Thursday Practice

We had a nice holiday swim Thursday and Alison Brought cookies for when we were done.
5 Swimmers came for the fun. Mark Alison Harry Colin Diane
It is a little chilly outside, but the water was nice. Hope to see everyone next Thursday.

Holiday Swim Schedule

We're only going to have practices on Thursday for the next two weeks.
The Y will be open all day on New Year's Day, we may have a casual
practice in the afternoon, check the blog for Details.

On the other days - Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year's Eve - the Y will be closed so practice will not be an option. Normal practice schedule will resume on January 3, 2007

Just a reminder. The 2008 registration forms are now on the Florida Masters site. In order to swim in any Masters competition, you need to be registered with USMS. Please use the link below to access our form. Fill it out, print it, and bring it to me along with your registration fee (please make checks out to Masters of Orlando) and you'll be all set.

http://www.floridalmsc.org/Registration/MOO.htm

Below are some upcoming meets/events to also think about:

January: USMS One-hour Postal. Must be swum during January at local pools. (For all you distance swimmers, I'd like to see if there's any interest in doing this!)

Feb. 16-17 / SCY: Dixie Zone SCY Championships/SUN Masters Valentine Meet. Clearwater FL

Feb. 29-Mar. 2 / SCY: Masters Challenge. Ft. Lauderdale FL (

Apr. 12-13 / SCY: St. Pete Masters SCY Championships. St. Petersburg FL

May 15-18 / SCY: YMCA Masters Nationals. Ft. Lauderdale FL

Holiday Party

We had a great holiday party last night.
Thanks to Sean for hosting and to everyone for the goodies, and all the fun

-Paper plate awards were presented
-Teresa made some yummy rum and milk drink
-Virginia Tech Mark made a great Jello thing, but I don't think he eats Jello
-Sean made lots of delicious ziti
-The hot white elephant gift this year was a digital sudoku game
-Yuko wants us to keep her company at the lake swim despite brushing up against slimebo yesterday
-Diane took forever to set up the group photo, which should be posted too
-Everyone wore their paper hats this year
-Apparently they don't do white elephant gift exchanges in Japan

A great time was had by all!!!

Holiday Party

Hope you've picked your white elephant gift. We hope to see everyone at 7pm at Sean's house Thursday December 12, we are eating and drinking instead of swimming!!!

7pm

A Star Amongst Us!

Many many congratulations to Greg for winning a Suncoast Emmy for his news special: Killer Tornados- you deserve this win and so much more!!

Holiday Party

Host: MOO!
Location: Sean's Casa
2523 Kilgore St., Orlando, FL 32803 US
When: Thursday, December 13, 7:00PM

Come one, come all to the annual MOO Party! Feel free to bring a friend!
This year we will be having a Pot Luck. Our gracious host Sean is supplying some sort of pasta delicacy.
What to bring:
Everyone should bring a little something - for the White Elephant Gift Exchange-price limit- $10. Past items include: dashboard hula girls, lotto tickets, and many other trinkets and treasures.

If your last name starts with A-L please bring a side dish/ salad.

If you are M-Z- Please bring a desert or other tasty treat.
~BYOB~

** There will not be practice on the 13th!**

IF you did not get the e-vite please e-mail one of us!

Holiday Party update

Greetings!
The air temp is dropping, the heaters are cranking at the pool and the holidays will soon be upon us. For those of you new to MOO, each December we have a Holiday Party complete with a White Elephant Gift Exchange, food and merriment. Previously this has been held at swimmers' homes and last year, a restaurant. The question now is when- thanks to those of you who have already offered up your abodes! In the past we have met on the weekends and on a weeknight in place of practice.
So, the question is, what works best for all of you- weekend or weeknight. Let us know so we can get this set in stone.

Top 10 awards

Congratulations to all of our MOO swimmers who made the Dixie Zone top 10 this Year!!!
Colin, Sean, Greg, Tom, Wayne, Kathleen, Sarah, Teresa, Ryan and Diane

Patches have been ordered and will be passed out at our holiday party.
Time and date to follow shortly.

As a team we hold 45 places in the top 10 for Long Course Meters.
Great job team!!!

Rollins meet

Great job Sean our only swimmer at the meet. He won his freestyle event!

Oct27 Rollins college meet

We have been invited to swim with Team Orlando at the meet if you are interested please e-mail the coach listed below!!!

On Oct. 27 Rollins College is hosting their annual swim meet vs Orlando area Masters.(anyone 18 and older). This is a high school format swim meet. Warm up begins at 12 noon and the meet starts at 1 pm. All pool and open water swimmers are encouraged to participate. The meet usually lasts till 2:30 pm and then we go out for a late lunch following. The order of events are as follows:

200 yd medley relay
200 free
50 free
200 IM
100 fly
10 min. break
100 free
100 back
500 free
100 breast
200 free relay

WOMEN PRECEDE THE MEN EVENTS!
You can swim 3 events including relays! Only 3 people per event and 3 relay teams allowed so sign up early to hold your spot!

Please email me as soon as possible as to the events you would like to swim.(cswimming@aol.com) A sign up sheet is also posted at the Aquatic Center.

World Record Swim

Congratulations swimmers on completing two new World Records: Yuko's 82 k lake swim and the 100k Relay. Unofficial certificates signed by Lucky are available at the lake and official certificates will be available after the records are certified.

What a fun weekend. So many stories. Thanks again to all of our volunteers, friends, and brave swimmers who entered the food chain. The relay was well represented by a mix of women and men. The oldest was 76 and the youngest was 9. Only two known mishaps. One fully clothed swimmer fell off the dock, and one swimmer got sick in the garbage can. No monsters or gators spotted. Amazingly, after her record, a little sleep and a meal of sushi and ice cream, Yuko swam with Jake and Lucky for the last lap of the relay swim.

Photos will be posted on Luckyslakeswim.com and shared on http://www.flickr.com/groups/100kswimrelay/.

This year the relay was about setting the distance record. Next time it will be about a speed record. Maybe men vs women, or two teams racing. Any ideas?

Chris Bolfing
More photos will come when I return to town next weekend- Diane

11:30PM World Record update Oct 13th

At 11:25 PM and nearly 30 hours of non stop swimming, Yuko has broken the World Record with 81K and now doing a final lap to make it 82 . The relay continues on thru the night.

We still have 2 more MOO swimmers crossing the lake tomorrow, come out and cheer them on!
Kathleen, Stacey, & Diane swam today

11:00 am Saturday Swim

We will be at the Aquatic Center if anyone wants to join us!!!