era for the Burrow clan. After ten years of a Burrow kiddo swimming for the Weston Red Tide it ended with the MIAA Division 2 State Champs at Boston University. I am quite sure there will a blog in the future about the Tide… Continue reading A fairy tale ending…
All Mixed Up…
Today, swimming up and down the black line I couldn’t get The Cars hit song All Mixed Up out of my mind. The end of January 2018 is fast approaching and it feels like things are “all mixed up”. To start with our New England weather has been really mixed up. We started the year… Continue reading All Mixed Up…
#99~Boulder, Boulder, Boulder
On my way, to a business meeting in Phoenix I took a quick detour to Boulder to have dinner with Sean. Denver and Phoenix are close-right? After Sean’s evening class we did some grocery shopping, went out for a good meal and the checked out his design studio. By then it was a little late… Continue reading #99~Boulder, Boulder, Boulder
The Year in Review 2017
Where does the time go? It’s hard to believe that I am sitting down to blog about the year in review. Looking back at many of the blogposts they still feel real and fresh in my mind. I guess when you love what you are doing and who you are doing it with the memories… Continue reading The Year in Review 2017
Pool Parties
There is nothing like a good pool party…especially in your speedo or after a healthy swim practice. This year I celebrated a couple times poolside. The first, was a post English Channel celebration on the deck with the MIT gang. My friend, Carmen said that he would host a cupcake and francia corta (Italian sparkling… Continue reading Pool Parties
It’s a wrap…
It’s likely a wrap for the open water season of 2017. A Facebook posting by my friend Maura of a casual swim in Southie with a handful of hardy L Street swimmers got me back in open water. It was my first time in open water since September 30th. Walking to the Bath House bundled… Continue reading It’s a wrap…
Goggle Reflections 