British masters

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

BMAF 5k Champs – MMAC Results

Results for the MMAC Members who competed in the BMAF 5k Championships in Horwich on the 20th June 2010 can be downloaded here: – BMAF 5K 2010 MMAC Results

Eric Horwill’s Report on the BMAF 5k Road Walks at Horwich together with the results can be viewed here… BMAF 5k Road Walk Championships Report

The British & Irish Masters Cross Country International 2010

The Home Countries International XC race will be held at Santry Park, Dublin on Saturday the 13^th November 2010.

The criteria for selection are based on National BMAF events, especially the Cross Country Championships as well as the 5k & 10k Road and track championship races. Competing in BMAF rather than local events gives the selectors an opportunity to compare athletes over the same courses.

You MUST be a currently paid up member of MMAC to qualify.

An application form for consideration to be selected can be either downloaded from the BMAF website at http://www.bmaf.org.uk or from the MMAC website at http://www.midlandmasters.org.uk or from the link below.

Alternatively, send an sae 9″x 6″ (correctly stamped) to Mick Smedley, MMAC International XC Selector (England), 12a Bagshaw Street, Crewton, DERBY DE24 8TX for an application form.

All applications MUST be received by Mick Smedley (England only) no later than Friday, 24^th September 2010.

Late applications will NOT be considered.

Yours in Sport,

Mick Smedley

Application Form available here… Selection Criteria Form 2010

MMAC 10k Road Championships

MMAC 10k Road Champs

This year the MMAC 10k Road Championships will take place within the Goodrich 10k at Wolverhampton on Sunday, 12th September 2010 starting at 10.00 am.

The event will also incorporate the British Masters 10k and an Inter Area Match.

We would like as many members as possible to support this race, which is organised by Wolverhampton & Bilston AC. I have set up a dedicated page on this blog for this event and will add more information in the coming days. An entry form is available for download on this page, together with some details. There is plenty of time to organise the diary… the date again is: –

12th September 2010

Loughborough Uni. Sports Science Service

Hi All,
Please find attached information about the services available for your club from Loughborough University's Performance Sport Services.  We are currently offering 10% off a sports massage if you book a physiology assessment, gait analysis or musculoskeletal screening.
Regards,
Rhona.

Running Summer flyer April 2010

Rhona Pearce
BASES Accredited Physiologist
Sports Science Manager
Loughborough University Sports Science Service
Performance Centre
Loughborough
LE11 3TU 

Tel: 01509 226259
www.loughboroughsport.com

Age Groups – BMAF Road Relays

We have received a proposal that from 2011, the age groups for MEN replicate those for WOMEN and the age groupings under EVAA Non-Stadia Team Rules for Road events, namely:

M35-44 / M45-54 / M55-64 / M65-74 / M75+

It’s important that as many Clubs vote to make it representational as possible.

Download a voting paper…. RelayAgeGroups-VotingPaper[3]

Advanced Notice – Inter Area T&F Match

Inter Area   Challenge    Sunday 8th August 2010   Norman Green Stadium, Solihull, Birmingham

South v Eastern v South West v North v Scotland v Welsh

Please make a note in your diary

Team Selected from Midland Masters Championships Sunday 13th June 2010

Saffron Lane, Leicester

M35     M50   M60   M70   W35     W40       W50   Most Events Covered

Team Manager Paul Tasker   07760 298089 email sportbilly@shaka.eclipse.co.uk,

National Open Masters Road Relays 2010

All the entry details can be downloaded from either: –

The MMAC Website….. http://www.midlandmasters.org.uk/midland_m_009.htm

The BMAF Website….. http://www.bmaf.org.uk/fix/fix.asp

Or SportSoft Website together with an online entry at http://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2010/index.htm

Please also see the “National Road Relays” page on this Blog

Hello world!

Welcome to the Midland Masters Blog. This is meant to supplement our website not to replace it and will be used to announce details of special events such as the Home International Cross Country (see separate page on this blog) and news that is not neccessarily suitable for the Newsletter. As they say… watch this space.