Hey FASTer,

At the annual meeting i floated the idea of resurrecting the midnight
sun meet at Patty this summer, sometime near the solstice. There was a
fair amount of enthusiasm. And some even fondly remembered having
age-group meets at Patty back in the 80s. I certainly have great
memories of those meets. With the new timing system installed, Patty
should be race-ready. I havent checked with Scott yet, but last month
he did offer to run a meet for us. At the very least we would need to
get use of the timing equipment and AKMS could likely donate some $ to
Northern Area Swimming to run the meet. I would really like to see it
at Patty instead of Hamme though.

So is there any interest up there in putting on the meet? I am willing
to work on getting it sanctioned and coordinating the set up.

I remember some FASTers saying that having the meet the same day of
the Midnight Sun Run was not a good idea. However, the out-of-towners
seemed to want to coordinate the meet with the events of that weekend.
I suppose we could have an evening meet on Friday. Any thoughts or
ideas?

Let me know what you think. If there is any interest whatsoever, i'll
get ahold of Scott and see if he is interested.

Steve
FAST AS
(Fairbanks Arctic Swim Team - Anchorage Squad)