It was my first pentathlon. You know, maybe it's me, but it's astonishing how tired you get by the time you have to do the IM. Saw a lot of fast swimmers and even though I made a personal best in the 50 free, 26.65, I got spanked by the super heroes in my 45-49 age group.
Anyway, I was DQed on the IM for doing the flip backstroke turn. My bad, though I had no idea it wasn't allowed. It's legal for backstroke why not the IM, does anybody know the reasoning?
tony
Caltech Maters has been running this meet since 1974! It is a fun meet for everyone - newbies to vets. You may enter one or more events individually or enter all five events. There is a 50 of each stroke and a 100 IM at the end. The winner is determined by total time for all of the events. The second place cumulative time in the men's 55-59 was 3:00.67, the first place cumulative time was 3:00.66!!!!!
This is a fun meet that doesn't take too much time. We start at 10:00AM and are done by 1:00PM. We had just over 180 swimmers. We give medals for second and third place in each age group and a cool trophy for first place. There is an award for the overall fastest male swimmer and the overall fastest female swimmer. This year the overall fastest female swimmer swims for Caltech Masters.
The meet is usually held on the first Sunday in March. We have a deep 8 lane competition pool and an 8 lane warm up pool. This is beautiful outdoor facility. Sunday's air temperature was 70. I only recall one bad weather day back in 1999 when we had rain, but usually it is beautiful.
Besides local swimmers, we have had swimmers from Hawaii and this year one from New York. The results will be posted in a week or two at http://www.spma.net Go to meet results and find Caltech Pentathlon. You could actually find the results of 1997 - 2005 at that site as well right now.
Come join us next year.
Glenn Gruber
P.S. I am usually the announcer at the meet and this year I also swam in the meet. Double duty, but fun.
:)
Caltech Maters has been running this meet since 1974! It is a fun meet for everyone - newbies to vets. You may enter one or more events individually or enter all five events. There is a 50 of each stroke and a 100 IM at the end. The winner is determined by total time for all of the events. The second place cumulative time in the men's 55-59 was 3:00.67, the first place cumulative time was 3:00.66!!!!!
This is a fun meet that doesn't take too much time. We start at 10:00AM and are done by 1:00PM. We had just over 180 swimmers. We give medals for second and third place in each age group and a cool trophy for first place. There is an award for the overall fastest male swimmer and the overall fastest female swimmer. This year the overall fastest female swimmer swims for Caltech Masters.
The meet is usually held on the first Sunday in March. We have a deep 8 lane competition pool and an 8 lane warm up pool. This is beautiful outdoor facility. Sunday's air temperature was 70. I only recall one bad weather day back in 1999 when we had rain, but usually it is beautiful.
Besides local swimmers, we have had swimmers from Hawaii and this year one from New York. The results will be posted in a week or two at http://www.spma.net Go to meet results and find Caltech Pentathlon. You could actually find the results of 1997 - 2005 at that site as well right now.
Come join us next year.
Glenn Gruber
P.S. I am usually the announcer at the meet and this year I also swam in the meet. Double duty, but fun.
:)
