General

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

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.

New Channel 4 Show

Of special interest to our members this proposed new show is just for you …..

Please take a few minutes to read the letter explaining what it’s all about and fill in an application form.

All the details are on our “Notice Board” page at http://tinyurl.com/bm6a6sn 

Inter-Area T&F Outdoor Challenge 2013

The Inter-Area take place on the 21st July 2013 at Solihull. Important information plus all details can be found on this website under the “Club Events” page, look for the relevant sub-page or click on the following direct shortlink …….. http://tinyurl.com/q8st34u

Latest Committee News

At our committee meeting last night (27th February), two important decisions were made of interest to members.

Firstly, we co-opted Tony Porter as our Track & Field Team Manager responsible for the teams in the Midland Veterans Track & Field Team. Tony volunteered after my appeal for someone to come forward and more details will be available very soon.

Secondly, we unanimously agreed to go ahead and join the British Masters Athletic Federation online entry system. Once set up, members will be able to pay their subscriptions online and be able to update and amend their profile themselves. Eventually, probably gradually phased in, we will also be able to offer an online entry for our events. Integrating with the BMAF means that members will not be able to enter BMAF or International events without being a paid up member.

Maintaining this online database will drastically reduce the administration work involved with membership issues and will make handovers easier to succeeding officers.

Further details will be available soon.

Related articles

• Final Appeal for Team Manager (midlandmasters.com)

Membership Subscription Reminder

Membership subscriptions are due for payment from the 1st January. If you haven’t renewed yet please go to the “Membership” Page; sub-page “Membership Renewals” for all the information.

Leonard Berry

We have received sad news of the death of a previous Midland Veterans AC member #80940, Leonard Berry, who joined in June 1984. His daughter writes ………….

I am writing to let you know that my father, Leonard Berry, passed away on 18th December aged 82. He was a member of the Midland Veterans during the 1980’s when he won a silver medal for England in the Steeplechase in, I believe, 1985.

His funeral is on Thursday 3rd January at noon in St John the Baptist Church, Great Rissington, Gloucestershire. Please can you pass on the news to any of his contemporaries that may like to know.

Regards
Clare Mayo

2012 in review

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