Midland Masters Athletic Club
Masters
Brueton Park Run, Solihull
 Knowle and Dorridge Running Club’s Jonathan JENNINGS was the first athlete across the finish line today, Saturday 2nd October 2010. He completed the course in 16:53 and posted an age grade score of 82.72%. The first female athlete to cross the line was Solihull & Small Heath AC’s Helen FINCH in a time of 19:36 posting an age grade score of 75.51%. |
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Cardiff Park Run
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| Cardiff AAC’s James MILLS was the first athlete across the finish line today, Saturday 25th September 2010. He completed the course in 16:09 and posted an age grade score of 79.88%. The first female athlete to cross the line was Charlie GREEN in a time of 18:42 posting an age grade score of 79.14%. | ||||||||||||||||
| The following athletes from Midland Masters AC from took part in today’s Cardiff parkrun. | ||||||||||||||||
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Distance.co.uk
A new online store has come to our attention. You can find a link to the store on the “Blogroll” by scrolling to the bottom of the page. Check it out.
The link is http://www.distance.co.uk and the mailing address is: –
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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
RUNBRITAIN
RUNBRITAIN LAUNCHES REVOLUTIONARY ONLINE SCORING FOR ROAD RUNNERS
runbritain has today announced the launch of its revolutionary new handicap scoring system designed to give road runners of all abilities the ability to benchmark their progress and compare their results across a range of distances and terrains.
The scoring system, which has been developed in conjunction with the team behind the McCain Power of 10 website, enables runners to claim a ranking score based on any single performance at 5k, 10k, half marathon and marathon distances, and allow them to make comparisons against fellow runners of varying degrees of ability. It also offers guidance and support on future racing selections and opportunities to improve current runbritain handicap scores.
Visit the runbritain website at http://www.runbritain.com/home/ for more information and to claim your handicap ranking and you will be provided with a bespoke personal running biog page on www.runbritain.com featuring:
· current rankings at each distance
· personal progress graph
· direct comparisons with other runners with a ?head-to-head? function
· handicap score updated automatically after each run
· target times to bring score down by 1.0 handicap points
· and much much more!
Benefits of Supplements to Master Athletes
A reminder to take part in a very useful survey…….
Hello,
My name is Paul Astles I am a post graduate student at Leeds Metropolitan University, England. I am currently studying for an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology and I am planning on undertaking my thesis around Masters Athletes. Specifically, the aim of my research would be to investigate attitudes towards supplement use (for example, the research asks questions about what supplements are taken, perceived health or performance benefits of supplements and sources of advice regarding supplementation).
The data collection for this research is going to be an online questionnaire. The link to the questionnaire pack is beneath this text, simply copy and paste into your browser to go straight to questionnaire pack and begin. It is important that you read the first page of the questionnaire pack as this will hopefully answer any questions that you have regarding the benefits of the research. There are contact details on that first page should you have any further questions regarding the questionnaires or the research.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/supplementsurveycarnegie
Thank you for your time
Paul Astles
Membership Cards
Membership Cards
I have thought for some time that a membership card would be a good idea but the thought and expense of sending out 700+ each year proved to be a block! Then I hit on the idea of “membership participation”. Obtaining a membership card will be voluntary and up to the individual member who may or may not think it a useful idea. After getting support from your committee, the scheme will work like this: –
Every member who wants a membership card should contact me by email, mmac.sec@blueyonder.co.uk or as a “Comment” on this post. I will then produce a personalised membership card and send it back as an attachment.
Important: Please state file format e.g. “.docx”; “.doc”; “PDF”. The member is responsible for printing the attachment either on card or paper and preferably laminating it or covering it with transparent sticky plastic (available from stationers). This can be kept safely at home or in the wallet and can be referred to when necessary. If the scheme proves successful, it will be extended for 2011.
A list of members and numbers can be viewed at http://www.midlandmasters.org.uk/current%20members%20web%20030810.pdf
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)
(Amended dates 19/08/2010)
Benefits of Supplements to Master Athletes
Midland Masters Athletic Club 