[Fwd: Open Water Swims at Westpoint Harbor & Reminder for Jack Daniels Talk

Team -

Reminder:  Jack Daniels at Sports Basement tonight (mentioned at practice last week):
http://www.focusnfly.com/newfnf/rsvp.php

and see below for
Treeathlon Information and an invite to an open water clinic series ...

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Subject: Open Water Swims at Westpoint Harbor
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:12:14 -0800
From: sherry <coach@sherrysmith.com>
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Open Water Clinic/Practice
FREE 4-clinic Tri-Series
Focus:  Preparation for Stanford Treeathlon

Location: Westpoint Harbor (new swim course for the Treeathlon)
                   (protected boat marina swim course - no waves !)
                  Meet at the Harbor Masters's office at Westpoint Marina (directions link below).

Join us for  these practice open water swims at the beautiful, new Westpoint Marina !!  These swims will be lifeguard monitored and we will have at least one surf board alongside swimmers.

PLEASE OBSERVE ALL MARINA RULES:
- THERE IS NO SWIMMING ALLOWED IN THIS MARINA - we have special permission
- Please do not swim without the group or our privileges will be taken away
- SPEED LIMIT ON DIRT ROAD is 10mph; do not exceed this please!
- NO BIKES on the docks
- Stay off seeded grass area (on race day there will be special paths to the transition area)
- Note:  no public restrooms on site

Day/Times:
The following day/times attempt to mimic the same tides that we will face on race day (March 7th, 2009).
(All dates/times subject to change.)
# 1 -- January 24th, Saturday,  start time:  9:30am
# 2 -- January 30th,  Friday, start time:  4:00pm
# 3 -- February 7th, Saturday, start time:  9:00am
# 4 -- February 21st  Saturday, start time:  8:30am (as part of Practice Treeathlon)

Note:  NO SWIMMING FEB 28TH - sailboat races all weekend.

More information on the Treeathlon:
http://triathlon.stanford.edu/treeathlon/index.shtml

 More information and directions to the Westpoint Harbor/Marina:
http://www.westpointmarina.com/

Tide information (choose Westpoint Slough):
http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/californiasites.html#francisco

Hope to see you there !

/Coach Sherry

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Happy Training,

/Sherry
www.sherrysmith.com
408.242.3330