This site is devoted to swimming. Why is it called Twenty-Three Seconds? Because my goal is to swim 50 meters within twenty-three seconds. Follow along as I analyze my crawl stroke to death and maybe you'll learn a few things to improve your own time.

2007 Looking At My Progress Over The Year

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At some point it is important to look back and enjoy the gains you have made. I often forget how far I have come and I really enjoy thinking back to one year ago, thrashing around, the water fighting me on every stroke. My first blog post on swimming came on June 27th and I […]

No, I didn’t Drown

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Being sick is seriously not fun. I had a week of vacation and I thought I would rest my arms as I had strained my tendons. But then I went and got sick. Ouch, out of the pool for two weeks.
After jumping back in this week I have made a massive un-improvement. In fact, my […]

What Are You Training For? 17.91 seconds on 25 meters

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Although not my fastest time it is nice to be able to stay under 18 seconds. Today, after swimming, one of the very nice life guards asked me what I was training for.  I was a bit surprised, but told him that I wasn’t training for anything but just to be able to swim as […]