Track & Field Championships 2012

Less than 3 weeks to go to the closing date for entries to our Track & Field Championships. All the details you need are on the “Championships” page on this site.  Entrants must be fully paid up members of Midland Masters AC; guests are welcome but will not qualify for medals.

10th June 2012, Pingles Stadium, Nuneaton

Final 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, 12^th 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

I currently have 15 places to fill spread between the two races.

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

London Marathon

Well done to all the Midland Masters AC members who completed the London Marathon today. I will publish a full list if I can later this week.

MMAC Relay – Results

Apologies for the slight delay in getting the results from yesterday’s relay’s up on the website. As some of you know, I have been taking the entries for the National Masters Relays in May and the closing date coincided with the weekend of our own relays. The upshot of this was that today the priority had to be processing the National online entries. However, I have now managed to get them uploaded on our dedicated page. The following link will take you straight there http://tinyurl.com/cqkksxg in a new window but for the idle click here…. Road Relays Results V2

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, 12^th 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

Related articles

• Events Reminders (midlandmasters.com)
• MMAC Relays & AGM (midlandmasters.com)

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 5^th February due to bad weather it has been decided to hold it on the 1^st 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 83^rd birthday would have been on the 2^nd 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 22^nd 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 40^th Anniversary

We are still planning to organise an event in the autumn to celebrate the 40^th 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!!