Tom Morris

Special Announcement

I am very pleased to announce that David Oxland has accepted the MMAC Committee’s invitation for him to be our President Elect for 2013/2014. David will take on the prestigious role of President of MMAC at the AGM in April 2014.

I reproduce below David’s profile on the Power of 10 ….

Started serious running in 2003 when I joined a club for the first time. 2003 to 2005 I developed as a local road and cross country runner, winning the Notts AAAs summer league over 50s Gold medal in 2005. By chance I entered a track time trial for 1500 metres in 2006 and was amazed to comfortably beat 5 minutes so I did 6 weeks training and entered the BMAF championships and squeezed a bronze medal in the 1500m in the Summer of 2006 when I was just 55. My five years as an M55 have been good years with 7 individual international medals including two at Ghent in the European Veterans Indoor championships in March 2011 when I was only two months short of 60. The new age band started well with a good time in the 10,000m track British Masters championship, in fact a lifetime PB at that distance and another comfortable win and also a course record for M60 at Horwich in the BMAF 5K road championships. Eventually a tally of 6 Golds at British Masters events in 2011. Best experiences in 2011 were two Golds at Sacramento in the World Masters Athletics Championships, including a narrow win against the great Nolan Shaheed at 5000m and also last year a British record outdoors at 3000m. However each year there is “young blood” entering the age band and it will be harder this year! 2012 has started quite well ,despite a few problems, with the highlight by a very long way being a very close tussle with the great Nick Rose at 3000m at the British Masters Indoors Championships. Nick is a truly great sportsman. The rest of 2012 went OK in terms of races although performances were well down on the previous year. 2013 on the other hand started well with an unexpected good time in the 1500m indoors at Cardiff which gave me hope that I might turn the clock back 5 years and run a World Record. The opportunity came at the British Masters Indoor championships at Lee Valley when none other than Mike Hager and Dave Butler both put their names down for this race. It was only a very fast kick finish over 120 metres which won me this race and shaved a whole second off the existing 4 year old record.

Thanks to Tom Phillips for providing the photo of the finish of this race.

Related articles

• British Masters Champs – 14/15 September (rscac.co.uk)

England Athletics AGM

Notification of England Athletics 2013 Annual General Meeting

In preparation for the Annual General Meeting which takes place at 11am on 5 October, 2013 at the at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Chapel Lane, Birmingham, B43 7BG the following documents are attached for your attention:

1.    Agenda

Click here to download the Agenda
2.    Draft minutes of the 2012 Annual General Meeting

Click here to download the draft minutes of the 2012 Annual General Meeting
3.    The Directors Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2013
Click here to download The Directors Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2013
4.    Proposed Articles of Association put forward for consideration under Agenda item 10

Click here to download the Proposed Articles of Association put forward for consideration under Agenda item 10

5.    Proxy form for the 2013 Annual General Meeting

Click here to download the Proxy form for the 2013 Annual General Meeting

On behalf of the Board
Kevan Taylor, Company Secretary
12 September 2013

ING New York City Marathon 2013 | Running | Sports Tours International

New York City Marathon (Photo credit: U.S. Coast Guard)

ING New York City Marathon 2013 | Running | Sports Tours International.

MMAC Flickr Group

We now have a Flickr Group dedicated to images of our members or events they are involved in. Please apply to join the Group and upload your own photos.

To view what is on there now, click the following link … http://flic.kr/g/kH5fG

10k Track Run – Member Poll

Please go to the “10k Track Run Poll” page or click http://tinyurl.com/moefdks to fill in our very important Poll.

We are already looking at our Championships Track programme for next year and were contemplating re-introducing a 10,000m. However, with a congested fixture list, this is not a simple task. Would we get support for this? Would athletes double up with the 5000m? Would it be a disaster for entering other events on the day? How can we get more members to enter a 10,000m track? This is becoming a rare event on the track, so why didn’t more members support it this year?

To help us answer at least a couple of these questions it would be a great help if members completed the Poll.

The Poll closes on the 1st October 2013

British & Irish International Masters Cross Country

For anyone with an England qualification who wishes to be selected for the British & Irish International Masters Cross Country due to take place on Saturday, 16th November 2013 at Cardiff please use the application form from the link below:-

XC Form 1

Entries – MMAC 10k Road Championships

MMAC 10k Road Championships

Very Important News

The Race Director has informed us that the entry limit is approaching rapidly. MMAC members who HAVE NOT entered already (list of entries from www.wilne.co.uk/mmac ) should get their entires in pronto. All entry details from the following link http://tinyurl.com/bmnwof8

Please make sure you fill in the correct form for MMAC entries and NOT the Open Race or else you may not qualify for our championships even though you are a member.

If you have forgotten your membership number, this link will take you to the “Membership” page where you can access both the Men & Womens numbers … http://tinyurl.com/95b6d45

Let us get a good turn out in this popular and well organised race. We have well over 400 members registered with us as ‘road runners’ and wouldn’t it be nice to get a lot more entering and making it a true championship event.

Midland Masters Athletic Club 10k Road Championships

Heart Stents

MMAC member since 1980, Gloria Rickard née Dourass, writes ….

“Had two heart stents fitted on 11th July:  has any MMAC member had this procedure done; have they been able to return running and in what timescale?”  (Not allowed to do press ups either!!)

Best Wishes,

Gloria

(Please also see Comments below, use this facility to communicate direct with Gloria and keep everyone informed)

Cup Finals – Midland Veterans Track & Field League

Midland Veterans Track & Field League (MVT&FL)

Further to a previous post http://tinyurl.com/obtousm which apparently has caused a little confusion. I must make it clear that the following are eligible to compete in the above league:-

1. 1st Claim Members only
2. A maximum of three 2nd Claim Members (members of UKA Clubs) can compete in any one season, provided that their Club is NOT in the MVT&FL
3. Members from Road Running Clubs who have registered with England Athletics (EA) to compete for MMAC as 1st Claim Track Only

Your team manager is Tony Porter, antonyporter1@aol.com

Midland Masters AC Flickr Group

After the recent Masters Inter-Area Match at Solihull, Louis Satterthwaite has kindly set up a Flickr Group for Midland Masters Photographs. If you have any images that are relevant to Midland Masters AC then you too can upload them onto the Group page after first joining the Group. Lou will administer this part of it. Go to http://tinyurl.com/mq8uzjl and take a look. Then consider joining the Group and add your pictures for everyone to see.