WWW.VICMASTERSATHS.ORG.AU ICTORIAN october- november MASTERS ATHLETICS 2019 SMASHIN’ IT how our diets have changed - RESULTS 2019 Half Marathon - RESULTS 2019 VMA 10 Mile Road Race - Ask the Coach - Final Browne Shield Results 2 CONTENTS P.3-8 Masterpieces P.9 Ad - Doug Orr 880 Yards P.10 Ad - Lindsay Thomas Memorial P.11 Ad - Andy Salter Memorial Relay P.12 Knox 30th Birthday Celebrations P.13 Springvale/N.Park 40th Birthday Celebrations P.14-18 Results Winter Inter Venue Challenge - Donc. Busting to escape Melbourne’s freezing win- P.19 Results - 2019 AMA 20k Road Walks ter I decided to get some Queensland warmth into P.20 Clyde’s New Record Report my bones and enter the Oceania Masters in Mackay. P.21-28 Results - 2019 Oceania Masters The City of Mackay had put in a brand new complex P.29 Article - Smashin’ It adjoining the University with a pool and athletics P.30 It’s News To Me track. P.31 Results - 2019 VMA 10 Mile There were some outstanding athletes at P.32 Results - 2019 VMA Half Marathon this event but the atmosphere is definately more P.33-36 Final Browne Shield Results low key than, say, the AMA Champs we just staged in P.37 Ask the Coach P.38 John Waite Trophys Melbourne. P.39 An Opportunity to Volunteer It is after all a chance for the people of the P.40 2020 Alice Springs Masters Games Pacific Islands to get some competition and there P.41 2020 Membership Form were a range of Countries there. P.42-44 Venues, Officials etc. I would like to again thank Graeme Dahl of WA for the use of the great photos he took in Mac- kay. You will remember Graeme was our main man in Melbourne 2019. His photo are at https://www. flickr.com/photos/56785857@N08/albums The feature of these Championships would The online version of FOOTPRINTS is have to be Heather Carr’s World Record in the free to download and a great way to 3000m walk. When you consider that Heather had spread the message of what is happen- a hip replacement a couple of years ago and then ing in our sport. It will be of interest to suffered a bad achilles injury, this is some achieve- interstate members of AMA. We invite ment. Another highlight for me was 85 year old everyone who may be interested in Radnaa Tseren from Mongolia who won his 3 sprints Masters Athletics to read it. If you have finishing with a 98%AG 400m in 79.19. Although friends who are not members of our club Mongolia isn’t part of Oceania he was made very but may like it, please share the link. welcome and couldn’t get the smile off his face. Membership for 2019 is opening on 1 Octo- ber and you have until the end of the year to renew at the ridiculously low cost of $35. Once again the ONLINE Committee has managed to keep the fee structure the same except that due to increases in the cost of 2020 VMA MEMBERSHIP IS NOW OPEN printing and posting Footprints Newsletter, we need to at least partly recover the cost. If you would like a printed version of Footprints an additional charge https://www.registernow.com.au/se- of $10 has been introduced when renewing member- ship this year. ‘Footprints’ in full colour will contin- cure/Register.aspx?E=35934 ue to be available free when distributed by email. The 2020 Membership form is on P.41. Now this is important. We need two impor- tant positions filled. Club Secretary and Club Treas- Please note : urer. If you look at P.39 you will see the notice. We Our statistician Clyde Riddoch’s need to replace two people who have served their time and are entitled to early release. If you’ve got email address has changed to : a little spare time...... Answer the call, [email protected] Russ Dickenson 3 Masterpieces At the IAAF World Champion- ships currently on in Doha, Mel- bourne’s Sinead Diver (42) has run a PB of 31:25.49 - this bet- ters the listed W40 world record held by Jo Pavey (GBR) 31:33.44 set at the Rio Olympics. What’s On Any queries on Browne Shield races can be directed to Peter Thorne on 0427 880 143 or [email protected] - Browne Shield Event # 2019 Oct 5-7 2019 AMA Winter Throws Championships - Wollongong - Entries closed Oct 10 Doug Orr 880 yards Inter Venue Final - East Burwood - [email protected] Nov 6 Knox Venue 30th Anniversary - Nov 27 Springvale Noble Park 40th Anniversary - Claudio Riga 0478 312167 2020 March 14-15 2020 VMA T&F Championships - Bendigo May 24 AMA Half Marathon - Perth July 5 AMA Marathon Championship - Gold Coast - https://goldcoastmarathon.com.au/enter/ July 20-Aug 1 World Masters Athletics T&F Championships - Toronto - www.wmatoronto2020.com/ Oct 10-17 Alice Springs Masters Games 2021 Jan 17-23 2021 Oceania Masters T&F Champs - Norfolk Island - www.oceaniamastersathletics.org April 6-13 WMA Indoor Championships - Edmonton, Canada 2022 August 17-27 World Masters Athletics T&F Championships - Gothenburg, Sweden 4 Masterpieces THE PETRIES AT THE CITY TO SURF Siblings Rob Petrie and Julie Norney tackled the 2019 City to Surf in Sydney with excellent results. Julie ran 54:23 and was first of 4039 finishers in the W50-54 age group and 20th overall of 34,750 Females. Rob was 59th of 6313 finishers in the M45-49 age group in 53.23. He was 349th Male overall of 35,620 finishers. Approximately 80,000 runners entered. I guess I’ll never know what it’s like to beat 79,000 people home in one race Bob Henderson of Knox, was travel- ling nicely at Lillydale Lake parkrun until someone put a bridge in front of him. I don’t know that he’s a Geelong fan but he looks a lot like Joel Selwood. He needed 11 stitches to his fore- head wound. That patch of blood looks like a map of Tasmania ! 5 Masterpieces The XCR (cross country & road) season is now completed and while the final results have not yet been published, with one round to go our teams were placed as follows : Our Division 4 Men’s team is in 4th place (out of 14) and our Division 7 team is 2nd. Unfortunate- ly we have not had enough Women competing to get meaningful results but we hope to rectify that next season. Keep in mind that you will be welcome to join our teams either in next year’s XCR or the Track and Field team starting 5th October. The program for the 2019/2020 Athletics Victoria Track and Field competition has been released and is now to be called AVSL - Ath- letics Victoria Shield League. Here are the dates and locations : October 5 Round 1, Aberfeldie and Nunawading October 12 Round 2, Casey Fields and Doncaster October 19 Round 3, Aberfeldie and Yarra Rangess, November 9 Round 4, Relays Round, Various November 16 Round 5, Aberfeldie and Nunawading November 30 Round 6, Casey Fields and Meadowglen December 13 Round 7, Twilight Nitro December 21 Round 8, Box Hill and Werribee You can represent Victorian Masters Athletics this summer in AVSL. We would love to have January 11 Round 9, Meadowglen and Frankston you join our team. It’s great envirionment January 18 Round 10, Ringwood and Keilor Park and you don’t have to be a superstar. February 1 Round 11, Doncaster and Knox Contact David Sheehan - February 8 Round 12, Box Hill and Aberfeldie Team Manager VMA TEAMS MANAGER February 22 Shield Final, Lakeside Stadium. 0448 213200 [email protected] Our dedicated VMA Team Manager, David Sheehan had both knees re- placed on Grand Final morning. At first reports he was going well al- though he was much more concerned about his beloved Tigers and having the anaesthetic wear off in time to watch the game. Tony Johnson has also had a knee re- placement in the last few weeks. He’s been at parkrun the last two weeks itching to get back into it. 6 Masterpieces HAPPY 95th JIMMY !! Jim Sinclair celebrated his 95th Birthday at Springvale - Noble Park recently and then flew to Mackay to compete in the Oceania Championships just as all 95 year olds would do. Jim ran the 60m; 100m and 200m on the brand new Mackay track. Congratulations Jim, you’re a marvel. 7 Masterpieces NEWS FROM EAST BURWOOD Hawley Thomas 3 x 2000 m relay The second annual Hawley Thomas Relay was held on a cold, but clear night on 22nd August. East Burwood put on a great supper for all those that came from other venues. As well as venue teams, the Thomas family also fielded a team. The men’s team winners were East Burwood with Stephen Day (7:55), Paul Earle (8:18) and Adam McCann (8:06). Shane Grund was by far the fastest with 6:03, but Knox had to settle for second place. East Burwood also won the women’s race with Ros Lording (9:00), Janet Holmes (9:43) and Chris Robinson (10:00). Ros was the fastest woman. East Burwood also had a second men’s team with Christopher Worsnop (9:24), Sam Defanis (9:42) and Ashley Ryan (10:22). Freezing Freddo Frog 4 km handicap series. This series continued in July and August with heats 3 and 4. In heat 3 Paul Earle was the back-marker.