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• February Can Do, A Huge Success!
• Menlo Masters Blue and Gold Meet
• New Menlo Masters Blog

February Can Do, A Huge Success!

2000 yards=1 can of food
Cans are due by Monday March 5. If a financial donation is preferred, a check can be made out to: Menlo
Park Senior Center.

What to do with all the yards?
1.  Take it a bit lighter for a week so the work can absorb into the body and mind.
2.  Layer the strong swimming and the fast swimming on top of the aerobic foundation resulting in overall better workout and meet performances.
3.  With large amounts of yardage, ones endurance is expected to build, not necessarily one's speed.  Expect to finish a swim stronger...resulting in an overall faster time.

Congratulations all Menlo Masters for coming together as a team and accomplishing amazing results.

Can Do Statistics:

231 swimmers participated
9,818,300 total yards logged
2941 days logged
21 swimmers broke 100k yards
87 swimmers broke 50k yards but shy of 100k
Quickest to 50K: Sig Paulazzo on Feb 7
Quickest to 100K: Sig Paulazzo on Feb 13
Swam 28 Days: Peter Shepherd
Most yards in a day: 17,500-Martin Michael

Top 30
Sig Paulazzo - 207500
Martin Michael - 176000
John Sulzbach - 154500
Stacy Fredericksen - 136000
John Goldman - 127200
Mike Osmond - 113000
Virginia Justus - 108750
John Johns - 108500
Anne Young - 105000
Karen Parks - 103750
Peter Shepherd - 103700
Greg Gaffney - 103650
Miki Armstrong - 103000
Jan Jindra - 101000
Brian Davis - 100400
Scott Marshall - 100300
Kevin Burns - 100100
Bill Kirsch - 100050
Kathleen Liston - 100000
Frances Reneau - 100000
Tim Sheeper - 100000
Chris Smith - 84400
Jane Stites-Burks - 83550
Lanshin Yang - 80400
Blake Elder - 80200
Sam Sinnott - 80200
Jeffrey Piland - 79320
Barbara Breen - 72250
Sue McGlennon - 71500


100K Club
Sig Paulazzo - 207500
Martin Michael - 176000
John Sulzbach - 154500
Stacy Fredericksen - 136000
John Goldman - 127200
Mike Osmond - 113000
Virginia Justus - 108750
John Johns - 108500
Anne Young - 105000
Karen Parks - 103750
Peter Shepherd - 103700
Greg Gaffney - 103650
Miki Armstrong - 103000
Jan Jindra - 101000
Brian Davis - 100400
Scott Marshall - 100300
Kevin Burns - 100100
Bill Kirsch - 100050
Kathleen Liston - 100000
Frances Reneau - 100000
Tim Sheeper - 100000


50K Club
Chris Smith - 84400
Jane Stites-Burks - 83550
Lanshin Yang - 80400
Blake Elder - 80200
Sam Sinnott - 80200
Jeffrey Piland - 79320
Barbara Breen - 72250
Sue McGlennon - 71500
Heidi Renner - 69450
Richard Peterson - 69250
Lorie Sinnott - 69000
David Quincy - 68700
Chad Keck - 66400
Marianne Brems - 66300
Sarah Eisner - 65650
Michael Ingardia - 65450
Cynthia Dutro - 65100
Shelby Blackburn - 64400
Kathy Engelmann - 64400
Edie Heideman - 64000
Peter Borak - 63200
Elad Benjamin - 63100
Haim Beressi - 63100
Edith Collin - 63000
John Collin - 62200
Lisa Sheeper - 61550
Anna Lippi - 61050
Chris Kellerman - 60200
Carol Mathews - 59600
Emmit Hancock - 58200
Michele Shantilhano - 57900
Jane Walker - 57600
Ann Burton - 57550
Whitney Wood - 57500
David Greenwood - 57300
Jackie Macdonald - 56200
Rosa Katz - 56150
Kirsten Kempe - 56000
Dave Mandelkern - 54450
Cathy Norton - 54200
Rebecca Pinto - 54000
Jennifer Pont - 53700
Richard Antonchuk - 53600
Michelle Kastelein - 53300
Joan Gerber - 53100
Carl Mortensen - 53100
Chas Pavlovic - 53100
Jason Schroedl - 52950
Jon Ciampi - 52700
Eric Pacenta - 52700
Mary Jasek - 52550
Kelly Couch - 52500
Tina Lount-Pretre - 52500
Sharon Swann - 52300
Dana Seeley Hayse - 52200
Cindy Welton - 52100
Kathryn Stachota - 52000
Ann Kay - 51700
Al Humphrey - 51500
Jim Martin - 51400
Elspeth Farmer - 51100
Angie Weinberger - 51100
Dario Benavides - 51050
Larry Schwartz - 50800
Mark Simon - 50800
Tracy Fujieda - 50700
Bob Carlin - 50600
Suzanne Gelb - 50550
Patty McGraw - 50500
Charles Dimmler - 50400
karen Stine - 50350
Doug Fujii - 50300
Anne Long - 50250
Mike Taylor - 50200
Michael Fero - 50100
Paul Gorman - 50100
Ann Heike - 50100
Vinod Herur - 50050
Eric Kinney - 50050
Kenneth Fine - 50000
Lennard Hachmann - 50000
Ange Merlone - 50000
Sally Phillips - 50000
Joel Phillips - 50000
Judy Strauss - 50000
Tasha Capen-50000

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Menlo Masters Blue and Gold Meet

Saturday March 3, 2007

Goals:
1. Introduction to early swim season speed
2. Prepare for Rinconada Spring Meet March 17.
3. Swim the opposite of February, short and fast.
4. Keep the anxiety level low for fun, but high enough for fast swims.
5. Determine if your goggles stay on when (if) diving in.

Times:
Meet Start Time: 6:45am
Meet End Time: 8:45am

Warm-Up Set: 6:00-6:45am
Warm-Down Set: 8:45-9:00am

Expectations:
Come when you are able and leave when you please.

Events:
1. 100 Breast
2. 200 Free
3. 50 Back
4. 100 IM
5. 50 Breast
6. 100 Free
7. 50 or 100 Fly
8. 100 Back
9. 200 IM
10. 50 Free

Structure:
1. Men will swim against men, women will swim against women.
2. Competition will be within levels.  For example:  Level 5 and 6 women will swim in the same heat with each other.  Level 1 and 2 men will swim in a different heat with each other.
3. It is personal preference as to which events to swim.
4. A time will be given to each swimmer after each event.
5. Individuals can swim as many or as few events as desired.
6. Ironman prizes will be given to those who swim all the events offered.
7. The meet will not be scored.
8. Times will be recorded.
9. Being tired from February is not an original nor valid excuse to not swim.

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New Menlo Masters Blog

Sarah Eisner, a veteran lane two swimmer and talented writer, and photographer has begun a fantastic new blog dedicated to the life and times of Menlo Masters.

Go to the site and read through her musings on February swimming and beyond.

http://menlomasters.blogspot.com/

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