the order is the whole thing work in progress · gated
the first teaching entry. what the sequence looks like when you are the one holding the float, what a learner who does not trust the water does, and why the order is the diagnostic.
journal
a dated, append-only log from the water: teaching, training, competing. kept in the open, in order, signed by time.
the race is the warmup
the dock2dock 5km, swum. about an hour thirty six in eighteen degree water, the timing tag gone on leg three, and the eight unknowns scored: five answered, two open, one the wrong question.
i did not do b
the plan was to drop a piece after every set from the poolside in calella. i went outside and looked at spain instead. here is what the week measured, and the seven questions it did not answer.
no shade
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.