Family vacation brings us back to Nantucket for a week. When asked where we should spend the last full week before Ryan goes off to college it was a resounding-Nantucket! Yesterday I swam at the Nantucket Community Pool a short bike ride from our house. While I had my alarm set for 6:30am I was… Continue reading #32-ACK is back!

Yesterday was the 106th Boston Light Swim from the oldest light in the United States to the Curley Community Center/L Street Bathhouse in South Beach.  An 8 mile swim through the Boston Harbor Islands a National Recreation Area. There were 22 solo swimmers and about 6 relays of two to four swimmers. I did it… Continue reading Boston Light Swim 2013-#13BLS

Wow-pool #31 was an unexpected surprise. In fact, it was a delight! Today at lunch I went to the Magazine Beach Bath House on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. For years driving on the Mass Pike near the Allston/Brighton tolls I have seen this pool just across the Charles River and wondered what it was all… Continue reading #31: Afternoon Delight…Magazine Beach Bath House, Cambridge, MA

In this quest for 50 pools I have no shame in asking friends to let me swim at their clubs.  This time I imposed upon Coach Bella. She is a friend and fellow coach for the Tide. Along with her swimming prowess she is also an avid tennis player.  I was able to catch up… Continue reading #30: No shame…Wightman Tennis Club

#29 brings me to my first private home pool and to the Tocci’s residence. The Toccis are a swimming family and have been good friends since Ryan joined the Gators  over nine years ago. Francesca and Bianca are fast swimmers and were very helpful in the morning practice carpool from Bentley  to school. Noah has… Continue reading #29: 467 Wellesley Road, Weston, Ma

This years John Hancock Funds Summer Sales Meeting was at the Grand Floridan at Walt Disney World. The half day work session on July 22 gave me the chance to create that Disney Magic and find pool #28 at the YMCA of Central Florida in Orlando. The Y sat along the highway in a strip… Continue reading Magical #28-YMCA Aquatic Center of Central Florida

This years NLC was a MIT Masters Swim Fest. To my surprise Ryan decided to get up at 6:00am to ride with me to York, ME to check out the Light. It was also an opportunity to get out and do some long boarding. The 2.4 mile swim ended up being 2.8 miles via the GPS… Continue reading Nubble Light Challenge 2013

This weeks two new pools took me to the rarefied surroundings of the country club scene in suburban Boston. As I don’t frequent this circuit often I was careful about my swim suit choices so as not to shock the members or embarrass family and friends. The first pool was at Woodland Country Club in… Continue reading The Country Club Scene-#26 & #27

As I had blogged before we classed it up for the last two nights and stayed at the Cirigan Kempinski Palace Hotel. I had stayed there 18 years ago on a NASL trip on the Sea Cloud and it was great as I remembered. The property is beautifully set on a wide expanse of the… Continue reading Pool #25 Cirigan Kempinski Palace Hotel-Istanbul

The marquee event of this grand adventure turned out to be be even better than expected!!! After a big night at Galatasaray Island we checked into our Ottoman Sultan like hotel at the Ciragan Kempinski Palace Hotel. After a brief respite in our luxurious new surroundings we went to athlete accreditation at the park nearby… Continue reading 25th Bosphorus Cross Continental Swim