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John Griffiin told us ...."As you probably realise I've had to cancel the Old Father Time 5 due to the latest Welsh Government announcement. I have not cashed any of the cheques sent to me by entrants and I will be shredding them. If you could please let your members know in case they do not see the Facebook page. Thanks and let's hope for the best John

Welsh Masters Athletics has been invited to enter a team for the England Inter-Area Cross Country Challenge next year (in addition to the other nations). This is similar to the track and field Inter-Area competitions in that this is a team selected by the Masters club, which will pay a contribution to travel expenses, together with the selected athletes’ entry fee. Subject to any Covid restrictions in force at the time, the event is scheduled for Saturday 5th February 2022 and is to take place on the Rising Sun Sports Ground, Wallsend, NE28 9JJ. All athletes must be members of a Masters club and hold a current UKA registration. Athletes wanting to represent Wales for this event must apply by email to their WMAL team manager – Brett Davis for the men’s and Daphne Marler for the women’s teams (brett-davis1@sky.com, dmmarler@virginmedia.com) by Friday 21 January. Each team will consist of six scorers, so WMAL will take a minimum of eight and a maximum of ten athletes of each gender. We won’t be able to take a team if there are insufficient volunteers. All competitors will be ranked by their age-graded percentage, rounded to one decimal place, based on the distance run and their age on the day of competition. The team score will be calculated as the average of the team’s age graded performances, rounded to 1 decimal place. The winning team will be the one with the highest average of their men’s and women’s scores. There will be prize certificates for scoring athletes of the winning Area club, and prizes for the best men’s and women’s age graded performance. This event will be part of the North East Masters Athletics Association Open Cross Country Championships. Athletes wishing to take part in this should apply directly via the BMAF website by 28 January (£5) – one week after the team application close date. This gives us time to make the Welsh team selections and let people know what is happening so they do not miss out. WMAL will not pay travel expenses or entry fees for any athletes beyond the maximum teams of ten selected. There are two races (1) 12 noon, all women and men age 65+; ( c 3.5 miles; 2 laps), (2) 13.15 M35-M64 (c 5.25 miles, 3 laps). We are told the courses are “good cross-country, varied terrain, gently undulating ground;, and an interesting reclaimed land surface.

The BMAF Opentrack membership system has now been reset to accept membership renewals for 2022. The LINK on the homepage has been updated and should be easier to use! Your membership expiry date is 31-12-2021, so there is no need to panic. Indeed, if you are one of the quartet who have already paid you can probably feel quite smug at this point. For the rest of us, it's a nice little job for one of those empty days between Christmas and New Year. It's just that you can now get it out of the way should you so wish. We had a successful outdoor championships in September: at least, the chap in the coffee van asked to be invited again. The Board has been looking long and hard at putting on indoor championships next year, but there are so many restrictions on such events, not only those imposed by the government, but others by the facility owners. We have a nasty feeling that there may be more by next year. Added to that is the consideration that we would be putting you all into what could be a quite unhealthy environment. Not to mention the cost of hiring the NIAC. We have therefore rather reluctantly decided that we will not be holding an indoor championships in 2022. As it stands, the BMAF will be holding their championships at Lee Valley on 5-6th March, with the Inter-Area there on the following week. In the meantime, on the 2nd of January, the Old Father Time race will incorporate the Welsh Masters 5 mile championships. As a member you will be eligible for one of our medals! You can find an entry form here: http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/395320/28481886/1636711118617/OldFatherTimeentryform2022+January.pdf?token=Ns3Ery6kbLk9dQp9RDL%2BmaoWdSY%3D Then it will be onwards to the outdoor season. Not only will we endeavour, virus permitting, to hold the championships earlier in the year, but we also hope to resume our league meetings. We plan to introduce new trophies! To that end, we are trying to compile a register of members who would be willing to act as ambassadors for us, liaising with your first claim clubs. This would help spread the word of our activities, and improve the involvement of the clubs. If you are interested in this, please let me know. regards Rod Davies

A 5 mile 2 lap course for Veteran athletes only (35+ yrs). Next race takes place at 1pm on Sunday 2nd January 2022. Incorporating the WMAL 5 mile championships. The Entry Form is here Race HQ Llandaff Rugby & Athletic Club, Western Avenue, Cardiff (Next to Cardiff Metropolitan University's Llandaff campus) Limited Changing Facilities available.

Help is needed. Please contact John Elward - john.elward@ntlworld.com

Welsh Masters Athletics is seeking club members to act as Ambassadors to promote our activities in their local club. The Ambassadors would be contacted by the WMAL Directors about events, for example League meetings, Championships, as well as other opportunities. Ambassadors could also be consulted about the work of WMAL. You are being invited as a member of WMAL to support the small team that manages WMAL. If you think this could be fun and want to make a contribution, please contact us at skicoed@gmail.com

Jon Clark, Caroline Marler, David Murrie and Chris Pruski competed at Bury Athletics Club in the Northern Masters - and WON - 10 GOLD Medals, 2 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze medal. Jon put in performances in the 100m[Bronze], 200m [Silver], Long Jump [Gold] and Javelin [Silver]. Caroline put in GOLD Medal performances in the 100m, 200m, Long Jump, Shot and Javelin. David Murrie had a GOLD Medal in the Triple Jump. Chris put in GOLD Medal performances in 100m, Shot and Javelin. See the updated rankings for Men and Women

With the Season extended to 26th September, we had the Welsh Masters in Swansea and the Final Fling in Wrexham. I publish in the knowledge that the Northern Masters have their Champs on Sunday 17th October....anyone else? I will be there for a 'final fling'... Anyway CLICK HERE to see the latest Women's Rankings for 2021. CLICK HERE to see the Men's

Richard Marks M70 set TWO WMAL Records at the Championships 800m 2:41.41 1500m 5:33.99 NEW Weight Throw Records Created and set by Cath Alford WT W45 9.35m Renata Prells WT W65 9.28m Ifan Lloyd 5000m M60 17:15.03 beat the old record by 38seconds David O Williams 3000m M55 10:02.87 beat the old record earlier in the season by 32seconds. Kieran McDonnell 400m M65 62.72 beat the old record of 64.00seconds Jonathan Williams 400m M35 53.94 beat the old record of 54.00 seconds Richard in the 5000m after setting new WMAL Records.

CLICK HERE to see the Men's final rankings for 2021 if i have missed anyone or any mistakes please contact me.

CLICK HERE for the 2021 FINAL Women's Rankings. As ever, if i have missed anyone or performances please let me know.

224 Paul Flynn 245 Ifan Lloyd 267 Robert Prady