The FINA Bureau approved the dates, the schedule of events and the qualifying times for the XI FINA Masters Championships that will be held at the Avery Aquatic Center, Stanford University, Stanford California - August 4 - 17, 2006
Qualifying Times
The qualifying times are now posted. These times are easier than the USMS Long course times, however, remember if you do not swim at or faster than the qualify time you will receive "no time" for your effort - your swim will not count.
Schedule of Events
The schedule of events is up. The swimming portion will take place August 4th through 10th; and will include a day of relays. The open water swim will be on August 11th. There are also schedules for the other aquatic disciplines.
Hotel Rooms
The organizing committee has been working with a destination management company to get hotels at a good rate for swimmers. Those rates are only available if you book through the Internet portal that has been set up that has been set up or if you call the toll free number. Once to the home page of the hotel registration select your stay dates and number of guests in the room first then you will get a list of available hotels.(Also the Internet portal works best with IE 5.01 and IE 6.0+) .
Web Site
All of the above information can be found at the XI FINA World Masters Championship web site - www.2006FINAMasters.org .
Vacation destination
San Francisco and northern California is one of the premeire tourist destinations in the world. Besides the great swimming venue, there will be many day trips scheduled for you or your significant other (or children). This will be a great time to plan a vacation to the golden state.
The Organizing Committee is working on days trips and discounted airfares. Announcements will be made as the plans are made final.
michael
Michael W. Moore, president
XI FINA World Masters Championships - 2006
Stanford Unversity
Stanford California
Originally posted by Xenadiva
At the short course nationals I sandbagged this year and didn't even know what it was called but it wasn't by any means a deliberate strategy on my part.....
Like Jennifer, I swam much faster than my entry times for short course nationals. When I read the entry information, I understood it to say that you had to enter with a time that you had achieved in the last two years.
Nationals was my first meet since a meet that I had swum two years ago, so I entered with those times. I could tell from my workouts that I expected to demolish those times, but I was under the impression that swimmers were supposed to enter with OFFICIAL times, and those were the only ones I had.
Now that I've been to nationals I realize that no one checks times for whether or not they are official. I wish that I had known this in advance, and I would have entered with my approximate goal times. I swam my mile over 2 minutes faster than my seed time, and it sure would have been nice to have someone to swim next to instead of lapping my heat-mates.
Anyway to make a long story short - Jennifer, you are not the only sandbagger who had good intentions -- I sympathize.
Originally posted by Xenadiva
At the short course nationals I sandbagged this year and didn't even know what it was called but it wasn't by any means a deliberate strategy on my part.....
Like Jennifer, I swam much faster than my entry times for short course nationals. When I read the entry information, I understood it to say that you had to enter with a time that you had achieved in the last two years.
Nationals was my first meet since a meet that I had swum two years ago, so I entered with those times. I could tell from my workouts that I expected to demolish those times, but I was under the impression that swimmers were supposed to enter with OFFICIAL times, and those were the only ones I had.
Now that I've been to nationals I realize that no one checks times for whether or not they are official. I wish that I had known this in advance, and I would have entered with my approximate goal times. I swam my mile over 2 minutes faster than my seed time, and it sure would have been nice to have someone to swim next to instead of lapping my heat-mates.
Anyway to make a long story short - Jennifer, you are not the only sandbagger who had good intentions -- I sympathize.
