[PacMasterUpdate] September 2, 2001 Update
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Sun Sep 2 17:47:02 EDT 2001
NEW SWIMMING RULES
FINA, the international body that governs swimming at its meeting in
July issued some new technical rules of swimming. There are two
changes that are of concern to Masters swimmers.
The major change will be in the butterfly. FINA has said that
effective September 20th, there will be no breaststroke kick in the
butterfly. USMS Masters will be deciding in how to implement this
rule - USMS has complete control on the SCY rules, but not the meters
rules. There is a chance that the FINA's Masters Congress will change
the rule for Masters, but they will not be meeting till next year.
The bottom line is that if you have a chance to set a world record in
the butterfly, you should be using the dolphin kick after September
20th.
FINA also dictated that in the backstroke finish, "The body may be
submerged at the finish touch." This will allow the dive for the
finish at the end of the heat.
CLUB WEB SITES HONORED BY MACA
The Masters Aquatic Coaches Association honored Rinconada Masters,
Chris Kanazawa, web master and Menlo Masters for having one of the
ten best web site in Masters Swimming.
Rinconada Masters: http://rinc.vjungle.com/
Menlo Masters: http://www.menlomasters.com/
For a complete list of the web sites honored by MACA go to:
http://www.macacoach.org/2001winners.htm
Congratulations to the Rinconada Masters and Menlo Masters for being
one of the top ten. The Pacific Masters web site was also honored for
the third straight year as a top ten LMSC web site.
UPCOMING EVENTS
REVISED SHADOW CLIFFS OPEN WATER SWIM
There were a couple of errors on the printed meet sheet. The correct
meet sheet is posted on the Pacific Masters web site. Tri Valley
Masters will be holding the Shadow Cliffs Open Water Swim September
15th. Shadow Cliffs is near Livermore. Note that the pre-entry
deadline is September 4th.
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/01redow.html
Note that the 0.75 mile race starts at 8:00am and the entry fee is $25.00.
OFFICIALS CLINIC
There will be an officials clinic at Saratoga High School on
September 29th from 8a.m. 'til 12 noon. For more information call
408-266-2623 days, 408-268-7154 evenings.
WHISKEYTOWN LAKE OPEN WATER SWIM
The Whiskeytown Open Water Swim will be September 9th at the
Whiskeytown Reservoir - near Redding, California. There is a one and
two mile swim. The pre-entry deadline has passed but race day entry
is available.
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/01redow.html
FOLSOM LAKE OPEN WATER SWIM
The Rocklin Aquatic Masters will be running the Folsom Lake Open
Water Swim on September 22. Folsom Lake is about 30 miles east of
Sacramento. The Folsom Lake Swim is the last open water swim of the
season.
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/01ramsow.html
All the sanctioned meets meet sheets have been posted on the Pacific
Masters web site:
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html
2001 USMS 3000 & 6000 YD POSTAL CHAMPIONSHIP
For those who like to long distance swimming there is the 3000 and
6000 Postal swim. For more information contact: Doug Brogan, 398
Elmwood Rd., Bay Village, OH 44140-2417, 440-835-0142,
FitTogether at aol.com;
http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldnats01/30006000entry.pdf;
MANATEE LAKE DEL VALLE 2 X 1 MILE- Revised
The revised results of the Manatee Lake Del Valle 2 x 1 mile relay
have been posted on the Pacific Masters web site.
http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/results.shtml
The results include the splits where available.
Pacific Masters AFFILIATE
Lands End
Pacific Masters entered into a new affiliate relationship with Lands'
End Apparel . Lands' End is a maker of fine sports apparel for the
active person.
If you click on the link to Lands' End from the Pacific Masters web
site (like the link above or the link in the navigation bar) Lands'
End will rebate some of the money of your purchase to Pacific
Masters. Pacific will only receive funds if you click on the Lands
End web site from the Pacific web site
http://www.pacificmasters.org
The Pacific Masters Logo'ed shirts that meet officials wear are from Lands End.
SCHEDULING FOR NEXT YEAR
MEETS IN JANUARY
If you are planing to have a meet in January, it is important that
the meet director get the information to Barry Fasbender and Marcia
Benjamin so that your meet can be listed in Swim Magazine.
Marcia Benjamin has sent out to each club the forms to get on the
Pacific Masters schedule. If you did not receive a set of forms
please contact Marcia mailto: msbenjamin at earthlink.net . If you are
thinking about scheduling a meet, but have not put one on before or
it is not on the current schedule, contact either Barry Fasbender for
pool meets mailto:fasbenderb at aol.com or Jim Wheeler
mailto:jwheeler at sanselmo.org for open water meets. Both can tell you
about what is needed to put on a meet and give you the "inside"
information.
INSURANCE COVERAGE - ALL SWIMMERS MUST BE MASTERS
Club representative please remember that to be covered by USMS
secondary insurance ALL swimmers must be USMS members. If you are not
sure if all your club members are members of Pacific Masters, you can
go to
http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/members/clublookup.html
to see who is a member of your club.
FROM THE DESK OF COACH MIDNIGHT
The Heart of the Matter --- revisited.
Some recent research on estimating one's maximum heartrate seem to be
a bit more accurate in estimating max H.R. by using a revised
formula. In my article last week I had mentioned that the 'old
standard' formula (220 minus your 'age' = your maximum H.R.) tended
to be somewhat inaccurate.
A lot of exercise physiologists had noticed that the results they
were getting in the lab indicated that the 'formula' (220-age) was
UNDERESTIMATING the true maximal H.R. for their subjects. That is,
most subjects were recording higher maximal heart rates (max HR) than
the formula estimated.
So they did some research to 'find' a better formula. What they
found in addition to a better formula was that maximal heart rate is
directly influenced by age, and is independent of gender and fitness
level. They also found that the 'OLD FORMULA' overestimates maximal
heart rate in young adults, was accurate for those individuals around
age 40, and increasingly underestimated maximal heart rate in older
adults as the age increased.
So what is the 'NEW FORMULA' ?? It is: 208 minus ('age' x 0.7)
--
Here are some examples:
20 year old
"OLD" FORMULA: 220 - age = 200 BPM max.
"NEW" FORMULA: 208 - (age x 0.7) = 194 BPM max.
40 year old
"OLD" FORMULA: 220 - age = 180 BPM max.
"NEW" FORMULA: 208 - (age x 0.7) = 180 BPM max.
60 year old
"OLD" FORMULA: 220 - age = 160 BPM max.
"NEW" FORMULA: 208 - (age x 0.7) = 166 BPM max
80 year old
"OLD" FORMULA: 220 - age = 140 BPM max
"NEW" FORMULA: 208 - (age x 0.7) = 152 BPM max
These findings were published in the "Journal of the American College
of Cardiology". As always, each individual has their own maximal
heart rate -- but at least this new formula does a better job at
estimating the maximal heart rate for most Masters Swimmers. "Do the
Math" and see how it works for you.
Coach Midnight
SEPTEMBER 1 - CHANGE IN DUES
Effective September 1, the individual membership dues is $15.00. This
is to cover the period from registration to December 31, 2001. Please
send in the correct amount. If a swimmer sends in normal $25.00,
there will be no refund unless the member specifically requests a
refund.
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michael