Summer and Autumn 2019 Fixtures
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Date
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Organiser
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Race/Event
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Venue
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Entry
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Entry Closing
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Tuesday
27 August 2019
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VAC
Held under UKA rules. Licence 2019-3762
With Race Walking Association Permit 9041-5 (Category
B)
New Course
Certified accurate.
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Battersea Park Summer Series
5 Mile
Masters Road Race and Open Race Walk.
Fifth Grand Prix event (see info in text below)
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Battersea Park, London
SW11 4NJ
Register outside Millennium Arena
Location/course map
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Start time: 7pm
Race Information
Enter via Member Login at
BMAF OpenTrack
Masters guests welcome.
Enquiries:
Entries Secretary
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Online entry by 26 August.
Entries on the day accepted.
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Wednesday 18 Sept 2019
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VAC
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VAC 10,000m track championships
Three seeded races.
Limit of 20 runners in each race.
Details
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Millennium Arena, Battersea Park, London
SW11 4NJ
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Open to all BMAF members. Limit has been reached. The races are full.
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Entries closed.
Contact
Entries Secretary
to go on the waiting-list.
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Saturday
21 Sept 2019
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Clapham Common parkrun
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5km parkrun
Featuring VAC “mob match” gathering.
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Flat, 2-lap course around perimeter of Clapham Common, SW11. Start and finish
near Broomwood Road.
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Start time: 9am
Course details.
New parkrunners must register with
parkrun
to obtain a Barcode.
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Enter on the day (but need your Barcode)
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Saturday
28 Sept 2019
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England Athletics Masters Association
Event is hosted by EMAC
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England Masters Inter Area Cross Country Challenge
8km and 6km cross country races.
Qualifying races for selection for British & Irish Masters Cross Country
Champs on 16 November.
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Nowton Park, Bury Road,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
IP29 5LU
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Details
VAC men’s and women’s teams. Team selection automatic. Each team will consist of a minimum of 6 and
a maximum of 10. Points based on age-adjusted
times.
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Closing date: 22 Sept
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Saturday
12 October 2019
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Men’s Surrey League
Division 4
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Cross Country Race Match 1
(VAC Men’s team)
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Richmond Park
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All VAC men (1st and 2nd claim) are eligible, subject to conditions. VAC vest
necessary.
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Enter on the day. Advance notice to
Paddy Clark
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Saturday
9 Nov
2019
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Men’s Surrey League
Division 4
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Cross Country Race Match 2
(VAC Men’s team)
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Epsom Downs
(Tattenham Corner).
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All VAC men (1st and 2nd claim) are eligible, subject to conditions. VAC vest
necessary.
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Enter on the day. Advance notice to
Paddy Clark
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Saturday
16 Nov 2019
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Country Associations of England, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland and Republic of
Ireland
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British & Irish Masters International Cross Country
Champs.
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England is host country.
Venue: Southport
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See BMAF and
EAMA websites.
Event details
England invitation letter
England application form
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Closing date for England applicants: 27 Sept
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For other regional/national/international masters events refer
to the BMAF website
here
For enquiries and further information please contact
the Entries Secretary or the relevant race
secretary.
VAC Battersea Park Masters Road Race and Race Walk series: April to August
2019
The 2019 dates and
details are:
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16 April: 5 Mile road race and 5 Mile race walk
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11 June: VAC Championships for 5 Mile road race and 5 Mile race walk
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9 July: VAC Championship for 5 Km road race and 5 Km race walk
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6 August: 5 Mile road race and 5 Mile race walk
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27 August
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5 Mile road race and 5 Mile race walk
The races are held under UKA Rules (Licence Number 2019-3762), also with a Race Walking Association (RWA) Permit
and Certificates of Course Accuracy. Times achieved are eligible for
Power of Ten profiles and Runbritain rankings and handicaps. The races take place on Tuesday evenings each
month, starting at 7pm. The flat 5 Mile and 5 Km courses offer great opportunities to post fast times and to go
head-to-head regularly with fellow Masters athletes across the age-groups. There is also a road race “Grand Prix”
for VAC members (see below). The runs and walks take place entirely on Battersea Park’s traffic-free, tarmac,
perimeter roads. Registration and pick-up of numbers is outside the Millennium Arena track in Battersea Park. The
starts of the races are close by. For further information, see the Race Information. Online entry is through the OpenTrack Member
Login on the BMAF website. Entries
on the day are accepted, but please allow plenty of time for this. The charge for UKA-registered VAC and
BMAF members is £4 for each race (£6 if not UKA-registered). Masters
guests are welcome (£5 for UKA registered, £7 for non-registered). There is a race limit of 100 runners.
Enquiries
:
Race Secretary
VAC Battersea Park road race series Grand Prix 2019
To add spice to the Battersea Park series, there is a “Grand Prix” to reward the VAC member with the highest average of their best
three age-graded performances set during the series. To be eligible, members must register finishing times for
at least three of the five races from April to August. The winner will be presented with the “Snow Cup”, a
magnificent long-standing VAC trophy which was won in 2018 by M65, Ian Kitching.
VAC “mob match” parkruns
We combine VAC get-togethers with selected parkruns, three or
four times a year. Many VAC members are regular parkrunners, who enjoy an early start on Saturday mornings and
the conviviality and informality of the weekly runs in all sorts of locations, whilst benefiting from free entry
and a measured 5k course. All ages and abilities are represented at these timed runs. The VAC targeted parkruns
are an opportunity for VAC’s first and second claim runners to meet up, run and chat afterwards. We hope to see
a good show of VAC vests so we can cheer each other on and raise the profile of the club. If members have
recommendations or favourites in and around the London area, with good links to public transport, please make
suggestions to Maggie Statham, the Entries Secretary.
If you are new to parkruns, you must register in advance on
the parkrun website and obtain your individual barcode, which must
be shown at the end of the run in order to register your name and time. Entry is free. You do not need to pin
on a run-number. Just turn up, line up at 9am, run, take a numbered disc when you finish and then take the
disc and your barcode to the recorders at their table. Your time, position, age category and age grading will
appear on the parkrun website later in the day. If you are already registered with parkrun, there is no need
to change your club affiliation to VAC for the purposes of these “mob matches”. We can usually pick out the
VAC members.
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