Vacaville Masters Have Exciting July Adventures
The month of July was busy, exciting and eventful for the Vacaville Masters. It seemed like everywhere you turned someone was challenging him/herself to some new adventure. The following are just some of the highlights from last month:
Trans Tahoe Relay
Date: July 20th
Event: Swim across Lake Tahoe as a team (no wetsuits)
Athletes:
Vacaville Masters Team #1 (Deep Six)
Team Mixed 300+ Division (all the ages combined add up to greater than 300 years)
Dave Stewart, Mark Frazier, Rob Strickland, Karen Jensen, Barbara Nielsen, Karen Sheehy
Place: 2ndin division
Significant notes: 3 teams within 1 minute of each other at the finish after nearly 4.5 hours racing as a team across Lake Tahoe; Mark Frazier racing and passing a team at the very end
Vacaville Masters Team #2 (Just for Fun Team)
George Giles
Cody Schaake
Peter Greene
Sue Harris
Ryan Bates
Luis Acedo
Significant notes: Had a pink Barbie balloon attached to them to identify swimmer in the water; finished the race coming out of the water together as a team
http://www.transtahoerelay.com/w/
2013 Vineman Half Aquabike
Date: July 27th
Event: Swim 1.2 miles/Bike 56 miles
Athlete: Keith Hitzeman
60-64 age group
Podium finish – 3rdplace; award bottle of wine
Significant notes: Made a comeback from a bike crash and hurt shoulder in a Wildflower Tri over a year ago to place on the podium at this Aquabike event
2013 Death Ride – Tour of the California Alps
Date: July 13th
Event: 5 mountain passes in a single day on a bicycle; 129 miles, 15,000 feet of climbing
Athlete: Karen Sheehy
Significant notes: 5 mountain passes! What could be more significant than that!
2013 USAT Tri for Real Series
Dates: June 2nd, July 14th, and August 4th
Event: Olympic Distance Triathlon (1.5K swim/40K bike/10K run)
Location: Rancho Seco Park, Herald
Athlete: Joann Clark
40-44 division
1ston July 14th, 1ston August 4th (beat competition by approx. 5 minutes)
Significant notes: Fastest time ever on the swim portion of the event!
Athlete: Val Blanchard
50-54 division
1ston June 2nd/3rdon July 14th, 1ston August 4th (also beat competition by approx. 5 minutes)
Significant notes: Series winner!
http://www.tbfracing.com/index.html
0 to 1 mile Event
Dates: Accomplished over a 6-8 week period finishing at end of July
Event: New swimmers accomplishing the goal of swimming a mile nonstop
Athletes:
Mary Bell (50-54 division)
Michelle Fandrich (40-44 division)
Ta’sheema Taylor (25-29 division)
Significant notes: In just 8 weeks these athletes were able to go from struggling with one length of the pool to swimming a straight mile! Now they are swimming sets in the main Masters practices!
http://ruthkazez.com/ZeroTo1mile.html
Congratulations to all of these Masters swimmers on their significant achievements! There are many more exciting events yet to come in the remainder of 2013! We are just getting started!
