Carleton Masters Swimming Newsletter #181                       Sunday, October 28^th, 2007

 

To:  Carleton Coaches (9 addresses)

 

Bcc: Those Registered for Fall 2007 and Alumni: 7:30am Earlybirds (40 addresses), 8:30am Earlybirds (27 addresses), 6pm Whitecaps "A" (34 addresses), 6pm Whitecaps "B" (30 addresses), 8pm Nightcaps (34 addresses), Masters "Alumni" (40 members).

 

 

“I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done." – A.E. Hotchner

 

 

Winter Registration: Nov 20^th

Registration for the Winter Carleton Athletics Programs (including Masters Swimming) starts on Tue Nov 20^th.  At that time you will be able to register for the winter continuation of the four groups that are currently running (7:30am Earlybirds, 8:30am Earlybirds, 6pm Whitecaps, 8pm Nightcaps), as well as for the 6:30am group.  Note, however, that the 6:30am group does not start until Feb 25^th.

 

 

Masters Swimming Ontario Newsletter

Check out the latest (October 2007) MSO Newsletter is posted on-line at: http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/MSOOct2007.pdf. 

 

 

Canadian Association for Advancement of Women in Sports and Physical Activity (CAAWS)

Mariann Domonkos is working on a photography assignment for this group.  Her photos are to show women age 55-70 involved in physical activity, including photos of them involved in physical activity with others of any age.  She’d like to take some photos of Carleton Masters workouts for this project.  No one will have their photo taken unless they are willing and have signed a waiver that their photo (but not name) may be used in CAAWS publications.  More details when they’ve been worked out.  You will find a short document telling you more about CAAWS at: http://carletonmasters.tripod.com/caaws.pdf.  Any questions or concerns, please let me know.

 

 

Swimmer Notes   

 

Swimmer News: 

   Lori Melien (Nightcaps & ROCS Coach) is mentioned in the most recent SwimNews magazine (July/August 2007) as the Canadian 13-14 National Age Group Record for LC 50m free that she set as a 14yr old in 1986 at 26.51 (swimming for Ajax Aquatic Club) was broken this summer by Amanda Reason from Windsor who did 26.38.  Lori says that she was glad to see it go (after 21 years!), as it shows that there are young Canadians swimming fast.  For those who don’t know, Lori is an Olympic medalist.  She won a bronze medal in the Seoul Olympics (1988) as the 100 backstroke swimmer on the 4x100 medley relay. 

   Colette Kenney (8:30am Earlybirds) has completed her first TriRudy award.  This involves doing the Winterlude Triathlon, Keskinada ski race, Rideau Lakes bike tour, an Ironman triathlon, and a marathon all in one year!  Well done, Colette!!

   Penny Estabrooks (8:30am Earlybirds) will be selling some of her paintings and cards made from photos of her paintings at a small Xmas Craft show featuring five artists 2-4pm Sat Nov 10^th 86 Prince Albert St off the Vanier Parkway.  RSVP by Wed Nov 7^th to lizziepea@gmail.com. 

   Charles McFarland (7:30am Earlybirds) is directing “Top Girls” (through Nov 3^rd at Arts Court: 613-236-1435).  You can watch a 2min promo on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VIo7Zz6mWM and read a review on page 30 of Friday’s Metro: http://www.metronews.ca/uploadedFiles/PDFs/20071026_ottawa.pdf.

 

Swimmer Update:  Ben Daniels (x-Whitecaps “A”) is now living in Vancouver and is back working in the Travel industry.  If anyone wants his advice on travel, his work e-mail is: ben.daniels@marlintravel.ca.    

 

Thanks to Margaret!:  Thanks to Margaret King (8:30am Earlybirds) for bringing in chocolates for the whole group after her return from Europe on Fri Oct 19^th.

 

Swimming and Performance Enhancing Drugs:  Some interesting articles on a new World Record in 50bk by a Chinese woman at the World Military Games (http://www.swimnews.com/News/displayStory.jhtml?action=get&id=5654), and Don Talbot suggesting that performance enhancing drugs be made legal (http://www.swimnews.com/News/displayStory.jhtml?id=5640, and http://www.swimnews.com/News/displayStory.jhtml?id=5641).  And a letter from Oct 16^th’s Toronto Sun by Elaine Tanner (“Mighty Mouse”, 1968 Olympic medalist): http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/Letters/2007/10/16/4579609.html. 

 

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 26^th; 19 workouts; range: 14-29; avg.: 21.7)

Perfect Attendance: Angela D

Missed 1 Workout: Carla S, Sean K, Ursula

 

8:30am Earlybirds (Sept 12-Oct 26^th; 19 workouts; range: 15-26; avg.: 20.0)

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

Missed 1 Workout: Alex R

 

6pm Whitecaps “A” (Sept 11-Oct 25^th; 19 workouts; range: 15-28; avg.: 21.5)

Perfect Attendance: Jose

Missed 1 Workout: Don W, Francois P, Lina

 

6pm Whitecaps “B” (Sept 11-Oct 25^th; 19 workouts; range: 9-19; avg.: 12.9)

Missed 4 Workouts: Christianne W, Marg E

 

8pm Nightcaps (Sept 11-Oct 25^th; 14 workouts; range 15-28; avg.: 21.3)

Perfect Attendance: Joanna B

Missed 1 Workout: Amanda G, Joanie C

 

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.

 

CANCELLED: 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

    http://www.fnq.qc.ca/ktmllite/files/uploads/Invitation_maitres%20Rencontre%203%20novembre%202007.doc

Sun Nov 11^th Etobicoke Masters Meet

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

Sat Nov 17^th Cowansville Masters Meet

    http://www.fnq.qc.ca/ktmllite/files/uploads/2e%20Invitation%20des%20maitres%20Cowansville%202007.doc

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

    http://www.fnq.qc.ca/ktmllite/files/uploads/invitation-maitres-Ste-Foy-nov-2007%20v1.doc

Sat Dec 8^th Montreal North Masters Meet

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

Sun Dec 9th St-Lambert Masters Meet

Sun Jan 6^th Muskoka Masters Meet

Sat Jan 12^th Technosport Swim Meet (Ottawa) http://ca.geocities.com/technosport@rogers.com/series/jan12_08.htm

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

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

Sun Jan 27th 1000 Islands Almost Serious Meet http://www.mastersswimmingontario.ca/pdf/AlmostSerious08.pdf

Sun Jan 27th Dufferin Masters Meet

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

Sat May 3^rd CASO Masters Meet, Montreal

     http://www.fnq.qc.ca/ktmllite/files/uploads/CASO_InvitationMaitre3mai2008.doc

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!!)

 

Sat Oct 6^th Beat Beethoven Half Marathon (73 participants)

Well done, Jolene!  Full results at: http://www.sportstats.ca. 

Jolene Harvey (7:30am Earlybirds, 30-34): 18^th overall, 6^th woman and 4^th in age group in 1:45:37.5

 

Sat Oct 13^th Run with the Champions 10k (222 participants)

Congrats to both Susan and Jolene on their races.  Jolene did this just a week after her half marathon.  Susan did a PB and won a Timex watch!  Full results at http://www.sportstats.ca. 

Susan Nevitt-Yelle (8:30am Earlybirds, 40-44): 122^nd overall, 31^st woman and 4^th in age group in 45:24.4

Jolene Harvey (7:30am Earlybirds, 30-34): 126^th overall, 34^th woman and 7^th in age group in 46:05.5

 

Ask the Coach

 

Dear Coach:  What is revIM and revIMo?  Newbie

 

Dear Newbie:  revIM or RIM starts for reverse IM.  In other words, instead of fly, back, breast and free, you start with free, then breast, back and fly.  The “o” just stands for order.  Thus is you were doing 4 x 50 revIMo, that would mean four 50s, one of each stroke, in reverse IM order.  Thus the first 50 is free, the second breast, 3^rd back and 4^th fly.  If you were doing 4 x 50 revIM (no “o”), that would mean that each 50 was done as a reverse IM, i.e. ¼ of the 50 of each stroke, i.e. the first 12.5m free, the next 12.5m breast, then 12.5 back, then 12.5 fly.

 

Dear Coach:  You mentioned prescription goggles.  How much do they cost and where can I buy them?  Short-sighted Swimmer

 

Dear S-s. Swimmer:  You can buy Speedo prescription goggles for about $25 from Sports Experts.  You need to be able to see the pace clock to know how fast you are swimming, so these are a great investment if you have poor eyesight.  They come in ½ diopters (e.g. -2, -2.5, …, up to about -8).

 

Dear Coach:  My eyesight is pretty good, but I find that red pace clock really hard to see.  When will the portable white pace clock be fixed (it’s been months)??  Frustrated Swimmer

 

Dear F. Swimmer:  I was getting frustrated, too, so I managed to fix it myself on Friday!  You’ll see it on the pool deck starting Monday.  I also resynchronized all the pool deck pace clocks, so it won’t take 5 seconds more swimming in one direction than the other when you stop at the bulkhead!

 

Dear Coach:  Can you remind me what you put in your ear drops?  Swimmer Prone to Ear Infections

 

Dear S.P.t.E. Infections:  First you need a small squeezy bottle with a small hole in the top.  The easiest way to get one of these is to buy the real ear drops (e.g. Burosol) from the pharmacy.  Once the bottle is empty, you can make your own refill.  You want to mix about 90% rubbing alcohol with about 10% vinegar or hydrogen peroxide.  These drops work well after swimming to get the water out of your ear (the rubbing alcohol helps it evaporate) and to change the Ph in your ear (the vinegar or hydrogen peroxide) so that nothing nasty will grow in your ears.

 

 

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 Tue Nov 20^th.  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