BMAF VIRTUAL ONE-MILE CHALLENGE

 

BMAF Virtual 1 Mile Challenge

This a great opportunity to have a go at the British Masters one-mile dash on your own patch, and in your own time. The event is open to all registered individuals and/or club teams.

The event celebrates the masters 1-mile championships finishing at Buckingham Palace, London, which were cancelled due to Coronavirus.

Organiser and promoter, Peter Kennedy, explains: 'We have tried to keep masters athletes motivated with two successful virtual challenges, a 5k and 10k in these very difficult times. 

Now we are promoting a 1-mile event which is free to enter, with entries closing on 06/03/2021, and some of you have already entered. 

THE LAST DAY FOR COMPETITION IS THIS SUNDAY MARCH 7TH. The run can be completed in one long mile or out and back.

'A 1 mile event will not only appeal to the endurance athletes but those who love runnin on a track, and we are hoping for a good take-up, so don’t delay: ENTER VIA THE LINK BELOW. It is free so what have you got to lose?

'Hopefully this will be our last virtual event as we all put coronavirus behind us. Both the BMAF and the masters area clubs will be launching as much of a summer seaosn as they are allowed and these fixtures will be shown on the BMAF website and the club websites as soon as they are confirmed. 

'Please also look out for a new masters athletics UK website which will have a lot of information regarding getting started, training, nutrition, health & wellbeing as well as fixtures, results, rankings and other news when we migrate all the current BMAF website over to it.'

https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2021/GBR/bmaf-virtual-1m/

Teams: Entry is FREE to UKA affiliated clubs for as many UKA-registered masters athletes as they wish. They will be grouped automatically into multiple teams in 10-year age bands (down-aging allowed), based on their ages as of 24th February: M35-44, M45-54, M55-64, M65-74, M75+, W35-44, W45-54, W55-64, W65-74; W75 with 3 in each team. Individual entries also welcome from anyone. 

*Entries close on 6th March.

Course: Performances on routes where the TOTAL drop in elevation exceeds 10m are not eligible for ranking.

Submitting Results: Athletes must record their performances using GPS devices and submit evidence with their result submission (via Strava or Garmin Connect).  Anyone not physically able to do this should contact us. For more details refer to the OpenTrack documentation here. If this is not possible, then ask someone to witness your “race” and send an email to confirm your time. The team results exclude performances of anyone or did not comply with the rules for the course. 

Awards: Certificates to each member of the first three teams in each age group based on sum of times, to the fastest three athletes in each age group and to those with the three best age-graded peformances by men and women.

There will be separate rankings for runners and teams from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland if there are sufficient entries.

Celebrating the success of the Event: Please send any stories of what this event has meant to you, together with any photos you may have, to news@bmaf.org.uk or to the BMAF facebook group.

Race Secretary: Michael Graz.

Contact Details: pkennedy@bmaf.org.uk