[PacMasterUpdate] Pacific Masters Update, February 15, 2004

pacmasterupdate-admin at PacificMasters.org Mon Feb 16 12:17:57 EST 2004


PACIFIC MASTERS MEETING
FEBRUARY MEETING
The Monthly Pacific Masters meeting will be 
Wednesday February 18th, at 7:30 PM It will be at 
the Oak Hill Park Community Center, in 
Danville/Alamo. Directions can be found on the 
web page
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/
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RINCONADA MEET
The Rinconada Spring Meet will be Saturday, March 
6th, 2006 at Rinconada Swimming Pool. If you wish 
to swim the first event - the 1000 Free, you must 
pre-enter the meet. Registration deadline is this 
Friday, February 20th. For all the other events 
you may deck enter. FOR THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO 
MAKE QUALIFYING TIMES FOR NATIONALS, THIS IS THE 
LAST MEET BEFORE USMS SCY NATIONALS ARE DUE.
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1650 POSTAL
Tamalpias Aquatic Masters is sponsoring two 
events:  the Postal 1650. Both events can be done 
at your home pool. The 1650, by the February 29th 
(an extra day this year).
All of the meet sheets can be obtained on the Pacific Masters schedule page
  	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html
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RELAY MEET CHANGE OF DATE
The San Mateo Master Marlins Relay meet will NOT 
be on February 22nd. The new date for the San 
Mateo Master Marlins meet is February 29.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Pacific Masters honors it volunteers who have 
contributed to the sport of Masters Swimming. 
There are four awards for volunteers that are 
given out at the Pacific Masters Short Course 
Yards Championships to be held at Santa Cruz.

The four awards are
	Contributor of the Year (multiple awards)
	Personal Achievement Award (only three)
	Distinguished Service award
	Appreciation Award
The criteria for the awards are at the end of the Update.

Nominations are due to Chairman Michael Moore by 
Pacific Masters Monthly meeting on February 18th. 
If you wish to email them (Please email them by 
Tuesday evening awards at pacificmasters.org)
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SICK CALL - RICK MEIER WINDES
Rick Meier Windes is not doing well physically. 
Rick served as Pacific Masters Swimming Committee 
Chairman  in the early '90s, after holding many 
other chairs. He has also served on many USMS 
national  committees, including the Legislation 
Committee. In recent years, he and his partner 
Chris have worked as deck officials at many of 
the local meets, USMS Championships and the 
recently held IGLA meet. Rick was awarded the 
Contributor of the year in 1988 and 1992.

It is very difficult for him to get out of the 
house and watching TV can get really old very 
quickly. If you know Rick, you might want to call 
him or visit him at his home in San Francisco 
(Call first 415-285-5659) to say hi and offer 
words of encouragement.  He would love to hear 
from you
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OFFICIALS CLINIC - REDDING
Shasta College said we can hold a Stroke and Turn Clinic on February 28,
2004. Use the website below to look at the map of the Shasta College campus.

http://www3.shastacollege.edu/studev/tour/tourmap.htm

Mark has requested the room next to the pool, but the lady in charge had to
check with the basketball coaches to see if they need the room.  We will
have an early check in at 8:30 AM and the clinic will start at 9:00 AM and
last until 12:00 PM.

If there are any questions please contact:

Mark Wagner, Head Coach of the Redding Aqua Ducks <aquaduck at c-zone.net> or
Pat Roche <proche at sbcglobal.net>
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LYNN COX AT CAPITOLA BOOK STORE
Lynne Cox, author of Swimming to Antarctica, will 
be doing a book signing and talk at Capitola Book 
Café/ 1475 41st Ave. / Capitola (831) 462 4415 on 
Wednesday, February 18 at 7:30 PM.
Lynne Cox will  be in Berkeley at Cody's 
Bookstore this Tuesday Evening the 17th at 7:30pm.

"LYNNE COX describes 
<http://www.codysbooks.com/product/info.jsp?isbn=0375415076>SWIMMING 
TO ANTARCTICA: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer. 
Lynne Cox has done it all...without a wetsuit. At 
age fifteen, she broke the men's and women's 
world records for swimming the English channel. 
She was the first woman to swim Cook Strait, 
between the north and south islands of New 
Zealand. Braving 44-degree water, she swam to 
Strait of Magellan. She opened the U.S.-Soviet 
border for the first time in 48 years by swimming 
the Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia in 
38-degree water. She swam the Gulf of Aqaba 
between Egypt, Israel and Jordan. She narrowly 
escaped a shark attack to become the first person 
to swim around the Cape of Good Hope. And 
finally, in 2002, she swam one mile through 
32-degree water to the shores of Antarctica, 
where she was greeted by a flock of penguins. The 
question remains: Why would someone swim to 
Antarctica? For Cox, the answer lies somewhere 
between the pursuit of personal happiness and the 
desire to foster international diplomacy. Her 
ambitions as a swimmer reach beyond the usual 
competitive circuit. There is no Olympic medal 
for her feats, and there is no prize money. Now, 
Cox tells the story of her life as a swimmer, 
recounting in marvelous detail the conditions of 
her training and of each expedition. She pushed 
the limits of human endurance, and in so doing 
inspires citizens all over the world. A graduate 
of UC Santa Barbara, a Los Angeles Times Woman of 
the Year, a member of the Swimming Hall of Fame, 
and a contributor to The New Yorker and Los 
Angeles Times Magazine, Cox offers "an 
otherworldly existence brought hugely to life." 
7:30 PM at Telegraph Avenue
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USMS SCM TOP TEN (PRELIMINARY)
The preliminary 2003 USMS Short Course Meters top ten list is now available at
http://www.usms.org/comp/tt/.

Please report any errors to Pieter Cath.
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USMS SHORT COURSE YARDS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN INDIANAPOLIS
The complete meet information is now avaiable for 
the 2004 USMS Short Course National Championships 
at
	 http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats04/.
The meet will be held April 22-25 at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis.

The on line entry system is now available for the short course nationals at
	http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats04/onlineentry.shtml .

Entries will be accepted there until midnight on March 18 (EST).
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DAM BRAZIL TRIP
The Davis Aquatic Masters will be taking its 
annual international trip from June 18-July 6. 
This year the team will go to Brasil, including 
sightseeing in Rio de Janeiro, and two beautiful 
colonial cities in northern Brasil, San Luis and 
Recife and plenty of beach time on some of the 
most beautiful beaches in the world.  Swimmers 
will compete in two meets including the Brasil 
Masters Cup. DAM has 26 people going and room to 
take 4 more. Total cost will be about $2,000 with 
airfare included plus $100 for non-DAM members. 
Contact Coach Rick Powers for details. 
<mailto:rpswimmer at hotmail.com>rpswimmer at hotmail.com 

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Getting to the Heart of the Matter (Part 2),

by Coach Midnight

As Pacific Masters Swimming has a lot of 
Triathletes  who are splitting up their training 
time between the pool (swimming), the track 
(running), and the road (biking) it is 
instructive to know that the Maximum  Heart Rate 
(MHR) one can achieve in each of those respective 
endeavors will not be the same.

Studies have shown that MHR on a treadmill 
(running) is consistently 5-6 beats higher than 
one would achieve undergoing the same relative 
workload while on a bicycle ergometer (biking). 
And while swimming with the same level of 
physical output, one's heart rate will 'max out' 
some 10-12 beats lower than while running.

So, as an example, if you could achieve a maximum 
heart rate of 192 while doing a max effort 
session of running, you would expect to ramp it 
up to about 186-187 while biking, and about 
180-182 while swimming. It is important to 
realize, however, that in each of the above 
examples the athlete would be achieving the same 
"maximum effort" in each of the respective 
disciplines, no matter the different heart rate 
maximums achieved.

Now, here is the really important fact about 
Maximum Heart Rate:  referring back to that New 
	York Times (web page) article;  according 
to a Dr. Michael Lauer, a cardiologist and 
director of clinical research in cardiology; 
".........it is not the maximum that matters: it 
is how quickly the heart rate falls when exercise 
is stopped."  He further stated that an average 
healthy person's heart rate drops about 20 beats 
in a minute and the rates of athletes "nose dive 
by 50 beats in a minute," Dr. Lauer said.

For all you swimmers out there  -- here is my  
"Gold Standard"  as far as heart rate recovery; 
some years ago I came across an article on/about 
Jenny Turrell, a great distance swimmer from 
Australia.

She was asked by her coach to do a series of 3 x 
400 meter Free; descending to a 90% effort on the 
last one.  Her heart rate immediately after 
completing the last 400 was 170 BPM (beats per 
minute),  30 seconds later it had dropped to 60 
BPM (!), and they then took a last pulse check 30 
seconds after that (ie, 1 minute after the 400) 
.......and her pulse was now  48 BPM (!!).

Four days later she broke the World Record in the  400 Meter Free.
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have a good week
michael

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CRITERIA FOR PACIFIC MASTERS AWARDS

B.	Contributor of the Year Award
	1. The purpose of this award is to 
recognize outstanding contributions to Masters 
Swimming during the calendar year preceding the 
year in which the award is presented.
	2.The award criteria are as follows:
		a.Held current PMS registration 
during the year under consideration.
		b.Has demonstrated outstanding 
contributions to Masters Swimming, such as 
support and leadership, recruitment of members, 
program development, and promotion of Masters 
Swimming at the club, association, or national 
level(s) during the year under consideration.
	3.Nominations and Selection
		a.There shall be no more than one award given each year
		b.Nominations can be made by any 
Pacific Masters swimmer or PMS club in the form 
of a written statement based on the criteria 
above and submitted to the Chairman by the 
published deadline.
		. . .
C.Personal Achievement Award
	1.The purpose of this award is to 
recognize long term dedication to our program and 
reward noticeable improvement in one's own skills 
and times.
	2.The award criteria are as follows:
		a.Hold PMS registration for at least 3 years.
		b.Be active in local 
competitions, showing improvement in one or all 
of the following categories:  a) Top Ten rankings 
(PMS and/or USMS, any or all courses), b) Open 
Water Points Competition, or c) Other significant 
indications of personal achievement in Masters 
Swimming.
	3.Nominations and Selection
		b.Nominations can be made by any 
Pacific Masters swimmer or PMS club in the form 
of a written statement based on the criteria 
above and submitted to the Chairman by the 
published deadline.

D.Distinguished Service Award
	1.The purpose of this award is to 
recognize outstanding contributions to Pacific 
Masters Swimming.
	2.The award criteria are as follows:
		a.Maintain current PMS registration.
		b.Has consistently demonstrated 
outstanding contributions to Masters Swimming, 
such as support and leadership, recruitment of 
members, program development, and promotion of 
Masters Swimming at the club, association or 
national level.
	3.Nominations and Selection
		a.There may be multiple awards given.
		b.Nominations can be made by any 
Pacific Masters swimmer or PMS club in the form 
of a written statement based on the criteria 
above and submitted .
E.Appreciation Award
	1.The purpose of this award is to express 
special thanks to individuals or groups who have 
made significant contributions to PMS.
	2.The award criteria are as follows:
		a.Any person or group shall be eligible for consideration.
		b.This person or group shall have 
made significant contribution or effort toward 
the conduct, leadership, or support of PMS.
	3. Nominations and Selection
		a There may be multiple awards given.
		b. Nominations can be made by any 
Pacific Masters swimmer or PMS club in the form 
of a written statement based on the criteria 
above and submitted to the Chairman by the 
published deadline.
-- 
michael w. moore
michael at mwmoore.org