Midland Masters

Park Run

Forest of Dean AC’s Ann NIXON was the first athlete across the finish line today, Saturday, 19th June 2010. She completed the course in 20:08 and posted an age grade score of 87.33%. The first male athlete to cross the line was Sebastian BODGER in a time of 20:15 posting an age grade score of 65.10%.

The following athletes from Midland Masters AC from took part in today’s Forest of Dean parkrun.

.. Forest of Dean Results by Club … Position Athlete Sex Run Time Club Name Age Grading % Age Category Personal Best 23 Len CREO M 35:58 Midland Masters AC 72.71% VM85-89 New PB

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

Park Run

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

Old Guard Winter Competition

I know the Summer T&F season has hardly got under way but here is some advanced news for next Winter!! The “Old Guard Winter Competition” will once again be organised by Tony Crocker for some good old out of season contests. The first meeting will be held at Stourport on the 17th October 2010. The date of the second meeting still has to be confirmed but will be in March 2011.

Entry forms will be available later but in the meantime make a note in your diaries and watch this space!!

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

MMAC 10k Track Championships

Please note that the 10,000m Championship event is incorporated with the BMAF 10k Track Championships taking place on the 23rd May at Horspath Athletics Track, Horspath Road, Oxford OX4 2RR. An entry form specifically for this event can be downloaded here…. http://www.bmaf.org.uk/fix/bmaf201010ktrk-entry.pdf

See also the “Track & Field Champs” Page.

Important:

This event also includes the 10k Track Walk

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]

Road Relays Results

Anyone wanting to look at the results from the relays that took place yesterday should click on the “Road Relay/AGM” page where there is a link to download them.

The results of the walks handicap can also be downloaded.

General & Membership Secretary’s Report 2009

Since taking on the job of Secretary in 2006, I find that the writing of this report comes round remarkably quickly and once again I have found myself composing this too late for inclusion in the February Newsletter. An error I promised myself wouldn’t happen again in 2008! The problem is that the track record of membership attendance at our AGM is abysmally low (last year there was NO paid up members attending) so hardly any of the membership gets to read it. Not much motivation therefore for me to write it! However, hopefully, this is now rectified. More of that later.

The year starts with membership renewals pouring in and can I thank all of you who always pay early and plead with the late payers (predominately the same people) to change their ways. I know that filling in the Renewal Forms is a tad boring but you wouldn’t believe how some information changes without me being notified and this is very often the only way I pick it up to enable our database to be updated and as accurate as possible. With the possible phasing out by the banks of cheques we will also have to look at alternative ways of collecting yearly subscriptions some time in the future.

Membership levels over the last few years have remained fairly static, which is encouraging but the influx of new members each year has gradually seen a decrease, although the ratio of men to women has narrowed. Women are at last catching up!

Our 1^st Claim Membership hovers around the 90 mark and our track & field team are fast becoming established in the Midland Veterans T&F League. Any members of road running clubs not affiliated for T&F can compete for us legitimately on the track but only after applying to Athletic Services with an “Other Discipline Form”. This should be done pre-season.

We continue to be involved in the organisation of both our own and National events and keeps your committee active behind the scenes. No doubt reports of these events will appear elsewhere but I’d just like to mention three events that we contributed in a major way.

*          The National Masters Open Road Relays take place each year at Sutton Park in May and are organised by us on behalf of the BMAF with considerable help from Birmingham City Council. Thanks must go to Irene Jones and her team without their input the event wouldn’t take place quite so professionally.

*          The BMAF Track & Field Championships although not organised by us have a considerable input by your committee, particularly Irene Nicholls & Margaret Simpson on results.

*          Finally, at short notice, we put together a package to allow the International Masters Cross Country to go ahead in Birmingham. A big thank you to Irene Nicholls for taking on the lion’s share of the work.

After much thought and deliberation I decided on a personal note to try to write a Blog. For those who don’t know, a blog is basically an online diary. After realising the potential of this free service, we thought it would be a good idea to produce a blog just for the International XC. I misinterpreted the request and initiated a blog for MMAC. This was quickly put right and the EAMA Blog subsequently had, in October & November, nearly 6000 views. Meanwhile I also developed the MMAC Blog and between October and the end of the year we had almost 3500 visitors. This blog provides a quick and efficient way to post details of events/news etc to as many members as possible and compliments both the Newsletter and our official website.

In 2008 we initiated an “opt-out” system for our Newsletter and many of you have continued this with your 2010 renewals. The result is that we have currently over 200 members willing to read/print the Newsletter from the online copy on our website. This represents a saving of well over £1000 per year and helps to keep your subscriptions down at a low-level. The problem I had with this is that mass emailing wasn’t an easy task and was often seen as sending spam. The result was that many emails bounced back to me as undeliverable and some never reached their destination because of the way personal firewalls were set up. Dealing with this was both time-consuming and time-wasting. A solution was to get you, our members on email, join the Yahoo Group, which enabled me to send one message only and reach all of you. How good this proved to be depended on the members co-operation and to date we have nearly 120 signed up out of potentially more than 400. This has meant that some of you have not been reading the notifications of when the Newsletter goes online. I have done my best to be able to reach as many of you as possible with all the latest news and developments via the Yahoo Group; the MMAC Blog; the MMAC Website and the Newsletter. In addition I am on both Twitter & Facebook, so there really is no excuse for not being aware of what’s going on. The information is there, please do your bit and sign up free to the Yahoo Group and bookmark as favourites all 3 sites. To those who do not have internet access, then you must rely on the Newsletter as ever.

I shall therefore be posting a copy of this report for all to read before the AGM on the MMAC  Blog.

Personally, I should like to give a big thank you to your Officers, Irene Nicholls; Colin & Margaret Simpson; Brian Owen and the General Committee who keep me in my place and offer me such wonderful support, especially when master’s matters get a bit excruciating!

Tom Morris — April 2010