Carleton Masters Swimming Newsletter
#141
Sunday, April 16th,
2006
To: Carleton
Coaches (11 addresses)
Bcc:
Those Registered
for Fall 2005 / Winter 2006 and Alumni: High
Intensity (4 addresses), 6:30am Earlybirds (18 addresses); 7:30am Earlybirds (36
addresses), 8:30am Earlybirds (26 addresses), 6pm Whitecaps "A" (55
addresses), 6pm Whitecaps "B" (40 addresses), Nightcaps (40 addresses),
Masters "Alumni" (40 members).
End of Winter
Session / Start of Spring/Summer Session
The Winter session ends Thu Apr 20th / Fri Apr 21st
for all groups. (Swims run
as usual on Easter Monday Apr 17th.) The pool is
closed Apr 22nd through May 7th for annual maintenance (no
$3 workouts as there will be no water in the pool!!).
The Spring session starts Mon May 8th. Masters
groups available for Spring/Summer are: 6:30am Earlybirds; 7:30am Earlybirds;
8:30am Earlybirds (May-June only); and 6pm Whitecaps. Saturdays will be
8-9am OR 9-10am in May/June, and 10-11am ONLY in Jul/Aug. Check the
Masters web site (http://carletonmasters.tripod.com)
and the Carleton web site (http://www.carleton.ca/athletics/programs/summer_programs/aquatics.html#masters)
for full details and prices. Please register on-line or through the
Customer Service office (520-4480, 8:30am-4:30pm M-F) before the next session starts so that your
coaches have accurate class lists!
Postal Meet Open
to All
1000 Islands Y is hosting a postal
swim meet (mail in your times) that is open to everyone (you do not need to be
registered with MSO). To enter you need to be timed by two people in 50fl,
50bk, 50br, 50fs and 100IM any time in April (not all on the same day), and send
in your results by May 10th. It costs $15 and you get a
T-shirt. Let me know if you want an entry form. This is not a
sanctioned “meet” so times do not count towards club records or Ontario/Canada
2006 statistics. However, as long as your coach is one of your two timers,
your times will count towards the end of term time
trials!
MSC Board Member
Election
Masters Swimming Canada is holding
an election for 8 board members (12 are running). Carleton gets to submit
one ballot (with 8 votes). You can read the bios at: http://www.mymsc.ca/MSCNews/200604/NomineeBios_en.pdf.
If you have any input (especially if you are a regular competitor) please give
me your suggestions before the pool closes.
Swimmer
Notes
Get Well
Wishes: Whitecaps swimmer Evelyn Simpson has undergone surgery for
the removal of a benign cyst in her brain. The most recent update (from
Apr 10th) is that she is now in the Civic short-term rehab unit
undergoing occupational therapy and physiotherapy to help with the memory and
cognitive problems that are a normal short-term side effect of brain
surgery. She is expected to stay in that unit for about two weeks and
visitors are welcome.
More Get Well
Wishes: Tarek Raafat (Whitecaps “A” & Varsity
Coach) is now recovering at home after a few days in hospital after an emergency
appendectomy on Apr 11th.
Big
5-0!: Joanne Dawson (Whitecaps “A”) has a
milestone birthday coming up on Wed Apr 19th. Thus the
end-of-term dinner on Thu Apr 20th will also be a birthday
celebration for Joanne. All welcome and Joanne has chosen Infusion, on
Ease on Down the
Road (Wizard of Oz Theme): Michelle, daughter of Nicole Delisle (Whitecaps “A”) will be
performing a solo in this performance to be held at 2pm and 7pm Sat May
6th at Centrepointe Theatre. Nicole can get advance tickets for
$25 until Apr 22nd. Tickets are $29.43 at the door.
Everyone is welcome to attend the get together at Nicole’s place after the show
(
Obituary:
Ian Button (Nepean Masters Swim Club, age 30)
swam in the Technosport meet on Sat Apr 8th, doing a best time in
200IM. On Sun Apr 9th, he collapsed while cycling due to a
suspected heart arrhythmia, and tragically did not survive. Ian’s wife,
Michelle, is expecting their first child in a few months. You can read the
many memorial messages on the Nepean Masters web site: http://nmsc.org/.
Swimmer in the
News: The article on Tourette’s
syndrome featuring Francois Parent
(Whitecaps “A”) will now appear in the September issue of Canadian
Living.
Interesting
More Interesting
BIG Swim for
Arthritis: This swim for arthritis (promoting
the benefits that swimming has for those with arthritis) is being held April
20-23, 2006 at pools across
Melanie Scantland (Whitecaps “B”)
is participating in this event by doing the 5000m swim. She is collecting
pledges at the pool or you can contact her via e-mail:
Scantland.MM@forces.gc.ca.
Margaret King (8:30am Earlybirds) is
planning to do a 1500m swim for Arthritis at Carleton on Apr
21st. Here’s Margaret’s request for pledges:
On April 21 @ 0650 I will attempt my
first 1500m, non-stop, free style with perhaps a couple of 'kool' lengths
back! This will be a tribute to my parents who both suffered through
arthritis; in particular My Mum, who was crippled by this disease. Wish me
luck.
I will contribute $50 and place an
envelope on the table on the pool deck for anyone else to add a toonie or
loony. The total will be relayed to
Jasmine Tranter (Nightcaps) is doing the
2500m swim for this event.
Also, for those of you who know Vincent
Richer (Technosport), he is going to swim 40km (two 5km swims each
day) over the four days in support of this cause. Check out his web site
at: http://www3.sympatico.ca/vricher/.
As each 5k swim is going to take him 3 hours (he’s a steady but certainly not
fast swimmer!), this quite an undertaking. Vincent was recently
interviewed by CTV and an article on him appeared in the Ottawa Citizen this
past week.
Support
ROCS Swim-a-thon: From Jackie Lyons (Whitecaps “B”): On March 25th the ROCS
(Ravens of Carleton Swim Club) held their annual swim-a-thon. ROCS is the
youth swim club that you may have noticed swimming during various Master's
practices. This club has children swimming at all ages and
abilities. This swim-a- thon is a fund-raising event which helps support
our swim club as well as support Swim Ontario. I am very proud to report
that all our swimmers did amazingly well. Some of the
youngest swimmers swam up to 2600 meters in 1 1/2 hours and
at the top of the age group swimmers put in 5000 meters. It
was a very impressive to see the efforts of all the swimmers. If you would
like to pledge a swimmer for any amount you can contact Jackie Lyons j_riva@sympatico.ca and I will match you
with a swimmer. Congratulations to all the ROCS swimmers for the great
effort.
Support Cancer
Research and Coach Kristi: On July 21-23, 2006,
http://www.endcancer.ca/site/TR?px=1210135&s_redId=13435&fl=en_US&s_tafId=13970&pg=personal&fr_id=1160
Carleton Swim Suits:
Price is $70 for the women's suits
($55 for girl's) and $35 for the men's (cash or cheque payable to
"
Nose Clips for
Winter Session
Information
This is where the winter attendance
stats are listed along with information on upcoming special workouts (e.g. time
trials). The regular workout themes are posted on the web site.
Congrats to all who participated in the end-of-term 800/1500 time trial.
You have just a couple more days to do short distance time trials – ask your
coach for details! As usual, for the last day of the session (Thu Apr
20th / Fri Apr 21st) there will be a “fun” set – feel free
to give input to your coach!
Congratulations to the five
swimmers
with perfect attendance since January, plus the additional
two 6:30am Very Earlybirds with
perfect attendance to date (6 weeks):
6:30am
Earlybirds
(Mar 6-Apr 12th; 17 workouts; range 8-17; avg:
12.3)
Perfect Attendance: Sean K, Ursula
Missed 2 Workouts: Dave S, Francois
A
7:30am
Earlybirds
(Jan 4-Apr 12th; 43 workouts; range 9-22; avg:
14.2)
Perfect Attendance: Leona
Missed 2 Workouts: Francois A
8:30am Earlybirds
(Jan 4-Apr
12th; 43 workouts; range 8-20; avg:
13.9)
Missed 1 Workout: Alan H
6pm Whitecaps
“A” (Jan
3-Apr 13th; 44 workouts; range 19-38; avg:
24.9)
Perfect Attendance: Don W, Francois P, Gi, Joanne
D
6pm Whitecaps
“B” (Jan
3-Mar 28th; 37 workouts; range 14-26; avg: 19.6) [to be updated next
time]
Missed 1 Workout: Christiane W
Missed 2 Workouts: Suzanne L
8pm
Nightcaps
(Jan 3-Apr 13th; 30 workouts; range 10-22; avg: 15.1)
Missed 1 Workout: Elizabeth P
Masters Swimming
Competitions
You must
register annually with Masters Swimming Ontario (MSO) if you want to
compete in Masters Swimming competitions. Cost is $26 for a registration
good until Dec 31/06. Contact
Some preliminary information on
upcoming local and championship meets for the season is given below. Full
details on all Ontario Masters competitions can be found at: http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/competition/schedule01.htm. For
Fri Apr 21 – Sun
Apr 23rd
**NEW **
Sun May 7th am
Sat May 13th
am Technosport Sprint Meet
(
May
19-22nd, 2006 National Championships
(
Sat Jun 3rd
am Technosport Distance Meet
(
Aug 4-11th,
2006 XI FINA World Masters
Championships,
Race
Results: (Please send
in your results!!)
Sat Mar
11th Technosport Swim Meet
We are still awaiting the official
results, which should eventually be available here: http://ca.geocities.com/technosport@rogers.com/results/results.htm.
Sat Mar
18th Dollard-des-Ormeaux Swim Meet
Results are now available at: https://www.swimdirect.ca/publicresults/prMeetResultsDetail.aspx?season=2005&unit=FNQ&meetpk=4109&meettype=18.
While times were reported last time, here’s how we
placed:
Rob
T (Earlybirds / Nightcaps, 50-54):
2nd 100fs, 200fs; 3rd 50fs,
100IM
Lynn (Coach,
45-49): 1st 50fs, 100fs, 400fs, 100IM,
200IM
Fri Mar
31st – Sun Apr 2nd
Three Carleton swimmers
participated. Preliminary results are available at: http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/ontario%20championship/champinfo.htm.
A photo of Carleton’s three representatives can be found at: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com/aphoto.html.
Here’s how they did:
George (Whitecaps
“B”, 80-84): 1st 200fs, 50bk; 2nd 50br,
100br
Andrew
P (Whitecaps “B”, 55-59):
3rd 50br, 100br; 5th 50fl
Rob
T (Earlybirds / Nightcaps, 50-54):
3rd 200IM (club record 3:24.42); 7th 50fl (club record
38.75); 14th 100fs (club record 1:16.27), 200fs; 15th
50fs, 100IM (club record 1:27.31)
Sat Apr
8th Technosport Swim Meet
We had a great turn out for the
meet. There were 14 Carleton swimmers/coaches competing: Margaret K (8:30am Earlybirds), Francois A (Earlybirds), Lynn (Coach), Pete L (Whitecaps “A”), Chad (Whitecaps “B”), Elizabeth P (Nightcaps), Anna P (Nightcaps), Ben D (Whitecaps “A”), Laura S (Whitecaps “A”), Steve Morris (Whitecaps “A”), Crystal (Whitecaps “A”), and Susanne R (High Intensity), plus 8:30am
Earlybird Larry D (swimming for
Ottawa Y), and coach Danny F
(swimming for Technosport). Full results will eventually be available at:
http://ca.geocities.com/technosport@rogers.com/results/results.htm.
You can check out a few photos, courtesy of Vincent Richer (TECH) at: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com/aphoto.html.
And here’s a summary of some highlights:
Margaret
K (8:30am Earlybirds, 75-79): 3 club
records 50fs (1:14), 100fs (2:52), 100bk (3:36)
Francois
A (Earlybirds, 45-49): 3 club records
& PBs 100fs (1:03.6), 400fs (4:53), 100br
(1:18)
Lynn (Coach,
45-59): 2 club records 50br (40.5), 200fl (2:28.27 – WR &
PB)
Pete
L (Whitecaps “A”, 40-44): club record
200IM (2:41)
Ben (Whitecaps
“A”, 25-29): just outside club record 200fs
(2:06.3)
Steve
Morris (Whitecaps “A”, 25-29): just missed
his own club record 50br (34.1)
Laura
S (Whitecaps “A”, 25-29): first CAPS
meet with some very fast times, e.g. 50fl (32)
Susanne
R (High Intensity, 25-29):
2nd CAPS meet (PBs 400fs, 100fl)
Elizabeth P (Nightcaps, 30-34):
2nd CAPS meet (PBs 100fs, 100br, 50fl)
Anna P (Nightcaps, 25-29):
2nd CAPS meet (times near to PBs)
Lynn, Ben, Laura,
Steve: club record 120+ 4x50 XFR
(1:51.5)
Larry
(8:30am Earlybirds, 65-69, OTTY):
improved in 50br
Danny
(Coach, 35-39, TECH): National
record in 400IM (4:50)
Danny, Crystal,
Laura, Steve: exhibition swim, near CAPS club
record 120+ 4x50 XMR (2:08)
Ask the
Coach
Dear
Coach: Can you recommend somewhere
to swim when the Carleton pool is closed? Keen
Swimmer
Dear K. Swimmer: Two good
pools (cool-ish water temperature, lots of lane-only swimming) are the Ottawa U
pool and the
Dear
Coach: I get a headache after we do
long swims. Any suggestions? Sore Head
Dear S. Head: There are quite
a few possibilities. First check that your cap and/or goggles aren’t too
tight. You may want to try swimming without a cap for longer distances, as
the cap can cause you to overheat. Ensure that you are keeping well
hydrated. If you are doing a longer swim, drink lots of fluids before the
swim. Also, you may be exerting yourself more in a longer swim so the
headache could be due to stress or overheating. If the headaches are
frequent and severe, seek medical advice.
Dear
Coach: What is the theme for the
next workout? Curious Swimmer
Dear C. Swimmer: While the
coaches are happy to answer these questions on deck, rather than sending us
e-mails to ask questions like this, please check the web site first. The
workout themes and lots of other useful information can be found there: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com.
If there is other information that would be useful on the web site, let me
know! (I’m working on the workout themes for
Spring/Summer.)
Dear
Coach: I’m expecting! What are
the do’s and don’ts in the pool during pregnancy?
Mom-to-be
Dear M-t-be:
Congratulations!! It’s always best to be cautious with your exercise
during pregnancy, and you should first ask your doctor for general guidelines
for you as to amount and intensity of exercise. Be sure to explain how
much you exercised before you got pregnant, as that is an important
factor. Unless your pregnancy is high risk, basically just listen to your
body. Some women find that certain strokes become uncomfortable but it’s
not the same for everyone. Some find backstroke makes them nauseous.
Some find their breaststroke feels quite uncoordinated due to the change in
centre of gravity. Some prefer to avoid flip turns. If you go
through a period in your pregnancy when you feel very tired, you’ll likely want
to take it easier than usual in the pool. If any strokes feel
uncomfortable, just ask the coach to modify the workout to avoid those
strokes. Don’t be afraid to move to the end of the lane or move down a
lane as your pregnancy progresses as you’ll be pulling more weight through the
water and will be less streamlined!
Dear
Coach: I’m working on my flip
turns. Can you go over what angle I should push off at, when I should
start kicking and when I should start to swim?
Flip-Turner
Dear F-Turner: Sure. You
should push off the wall with your toes pointing straight up (on your back) with
a bit of a twist. You should be completely submerged with your feet about
as deep as the horizontal part of the “cross” on the wall. Your shoulders
should be slightly below your hips so that you push of at a slight downwards
angle. You should hold your streamline tightly for a couple of seconds,
and add in your kick (flutter or dolphin) as you start to slow down (3-6m for
most). You want to start swimming with a strong stroke, timed so that your
shoulder breaks the water just as your hand finishes the stroke. Get your
coach to watch your turn and give you some tips.
Private and Semi-Private Masters
Swim Lessons
Spring Availability: (May
8th – June 30th)
Mon/Fri 9:45-10:45am
Mon/Tue/Thu
7:15-8:00pm
Tue/Thu
7:30-8:30am
Tue/Thu
3:30-4:30pm
Wed
6-7pm
Wed
7-8pm
2005-2006
Prices:
Private:
Non-Members: $55 for 1 hour, $100 for
2, $140 for 3, and $180 for 4 hours, all plus GST.
Semi-Private (2-3
swimmers; per swimmer):
Non-Members: $35 for 1 hour, $65 for 2, $90 for 3,
and $115 for 4 hours, all plus GST.
(Carleton Members get a 25% discount on
the above prices.)
Contact
Reminders .
Web Site Links and Newsletter
Archive:
Some swimmers reported that they had
problems viewing some of the recent photos. It's sometimes easier to
access the web site pages, by going to the main page (http://carletonmasters.tripod.com)
and then clicking on the link of interest (e.g. recent
photos).
Also, if your copy of the newsletter
does not arrive or is accidentally deleted, you can view all the old newsletters
on the web site.
Newsletter: An
e-newsletter (like this one) is sent out about every two weeks. If you
have new lane-mates, please mention to them that they should give their e-mail
address to their coach if they'd like to receive
it.
Suggestions for Workouts or
Interested in Making up a Workout or a Set?: If you
have suggestions for the workouts (something you like that we never do, or
something you dislike that we do too much!), or if you'd like to try making up a
workout or a set in a workout, just talk to your coach.
Interested in Copies of the
Workouts?: Are you
interested in getting copies of
Weekly Social
Events: All swimmers are invited to join
us for:
- Thursday Dinner (after Whitecaps
workout: all year)
- Thursday Drinks (after Nightcaps
workout: Sept-Apr)
- Saturday Brunch (after 9-10am
workout: Sept-Jun; after 10-11am workout: Jul-Aug)
Meet by the Control Desk after
workout.
Triathletes: Check out
Rudy
Hollywood’s website: http://www.trirudy.com and
subscribe to the daily tri-news e-mail.
General
Information: Program
information, photos, old newsletters and the Carleton Masters records, among
other things, can be viewed at: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com.
Your input to this newsletter is
most welcome, especially for the Swimmer Notes, Race Results and Ask
the Coach sections! To be added to or removed from the receiver list,
just let me know (lynnmarshall@sympatico.ca).
Happy lengths!
lynnmarshall@sympatico.ca (or for
quicker response: lynnmar@sce.carleton.ca)
Club
website: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com