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Virgin London Marathon 2011

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Virgin London Marathon 2011

With only a week to go all the hard work should have been put in, so an easy week ahead!

Can I wish all the members who were successful in gaining a Club place this year the very best of luck for the big day. I hope all goes well with no problems and hope you all have a stress free pre-race week. In addition to the 5 members who were lucky for a Club place after being rejected, I’m sure we will have many who will be representing their UKA Clubs. If you let me know I will endeavor to  recognize you on the results page http://bit.ly/faVmQO

Our 5 members are: –

  • M3309   Trevor Allport
  • M3434    John Keegan
  • M3449    Nicholas Blackham
  • W0496    Lesley Keighley
  • M3396     Simon McNamee

I’ll be busy at our relays and AGM but will record the marathon to watch later. I shall be looking closely for the MMAC Club Vests, white with the vertical red stripe. Run well and achieve your goals.

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Warwickshire Road Race League (WRRL) Announce New Website

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Warwickshire Road Race League (WRRL) News

It is impossible for us to reach every athlete in the County so please distribute this mail to your Members who are interested in road running.
(1)  New dedicated web site for the League
We am pleased to tell you that the WRRL now has its own web site. To reach it, go to the County web site at www.WarwickshireCountyAA.co.uk and click on “Road Race League” on the left hand side, or you can go directly to http://tinyurl.com/69lzecc
Please build a link to it into your Club web sites.
The site has a lot of information about how the League works and what it offers in terms of races and prizes. Once the League gets underway it will also show you the points scores for every athlete and every team after every race so you can see how you are performing.
Many thanks to Richard Carney for setting up the new site.
(2)  New scoring system.
We have developed what we hope will be an efficient scoring system which should help us put up to date League scores on the web site much quicker than was possible in the past. Even so we will be reliant of the race promoters giving us an electronic copy of their results as soon as possible after the race.
Many thanks to Mike Ellis who set up the new system and to Sean Lonergan and Richard Broooks (his colleagues at Spa Striders) who will operate it this year.
Mick Petch, who has produced the results single handed for the past ten years, will use his extensive knowledge of the League to audit the new system.
(3)  Updated calendar of races
We have attached an updated calendar of races for the current 2011 season. There are two date changes. The Rugby 10 mile race is scheduled for October 23rd and the Kenilworth Half Marathon has moved to 4th September (to generously accommodate the Coventry City Council Half Marathon). You can also download a copy of the calendar from the new web site.
The first race is the Regency Run which is already sold out. If you have missed the boat but would like to run let one of us (Geoff Wheeler or Ray Morgan) know immediately.
The second race is the Northbrook 10k for which we have attached an entry form.
Full details are available on the Club web site at www.NorthbrookAC.org.uk
The third race is the Two Castles which is also already sold out. If you have missed the boat on this one use the event web site to add yourself to the waiting list which will be reviewed nearer the race date. Do NOT contact us directly about it.
(4)  What next
The 2011 season gets underway on Sunday 10th April with the Regency 10k. The first of nine league races. Please do your utmost to get your club members to enter as many races as they can. Promoting clubs deserve their support and previous results clearly indicate that the clubs with the most runners usually do well in the team competitions.  

So why not circulate the league calendar around your membership giving them plenty of time to get their entries in.

We hope to generate as much interest as we can by keeping the new scoring system up to date on the website where your members can clearly see their positions in the league.

Good luck to everyone and may the best woman/man/teams win.

Geoff Wheeler – Chairman Warwickshire Road Race League

Ray Morgan – Chairman Warwickshire County AA

Brueton parkrun

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The Brueton parkrun goes from strength to strength and is an ideal training spin whatever you are training for! And whatever ability. Those members local to Solihull should take advantage of this free weekly 5k run. You can even walk round with the dog if you wish to. No problems.

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Register online, print your personal bar code, bring it along for the 9.00 am start, run/walk, collect place tag, have bar codes scanned and that’s it!!

Results will be available later in the day. Register as a member of MMAC and I will get all your results to post on our ‘parkrun’ page.

Further details can be had from http://bit.ly/geffUV

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Marshals for BMAF XC Champs, 12th March 2011

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There are still volunteers needed to help with marshalling the BMAF XC Championships to be held on the 12th March in Perry Park, Birmingham.

Birchfield Harriers who so kindly agreed to co-organise this event with Midland Masters AC, have a very big XC event the week before and cannot be expected to supply all the marshals for both events on consecutive weekends. I am therefore once more appealing to any members who perhaps are injured and cannot compete in the event to consider helping us out. The first of 2 races starts at 12 noon and marshals will be required to “sign” in at no later than 11.15 am in the Birchfield Harriers Club Room at the Alexander Stadium.

It is an easy course to marshal but we do need at least another 10 volunteers.

If you can help then please either make a comment on this post giving your email address or contact me at mmac.sec@blueyonder.co.uk

Pennington Flash Trail Races

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Pennington Flash 10K and Half Marathon

This is a brand new event ‘TWO RACES RUN ON THE SAME DAY EITHER THE 10K OR HALF MARATHON’!
For anyone preparing for the Virgin London Marathon or a Spring marathon this is an ideal opportunity to run this distance under race conditions. 

10k Trail Race – 9.40am
Starting at the Leigh Harriers Athletics Track based at the Leigh Sports Village you will go along the trails within the Pennington Flash Country Park.
Half Marathon Trail Race – 9.30am
The Half Marathon will be over a two lap course. Starting and finishing at the Leigh Harriers Athletics Track based at Leigh Sports Village. You will go along the trails within the Pennington Flash Country Park before returning to the finish.
Run for Mum
As this is Mothering Sunday why not ‘Run For Mum’ and raise funds for your chosen charity?
Our nominated charities are:
• The Christie • Macmillan Cancer Support • Rathbone • Wigan & Leigh Disability Partnership
We also have a dedicated charity section on our website.

For more information about the Trail Races, please visit our website or contact Graham Jackson, the Race Director, on 0161 703 5806 or email at graham@sportstoursinternational.co.uk.

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Whittington Cricket Club Quiz 2011

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One of our members, Barrie Taylor, has been compiling a quiz for the Whittington Cricket Club for some years now. His latest is now available. Barrie has written to me giving all the details. Please support him in his efforts……..

Hello All,

Once again, I have produced a quiz to help raise some very much needed to funds for a second ground for my local cricket club.  Having bought the land, levelled it, seeded it and laid the square, we are now in the process of building a pavilion and, although we will be receving some grants and will be taking out a loan with the ECB, we will still be about £120,000 short, which we have to find somehow.  As they say at Tesco, however, “every little helps” and by purchasing a quiz, you could help us realise our dream.  It would also help if you tell your friends, colleagues, etc about it.

As in years before, all the answers are the names of places in Great Britain.  There are 100 questions and the closing date is 31st October.  Whoever gets the most correct answers will win £50.  Quiz sheets cost £1 each and may be obtained by sending a SAE and £1 (coin or cheque payable to Whittington Cricket Club) to me, Barrie Taylor, 23 The Spires, Lichfield, Staffs, WS14 9RP

Thank you,

Barrie

BMAF Marathon Championships 2011

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URGENT INFO.
To all Regional Secretaries. ( Please alert your members)
As road race secretary, I am alerting the BMAF Regions that the entries for 
this year's BMAF Marathon Championships are now open. 
Entries are on a first come-first served basis and there are no guaranteed 
entries for BMAF members.

Should you intend to compete, please enter ASAP. Entry Forms are 
downloadable from our website at http://www.bmaf.org.uk. 
(or from this link bmafmarathon2011-entry )

Mel James (BMAF Road Running Sec)

MMAC XC Championships

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The results from yesterday’s XC Championships can be found on the dedicated page on this Blog http://wp.me/PDLtv-bu

This includes a printable PDF version.

Thanks to everyone concerned and all the athletes who took part. Please try to support all our events that are organised with you in mind…..

Cannon Hill park run

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Cannon Hill parkrun results for Midland Masters AC for event #21

This free event is brought to you by our volunteers and our sponsors:
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Steve BROOKES was the first athlete across the finish line today, 15th January 2011. He completed the course in 17:23 and posted an age grade score of 74.21%. The first female athlete to cross the line was San Domenico RRC’s Sally HASELHURST in a time of 21:00 posting an age grade score of 70.56%.
The following athletes from Midland Masters AC from took part in today’s Cannon Hill parkrun.
.. Cannon Hill Results by Club …
Position Athlete Sex Run Time Club Name Age Grading % Age Category Personal Best
27 John KEEGAN M 21:54 Midland Masters AC 70.17% VM55-59
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