MASTERS SWIMMING CANADA

MSC Fitness Challenge 2003(the "McAuslan Challenge")

• Description: Friendly fitness challenge organized by MSC
• Purpose: Allow all Masters (especially beginners) to compare personal times with other Masters of the same age group across Canada. May be done during training period.
• Eligibility: All MSC registered Masters. There is no entry fee.
• Recording Period: Beginning January 1, 2003 to June 30, 2003
• Rules: Enter one or several events. One may enter all events if desired. Obtain a time for each swim. Rules are not as strict as during competition (no judges or electronic timing required). However, it is expected that everyone will use fair swimming techniques and will avoid unfair starts, touches and miss - timing.
• Results: Send all results, no later than July 15, 2003 via e-mail to Juanita Prebble or mail address: Juanita Prebble, 112 Kingston Ave., Miramichi, NB E1V 7P8
  Results will be published on this web site. A grid is provided here. In the next line click on "grid provided" and the Excel grid will appear. Under "File" in your browser, select "Save" or "Save As" to save your own version of it. Please use the grid provided. When you have completed the grid, you can email it to Juanita.
• Age Groups: 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59 (in five-year increments)
• Events:
  • Free (50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m)
  • Back (50m, 10m, 200m)
  • Breast (50m, 100m, and 200m)
  • Fly (50m, 100m, and 200m)
  • IM (100m, 200m, 400m)
• Comments/ Clarification: Course is expected to be in SCM (25m pools). LCM (50 m pools) will be accepted as well, but treated as SCM times. To convert SCY to SCM add 12% ( +/- 3%). Times may be recorded during one training session, or spread over several sessions. If desired, a swimmer may try to improve on a previously - achieved time.

** Please do not submit times achieved in regular meets. The intended audience is mostly for beginners or people who have no time to enter regular meets, or experienced swimmers who will try a different event, or experienced swimmers turning in casual times to encourage clubmates to enter.

* No records will be accepted from these events. No Top Twenty Times will be accepted either. Only times from regular sanctioned meet will be posted for records.