Skip to content
1000pools
the great pool quest
1000pools
  • Gene Simmons’ birthday – a bloody tale, 40 years in the making.
  • Origin Story
  • Singapore Sensation – the jaw-dropping Marina Bay Sands
  • Welcome to the epic quest to swim 1000 metres in 1000 pools
    • 5 reasons swimming is awesome
    • FAQs
    • Ocean swim #1 – trust me, it ain’t nothing like the pool
    • Pools and wildlife
    • Progress v Target
      • The History of the Quest
    • The Maps
    • The Not Top 5 pools
    • Top 5 unconquered pools
    • USA – State by State
    • What exactly is – and is not – a pool?
    • Olympic Venues
    • The Swimming – pool by magnificent pool
    • My Top 5 pools (so far)
  • Gene Simmons’ birthday – a bloody tale, 40 years in the making.
  • Origin Story
  • Singapore Sensation – the jaw-dropping Marina Bay Sands
  • Welcome to the epic quest to swim 1000 metres in 1000 pools
    • 5 reasons swimming is awesome
    • FAQs
    • Ocean swim #1 – trust me, it ain’t nothing like the pool
    • Pools and wildlife
    • Progress v Target
      • The History of the Quest
    • The Maps
    • The Not Top 5 pools
    • Top 5 unconquered pools
    • USA – State by State
    • What exactly is – and is not – a pool?
    • Olympic Venues
    • The Swimming – pool by magnificent pool
    • My Top 5 pools (so far)

February 2014

You are here:
  1. Home
  2. 2014
  3. February

2014 begins here: New York pools #327 – #330 (Chinatown, McBurney 14th St, Bronx, Vanderbilt)

Swimming blogBy adminFebruary 27, 2014Leave a comment

Last year – 2013 – was the best year for The Quest in a long, long time. A ‘no-nonsense, let’s-do-this-thing, c’mon! focus!’ kind of year that put the train back on the tracks and the target firmly in sight and a host of other mindless cliches too. Let’s see what 2014 will bring. Yes, let’s.…

USA pools – #306 – #315

Swimming blogBy adminFebruary 23, 2014Leave a comment

And on and on it goes. The size of the lockers, the state of the change-rooms, the smiles (or lack of) on the dials of the lifeguards, the number of police officers – such are but a few of the variables one encounters on Pool Quest. And in a city like New York, one feels…

USA – pools #296-#305 (2013 in review Part 1)

Swimming blogBy adminFebruary 10, 20141 Comment

I’ve been busy – swimming not blogging – and that’s how it should be. Mind you, I should do better than this. 9 months between posts is a little slack particularly when I’m knocking over new pools like gnomes before a cannonball. (I can hear some of you now muttering, ‘You’re the most worstest pool-conquering-blogger…

Go to Top