General

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

A Happy Christmas to all MMAC Members both past and present and also to Masters Athletes everywhere.

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Competition Entries are open for……

1. MMAC Cross-Country Championships, 18^th January 2015 – Closing Date 10^th January
2. Colin Simpson Memorial Handicap, 1^st February 2015 – Closing Date 23^rd January

Further details are on this website on the relevant pages.

To enter go to http://bmaf.org.uk  and click on “Member Login” and login using your username & password.

Membership Subscriptions 2015

Although subscriptions are due from the 1^st January it helps everyone concerned if you can pay early. Entry to the Cross Country Championships (see above) will not be allowed after the 31^st December unless you are paid up and your status “confirmed”. Please do not leave it until the closing date. To pay your 2015 subscriptions go to http://bmaf.org.uk and click on “Member Login” after logging in click on “Area Club Membership” to pay your subs.

London Marathon Club Entries

I am happy to announce that Nick Vaughan #83502 & Barry Coleman #83593 are our successful applicants for our two guaranteed Club entries for the London Marathon 2015

Commemorative T-Shirt

We have five T-shirts left as mementos of the MMAC 40th Anniversary Torch Relay, printed as shown below. Unfortunately they are all XL and indeed quite large, but going free to any MMAC member. Contact Adrian Lloyd acrlloyd@solcl.net if interested.

Master Athlete #MMA242 – New Issue

The latest Newsletter is now published at http://tinyurl.com/q42ofzy

MMAC Annual Open Relays 2015

MMAC Annual Relays

I am pleased to announce that our traditional Annual Open Relays will take place on the 26th April 2015 from the YHA National Forest Centre, Swadlincote. Full details can be found on this website on the dedicated page at http://wp.me/PDLtv-Fc and entry online will follow very soon.

For those of you on the ball with diary dates you will spot that the date does clash again with the London Marathon. We tried with all our might to avoid this date but because of other fixture clashes with the MCAA Relays and other Masters events your organising team are involved in, coupled with the potential venues being booked up and unavailable, we had to settle on the 26th April or nothing!!! Hopefully this will not affect us too much.

This event is for all affiliated runners (non-affiliated runners not allowed I’m afraid) and is open to non-MMAC members. Please disseminate among your fellow club colleagues and encourage a team entry. For individuals who cannot raise a team – don’t worry – please enter as an individual and you will be placed in a Composite Team on the day.

There is a possibility that a Race Walk Handicap will also take place at the same time, providing there are no major fixture clashes. Details will be published as soon as possible.

MMAC 10 Mile Road Championships 2014

This is a reminder that members of Midland Masters AC have until the 27th September to enter this years 10 Mile Road Championships in Rugby. Full details on how to enter are on our website dedicated page at … http://tinyurl.com/lun49fk 

Members who have registered with us Road Running and/or Cross Country as their main interest will have received a MembeRise email (please open and read) with all the details, this is a further reminder.

Let’s get a record entry for this event.

To date (18th September 2014) only 31 entries have been received for our Championships. Please get your entries in NOW as places are getting short. Let’s double this entry in the next week.

Research Study

Jessica Coulson a researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University is currently undergoing a research project looking at bone health in Master Athletes above the age of 60 years old.

For the study they require 300 master athletes aged 60 and over competing in sprints/middle or distance events. The study does not involve the athletes having to travel or change anything only to wear a small monitor known as an accelerometer for 7 consecutive days, not at night, and then they send it back in the free postage envelope which is provided.

Anyone interested should contact Jessica for further information either by telephone on

01612471207 or email at j.coulson@mmu.ac.uk

Newsletter Archive 1991 – 2000

The latest batch of archive Newsletters for the years 1991 to 2000 have now been published on the Midland Masters AC Newsletter Archive website ………

http://mmacnewsarchive.wordpress.com/

John Walker 1938 – 2014

John Walker’s funeral will take place at the Woodlands Crematorium, Coleshill, on Tuesday the 1st July 2014 at 11.00 am.

It was John’s wish that we should be dressed in our track suits.

Woodlands Cemetery and Crematorium
Birmingham Road
Coleshill
North Warwickshire
B46 1DP