Don Hale Blog

  Welsh Masters Athletics set to hold Summer T&F championships at Yate again this year. Brett Davis, a director of Welsh Masters Athletics, has confirmed an  important  update this week regarding the WMAL championships. He said: "WMAL will be holding our Summer Athletics T&F championships in Yate again! We are combining with Avon Athletics Association and Yate AC, who are hosting the Masters Open Track and Field Event   on Sunday 21st July.   This is a week before the BMAF Championships in Derby on 27/28th July." *Further details to follow.

Veteran W50 runner wanted for 800m race in Welsh Masters T&F Inter-area championships race. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Attention all veteran female athletes - do you want to run and represent Welsh Masters Athletics as a W50 800m athlete? WMAL team manager Eleri Jones is urgently looking for someone to join her squad for the forthcoming Inter-area T&F championships. This week she asked:   “Is it possible to put a shout out on the Welsh Masters page for a W50 800m runner please? We’ve had a couple of people who aren’t available and running out of options? "We have a vacancy in the team for a W50 800m runner, whilst the men’s team is heading towards announcement of a provisional team. Thanks." Eleri can be contacted via email:  eleri9uk@yahoo.com Brett Davis can be contacted via email:   brett-davis1@sky.com

*Pictured above - The Indoor stadium and track at Cardiff Met University. Welsh Masters Athletics roll of honour and list of champions from the Non Thomas Indoor championships. Report by Don Hale.  https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   There were some excellent results and some fast times recorded at the Welsh Masters Athletics 2024 Indoor track events, held at the Indoor Stadium at Cardiff Metropolitan University last Sunday, which formed part of the Non Thomas meeting. These included the 60m, 200m and 300m events, and  Brett Davies , a director from Welsh Masters Athletics Ltd, has confirmed the roll of honour, and champions list of WMAL champion members. He added:  “The full results from the meeting are now available online via this link, and/or (via Cardiff Met /Welsh Athletics/Opentrack) and they will also be on the Power of 10 site very soon.”   *This is the current link to the provisional results: https://wales.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2024/GBR/nonthoma

New proposals for Welsh Masters Athletics - Winter Indoor event in Swansea. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Brett Davis, a director of WMAL, has confirmed proposals for a new winter indoor event for next month. This week he explained: " We’re considering holding an indoor field events championship on Sunday 11th February in Swansea.  "However WA have been struggling to get sufficient field officials for their events. So this is a call to see how many members would be interested in competing and would also be able to officiate.  "Obviously interested in any field officials who wouldn’t be competing too, although aware that they’re less likely to be looking here. Will be using your responses to help judge if this event had a chance of happening. Thanks in advance." Brett Davis,  Director,  Welsh Masters Athletics Limited.

Welsh Masters Athletics medalists from the recent Old Father Time 5-mile race . https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Brett Davis of WMAL has confirmed the medal details from the recent Old FatherTime 5-mile race... This is a list of the WMAL medallists from the Welsh Masters Road Race championships which took place within the Old Father Time 5-mile road race in Cardiff last Sunday. It took place on an extremely windy day with the heavy rain holding off until most competitors had finished. * The full results are on Les Croupiers website.   Presentations of medals took place afterwards but only using the subset of the full results that was available at the time. So only to those medallists who were still there and where their result had been processed.  I will be looking to get the remaining medals out either by post or by hand. Cheers,  Brett Davis,  Director, WMAL. OLD FATHER TIME – WELSH MASTERS 5 MILE ROAD RACE MEDALLISTS 31/12/2023: -   W35 Bethan        

Welsh Masters Indoor Rankings including updates from 1st Nov to 21st December 2023 - by Age Group. Chris Pruski from Welsh Masters Athletics has just compiled the final indoor T&F rankings for 2023. They confirm the dates, times, and venues, as to where the records and rankings were achieved. Our thanks to Chris for his hard work in compiling these details. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk *The results are now available on the following link (see below): https://www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk/post/welsh-masters-indoor-rankings-1st-nov-to-21st-december-by-age-group

Latest updates regarding the Welsh Masters Indoor T&F Championships on 21st January. Special report and comments from Brett Davis and Dave Watson at WMAL   Brett Davis, a director of WMAL has confirmed some extraordinary updates regarding the 2024 Welsh Masters athletics T&F Championships.  He said: “Due to the demands of the programme and restrictions caused by the timetable challenges, Welsh Athletics were only able to offer us (indoor) championship events at 60m, 200m and 300m.  “The middle-distance events are run by the British Miler’s Club, and we await the conditions there when they go live on the BMC website, but they may be elite open only. No field events are championship events due to number restrictions, but individuals can enter, there just won’t be any medals for those events.” And today he added, hot off the press: “ I can update now that the BMC is elite only which translates to 1:58 800m, and 4:05 1500m, for males, and 2:20 and 4:50 for females.”   The champions

Opportunity Knocks for budding Welsh Masters T&F athletes for 2024 season....appeal from Brett Davis. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Would you like the opportunity to represent Welsh Masters Athletics at Track and Field? 

The next inter-area event is indoors and is on 25th  February 2024 at Lee Valley Athletics Centre, just outside London.  We are really keen to field the strongest Welsh Masters’ team that we can and we know that we have a lot of talent around here. We did brilliantly in the summer and it is time to build on that success. To do that, we need to have the largest pool from which to select.  
Selection will be made over the next few weeks and will be based on recent results on power of 10 (2022, 2023). We would like to get the provisional women’s team out in mid-January so that people can make travel arrangements, the men’s will take longer to establish. 

 For those events where there are no current performances on power of 10 then

  Cardiff Metropolitan University Indoor Christmas Classic including the 3,000m champs. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk. Contact Details: ethomas@cardiffmet.ac.uk Please contact the organiser, not OpenTrack, for all queries. *This is the link to the Cardiff Indoor Athletics meeting which includes the Welsh masters 3000m championships.   https://wales.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2023/GBR/cmetxmas/ Events at or nearing capacity: TJ Triple Jump - Female: 2 spaces remaining   PV Pole Vault - Female: 6 spaces remaining   TJ Triple Jump - Male: 2 spaces remaining   HJ High Jump - Male: 9 spaces remaining   HJ High Jump - Female: 4 spaces remaining   LJ Long Jump - Female: SOLD OUT   PV Pole Vault - Male: SOLD OUT   SP Shot Put - Female: 9 spaces remaining   LJ Long Jump - Male: 3 spaces remaining   60H 60m Hurdles - Female: 7 spaces remaining   600 600m - Male: 8 spaces remaining   Please do not enter sold-out events; your entry will be rejected. Cardiff Metropolit

Welsh Masters Athletics Indoor T&F champs to be held at Cardiff Met on 21st January as part of their  Open Meeting. *Pictured above - The very impressive Cardiff Met indoor track and arena. Important new update - hot off the press - from Brett Davis, a director of Welsh Masters Athletics Ltd. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk Hi Don, hot news! I have just had a very productive meeting with Rhiannon Hawker of Cardiff Met and agreed that our indoor track and field championships will be incorporated within their open meeting on 21st January 2024 at Cardiff Met with the 3000m separately included in their 17th December open meeting. The details of the events included and the two meeting programmes will become available in the next few weeks. So watch this space for updates. In particular the ability to enter the 1st meeting should be available soon online. Some of the events in the second meeting may have a restricted number of races, so early entry to tha