Midland Masters Athletic Club
Tom Morris
Merry Christmas
On behalf of myself and your committee I wish all Midland Masters AC members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope that you all remain injury free and attain all your goals during 2012.
MMAC Cross Country Championships
Volunteers are required to marshal the cross country course at Droitwich on the 22nd January 2012.
If you are injured and can’t run and would like to help or just would like to help then please in the first instance contact Tony Crocker on tonycrok@aol.com
The whole thing should only take a couple of hours and will greatly help your fellow members.
Full details of this event can be found on this website at http://tinyurl.com/chkfzmw
Results from the MMAC 10 Mile Road Championships
Results from the MMAC 10 Mile Road Championships 2011 are on the appropriate page « Midland Masters Athletic Club – – http://ow.ly/7WBkN
Centurion RC 2nd Team M35
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Last Chance to Complete BMAF Road Survey
The BMAF Questionnaire compiled by the Road Running Secretary, Walter Hill, in it’s electronic form, will expire on the 31st December 2011. If you haven’t taken the opportunity to fill it in, it only takes a few minutes, then please do so. The information collected will prove useful to the BMAF and this is your chance to participate.
Many thanks…….
Important Message to BMAF Sacramento Competitors
An important message from the Secretary of the British Masters Athletic Federation
Bridget Cushen
The Sacramento Skyline
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Latest News
The latest in an occasional series of articles written by ex-coach and member, Clive James, is now available by clicking on the “Performance Improvement” tab and then clicking on the link to read (and/or print) the PDF version.
Our latest edition of the “Midland Master Athlete” #229 is now available online on the “Newsletter” tab. This edition includes an entry form for our 10 mile Championships (closing date is strictly 30th November) and for our February Handicap race as well as a form for our cross country championships in January. Details for all these events appear under the appropriate pages on this website.
Membership subscriptions are steadily coming in and the introduction of a members standing order option will hopefully help with the admin side. For details see our latest Newsletter or click on the “About Us” tab and go to “Annual Subscriptions”.
Please consider subscribing to the email notifications when new posts are put onto the website thus keeping up to date with what’s happening.
Yesterday I attended the launch of the Olympic Sculpture, “A Sporting Chance For Peace”, by one of our members, Donald Brown. After an excellent presentation by Donald the project was launched by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Anita Ward.
Lord Mayor of Birmingham & VIP Guests. Donald is on extreme right.
Everyone who attended then placed a ‘peace’ of clay onto the sculpture, see photos. After visiting several cities around the UK the resulting frame of clay will be lovingly made into a sculpture, eventually in bronze.
The start of the sculpture
For more details, please go to http://www.thestruggleforchange.co.uk/uk.html
Of interest to Marathoners
http://www.sightsavers.org.uk/[visionindia]/vision_india/17119.html
Run Mumbai! Win a place in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon with Sightsavers.
Win the chance to be flown to India and run in one of the world’s most popular and challenging marathons with Sightsavers and partners Skywards and Standard Chartered.
Sightsavers, which prevents and cures blindness in developing countries, has
teamed up with Skywards, the frequent flier programme of Emirates and Standard Chartered, the chief sponsors of the Mumbai marathon to give runners the chance to take part in the epic run on 15 January, 2012 with free flights to and from the event.
This is a fantastic opportunity to run 26.2 miles through the city known as the ‘nerve centre’ of India, before visiting a Sightsavers’ project near Mumbai and observing their life-changing work first hand.
A quarter of the world’s blind people live in India, so Sightsavers is offering a place in the marathon to help raise awareness of their Vision India campaign, which aims to raise £1 million to deliver eye care services to some of the poorest people in the country.
Sightsavers’ Development Manager Katrina Scaife ran Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon last year while working with Sightsavers in India. She said: “Running the marathon in Mumbai was one of the best things I’ve ever done. The marathon is one of the most amazing races a runner can do – it’s the only opportunity you’ll get to run across the Bandra Worli Sea Link bridge, with Mahim Bay on one side and the Arabian Sea on the other – it was simply incredible. My advice for runners looking to enter is to make sure you’ll be marathon fit by January, and think about the climate.”
Standard Chartered, the chief sponsors of the marathon, has donated the two places. Flights have been donated by Skywards, the award-winning the frequent flier programme of Emirates Airlines.
The place can be won in a draw on the Sightsavers website, by simply entering some personal details: http://www.sightsavers.org/sm_form/MumbaiMarathon.html
All entrants must be over 18 and be able to travel from an Emirates airport. The competition closes on the 27 November 2011. For full terms and conditions please visit http://www.sightsavers.org/runmumbai.
News & Reminder
We are sad to announce the recent death of John “Harry” Haden, member #M0013. Funeral details are on the “Notice Board” page at http://tinyurl.com/63nbz82
We have extended the closing date for our 10 Mile Championships until the 30th November. This is to allow the details and entry forms to appear in our latest Newsletter due to be published shortly so that non internet users can be notified. All the details and entry form appear on the “Championships” sub-pages.
Fixtures Updated
Our fixture list has just been updated mainly for the BMAF dates for 2012. Some of these are provisional so it’s very important for you to note this in case of any future changes of date.
Please click on the “FIXTURES” tab for a full list.
Oh! Don’t forget to partake in our ‘social’ Poll in the previous post.. two clicks is all that’s needed… simples! And it will help us tremendously.
Also, spend a few minutes answering the BMAF Road Questionnaire
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