Midland Masters Athletic Club
Midland Masters
Appeal for Officials & Marshals
This is a very important appeal for volunteers to help us at the National Masters Road Relays to be held at Sutton Park on Saturday, 12th May 2012.
Because the event clashes with the County Track & Field Championships we are desperately short of Officials. We need timekeepers, recorders, funnel recorders and anyone who can help with the start and finish procedures. Anyone who feels they can help us out then please in the first instance contact Mike Wrenn on mike.wrenn@blueyonder.co.uk
I am also compiling a list of Marshals; any member interested in helping out here should please contact me on mmac.sec@blueyonder.co.uk
If we cannot get the required number of people then the event will be in danger of being called off.
Please try to help if you can.
Tom Morris – MMAC Organising Committee
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Events Reminders
The Colin Simpson Memorial 5 Mile Handicap takes place this coming Sunday, 1st April. No April Fool here but the entries are closed!!!
Our AGM takes place after our annual relays on the 15th April. The relays are open to non MMAC members, so get your entries in quickly.
Just announced are our 10k Road Championships. These will be on Sunday, 2nd September 2012 at Draycott in Derbyshire. All details are now on our “Championships” page, click the link http://tinyurl.com/cjwr2lp to go there.
Also, don’t forget our Track & Field Championships in June, all details from http://tinyurl.com/7nl9lgb
MMAC Relays & AGM
MMAC Relays, 15th April 2012
Please go to our dedicated page giving all the details of our annual relays including the entry form. The following link will take you directly there http://tinyurl.com/7w4r5f2 
The centre is offering our members a carvery lunch but these will have to be ordered at the time of entering the race.
Prices are £6.50 for adults and £3.50 for children.
The lunches are served up to 3.00 pm
For details of the AGM, go to the “AGM 2012” page or click http://tinyurl.com/7cw2zgb
The Colin Simpson Memorial Handicap
After having to call off our annual handicap on the 5th February due to bad weather it has been decided to hold it on the 1st April 2012, once again within the Centurion Grand Prix Series by kind permission of Centurion RC. The handicap will be renamed “The Colin Simpson Memorial Handicap” in honour of our late Treasurer, Colin Simpson, whose 83rd birthday would have been on the 2nd April.
All the original entries and entry fees will stand but if anyone who wants to enter can now do so on a new entry form Colin Simpson Memorial Handicap 2012 the closing date is strictly the 22nd March 2012.
The handicap is open to Midland Masters AC member only and the entry fee is £6.00
Any member who has entered the Grand Prix event or series pays only £1.00 BUT will still need to fill out the handicap form. Let us get a good entry for this re-scheduled event.
Midland Masters AC 40th Aniversary
Celebration of the Club’s 40th Anniversary
We are still planning to organise an event in the autumn to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Club’s formation in October 1972. The invitation in the September Newsletter to put forward ideas yielded only one response, but we are pressing on!
The online poll on our website was rather more encouraging. 33% of votes said, “Yes I would attend” and only 16% said “No I wouldn’t”. 51% said “Maybe, depending on the type of event and possible cost”. However, only 37 votes were cast, which is under 5% of our total of over 800 members, so we’ll need stronger evidence of interest before we commit to significant expenditure.
There is still time to let us have your ideas or requests. Contact Adrian Lloyd (at acrlloyd@solcl.net or 24 The Crescent, Hampton-in-Arden, Solihull, B92 0BP) or any Club officer.
Thank you,
Adrian Lloyd
MMAC Annual 5 Mile Handicap
MMAC Annual 5 Mile Handicap. Too late now to enter our handicap 5 miler taking place this coming Sunday at Kingshurst, Birmingham within the Centurion Grand Prix Series. We have received 22 men’s entries and 7 women’s entries. A little disappointing when you work out what percentage this is of the total membership. However, we are all going to have fun, don’t forget the thermals!!
MMAC XC Championships 2012
A very successful event took place on Sunday, 22nd January at Droitwich. Full results (version 2) are now available at http://wp.me/PDLtv-CR
Indoor Training
Members may be interested in the chance to train on the indoor track at the NIA, Birmingham at certain times during February. You should visit http://tinyurl.com/7edswxq for all the details which can be accessed by clicking “read more”.
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MMAC Cross Country Championships
Volunteers are required to marshal the cross country course at Droitwich on the 22nd January 2012.
If you are injured and can’t run and would like to help or just would like to help then please in the first instance contact Tony Crocker on tonycrok@aol.com
The whole thing should only take a couple of hours and will greatly help your fellow members.
Full details of this event can be found on this website at http://tinyurl.com/chkfzmw
Results from the MMAC 10 Mile Road Championships
Results from the MMAC 10 Mile Road Championships 2011 are on the appropriate page « Midland Masters Athletic Club – – http://ow.ly/7WBkN
Centurion RC 2nd Team M35
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