JULY 2012 VOL 30 No. 2 30 No. VOL 2012 JULY New Zealand Masters Athletics WMA Indoor T & F Championships FINLANDFINLAND ISSN 1173 - 1265 Vetline | CONTENTS The start of the 10000m at the NZMA T&F championships at Mt Smart, Auckland Photo | SHARON WRAY Mark Lett (NTH) competes in the M45 Long Jump at the NZMA T&F championships Photo | SHARON WRAY ww Official Magazine of New Zealand Masters Athletics REGULARS ARTICLES FOUNDED IN 1970 President’s Report 2 World Indoor Championships JANET NAYLON 6 Letters to the Editor 3 Southland Sports Awards MIKE PIPER 7 Australian Championships Bryan Thomas 10 Committees / Contacts 4 Phil Costley at the National Mountain Running Age Is No Barrier JOHN WAITE 13 Calendar 44 Championships Gold Coast Marathon JOHN WAITE 13 PHOTO - Courtesy of the ‘Nelson Mail’ A Surprise Letter… Bryan Thomas 14 Profile - Phil Costley DEREK SHAW 17 Can Masters Athletes Be High Performance? BARRY RAIT 19 Russell Lake (WBP) leads Ian Calder (NTH) in the 10000m at the NZMA T&F championships at Mt Smart, Auckland NEWS WMA Indoor Championships heather Carter 20 PHOTO - SHARON WRAY Jim Blair Recognised MIKE WEDDELL 22 Britain BRIDGET CUSHEN 36 Jim Blair Strikes Gold AMY JACKMAN 23 Auckland CHRIS THOMPSON 38 Mountain Running Championships DEREK SHAW 25 Sally Gibbs (WBP) in the 10000m at the Northland COLLEEN BRUNKER 39 NZMA T&F championships at Mt Smart, Auckland Race Walking at the Commonwealth Games MIKE PARKER 26 Southland EVAN MACINTOSH 40 PHOTO - SHARON WRAY A Very Pedestrian Subject - Race Walking Notes GEORGE WHITE 28 Tasman DEREK SHAW 41 Physiology of 400m Training STEVE LOW 30 Canterbury ANDREW STARK 42 Photos from NZMA Champs 2012 SHARON WRAY 33 Otago JOHN STINSON 42 Report to OMA Council LYNNE SCHICKERT 34 Wellington MICHAEL WRAY 43 Coaching Corner MIKE WEDDELL 35 APRILJULY 2012 | 1 Vetline | EDITORIAL Vetline | NOTICES Invite To Canberra Letters to the Come one come all. President’s Report You are cordially invited to cross the Tasman and celebrate Editor with us. You may or may not know that the World Masters Games (WMG) Canberra will be 100 years old in 2013 so come and party. are to be held in Auckland in 2017 and it is likely that track Date: Easter 2013. and field will be part of the event. The various masters games that are held throughout the country are sometimes viewed as Capturing The Moment Canberra is the beautiful place to be. competition for our regular NZMA events. However I think that My congratulations to you on the quality of the latest Come and join us for the 41st Australian champs. we should look at these games as an opportunity rather than a production of Vetline and, in particular, the wonderful Entries will be on line later. threat. They expose more people to our sport and as far as local collection of action photographs from our international games go in a less threatening environment. event, the Oceania Masters Athletic Championships held in Your friends in competition. Tauranga in February. Those of us who have a background For those of us trying to grow our organisation it allows us to Jan Banens, ACT Vice President. in hurdling have a real appreciation of how difficult it is to identify people who are already interested in our sport and are capture the “moment”. The centrefold photo of Lamb and potential recruits for regular master’s competition. The WMG, Malcolmson (M60) going over the 300m hurdles toe to toe because of the publicity it will undoubtedly get, has the added is absolutely brilliant - real trophy material. bonus of making the wider public aware of our sport. We need Light-hearted Vetline observations to find a way of making the most of the opportunity these and I have just arrived back from three months consulting Some letters to the Editor focus on gripes and other lesser games give us to grow our organisation. project in Australia and received a request, from my very negative issues. For a pleasant change I would like to good friend John Lamb from Canberra who features in this present some light-hearted observations arising from the by | MIKE WEDDELL - NZMA President photo and took the title and record, for a scanned copy of previous edition of Vetline (April 2012). the photo. Unfortunately, most of the photos (at least in my copy of Vetline) are very pale and hazy and the written 1. There is an excellent two-page photo on pages 24 and lines from the backing pages show through. This appears 25 of some fine athletes all clearing a hurdle at the same to be a general publication production problem. time. Is it my imagination, or are all three holding hands as they clear the hurdle? If so, then it takes cross Tasman Is it possible to get original photo quality copy images and camaraderie to a new level! are you able to advise how this could be done? Your advice much appreciated. 2. The back cover photos show New Zealand athletes Vetline wearing the new-design national singlet and looking good. Best wishes I believe that all New Zealand athletes were encouraged EDITOR REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS PUBLISHER Alan Dougall to wear the new strip. On the front page there is a photo Jim Tobin John Stinson Bridget Cushen New Zealand Association of Masters Athletics Inc. of our hard-working NZMA President showing good form PO Box 7144 Marcia Petley Mike Weddell www.nzmastersathletics.org.nz Hi Alan – thanks for your comments. As and leading by example. But really Mike, wearing the old Taradale Ron Stevens Colleen Brunker you noted we had a printing problem and singlet with ‘New Zealand Veteran Athletes’ on it? Perhaps Napier 4141 John Campbell Vicky Adams PRINTERS we hope to have it resolved for this issue. they ran out of your size in the new-design singlet? Ph/fax 06 844 5072 Bryan Thomas Lynne Schickert We hope that the complimentary copy of Mobile 027 240 8880 Leo Benning John Waite the original that we sent you is what you I should point out that I am a good friend of Mike (or I was [email protected] Barry Rait Karen Gillum-Green wanted. Cheers - Editor until now) and have no doubt that I will be in for a good Marie-Jose Berthet Derek Shaw old-fashioned British bollocking when we meet next, for GRAPHIC DESIGN David Lobb Evan MacIntosh drawing attention to his outdated singlet! And I daresay Gemini Design Ltd Gary and Shirley Nesbit Wilma Perkins NEW ZEALAND VETLINE Race Walking Judging that I will be at high risk of being crossed off his Xmas PO Box 116 Andrew Stark Stan Perkins Is published quarterly in January, April, July and October. card list into the bargain. Pukekohe 2340 Bryan O’Shea Diane Barrett The deadline for material is the first day of the preceding month. I read John Hines letter regarding race walking with Ph/fax 09 236 3488 Sheryl Gower Stewart Foster All material to be sent to the Editor. interest and would like to add my support to section b) of Seriously though, it is always good to take a light-hearted [email protected] the letter. (Vetline April 2012 p6). view of things and laugh at ourselves from time to time. It REGULAR PHOTOGRAPHERS DISCLAIMER does us good. I always accompany my husband to the Oceania ADVERTISING Jim Tobin Opinions and comments printed in Vetline are those of the author championships and would very much like to enter a Jim Tobin Gary Nesbit - NESPORT and not necessarily those of the publisher. Evan MacIntosh - Invercargill walking event. Currently his is not possible as I am not a PO Box 7144 ‘race walker’ and not likely to develop this style now. It Taradale MAILING LIST NZMA is a member of would be great to enter a walking event, even though no Napier 4141 Please advise immediately World Masters Athletics | WMA medals are to be won – just a certificate perhaps, with a Ph/fax 06 844 5072 changes of address to - Oceania Association of Masters Athletics | OAMA time on it would be enough. But being able taking part in Mobile 027 240 8880 Andrew Stark Council of Athletics New Zealand | ANZ the championships would be a reward in itself. [email protected] Tel: 03 338 0516 [email protected] Thanks to John for raising this subject. PRODUCTION LIAISON Sheila Waters Jim Tobin JULY 2012 | 2 JULY 2012 | 3 Vetline | COMMITTEE . CONTACTS Vetline | COMMITTEE . 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