Summer and Autumn 2017 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
Date
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24-25 June 2017
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BMAF
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British Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships
2017
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Alexander Stadium
Walsall Rd Perry Barr Birmingham B42 2LR
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100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m 5000m shortH longH 3km walk 5km walk SC LJ TJ HJ PV
SP DT JT HT WT Timetable on
BMAF OpenTrack
.
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Closed. No late entries or entries on the day
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Sunday
25 Jun 2017
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Istead & Ifield Harriers, with BMAF
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BMAF Multi-terrain Championships, within North Downs Run 2017 (30km
trail)
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Cascades Leisure Centre, Thong lane, Gravesend,
DA12 4LG
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Start time: 10.30am
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Closed
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Saturday
1 July
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Bushy parkrun
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Usual 5km run, open to all. Also featuring:
“A Gathering of 80 year olds”.
More
info here
.
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Bushy Park
Teddington
Location and Course details.
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Start time: 9am
New parkrunners must pre-register with
parkrun
to obtain a Barcode.
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Enter on the day (but need your Barcode)
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Sunday
2 July
2017
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BMAF/
England Athletics Masters Association
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England Masters Outdoor Track & Field Inter Area Challenge (VAC team to
enter)
Events: 100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m 3000m shortH 2km walk, 4 x 100m, LJ HJ TJ PV
SP DT JT HT WT
Age groups: Men & Women. 35-49 50-59 60-69 70+.
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Norman Green Sports Centre, Blossomfield Road,
Solihull,
West Midlands
B91 1NB
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Competition for BMAF Area Clubs.
VAC Team Enquiries to VAC Inter-Area Team Manager: Nick Lauder
Competition contact:
memsec@bmaf.org.uk
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VAC Team selected in advance.
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Sunday
9 July
2017
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Thames Hare & Hounds
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Wimbledon Common
Second Sunday Five Mile Trail run.
VAC members welcome.
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Richardson Evans Memorial Fields,
Putney Vale
SW15 3PQ
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9.30am start. Online entry. Details on Race Series
website
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Entries on the day accepted
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Tuesday
11 July 2017
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VAC
Held under UKA rules Runbritain licence number
2017:28174
Race Walking Association (RWA) Permit No. 7037-4
(Category B)
Course certified accurate
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Battersea Park Series
VAC Championship
5km Masters road race
4th Grand Prix event
(see info in text below)
Masters guests welcome
5 mile Open
RACE WALK.
Guests welcome.
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Battersea Park, London
SW11 4NJ
Close to Millennium Arena
Instructions
Course Map
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Start time: 7pm
Online entry preferred via
BMAF OpenTrack
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Entries accepted on the day.
Guests welcome.
More info below.
Enquiries:
Race Secretary
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Closing date for online entry: 10 July.
Entries on the day accepted
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Friday 21 July 2017
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SOAR
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SOAR Summer Mile
VAC members invited to attend.
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Millennium Arena, Battersea Park, London
SW11 4NJ
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Ten seeded one mile races. Age-graded results and prizes.
Pacemakers.
Facebook page
. Entry through this
OpenTrack link
.
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Closing date:
Noon 16 July, but advised to enter asap.
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Tuesday
22 August 2017
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VAC
Held under UKA rules Runbritain licence number
2017:28174
Race Walking Association (RWA) Permit No 7037-5
(Category B)
Course certified accurate
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Battersea Park Series
5 mile Masters road race.
5th Grand Prix Event
(see info in text below)
Masters guests welcome
5 mile Open
RACE WALK.
Guests welcome.
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Battersea Park, London
SW11 4NJ
Close to Millennium Arena
Instructions
Course Map
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Start time: 7pm
Online entry preferred via
BMAF OpenTrack
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Entries accepted on the day.
Guests
welcome. £4 VAC and BMAF members, £5 guests. More info below.
Enquiries:
Race Secretary
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Closing date for online entry: 21 August.
Entries on the day accepted
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Sunday
27 Aug 2017
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VAC
(Also SCVAC Championships)
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VAC Track & Field Championships (also SCVAC Champs)
Events: 100m 200m 400m 800m 1500m 5000m shortH longH 3km walk LJ HJ TJ PV SP
DT JT HT.
5 year age bands from 35 to 100+.
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Kingsmeadow
Stadium,
Kingston Road, Kingston upon Thames
KT1 3PB
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VAC/SCVAC £7 for first event, £3 for additional & subsequent events. Other BMAF members and
Masters guests welcome
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Enter via Login at
BMAF OpenTrack
. Enquiries:
Entries Secretary
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Closing date:
13 August
No late entries or entries on the day
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Wednesday
13 Sept 2017
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VAC
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VAC 10,000m track championships
Two seeded races.
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Millennium Arena, Battersea Park, London
SW11 4NJ
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First race: 6.30pm
Second race: 7.30pm
Faster runners in the first race. VAC/BMAF £7. Limit of 20 entrants for each
race. Enter via Member Login at
BMAF OpenTrack.
Enquiries:
Entries Secretary
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Closing date:
6 Sept
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Saturday 16 Sept 2017
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Hampstead Heath parkrun
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5km run
Featuring VAC “mob match”
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Hampstead Heath, London NW3.
Course details.
Two courses are used. Depends on conditions. Check parkrun
News page
.
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Start time: 9am
New parkrunners must pre-register with
parkrun
to obtain a Barcode.
More detail in text below.
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Enter on the day (but need your Barcode)
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Saturday
23 Sept
2017
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Herne Hill Harriers
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Throws Fest
(featuring Hammer, Discus, Shot put, Javelin and Masters weight
throw)
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Tooting Bec Athletics Track,
Tooting Bec Road, London
SW17 3NP
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Open meeting.
VAC members are welcome.
Timetable and entry info to follow.
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Entries on the day allowed
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Saturday 30 Sept 2017
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RunThrough Events
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Lee Valley Velopark
1 MILE, 5K, 10K, 10 MILE & HALF MARATHON
Incorporates VAC 10 Mile Road Championships.
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Lee Valley Velopark,
Abercrombie Rd, Queen Elizabeth Olympic
Park,
London
E20 3AB
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Start time 10 mile: 9.15 am. 10 laps of Velopark
circuit.
5 year age bands. VAC medals for first three VAC finishers in each age
category. Entry not yet open.
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Closing date to be announced
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Sunday
1 Oct
2017
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Allan Williams (London Pole Vault Academy)
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Masters introduction to Pole Vault. Coaching session with Allan
Williams.
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Sutton Arena (David Weir Leisure Centre),
Middleton Rd, Carshalton
SM5 1SL
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All Masters athletes welcome. Details to follow.
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Booking details to follow.
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Saturday
14 Oct 2017
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Men’s Surrey League
Division 4
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Cross Country Race Match 1
(VAC Men’s team)
(VAC is also co-hosting this fixture – offers of help are
welcome)
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Wimbledon Common
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All VAC men (1st and 2nd claim) are eligible. Details
and other League dates/venues in text below. Enquiries:
Entries Secretary
or Team Manager
Paddy Clark
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Enter on the day. Advance notice to
Paddy Clark
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Saturday
18 Nov 2017
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BMAF and 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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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
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England team details and forms on
EAMA website
. See
VAC News
for information for VAC members.
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Closing date 30 Sept for England team applications.
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Saturday
25 Nov 2017
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BMAF/
England Athletics Masters Association
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England Masters Cross Country Inter Area Challenge
6km cross country races.
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Bournemouth
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Open to all BMAF members.
VAC teams to enter. Men and Women. Details to follow.
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Closing date: to be announced
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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
2017
The 2017 dates and
details are:
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18 April: 5 mile road race and 5 mile race walk
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9 May: 5 mile road race and 5 mile race walk
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13 June: VAC Championships for both 5 mile road race and 5 mile race
walk
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11 July: VAC Championship for 5 km road race and non-Championship 5 mile race
walk
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22 August
:
5 mile road race and 5 mile race walk
The races are held under UKA Rules (Runbritain Licence Number 2017:28174), also with a Race Walking Association
(RWA) Permit. Times achieved are eligible for Power of Ten profiles
and Runbritain rankings and handicaps. Here are
Instructions
. The flat, accurately measured 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. The three lap (5 miles) and two-lap (5km) courses are shown on the Course Map. The
races take place on Tuesday evenings each month, starting at 7pm. Registration and pick-up of numbers is
outside the Millennium Arena track in Battersea Park. The starts of the races are close by (see
Course Map). Online entry through the OpenTrack Member Login
on the BMAF website is preferred. 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 2017
Starting in 2017, 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 had fallen into disuse.
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.
Surrey League Men’s Cross Country 2017-18
VAC men, first and second claimers, please consider running in the VAC team.
VAC’s team is in Division Four of the Surrey County Athletics
Cross Country League. There are four matches in the series:
14 October 2017 (2pm): Wimbledon Common
11 November 2017 (3pm): To be decided
13 January 2018 (2.30pm): To be decided
10 February 2018 (2pm): Possibly Lloyd Park,
Croydon
First-claim VAC members are eligible to run for VAC. Also second claim members are allowed to run for VAC as long as they do not
compete for their first claim club in any of the four league matches. This rule recognises that some
athletes would prefer to provide much needed support and score for their Masters club in the less pressurised,
but still highly competitive, races in Divisions Three and Four (run as one combined race of approximately 5
miles). Ten men are needed for a full scoring team, but there is no
limit on the numbers in each team. The more runners we have, the greater the impact and team spirit. Every VAC
runner is appreciated. Paddy Clark is the team manager. On the day, look out for him
next to the big wooden VAC sign. The team declaration is made online beforehand, so please let him or
the Entries Secretary know in advance of each race if you are
planning to run for VAC.
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