This e-mail is being sent to the Early Bird Masters
group. To be added to or removed from this e-mail list, just let me
know (lynnmarshall@sympatico.ca). I
plan to send out e-mails approximately once per week with general program
information and updates.
Welcome to the Early Birds group! I look
forward to working with you this summer.
Thanks to those who have submitted their
questionnaires (Andy, David, Alan, Katie, Will, Bernie and Penny). If you
have not yet completed a questionnaire and prefer an electronic version, let me
know and I'll send you one. In any case, please return the questionnaire
to me on Friday or early next week.
As I believe that everyone needs to set goals to
improve, I have asked you to pick one or two events to focus on for the first
seven weeks (until June 22nd). For those who will be continuing on in July
and August, we will then have another ten week cycle. If you are also
working towards any other competitions, let me know.
You will be doing a "time trial" in your chosen
event(s) on Monday (May 14th) or Wednesday (May 16th) next week. If you
are not able to make those dates, you can do your time trial this Friday (May
11th). You'll then do a second time trial for the same event(s) during the
week of June 18-22nd. If you'd like to use the starting blocks, please
arrive 10min early to help set them up, and stay after practice to remove
them!
Here's a list of events chosen so far:
Andy: 50 breast and 100IM
David: 50 free and 50 back
Alan: 1500 free
Katie: 50 free and 50 fly
Will: 50 free and 50 breast
Bernie: 100 breast and 100IM
Penny: 400 free and 200IM
And some other information from the forms received
to date:
Number one reason for swimming with
Masters:
General fitness: 4 people
Keep fit for Varsity: 2 people
Fun/Social aspects of training with a
coached group: 1
Number one thing to work on this
session:
Endurance: 3
Speed: 1
Freestyle technique: 1
Fly technique: 1
Everything(!): 1
Some people have expressed interest in swimming in
Masters competitions (in pools and open water). Lots of information can be
found at: http://www.sentex.net/mso/,
or ask me for details.
There is some interest in special clinics and open
water swims. I'll pass along more details in early June.
Some of you have asked about occasionally attending
different Masters workouts from those you've signed up for (due to conflicts,
etc.). Feel free to swim at 8:30am instead of 7:30am or vice versa.
There's also no problem with attending the occasional evening workout
(6:00-7:10pm Mon, Tue, Thu), but please let me know so that I can ensure the
evening coaches are in the loop.
Please note the following
cancellations: Monday May 21st (Victoria Day) and Saturday May 26th
(pool booked for a triathlon). Renee, Penny and Brooke (and perhaps
others?) will be competing in the triathlon -- go, Carleton, go!!
Good luck to Will who will be competing in the
National Underwater Hockey championships in Edmonton over the May long
weekend! I'll be in Calgary that weekend for the Masters Nationals, so
Carleton will be well represented in Alberta!
I will be away from May 18th-May 25th. Sharon
Yake will be coaching those morning workouts. You'll be in good
hands! When I return on May 28th, we'll start doing more specific training
related to your chosen event(s).
