This blog was started to chronicle my goal of swimming in fifty different pools in my 50th year. Clearly, I’m we’ll past 50 pools and just a few years over my fiftieth year😉. As my readers have observed the therapeutic writing of this blog allows me to ponder all things water, swimming and travel. The… Continue reading #124~Purple & Gold
Social Swimming
Many people think swimming isn’t a social sport. It’s easy to think that as one’s head is mostly in the water. To the contrary as any swimmer knows, swimming is very social. The short periods of times between sets or intervals can be filled with intense conversation on a wide range of topics. Some topics… Continue reading Social Swimming
No flip turns…
Aside from a lap around Manhattan (20 Bridges) and a couple long lake swims my swimming this year has basically been in a pool…lots of flip turns! On vacation I was set to change that! Post the family wedding celebration in Portland we were off to the Big Island for fun and swimming in the… Continue reading No flip turns…
Walking in LA…
For my readers of a certain age, whose formative musical era, like mine was the 1980’s you are no doubt familiar with the 80’s band Missing Persons. My favorite song of theirs was Walking in LA. I have done a lot of Swimming in LA. In fact I have swum in 7 pools in Los Angeles (two@USC, two@UCLA,… Continue reading Walking in LA…
I want to be a part of it…
“I want to be a part of it…New York, New York”~Theme song from the film New York, New York A “part of it” I sure was on July 1st as I swam a lap around Manhattan! My heart had been set on this swim for quite some time. I had been training and thinking about… Continue reading I want to be a part of it…
Home Stretch
When I think of the word “home stretch” I think of beautiful thoroughbreds galloping down the “home stretch” of Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Derby. While I am clearly not a thoroughbred or an elite athlete nor am I finishing my big event (I haven’t even started) I am in the home stretch of my… Continue reading Home Stretch
Long weekend
I had a long weekend. When you hear that phrase typically it means someone is taking a day off work and making it a long weekend. That was not the case for me. With three weeks left before 20 Bridges (swimming around Manhattan) I needed to do two long back to back swims. Effectively a… Continue reading Long weekend
Swim to eat
Sometimes we eat to provide nourishment for our bodies to swim and other times we simply just swim so we can eat good food and to celebrate. There have been three notable occasions lately that confirm that not only do I swim for exercise and friendship but I also swim to celebrate and enjoy good… Continue reading Swim to eat
#122 & #123~PacNW
With the empty nest and Courtney going to school in Seattle I suspect trips and new pools in the Pacific Northwest will be a bit more in vogue. The reason for this trip was Parents Weekend at Kappa Kappa Gamma. It was a packed fun filled weekend of potluck dinners, father/daughter and mother/daughter outings and… Continue reading #122 & #123~PacNW
#121~ALTS Week
April is Adult Learn to swim month for U.S. Masters Swimming. Statistics continue to show that adults not being able to swim is a real issue. More than a third of adults in the United States cannot swim the length of the pool 52% are considered unsafe around water by the American Red Cross 10… Continue reading #121~ALTS Week
Goggle Reflections 