[PacMasterUpdate] The Update 12 January 2009

[Update on Pacific Masters Swimming sent to members and friends.]

PACIFIC MASTERS MISSION STATEMENT:
As adopted by the Pacific Masters Committee the Mission of Pacific Masters is:

Pacific Masters Swimming welcomes anyone who would like to gain and 
maintain fitness through swimming and encourages programs to foster 
this mission.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009
To all of you, may you have a very happy and prosperous  and healthy 2009

UPCOMING MEETS
FOG CITY QUADRATHON
The Fog City Quadrathon will be at the Herbst Natatorium on campus of 
St Ignatius College Prep. The Fog City meet is the first competition 
of the year. It is the 500 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free and the 50 Free.
The pre-entry deadline is 20 January ($20 for the four events) You 
can deck enter the meet at ($35 for the four events)
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09fogscy.pdf

USF VALENTINES MEET
The USF Valentines Day meet will be February 7th. This is one of the 
Pac Masters Swimming most popular meets attracting about 350 
swimmers. All swimmers are encouraged to enter the meet on-line.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/09usfscy.pdf

JON STEINER MEMORIAL MILE - TAM'S1650 POSTAL
The Jon Steiner Memorial Mile is Tam's 1650 Postal event. You can 
swim the event from now until the end of February. You just need to 
have a person to be your timer. You can enter the event on line by 
going to http://tammasters.org/PoolMileEntry (a four dollar discount 
from the paper entry).

US MASTERS SWIMMING ONE HOUR SWIM
The US Masters Swimming One Hour Postal Championship is a National 
Championships that you can compete in while not having to leave the 
comfort of your home pool. The objective is to swim as far as 
possible in one hour. The total number of yards swum determines the 
order of finish

http://www.usms.org/longdist/ldnats09/

You can swim the One Hour and the Jon Steiner 1650 at the same time, 
so you can get a two fer for your efforts.

GO THE DISTANCE
US Masters Swimming continues its fitness program of tracking your 
swimming millage in the "Go The Distance" program. The program is 
just to track your daily yardage on an Excel spreadsheet. Once a 
month send the total to the Go the Distance chief - Mary Sweat.

There are two forms that one can use. The first is the easy form of 
just tracking yardage, for those who realy want to track how that 
yardage was achieved - swimming, kicking, by stroke there is the 
advanced version of the swim sheet. (I am lucky I can just remember 
what the total yardage was for the day - let alone break it out).

Linda Schoenberger wrote about the program in her "Come Join in the 
Fun" article on the US Masters Swimming web site 
(http://www.usms.org/fitness/articleofthemonth.php?a=170).

Congratulation to Kent Price (960 Miles), Patricial Knowles (825 mi), 
Steve O'Neil (567 mi), Susan Miller (636) Jim Clemmons (619 mi), 
Sally Marshall 663 Mi Grasyon Marshall 508, Amy Beisheim 567, Andrew 
Scheiner 550 , Deb Bon 547. Pacific racked up 15395 miles, which was 
the most of any LMSC (but then we have the most swimmers). Oceana 
Zone (which includes Pacific) was fifth out of the eight zones.

I encourage all swimmers to track their yardage over the year and to 
have fun. (bet with your lane mates who will swim the most miles - 
loser buys dinner).

US MASTERS SWIMMING NEW LOGO
One year ago, U.S. Masters Swimming formed a branding task force 
charged with the responsibility of writing a position paper on the 
identity of our organization.  The brand task force developed and 
evaluated surveys and questionnaires, and conducted focus groups to 
define U.S. Masters Swimming, its members, both current and future, 
and the core beliefs of the organization.  The work of the brand task 
force led to a rebranding effort and today the unveiling of a new 
brand logo for U.S. Masters Swimming.  

"We feel that the new brand logo represents our organization, where 
we are today and where we will be in the future," commented Lynn 
Hazelwood, branding task force chair.  "We are pleased with the 
commitment of the Board of Directors and the U.S. Masters Swimming 
staff to the process and we are confident that this logo successfully 
defines U.S. Masters Swimming."

"The icon in our new logo embraces our tradition of pool swimming 
while also coming across as very inviting to recreational and fitness 
swimmers, open water swimmers and triathletes," commented Executive 
Director Rob Butcher. "It was our goal to maintain our heritage while 
also recognizing the future of adult swimming."  

All U.S. Masters Swimming clubs and  sanctioned events are encouraged 
to begin using the new brand logo according to the style guide 
applications.  The new logo and accompanying style guide of use may 
be downloaded at http://www.usms.org/logos.


APPLICATION TO OFFICIATE AT THE US MASTERS SWIMMING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
An application to  officiate at the US Masters Championships is at
	http://TinyURL.com/9jfjph
An  application is needed if you wish to work an assigned position 
(deck ref, starter, chief judge). Officials can apply for their N2, 
N3 certification.



REGISTRATION UPDATE
As of Sunday evening there were 5099 Pacific Masters members, and 99 
clubs. The club with over 90 members are:

DAM Count	442
TCAM Count	264
WCM Count	258
STAN Count	227
MAM Count	182
USF Count		181
SCSC Count	173
CRUZ Count	155
MELO Count	146
MVM Count	146
TEME Count	133
BAC Count		124
TVM Count	109
MAAC Count	108
RAMS Count	108
TSUN Count	101
RINC Count	96
SCAM Count	90

OFFICIALS CLINIC AT HEATHER FARMS
2009 Zone 2 Officials clinic on Saturday January 24, 2009 at the 
Heather Farms in Walnut Creek. Please invite any friends and other 
parents on your club that are interested to become a swimming 
official. This is for current officials to stay up to date on the 
rules, and for parents who want to become an Official.  (No prior 
experience is necessary, just an eagerness to learn, and help the 
swimming community.)

Date:          Saturday January 24th,

Time:          Set up and Registration    8:00 - 8:30
                     Clinic/Training                8:30 - 12:00

Location:    Heather Farm Park, "Club Room" - by the Pond (not by the Pool)
                     301 North San Carlos Drive
                    Walnut Creek
Directions: From I 680 North, take the Ygnacio Valley Road Exit and 
turn right.  Turn Left onto North San Carlos Drive, past Heather 
Drive and take the next left into the parking lot.
 From I 680 South, take the Treat Boulevard Exit.  Turn left onto 
North Main, and left onto Treat Boulevard.  Turn right onto Bancroft 
Road.  Turn right onto Ygnacio Valley Road.  Turn right onto North 
San Carlos Drive, past Heather Drive and take the next left into the 
parking lot.) 

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Cost:            FREE!

Light refreshments will be provided.


LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SANTA CRUZ CANCELLED
This year University of California Santa Cruz will be working on its 
50 meter pool at the East Field House. Thjey will be resurfacing the 
entire pool, sixing and replacing tile where necessary and repairing 
and replacing the gutter and lane line stays.  They expect the 
project will take to at leasst mid August.

Pacific will be looking for a new location for its 2009 Pacific 
Masters Long Course Championships.  If your team is interested in 
organizing the long course championships, please contact Barry 
Fasbender at BarryFasbender at comcast.net  . Normally there are 
400-to 600 competitors who will swim at the meet.

INDIVIDUAL  RENEWAL
You can now renew your membership for 2009. You can register on line, 
it is very easy, just go to:
	https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38
and start filling out the forms. If you are a member of the clubs 
listed below you can register with your club.

If your club is not one of the clubs listed above, you will have to 
register as "unattached." And then when your club registers you can 
change membership.

For those who do no want to register on-line, Pacific Masters still 
has a paper registration form to send to Nancy.

   http://www.pacificmasters.org/admin/09memberapp.pdf


ON RECEIVING TWO COPIEs OF THE UPDATE
  I've been so busy that I haven't been able to process all the 
requests for the removal of a second  update email address.  Could 
you include, "Many thanks to all of you who have responded with a 
request to remove a second email address from the Update list.  The 
good news is that they will all be taken care of but the bad news is 
that they haven't all been removed as of today.  It's a busy time and 
we appreciate your cooperation in paring down our email list.  If you 
are getting two again this week, I apologize and will try to process 
everyone's request by the next Update.  Thanks for your patience and 
Happy New Year!"
-NANCY RIDOUT


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OFF THE WALL - THE SHOULDER AGAIN
After twelve days of rest due to the pool being closed, and after 
three months of not being in my regualr lane, it was fun to get back 
into the water with my lane mates. I felt very good and made sure 
that I was not leading the lane. It was so much different swimming at 
regular speed rather than really taking it easy.

Since this was the first practice after a couple of weeks off, the 
practice was much easier than a normal practice, but after about 2000 
yards, the shoulder was starting to feel a little "itchy" so I got 
out of the water, satisfied with the practice.

On Wednesday, the practice included twice swimming 200 yards. I swam 
one in 3:01 and the other in 2:59, which I thought was rather well 
for just coming back. After about 50 minutes of swimming, the 
shoulder was starting to feel "itchy" so I got out again satisfied 
with the practie

Today at practice, the shoulder did not bother me at all. However, 
swimming a bunch of 100s did get me out of breath (not much but a 
little). That actually felt pretty good to work hard in the water. At 
the end of practice, I had swum with my lane mates for a regular 
practice. The shoulder felt fine all during practice and did not 
bother me at all during the day - almost back to normal

I will get back in the water on Wednesday. It felt good to swim hard. 
A few weeks ago, I was barely swimming a 50 in a minute, now just 
pulling, a couple of times I was back down to 40 seconds (most of the 
pulling was between 40 and 45 seconds). My kicking as gotten a little 
better, although I will have to watch out and not get back into my 
lazy kick. And I can do a flip turn again,but as always flip turns do 
use up a lot of oxygen.

I am looking forward to being back in the water with my lane mates 
and working on getting my times down. If Laura Val keeps dropping her 
times, I should be able to work hard and drop mine.

michael


-- 
michael w. moore
michael at pacificmasters.org