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If you haven’t yet renewed your membership, please follow the simple steps below:
How to renew your MMAC membership in 10 easy steps.
(1) Go to http://www.bmaf.info
(2) Log in (top right)
(3) You are now in BMAF Open Track. Log In again (request new password if first time user).
(4) Click “My Account”
(5) See My Area Club membership – click club for more info, or to renew
(6) Click renew now
(7) Select 1st or 2nd claim membership
(8) Add £2 donation for newsletter if you want it posted (or more if you wish to donate)
(9) Click Pay MMAC
(10) Complete credit or debit details – Voilà !!
Please remember, if you are a first time member, when you have paid your subs online you have to be verified before you can enter competitions. This is not instantaneous so please be patient and wait until your membership is verified before trying to enter the competitions. This is the same as the old system, it is not a new feature.
Please find corrected MMAC cross country results attached. Apologies to Roger Wilson for not listing as 1st M70.
Please find attached below the results from the Midland Masters Cross Country Champs held yesterday at Aldersley. Well done to all and thank you to all the officials and helpers without who the race would not be able to go ahead.
We have been informed of the death on 28th December of British Masters Athletics Federation’s first President and former Chairman, Sylvester Stein, aged 95. He enjoyed good health up to the last moment and sang on 24th. His funeral is on 14 January. Our condolences go out to his wife Sarah, children and grandchildren.
Sylvester Stein Orbituary:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/03/sylvester-stein
From today you will be able to log into the new OpenTrack system (AREG is no longer available). If you are new to the system, and have not been transferred over from AREG, you will have to register. The system is not fully all singing and dancing yet but you can, if you are an existing member, check your details and view the BMAF magazine (or pay a subscription of £10 to receive a printed copy).
To log in:
Please note, Membership queries (not technical queries to do with the OpenTrack website) should continue to go to the our acting area club membership secretary Irene Nicholls (irenenn@aol.com). Other assistance will be provided by the BMAF support team Peter Kennedy/Alex Rowe via the email address memsec@bmaf.org.uk
Please note that, due to the changeover from the AREG system to OpenTrack, AREG is currently unavailable for entries. If you have not yet entered the MMAC Cross Country Championships, 17th January, Aldersley, Wolverhampton, and would like to – please use the attached form below for postal entry. Closing date is 9th January.
The BMAF is moving its membership management and competition entries over the next few months from AREG to a new system called OpenTrack. This will be used by the members of all BMAF area clubs for management of their member data.
The system will include:
Not all the above functionality will be introduced immediately. The timetable for changeover is:
OpenTrack accessible to BMAF members and open competitors: – to review their member data in parallel with AREG – to update their member data in parallel with AREG (from 15th December only) – to read online copies of Masters Athletics magazine (Members only) – to subscribe to printed copy of Masters Athletics magazine
AREG continues to be used for all its existing purposes but any member data updates will be transferred to OpenTrack on behalf of the members
AREG unavailable whilst final changes to AREG data and current competition entries are loaded into OpenTrack
OpenTrack to be used for all existing functions of AREG but new functions will be progressively introduced during 2016 for the benefit of members, membership secretaries and competition organisers
Membership queries should continue to go to the BMAF area club membership secretaries (MMAC irenenn@aol.com). Other assistance will be provided by the BMAF support team Peter Kennedy/Alex Rowe via the email address memsec@bmaf.org.uk
When you wish to use OpenTrack go to the BMAF website http://www.bmaf.org.uk MEMBER LOGIN and follow instructions shown there. We recommend that you try out the access to OpenTrack, when it is available so that you can see how simple the access is, and review the accuracy of your data which has been provided by all the membership secretaries.
For details see attached document OpenTrack startup
More information, relating to the use by MMAC members, will be provided as and when it becomes available.
Reminder that there are now two options for receiving your British Masters magazine, see attachment here Masters Athletics Magazine for details.
I am working on a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary about air pollution and looking for a running group to film in Birmingham.
Air pollution particularly affects those who are slightly older, so I’m keen to speak to a running club that specifically caters for older runners, or has a good number of older members in the Birmingham area.
We’ll fit them with a pollution monitor and find out what levels they’re exposed to. In London they have a veterans/masters running group, so an equivalent in Birmingham would be super.
I’d be very grateful if you could pass this onto your network to see if anyone is able to help.
Many thanks
Tamanna Rahman
01865 596 233
The Midland Masters Open Relays, held at the National Forest Cycling Centre Swadlincote on Sunday 17th April 10:30am, are open to all UKA registered masters athletes (you do not have to be an MMAC member to compete).
The venue is next door to Conkers, a fun woodland park with activities for all the family, so do bring the children and grandchildren along. Refreshments and accommodation are available (see details attached below) and the course is all on shale path (so not too hard on the knees or shins!).
Do not worry if you cannot get a team together – enter as an individual and composite teams will be made up on the day. Team Captains/Managers should put team entries in at http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2016/mmacr16e.php and the closing date is midnight on 8th April (so plenty of time to get your teams sorted!).
For details see: MMAC Open Relay 2016
Masters ATHLETICS online December 2015
You can still receive a printed copy. The reason BMAF had to cease production of “Masters Athletics” earlier this year was due to costs that had escalated to more than £20,000 a year, this expenditure could not continue. It was therefore decided to go online, with an option for members to purchase a printed copy at £10 for 12 months, please see attached:
Midland Masters Athletic Club 