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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>UPCOMING
MEETS</b></font></div>
<div>Whiskeytown Open Water<br>
San Mateo SCM<br>
MVM Alan Liu<br>
Sac Sprint Pentathlon<br>
WCM Pac Masters SCM Champ<br>
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The last open water meet of the season is at Whiskeytown, near
Redding, California. It will be on September 10th. Information about
the meet is found in the July-August Pacific Masters newsletter.<br>
<br>
This year there are four short course meters meet. The first will be
the San Mateo Marlin's Penthathlon September 24th at the Joinville
pool in San Mateo.<br>
<br>
The Mountain View Masters Alan Liu Short Course Meters Meet will be
October 1st at Eagle Pool in Mountain View.<br>
<br>
The 33rd Annual Sacramento Sprint Pentathlon will be held at the
Schall Aquatic Center at UC Davis. October 7th<br>
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<div>The last short course meters meet of the season will be the
Pacific Masters Championships held at the Heather Farms Diving Tank,
Walnut Creek California, October 13-15th.<br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OPEN WATER
RESULTS</b></font></div>
<div>Results some of the open water meets have been posted on the web
site. Results include the TOC Trans Tahoe Relay, the Santa Cruz Rough
Water Swim, and the Cruz Cruise.<br>
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<div>Thanks to the TOC and Santa Cruz Masters for organizing the
meets.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OPEN WATER SWIM
CANCELLED</b></font></div>
<div>The Oktoberfest swim that was scheduled for September 23 has been
cancelled. This means that there are two fewer open water
points-eligible events on the schedule. Consequently, this decreases
by one the total number of swims that an individual can use to earn
open water points for the open water points competition. If you were
holding off on doing your</div>
<div>last swims for the last event of the season, that will now be
Whiskeytown.<br>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
NEWSLETTER</b></font></div>
<div>The Pacific Masters September / October Newsletter has been
posted on the web site. There is a list of all the age group swimmers
of the year, the upcoming meets and other interesting items for
Pacific Masters members. Thank you to Joanne Berven for putting
editing and writing the newsletter.</div>
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<div>Pacific Masters affiliate</div>
<div>Lands End<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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 receive a rebate from your purchase<br>
</div>
<div>The Pacific Masters Logo'ed shirts that meet officials wear are
from Lands End.</div>
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Have a good week</div>
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<div><font size="+2" color="#0000FF"><b>What Happened at
Worlds?</b></font></div>
<div>There were 1440 Pacific Masters Swimmers from 93 clubs who
entered the XI FINA World Masters Championships. I appreciate
all the support that swimmers gave by entering the meet.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Many Pacific Masters swimmers also helped with the running of the
meet. I am very grateful as the meet could not be run without the
timers, meet marshals and hundred of other jobs that had to be done so
that swimmers would have a great meet.</div>
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<div>I have heard from many US and foreign swimmers who said this was
the best organized championships they had ever been to. This could not
be done without the help of Pacific Masters swimmers. Stanford Masters
is to be thanked as they sacrificed their pool time for 18 days so
that the meet could be held there. There were also many volunteers
from Stanford - Stanford also finished in sixth place in the Combined
team high point totals.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>On Monday of the swimming competition, Walnut Creek took care of
all the timing. Walnut Creek also finished at the top of Combined High
Point Team scores.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Only this weekend have I been able to review the results of the
meet. There were many Pacific Masters swimmers who had great meets. I
will try to acknowledge them in a later Update. The times were blazing
fast. In the men's 45-49 100 M Free a 1:00.00 would get you a 36th! A
1:13.00 would be 151st.</div>
<div><br>
I saw very little of the competition at Worlds. For me it was a blur
that started on 1 August and somewhat ended with the completion of the
Open Water Swim. The only races that I remember were:<br>
<br>
The fastest heat of the 200+ Mixed Free Relay was awesome. I wanted to
see that heat as some of my friends from Walnut Creek were in it and
then looked to see who was on the Florida and Colorado teams. All the
swimmers on those teams were at least a top ten swimmer. On the last
exchange, Colorado's 61 year old Rich Abrahams had a 1.36 lead over
Florida's 47 year old Rowdy Gaines. Could Rowdy make up the
difference? He had 14 years on him. It was a very fast last fifty,
with Abrahams holding off the Olympian. The World record was broken by
almost five seconds. The first four teams broke the record. All the
teams in the heat broke the meet record.<br>
<br>
I saw the meets executive director Anne Cribbs swim the breaststroke
and freestyle. She had fun.<br>
</div>
<div>I saw Debbie Meyer swim the 200 freestyle and I saw Jacki Hirsty
win one of her events from the outside lane.</div>
<div><br>
It looked like swimmers were have a great time in the tent village
that sprang up on the west side of the aquatic center. There appeared
to be a lot of trading of t-shirts and swim caps there.<br>
<br>
On Saturday morning, I watched the USMS Fighting Flamingos win their
match to secure the bronze medal, later that night there were four
very good water polo games in the Avery Aquatic Center.<br>
<br>
I did swim the 400 freestyle. If I would have swum it 39 seconds
faster, I would have made the qualifying time. It did feel good to be
in the water.<br>
</div>
<div>I would be interested in hearing any stories or vignettes about
worlds and also if you were able to do well trading t-shirts or
pins.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Please add your story to the forum section of the USMS web
site:</div>
<div>http://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6584</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>I would like to read about your experiences at the meet and the
exciting races you saw.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div> For those who would like to see great pictures of the meet
go to<font face="Verdana" size="+2" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="+2"
color="#05001F"><u>http://www.isiphotos.com</u></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>If anyone has pictures taken at the open water swim from the
bridge with the houses and docks on both sides of the chute, I would
love to see them.</b></div>
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<div>michael<br>
Michael W. Moore<br>
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