While I’m swimming there always comes a point where I start to think about what I will write in my blog that day. Today I thought, I’m going to combine yesterday and today into one blog. Then I thought, You can’t do that! It’s cheating! And then I realized that this whole daily blogging and… Read More Clearer Waters (Day 243 & 244)
Sheila recently joined the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco’s Aquatic Park and she invited us over for a swim there this afternoon. It’s a remarkable place in many ways. First: the location. It sits directly on the beach, next door to its sister (rival?) swimming club, the Dolphin club, in the heart of… Read More South End Rowing Club (Day 234)
I was going to be working in San Francisco today and so I decided it was a good opportunity to swim in Aquatic Park where there is less concern about algae and where I should be getting some practice in anyway because we will be doing the Alcatraz swim in less than a month! Angie… Read More Aquatic Park (Day 230)
I missed my morning swim to pick up Kevin from the airport. He’s been in Australia all week and got in early this morning, which is kind of a great time to arrive after a really long flight. He’d slept and was ready for a full day and I was glad for the chance to… Read More Sail and Swim (Day 148)
The first time I saw the swimmers at Aquatic Park, I was chaperoning a 5th grade overnight field trip to a 300 ft, square-rigged tall ship called the Balclutha. Built in 1886 for the grain trade, the Balclutha is now a national historic landmark vessel. When those 30 fifth graders from Cragmont Elementary School stepped… Read More Aquatic Park (Day 56)