LOCO SWIMMING

This year’s Longmont municipal ballot includes issue 3B. Issue 3B proposes to raise the city sales tax rate by 0.18% in order to build a combined pool and ice center.  Are you interested in supporting the effort to pass this ballot issue? If so, there is an “All Hands on Deck” meeting this Wednesday night, September 18, from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm (or whatever time you can spare). The meeting is at the Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave.

Facebook event: All Hands on Deck Meeting
Facebook group: loco4poolandice

Have you considered coming to morning masters, but talked yourself out of if because you assume that the lanes are crowded? Well, they’re not. Since we moved inside to Centennial, Gold and Silver lanes have typically had 3 or 4 swimmers. Bronze and Iron lanes have usually only had 2 swimmers each.

If you’ve gotten out of the habit of swimming in the morning, maybe you should give it a try again. There’s plenty of room.

There will be an “all hands on deck” meeting in support of the pending ballot issue for building a new pool and ice center in Longmont.

WHEN: Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
WHERE: Longmont Senior Center Gym, 910 Longs Peak Avenue

This is the building on the south side of Roosevelt Park (not the Memorial Building that’s on the east side of the park).

Discussion will cover the timeline and plans. For more information:

Website: longmontpoolandice.com
Facebook: loco4poolandice

Just a reminder that there is no Master’s Swim workout on Labor Day, Monday, September 2. After Labor Day, we are back to our normal, indoor schedule.

• Mon-Wed-Fri-Sat mornings at Centennial.
• Tues-Thurs noon at the Rec Center.

See  you at the pool!

While going through some old papers, I came across a heat sheet for the Friday morning session for short course nationals of 1974. My family had moved to Dallas the previous summer, and the host pool, Loos Natatorium, was not far from my home. Although I was a solid “B” swimmer at the time, I’d swum on my team’s 11-12 400 free relay at TAGS in this pool just a few weeks prior. (We finished 3rd, coming out of lane 8.)

My mom thought it would be a good idea to go watch a session or two. The annotations on the program are hers. She marked DQs, scratches, and false starts (“FS”). I haven’t been able to decode her generous use of *s.

Friday prelims session: 200 fly, 200 breaststroke, 100 back, and 800 free relay

Heat sheet here

As you read the times, consider the following:

• Title IX was passed just two years prior
• All backstroke turns/finishes required a hand touch
• No head submerge allowed in breaststroke
• Each swimmer was allowed one false start