Track & Field

Track & Field Championships 2011

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Results from the Track & Field Championships 2011 held on Sunday, 12th June at Leicester are now published at  http://ow.ly/5ipKf

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Results Midland Veterans Track and Field

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BMAF Track & Field Championships

Alexander Stadium

A very important message from Maurice Doogan to all masters athletes who want to enter the BMAF Track & Field Championships 2012 at Alexander Stadium on the 25/26th June: –

The On-Line Entry Form should be up and running in a few days time – go to www.areg247.co.uk to access, although a link may also appear on the BMAF website, but with that there might be a delay.

As I stated earlier, you need to have your NATIONAL [England, N.I. etc.] Registration Number and your Area Club [MMAC etc.] Membership No. to complete your entry.

We have a further problem, in as much that the External Throws Area at Alexander Stadium will not be available, so although I have, allegedly, squeezed in most of the throws, it does mean a 09.00 start for some age groups. However we do have a problem with the weight throw, which I am trying to resolve next week with a meeting with Alexander Stadium management. Hopefully I will be able to post a provisional timetable on the BMAF website in the next week.

Due to this problem, we are having to switch the Men and Women’s Pole Vault competitions. Womens competition now on the Saturday and Men’s on the Sunday.

Yours in Masters sport

Maurice

Accommodation details for the event can be downloaded here…… ALEXSTADIUMHOTEL_DEALS_2011

MMAC Fixtures

Fixtures Update

In a brief break from National Masters Relay entries and Royal Weddings, I have been able to update our “Fixtures” page. Of particular interest to our endurance athletes will be the BMAF 10k Track Championships which will incorporate our very own MMAC Championships. Not many of you have entered these in the past and it’s a chance to run the rare 10,000 m distance on the track. It will also allow entry to our full Track & Field Championships the following week in Leicester.

A direct link to the page is here … http://bit.ly/kiQRGu or just click on the “Fixtures” button.

“Old Guard” Track & Field April Meeting

The next “Old Guard” Track & Field Meeting takes place on the 3rd April 2011 at Stourport. All the details and entry form can be found at http://wp.me/PDLtv-bo

This event is a relaxed masters meeting and is open to non Midland Masters AC members.

This is your chance to see how winter training has gone or to try out new events and just to have FUN.

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Urgent Reminder

A last minute reminder to the track & field athletes that the ‘Old Guard’ T&F meeting take place next Sunday, 17th October at Stourport. All are welcome but get your entry forms off fast…. get them here: http://wp.me/PDLtv-bo

All the details are on this page too.

WMA Stadia Championships – London Bid 2015

Dear Fellow Athlete [I live in hope, but I do now have an EA Competition Licence]

SO THAT YOU ARE THE FIRST TO KNOW:
I have just submitted the paperwork to WMA for a prospective bid for the WMA Stadia Championships of 2015 in LONDON.

After my DREAM and efforts to bring the WMA Stadia Championships to London in 2011, in the proposed new London Olympic Stadium as a precursor to the Olympics, turned into a nightmare and failure, I withdrew to re-energise. I kept returning to the Third Way, this can work, we can make it work.

So, over the last couple of years, following Championships in one horse towns in the back end of beyond, with farcical [I am being kind] officiating, a few of us have continued to pursue the DREAM.

We have now elicited the approval of our exuberant Mayor of London and UK Athletics to support the BID, which gets us to the alleged Start Line. Ken Livingstone has also added his support today.

In reality, all that has happened, hopefully, is like you have all done, is filled in the Entry Form. In doing so, as I have done over more years than I would care to admit to, is that I assume I will find the time to do the training and go through the Call Room [you know that funny thing that some people still think is stupid] thinking I can win this – DREAM PART 2.

We [and not the Royal this time] now have 10 months to prove we are the best thing since sliced bread – which we know we are – you an’ me Bruv.

The downside is there are a couple of hurdles on the way, but our record in hurdles in previous Championships, shows we are simply the best, and we will overcome, with faith and the other two.

The hurdles are – UKA have to lose the vote for the IAAF World Athletics Championships in 2015 – sorry Ed and Cherry, I am not trying to put the mockers on things, just stating the fact – and the Stadium track and associated facilities are retained after the Olympics by the selected operating company.

We also have the small question of finding a few £100k’s from funding and sponsorship, which is where you come in [remember Teamwork in action].

A small team will be assembled to set out the parameters for Phase 1 of Project London Foremost 2015. Should we negotiate the hurdles, we need to hit the ground running [sorry throwers, it is just an expression, not a fact] in December/January when Phase 2 – funding and sponsorship becomes the priority. Strangely enough, the organisational side of the actual competitions appears to be the relatively easy bit – is it because we have seen how not to do it to many times for it to cause any fears, or is it that males are so crap at multi-tasking my brain will not let me get past the Presentation in Sacramento – so probably the latter.

So let’s get down to the nitty gritty – YOUR BIT.

Team Management are not going to be able to all of this on our own, not only are there not enough hours in the day, but we do not have all the expertise. So what we are looking for, is your speciality – be it legal, financial, linguistics or are you a web site designer, bona Blogger, Facebook fanatic or Twitter[ing] twit. A few hours of your input, from your home via e-mail etc., will make a difference. Like the relays without the fourth you cannot finish, so the 100th expert could be the difference between Winning and a DNF.

Sponsorship will be obtained if we can present OURSELVES as something worth selling – could it be numbers. Can we get thousands and thousands of Friends [Masters Athletes] on Facebook from around the World? A London Foremost 2015 Blog that people want to read, that they fully hook into and ultimately persuades them that London in 2015 will be the MUST place to be. Dialogue and the numbers will matter.

I need you to tell me. I am just a single tasking grumpy old man, prone to the odd rant, so humour me. What ideas or skills do you have, come back to me – between us we can make this work.

We need London to do for Masters Athletics, what Los Angeles did for the Olympics – MAKE IT SALEABLE – we must put Ageism to the sword, once and for all.

No more One Horse towns, in the back end of beyond – we have had our full of those – that is all you have to lose, not so hard a choice then. So volunteer your ideas and a little bit of your time.

Great Britain at the head of the Medal Table cannot happen without you, in more ways than one. The ULTIMATE DREAM – being chucked in the Water Jump Pit because we succeeded – bring it on.

Maurice Doogan

Winter/Spring “Old Guard” Meetings

Details are now available. Please go to our “Entry Forms & Other Event” page for the information http://wp.me/PDLtv-bo

MVT&F League – Cup Finals

The Cup Finals of the Midland Veterans Track & Field League take place in Rugby on the 5th September 2010.

Midland Masters have decided not to contest this event because we have so few athletes available to compete. We will however continue in the MVT&F L next year

Relays 4x800m & 4x1500m

Relays at Horspath – 11/12th  September

In conjunction with the combined events at Horspath, Oxford on September 11th and 12th, it has been decided to add a series of 4x800m and 4x1500m relays to the programme. This will give our athletes an opportunity to fill in the gaps in the British records, and possibly even mount an attempt on the world record in one or two age groups.

At the moment we are canvassing for interest, so there is no specific timetable set down. Meet Manager Bruce Charles has asked me to coordinate the relay entries so that we can establish a timetable of events.

I would be grateful if regional secretaries would publicise the relays within their area, and ask interested athletes to contact me directly. They can either organise a team of four themselves, or just enter individually and I will combine into teams’ cross-area.

Information I need is athlete’s name, region, age group on September 10 and email address.

Entry cost per athlete will be ₤2.

Many thanks

John Oldfield (MMAC)

Oldfield.jc@gmail.com

(Amended dates 19/08/2010)