Road Trip to Budapest: Day 4 Dobbie reunited with Gobbie

One of the great things about World Masters is catching up with all of your swimming mates, and I was therefore slightly surprised but delighted to reacquaint myself with Gobbie the rescue dog, who first burst onto the scene at Montreal. Dogs on the pool side are not a feature you regularly come across but […]

Budapest Road Trip: Day 3 Shit Happens

So the swimming starts in earnest today and my opener is the 800 freestyle. Now trust me I am no Becky Adlington but I like to swim something early in the meet to sort of ease myself into it and the 800 for some perverse reason is the easiest way to do that. This was […]

Budapest Road Trip: Day 1 & 2

There was the usual absolute frenzy in Binge’s life as she tried to escape for the World Masters Swimming Championships in Budapest. Not helped by the fact that I fly off on a family holiday the day after I return. I know I’ve moaned how a holiday clear up involves trying to anticipate every thing […]