Category: Event

Swim Training Patterns Work Out

I have spent far too much time in the pool training for the 2025 New Zealand Masters Swimming National Competition that took place last weekend in Auckland. I varied my training using Swim Training Patterns. They kept from going insane by swimming up and down the lanes.

All that training worked out rather well. I managed to win the gold medal in my age group for both abled and para swimmers. It is likely the first time a para swimmer has also won the able-bodied swimming competition, but I might be wrong on this. The results and times are available.

 

Peer Review Review

Please come and join me for a Nerd Nite on October 4th (6:30pm) at the Little Andromeda theatre. I will be ranting about about the peer review process. Here is a short summary of the talk:

The peer review process is essential to modern science. Researchers conduct studies and submit their results to a journal. An editor manages a review process involving external experts. But what happens when you study the peer review process itself. How do scientific organisations react when they become the subject of an experiment? Not well, to say the least.