I had a very nice swim this morning; I worked on long strokes and keeping my stroke count down. After the weeks of having the plague, I’m finally starting to feel strong in the water again. So I swam and swam and kept swimming until I’d finished...

I've seen Waterworld; I know that if we covered the Earth in water a few of us would mutate quickly to get gills and webbed fingers. And then maniacs on jetskis would try to kill us. But then again we'd get to sail a post-apocalyptic trimaran so all...

Chopstick had her first bad meet in almost a year this weekend. After one race, she actually complained that she felt “slow”. I can tell you this isn’t typical; usually her worst times are about 0.2 seconds slower than her personal best. This...

As I was finishing my swim yesterday, the local masters coach asked me my stroke count. I dusted off my dazed and confused look that I use for such occasions and said, "huh?". Of course I know what it means but I never thought about how it might...

There were no meets this weekend. This is, of course a very rare occurrence but very welcome one. Because I got to marry my two favorite things: the kids and sailing. About a month ago, we took one of Chopstick's very good friends (a classmate...