The boys’ high school swim season in Connecticut is about four months long. And the way a high school swim season works is you train your ass off for the majority of the season. For like a hundred days, you bust your butt in the pool. You get the shit kicked out of you six […]
leading by example
Don’t Be A Hypocrite
I was up today at 4 a.m. so I had time to take a shower and do a couple things before I had to leave the house at 5:30 a.m. with Number 5 and Number 7 for a swim meet. It’s been pretty much nonstop since then, aside from 3 – 4:15 pm when I […]
They Are Watching
This morning I went for a run. I left the kids at home. I told them I’d be gone for about 45 minutes, and I gave them two simple directions: Do your jobs, and don’t kill each other. I ran a little over four miles. It was some alone time and some brain therapy and […]