Don Hale Blog

  Urgent appeal for volunteers to help out at this Saturday’s Welsh Masters Athletics T&F championships at Yate. Report by Don Hale.  https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   Brett Davis, a director of Welsh Masters, is urgently appealing to WMAL members for any volunteers – qualified or not - to help out at this weekend’s Welsh Masters Athletics championships at Yate. As previously reported, the championships were moved from Aberdare, and will now be included within the Avon/Yate open T&F events at Yate this  Saturday 12th August , and with over 70 Welsh Masters athletes competing, the event organisers have asked WMAL officials if some willing volunteers can make themselves available to help out with various tasks at this important meeting. Last June, Brett announced: " Thanks to our friends from the South-West (Avon Count AA and Yate & District AC) we have now incorporated the Welsh Masters outdoor track and field championship into their ina

*Some of the WMAL team (*above) at Nuneaton last Sunday during  the  England Masters Inter-Area challenge. Welsh Master Athletics - Provisional results and reports from members at the England Masters Inter-Area challenge at Nuneaton on 6th August. Report by Don Hale. Photographs courtesy of Siwan Eleri Jones. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   Welsh Masters Athletics celebrated a good turn out and some impressive performances last Sunday (6th August) during the England Masters Inter-Area challenge at Nuneaton. Unfortunately, this meeting clashed with many holiday and previous commitments but nevertheless, WMAL still managed to put a quality team together and were generally pleased with all the varied provisional results. Due to many late changes however to many athletes competing in several different events, the final results list may not be available for a few more days, but we now have the provisional results, plus some comments from officials, and can

ENGLAND MASTERS ATHLETICS INTER AREA TRACK AND FIELD CHALLENGE ....Draft male and female teams. PINGLES ATHLETICS TRACK, AVENUE ROAD, NUNEATON, CV11 4LX  Sunday 6th August 2023. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk DRAFT MALE TEAM:   F ollowing  all the responses which I have received to the original squad emails, here is the team for the Inter-Area challenge: - If you've been selected, please just confirm OK,  and  vest size if you don't have one, and your basic transport plans, particularly whether you need a lift. I have left the fixture/arrangements below. In case of any future drop-outs I will initially contact people on this list if they have already said they are available, but feel free to confirm your position.   Thanks everyone, Brett Davis, Director, Welsh Masters Athletics Ltd.  *The Draft Ladies Team is shown below just after the male draft selections.   Please find attached the current team. It is ever changing with injury etc so still