journal

a dated, append-only log from the water: teaching, training, competing. kept in the open, in order, signed by time.

no shade work in progress · gated

last august i swam 4,500 metres before breakfast and my watch called it moderate. i have still never swum five kilometres without a wall.

keep swimming, ask anyway

someone asked me a question at a pool. it sent me back through every door i was scared of, and one i still haven't opened.

starting in the shallow end

why this surface exists, and the one idea under it: float first.