General

Charity Fund Raising

One of our members, David Phillips from Massey Ferguson RC, has written to ask if anyone can support him in his fund raising efforts……..

Hello everyone,

It’s that time of year again when I start my annual charity fund-raising.  Please see the link attached and see if you can help me help others.

Thanks,

David Phillips.

http://www.justgiving.com/David-Phillips3

For The Over 60’s

Or contact Debbie Shearing – email: dhs899@bham.ac.uk

Report on recent Social Evening

Adrian has written a report on the social evening held recently at the Solihull Indoor Bowls Centre. He has also produced a questionnaire that he would very much like all members to fill in and email back to him.

Please take time to have a look on the “Social Events” Page at http://wp.me/PDLtv-dq

MMAC XC Champs

Just back from Droitwich where the XC Champs took place this morning. I will post results as soon as I receive the scrutinised electronic version.

Anyone who has any photos, please email me an I will add them to the post.

Thanks to everyone who attended especially Martin Smith of Droitwich AC who layed out most of the course.

Tom

Earn Money for your Club

A new way of accessing funds…

England Athletics are pleased to be able to tell you about a new partnership with Athletics Weekly which will help our club to access funds. The partnership means that if club members subscribe to Athletics Weekly money can be paid back into the sport. This money, £5 per subscription, is paid to the club that the athlete is a member of. To find out the terms and conditions associated with this offer as well as the details of how you can access the offer please go to www.athletics-weekly.com/cluboffer.php

Our 1st Claim Members can help MMAC enormously by subscribing to AW. A downloadable form to subscribe is available here… http://www.athletics-weekly.com/images/clubofferform.pdf

Please take advantage of this offer and help your Club.

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our members.

I hope all your aims for 2011 will be fullfilled.

Marathon Talk

Paula Radcliffe - New York Marathon 2007

Dear runner/triathlete,

We thought you might like to know that Marathon Talk (the UK’s number 1 running podcast) has recently interviewed legendary global leader in running research and author of the ‘The Lore of Running’ Professor Tim Noakes.  The podcast is available to listen to for free via itunes or directly from the web and is a great resource for runners & triathletes.

Website is HERE http://www.marathontalk.com/

iTunes page is HERE http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/marathon-talk/id350035346

Facebook page is HERE http://www.facebook.com/marathontalk

Marathon Talk is a weekly online magazine style radio show by Martin Yelling & Tom Williams. Each week they interview a wide range of guests, including the fastest female marathoner of all time, Paula Radcliffe, the current men’s Olympic Champion, Sammy Wanjiru, the fastest American born runner of all time, Ryan Hall, the British Paralympian and gold medalist at five Paralympic games, Noel Thatcher, and some of the Worlds greatest ultra runners including Bruce Fordyce and Scott Jurek.

It would be great if you could share the latest interview and links within your running club and wider running network.

Regards

Martin & Tom
www.marathontalk.com

London Mini Marathon 2011

WEST MIDLANDS REGION

2011 LONDON MINI MARATHON

(Incorporating UKA Age Group Road Race Championships)

TRIALS

(Under UKA Rules)

(Licence applied for)

Saturday 12^th March 2011

First race 11.00am

Stourport Cycleway,

Kingsway, Stourport,

Worcestershire

DY13 8BQ

The races will be open to all West Midlands qualified athletes under UKA Rules.

Entry will be free and accepted on the day.

Timetable: – All races will be over 3 miles on traffic free roads.

11.00am Under 13 Girls             11.30am          Under 13 Boys

12.00noon   Under 15 Girls             12.30pm          Under 15 Boys

1.00pm        Under 17 Women           1.30pm          Under 17 Men

Date of the London Mini Marathon – Sunday 17^th April 2011

The first five finishers in each race will be automatically selected as the ‘Team’ the next four will be non-travelling reserves.  There will be one place in each team left for Team Management selection.  That athlete will be advised nearer to the date of the London Mini Marathon itself.

Team Manager Rebecca FREEMAN.  Emails to Becky to show intention to compete would be appreciated please, specifying age group.

For full details please contact: – Rebecca Freeman

Telephone:  07834 087834.           Email: westmidsminimarathon@hotmail.co.uk

Janis Gercs – Funeral

Dave Cowley, Rugby & Northampton AC writes…….

Important Message To MMAC Members

1^st Claim Members – IMPORTANT READING

An important change to how England Athletics handles the registration scheme comes into place on the 1^st April 2011. This will affect ALL our members but particularly our 1^st Claim Members who we register. Plastic Competition Licences (registration cards) will no longer be sent out to athletes thus saving a considerable amount in production and postal costs. They will be replaced with an E-Card from April 2011. This will keep the annual fees down to a minimum to cover insurance and welfare. Each athlete registered will receive a welcome email and their Unique Registration Number (URN) immediately upon receipt and processing of the Registration fee, which will enable them to print an E-Card from their computer. Any 1^st Claim Members who do not have access to a computer or do not have an email address should consider carefully if they have a friend or relative who could receive the email for you. I would not use this email address for anything else. Otherwise, I as Club Secretary, will act on your behalf and provide you with the URN (as I do now) and the E-Card. This new system should make it easier for members to log onto their portal to manage their own data thus reducing my work! Having a valid email address will allow athletes to retrieve lost E-Cards and URNs at no extra cost or additional work by me!

The success of this scheme will depend on having a valid/active email address. It is imperative that email addresses are updated if there is a change either by the individual on their portal OR by informing me. The email address will become a mandatory field on the EA database from April 2011 so I would appreciate that 1^st Claim Members who currently do not have an email address but who have kind friends could let me know.

Tom Morris – Membership Secretary