Carleton Masters Swimming Newsletter #180                       Sunday, October 14^th, 2007

 

To:  Carleton Coaches (9 addresses)

 

Bcc: Those Registered for Fall 2007 and Alumni: 7:30am Earlybirds (39 addresses), 8:30am Earlybirds (27 addresses), 6pm Whitecaps "A" (34 addresses), 6pm Whitecaps "B" (26 addresses), 8pm Nightcaps (31 addresses), Masters "Alumni" (26 members).

 

 

"Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people." – Nido Qubein

 

 

Saturday Reminder!!

Don’t forget that the Saturday morning times for this season are 8:30-9:30am or 9:30-10:30am (30min later than last season).

 

 

Weekly Social Events

Did you know about the regular weekly social events?  A group goes out for dinner after the Thursday Whitecaps workout.  A group goes out for drinks after some Thursday Nightcaps workouts.  And a group goes to brunch at the Greek Souvlaki House (Heron & Prince of Wales) after the later Saturday workout.  The size of the groups varies from week to week and new swimmers are always welcome!  Ask your lane-mates or coach for more information.

 

 

Swimmer Notes   

 

Birth Announcement:  Jeffrey Furry (x-7:30am Earlybirds), Julie Deschenes-Furry (7:30am Earlybirds) and Laurent are proud to announce the birth of Élise Amélie Furry, born yesterday morning, October 13th at 8:40am.  Élise entered the world after 16 hours of labour weighing 7 lbs 10 oz.  Mom and baby are both doing extremely well and returned home the same day from the hospital.  Dad is busy learning how to insert French accents into e-mails.  A small album of pictures is posted on-line. 

 

Swimmers in the News:  Two of the 7:30am Masters were featured in the Thu Oct 4^th Ottawa South local newspaper (The News EMC) on consecutive pages:

   p.19. Jim Lee (7:30am Earlybirds and stroke survivor) buying the first leaf of “Tree of Life” at Merivale Mall Shoppers Drug Mart.  This is a fundraiser for local hospitals.

   p.20. Sean Kelly (7:30am Earlybirds) playing Alex Cullen in a mystery dinner last year, with an accompanying article on this year’s event in which Sean will also play a leading role.

   Thanks to Sean for bringing this to my attention.

 

Chicago Marathon:  Colette Kenney (8:30am Earlybirds) was one of the few to finish the Chicago Marathon last weekend despite a heat advisory (for this normally cool fall marathon).  The marathon was stopped by the organizers part way through: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-71007marathon-short-story,0,7788754.story?coll=chi-leisure-hed.  Great job, Colette! 

 

New Fly Drill?!:  For those who didn’t find the recent fly drills challenging enough, a 10 year old Chinese girl, Huang Li, recently swam 3.2km in 3hrs in a tributary of the Yangtze river with her ankles and wrists bound: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2588962.ece.   

 

Nose Clips for Sale:  Cost $5.  Contact Lynn if you are interested.

 

 

Fall Session Information

This section of the newsletter contains information on upcoming special workouts / sets as well as the names of those who attend most regularly.

 

Here's the summary of the weekday attendance to date for the Fall session.  (We don’t take attendance regularly on Saturday.)  Those with perfect weekday attendance for the whole session receive a certificate.

 

7:30am Earlybirds (Sept 12-Oct 12^th; 13 workouts; range: 20-29; avg.: 25.6)

Perfect Attendance: Angela D, Carla S, Ursula

Missed 1 Workout: Carmel, Sean K

 

8:30am Earlybirds (Sept 12-Oct 12^th; 13 workouts; range: 16-26; avg.: 21.1)

Perfect Attendance: Alex R, Amir, Colette K, Penny, Susan N-Y

Missed 1 Workout: Alan H, Tanya L

 

6pm Whitecaps “A” (Sept 11-Oct 11^th; 13 workouts; range: 21-28; avg.: 23.1)

Perfect Attendance: Jose, Lina

Missed 1 Workout: Don W, Francois P

 

6pm Whitecaps “B” (Sept 11-Oct 11^th; 13 workouts; range: 9-19; avg.: 13.4)

Missed 1 Workout: Jackie L

 

8pm Nightcaps (Sept 11-Oct 11^th; 10 workouts; range 17-28; avg.: 22.7)

Perfect Attendance: Joanna B

Missed 1 Workout: Amanda G, Graham L, Jade G, Joanie C, Kathy B, Shauna I

 

Masters Swimming Competitions

You must register annually with Masters Swimming Ontario (MSO) if you want to compete in Masters Swimming competitions.  Registration for 2007-2008 is on now.  As the main batch of club registrations has already been mailed, your cost is $26 for registration ($25 for MSO, $1 for postage/handling).  Your MSO membership will be good until Dec 31^st, 2008.  Contact Lynn for more details.  Note that you must register with MSO at least 3 weeks before the due date of your entry for your first competition. 

 

Full details on all Ontario Masters competitions can be found at: http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/competition/schedule01.htm.  For Quebec competitions see http://www.fnq.qc.ca/calendrier.html (Masters meets are shaded blue). 

    

Here’s a list of upcoming competitions (mostly) in Ontario and Quebec.  More meets will be added as the information become available.  Note that meet entries and confirming meet information and entry dates are your responsibility.  More meets, information and web links (if not listed below) should be available shortly, or look at the full schedules as per the above.

 

Sat Oct 13^th Brantford Masters Meet http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/BRNTFallSprintSplash.pdf

Sun Oct 28^th Downtown Swim Club, Toronto, Masters Meet

    http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/VeryScary.pdf

Sat Nov 3^rd Technosport Swim Meet (Ottawa) http://ca.geocities.com/technosport@rogers.com/series/nov3_07.htm

Sat Nov 3^rd Brossard Masters Meet

Sun Nov 11^th Etobicoke Masters Meet

    http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/EOMAC-ThirdNotSerious.pdf

Sat Nov 17^th Cowansville Masters Meet

Sun Nov 18^th Kingston Masters Meet http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/OHM07info.pdf 

    http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/OHM07IndivReg.pdf 

    http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/OHM07RegRelay.pdf

Fri-Sat Nov 23-24^th Montreal Cup Masters Meet (Claude Robillard)  http://www.acontrecourant.qc.ca/en/coupe/

Sat-Sun Nov 24-25^th Sainte-Foy Masters Meet

Sat Dec 8^th Montreal North Masters Meet

Sun Dec 9^th North York Masters Meet http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/Pentathlon2007Reg.pdf

Sun Jan 6^th Muskoka Masters Meet

Sat Jan 12^th Technosport Swim Meet (Ottawa)

Sun Jan 20^th Alderwood Teddy Bares Masters Meet, Toronto

    http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/ATB2008.pdf

Sat Feb 2nd Rideau Speedeaus Meet (Ottawa) TBC

Sun Feb 10^th London Masters Meet

Sat-Sun Feb 16-17^th LaSalle Masters Meet

Sun Feb 17^th Burlington Masters Meet http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/BMSCmeet.pdf

    http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/BMSCReg.pdf

Sat Feb 23^rd Nepean Masters (Ottawa) LCM Meet

Sun Mar 2^nd Milton Masters Meet

Sat Mar 8^th Technosport Swim Meet (Ottawa)

Sat Mar 15^th Dollard-des-Ormeaux Masters Meet

Fri-Sun Mar 28-30^th Ontario Provincial Masters Champs, Etobicoke

Fri-Sun Apr 11-13^th Quebec Provincials, Trois-Rivieres

     http://www.fnq.qc.ca/fichiers/0804_Inv27eChamp_prov_maitres_Manuvie.pdf

Sat Apr 12^th Technosport Swim Meet (Ottawa)

Apr 15-25^th World Masters Aquatic Championships, Perth, Australia http://www.2008finamasters.org/

Sat May 3^rd Cornwall Masters Meet

Sat May 3^rd Technosport Swim Meet (Ottawa) TBC

Fri-Mon May 16-19^th Canadian Masters Championships, Quebec City

Sat Jun 7^th Repentigny Masters Meet

Sat Jun 28^th Masters Invitational LCM Meet, Montreal

 

 

Race Results: (Please send in your results!!)

 

Sun Oct 7^th Ottawa Fall Colours Half Marathon (591 participants)

Congratulations to Megan on her race.  She was very close to her goal of 2:30.  Full results at: http://www.sportstats.ca.

Megan Longstaff (8:30am Earlybirds, 40-44): 538^th overall; 42^nd in age group in 2:33:09 (2:32:07 chip time)

 

Sun Oct 7^th Chicago Marathon

Congratulations to Colette on finishing this race under grueling conditions (see Swimmer Notes).  Full results at: http://www.chicagomarathon.com/cms400min/chicago_marathon/. 

Colette Kenney (8:30am Earlybirds, 45-49): A finisher in 4:53:25 (4:43:38 chip time)

This was Colette’s 17^th marathon and she is a TriRudy award winner again this year (her second time)!

 

 

Ask the Coach

 

Dear Coach:  Can you please remind swimmers that if they arrive late, they should join in with their lane-mates and not start the warm up from the beginning?  Punctual Swimmer

 

Dear P. Swimmer:  Done!  Do let your coach know if someone in your lane isn’t following proper lane etiquette and he/she will speak to the swimmer.  We have a lot of new swimmers this time of year, and some are still learning the ropes!

 

Dear Coach:  Why are the change rooms so COLD???  A Frozen Swimmer

 

Dear A.F. Swimmer:  The University changes each building from A/C to heat (and vice versa) on a fixed schedule.  The heat should be turned on in Athletics on Mon Oct 15^th, so the temperature should be better then. 

 

Dear Coach:  Can you explain how to use the pace clock?  New Swimmer

 

Dear N. Swimmer:  Sure!  Swimmers should be following the pace clocks on the pool deck during the main set of their workout.  (All the pace clocks on deck have their “red” hands synchronized.)  If you have trouble seeing the pace clock, prescription swimming goggles are recommended.  These can be purchased for about $25 at Sports Experts.  If you insist on using a wrist watch, ensure that your wrist watch is synchronized with the “red” hand on the pace clocks.  When you are given a set, e.g. 5 x 100 @ 1:50, the time is the amount of time for your swim plus your rest.  Thus, if you started the first 100 on the red top (red 60), you would start the second 100 on the red 50, the 3^rd on the 40, 4^th on the 30 and last one on the 20.  If the swim takes you 1:30, you’d get 20 seconds rest.  If it takes you 1:45, you’d get just 5 seconds rest.  If it takes you 1:55, you would miss the pace time (negative 5 seconds rest!).  If you often miss the pace time, talk to your coach about a better lane for you.  For shorter distances, as it’s unlikely that you’d be getting more than one minute rest, you can generally ignore the minute hand.  Even for longer distances, it’s better to keep track of the minutes in your head (rather than using the black hand on the clock).  If you have trouble keeping track of the minutes, or are having trouble with “pace clock math” ask your coach for help.

 

 

Private and Semi-Private Masters Swim Lessons

Partial Fall Schedule (more days to come):

Fri 9:45-10:45am

 

Prices:
Private: $50 per hour, plus GST.
Semi-Private (2-3 swimmers; per swimmer): $32 per hour, plus GST.
Contact Lynn for bookings.

 

 

Reminders

 

Fall/Winter Schedule

Here’s the information on the Fall/Winter Masters sessions.  Registration for Winter starts in November.  Don’t forget that Saturday workouts are half an hour later than in the past (i.e. 8:30-9:30am OR 9:30-10:30am). 

Fall Dates: Sept 11^th – Dec 19^th, except Oct 8^th (Thanksgiving Monday)

Winter Dates: Jan 7^th – Apr 18^th, except Mar 21^st, 22^nd, 24^th (Easter Weekend)

Programs Offered:  (All programs are for members only)

7:30am Earlybirds: 7:30-8:30am MWF + 8:30-9:30am OR 9:30-10:30am Sat: $127+GST per term

8:30am Earlybirds: 8:30-9:30am MWF + 8:30-9:30am OR 9:30-10:30am Sat: $127+GST per term

6pm Whitecaps: 6:00-7:10pm MTuTh + 8:30-9:30am OR 9:30-10:30am Sat: $132+GST per term (11 lanes)

8pm Nightcaps: 8-9pm TuTh + 8:30-9:30am OR 9:30-10:30am Sat: $96+GST per term

Child Safety Supervision: 6:00-7:10pm MTuTh + 8:30-9:30am Sat: $94 (no GST) per term

6:30am Earlybirds: Feb 25-Apr 18^th only: 6:30-7:30am MWF + 8:30-9:30am OR 9:30-10:30am Sat: $64+GST

 

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 Lynn's workouts ahead of time?  Let me know.  I usually e-mail out two week’s worth of workouts on alternate Sundays.  (Note that these are only the workouts that Lynn coaches.  If Lynn is not your coach, the workouts will be different from the workouts your coach gives you!)

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 9:30-10:30am workout: Sept-Jun)

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!

Lynn

lynnmarshall@sympatico.ca (or for quicker response: lynnmar@sce.carleton.ca)

Club website: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com