[PacMasterUpdate] MLKing 17 January 2010

[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.


WORLD RECORDS BROKEN AT TOC 1500
Three 1500 SCM World records were broken at The Olympic Club 1500 on 
Saturday 16 January. Alison Zamanian (w40-44), Jim Clemmons (m60-64) 
and Laura Val (w55-59) each broke the current world record in their 
age group. Jim and Alison broke the record in the first year of their 
new age group. Laura is in the last year of her FINA age group. 
Congratulations

Thanks to the Laureen Welting and the Olympic Club for organizing the 
event. The pool was fast and swimmers had a good time.

FOG CITY QUADRATHON
The Fog City Quadrathon will be Sunday 24 January at the Herbst 
Natatorium, St Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco. This meet will 
feature the 500 Fr, 200 Fr, 100 Fr and the 50 Fr. Deck entries are 
allowed
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/10fogscy.pdf

PACIFIC MASTERS MONTHLY MEETING
The monthly meeting of Pacific Masters Swimming will be held at 
Heather Farms, Walnut Creek California on Wednesday 20 January 2010. 
Refreshments/dinner starts at 7:00pm; meeting starts at 7:30PM. All 
members are invited to attend and all teams are asked to send a 
representative to the meeting.

FOG CITY QUADRATHON
The Fog City Quadrathon will be Sunday 24 January at the Herbst 
Natatorium, St Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco. This meet will 
feature the 500 Fr, 200 Fr, 100 Fr and the 50 Fr. Deck entries are 
allowed
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/10fogscy.pdf

USF VALENTINE'S AFFAIR
The 2001 USF Valentine's Day Affair will be held on Saturday 6 
February 2010 at the Koret Recreation Center, 2926 Turk Street 
(Corner of Parker) San Francisco. Please enter on line at
     https://www.clubassistant.com/meets.cfm
You can enter by mail, the postmark deadline is 27 January with a 
delivery deadline of 29 January. Swimmers can also deck enter the 
meet for an additional charge.
	http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/10usfscy.pdf
This is a fun, well attended meet in a fast pool.

OFFICIALS CLINIC
Pacific Swimming is holding an officials clinic on 30 January at the 
Renaissance  Club Sport, 2805 Jones Road at Treat, Walnut Creek. The 
clinic is for both new and emerging officials and for experienced 
officials.  If you are interested, please contact John King at 
mailto:officials at pacificmasters.org . He wants to be sure that enough 
food is ordered for lunch.


WALNUT CREEK INTENSIVE TRAINING CAMP
The 2010 Walnut Creek Intensive Training Camp will be held 5-7 March 
at the Clark Swimming  Center, Walnut Creek, California. The Camp 
will consist of two in-water workouts per day. The morning practice 
will be a general conditioning session, with the afternoon sessions 
being divided up by Distance, Mid-Distance, and Sprint Specialties. 
Here the Coaching Staff will strive to meet the specific needs of 
training for your best events. Each morning session will conclude 
with a hearty breakfast.

The camp usually sells out, so if you would like to attend, register.


3000 AND 6000 YARD POSTAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
The results of the USMS 3000 and 6000 Yard Postal Championships are 
now posted on the USMS website. Congratulations to all who 
participated.

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

PACIFIC MASTERS JANUARY FEBRUARY NEWSLETTERS
The Pacific Masters January-February News letter is posted on the 
Pacific Mastesr Web site. Information about all the January, February 
meets is in the newsletter. Thanks to Joanne Bervan for editing and 
organizing the newsletter.


NEW REGISTRATION YEAR
If you have not registered yet, you can registered on-line.
	https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/USMS.cfm?l=38
All Pacific Masters memberships expire on Thursday 31 December 31. It 
is very important that you register. Your registration fee helps 
supports US Masters Swimming and PacMasters. Your membership fee pays 
for the secondary insurance, the USMS Swimmer, and the webs sites. 
Swimming is a great exercise; exercise that our bodies need. We hope 
you continue to swim, as we are "Swimming for Life."

For clubs to be covered by USMasters Swimming Secondary insurance, 
all swimmers must be currently registered. You can still register 
using a paper registration, by going to the PacMasters home page
    http://www.pacificmasters.org

2010 MEMBERSHIP
Currently there are 5677 swimmers and 110 clubs registered with 
Pacific. The  clubs with 100 or more  members are:
Grand Count	5677
DAM	467
TCAM	347
WCM	327
STAN	225
SCSC	188
MAM	182
MELO	179
USF	177
CRUZ	172
MVM	159
TVM	139
MAAC	128
TEME	126
SCAM	124
BAC	118
TSUN	114
BAY	109
In about a month we will have the final numbers of club registration 
for 2009, along with the club registration. Congratulations to all 
the coaches and clubs that have done so well



RULE BOOK
The 2010 USMS Rule Book is available on-line at

	 http://www.usms.org/rules/
The Rule book also lists the current USMS and World records. If you 
want a hard copy of the rule book, please contact Nancy Ridout, 
mailto:registrar at pacificmasters.org . Pacific will give each deck 
official a current copy of the rule book.

CHANGE IN SWIM SUIT RULES
The FINA Bureaua meeting in Bankgok, Thailand,  has approved the 
Masters Committee recommendation that the swimwear be the same as for 
the elite pool swimmers. They made the ruling effective 1/1/10. (two 
weeks before the meeting)  The USMS Rules Committee met by phone to 
discuss the implementation for SCY. After the Rules Committee makes a 
determination, that will be forwarded to the Executive Committee of 
USMS. When information becomes available, it will be posted on the 
USMasters Swimming web site and we will let you know via the update.

OPEN WATER SWIMWEAR
Open Water swimwear for both Men and Women, shall not cover the neck, 
extend past the shoulder, nor shall extend below the ankle. All Open 
Water swimsuits shall comply with the FINA Criteria for Materials and 
Approval Procedures. Until June 2010, the 2009 models can be used in 
order to protect the athlete from sunburn, jellyfish etc. Again the 
Rules committee will issue a determination of how this will apply to 
US Masters Swimming.

2012 FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2012 FINA WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS will be held in Riccione, 
Italy.  Dates have not be set, but when the Championships were held 
in 2004, the meet was held at the end of May - beginning of June.

COACHES
Lucas Valley Aquatic Masters Looking for  a coach
Responsible fore 6 practices a week at Lucas Valley Community 
swimming pool San Rafael. Compensation:DOE. Contact Erick Whitten, 
LVA Director  mailto:cmerun at aol.com or call 415 342 5163.

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-michael

END OF THE YEAR
Because you are a US Masters Swimmer you can create your town Fitness 
Log account on the US Masters Swimming web site. You can log your 
daily swimming yardage and it will track your yardage through out the 
year. Go to
	http://www.usms.org/myusms/flog/
to create your own account. It would be a good start for next year, 
but  starting to log your yardage in the account. (I  made my goal of 
swimming 250 miles during 2009. Now do I raise the bar?)

The Go the Distance has a great worksheet to log your daily yardage. 
It has more distinct ways to log your yardage, that most people will 
ever need.
-- 
michael w. moore
michael at pacificmasters.org
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