DECEMBER 2010 DECEMBER 2010 New Zealand Masters Athletics vetline | VOL 28 No. 4 28 No. VOL VOL 28 No. 4 28 No. VOL NewNew ZealandZealand LongLong DistanceDistance WalksWalks New Zealand Road ChampionshipsChampionships Championships HASTINGS PAKURANGA ISSN 1173 - 1265 Vetline | CONTENTS Mike Parker (AKL) won the SM 10km Long Distance Walk Photo | JIM TOBIN Marlene White (10km), Serena Coombes (20km) and Peter Zwart (10km) Long Distance Walks Photo | JIM TOBIN Official Magazine of New Zealand Masters Athletics REGULARS ARTICLES FOUNDED IN 1970 Editorial 2 2010 Oceania Championships 6 President’s Report 3 National Cross Country Championships JIM TOBIN 13 Notice Board 3 Tahiti - My Perspective TIM CROSS 18 Bernie Portenski (91) who opted to run in the Women’s Committees / Contact 4 10km open grade at the national road champs at Running to Lengthen Longevity BARRY RAIT 20 Pakuranga shares the pace with David Hood (M50) Calendar 48 with 1km to go. WMA Report LYNNE SCHICKERT 22 PHOTO - JIM TOBIN NEWS Coaching Corner MIKE WEDDELL 24 Waikato BOP CHRISTINE MCCAHILL 37 Competition! The Spirit of Sport? RON STEVENS 25 Brian Smith (WBP) - 2nd place in the Auckland JOHN CAMPBELL 38 M75 division at the NZ Road Championships. Are Kenyans Born Better Runners? LANCE SMITH 26 Britain BRIDGET CUSHEN 39 PHOTO - JIM TOBIN Northland VAL BABE & COLLEEN BRUNKER 40 Bon Jour a Tahiti JOHN WAITE 27 Tasman DEREK SHAW 41 Turning Back the Clock LANCE SMITH 30 Katie Tahere (TAR) - 2nd place in the W40 division Southland EVAN MACINTOSH & LANCE SMITH 42 at the 20km Long Distance Walk Championships. Moorea Sojourn CLARE & IAN MORRISON 31 PHOTO - JIM TOBIN Taranaki KAREN GILLUM-GREEN 43 Your Country Needs You JOHN MUSKETT 34 Otago JOHN STINSON 45 Canterbury ANDREW STARK 48 Look After Yourself JOHN MUSKETT 35 DECEMBER 2010 | 1 Vetline | EDITORIAL Vetline | PRESIDENT’S REPORT Big Change For Athletics New Zealand In an organisation such as NZ Masters Athletics with a widespread membership the key to success is communication. In this regard Notice Board we are well served with the publication that you are now reading, One of the most significant administration “Our previous membership definitions and Vetline. Vetline has been the cement that has held us together and changes in more than 100 years of New Zealand service offerings were very narrow and will continue to do so for many years to come. It has now even Australian Championships become the official magazine of Oceania Masters athletics. However Athletics was made at the sports annual technical, elite in many ways”, says Purvis. we now have another well established method of communication - We have received an open invitation to attend the the NZMA website. The website offers a ready source of information meeting in Wellington on 23 July. The adoption “Our new approach is about inclusiveness and 2011 Australian track & field championships which will at the touch of a button or many buttons depending how well you of an entirely new constitution includes club partnership and providing stronger support for be held in Brisbane at Easter. Full details are on their work your computer. It is a great reference tool for things such as representation at future annual meetings, our clubs and all runners and walkers in New website australianmastersathletics.org.au Those of our national records which webmaster John Campbell says gets a lot us who have attended in the past can assure you that replacing a regional voting structure that has Zealand.” Under the new constitution NZ Masters of hits. The website is ideal for instant communication both from the you will be welcome and well looked after. However national point of view and from the point of view of our regions. Each been in place since 1902. Athletics, NZ Children Athletics Association and on a sartorial note please be aware that the wearing region has access to a section and any information that you want NZ Secondary Schools Athletics Association will of State competition uniforms is mandatory at AUS displayed can be emailed to John and he will put it up. As a society championships. As a matter of courtesy, if you do Chairperson Annette Purvis described the become “ANZ Recognised Bodies.” we are not prepared to wait for anything and snail mail is too slow compete, it is strongly recommended that you wear a decision to adopt the constitution in its entirety for us and the website gives us this immediacy that Vetline will never New Zealand uniform (strip). as a watershed moment and “a very positive All Associates will be represented as key match. However there are certain things that we need to savour and the feature articles of Vetline fit into this category. I cannot imagine first step and strong indication that as a sport advisory Partners to the ANZ Board. That is New Zealand Championships lying in bed with a computer balanced on my chest being absorbed we are eager to build on our historical successes they will assume a strategic advisory function by a Barry Rait dissertation and this is where Vetline fits in. The 2011 New Zealand track & field championships will be into the future.” The adoption of the new directly engaging with the Board in determining We are lucky to have both methods of communication. We just need held in Hastings over the weekend of 4/7 March. to make sure that we use both to their full advantage. constitution is directly aimed at strengthening future strategy for the sport. An open invitation is extended to members of all of the the club structure throughout the country and Oceania affiliates to participate. As above the wearing of by | MIKE WEDDELL - NZMA President providing the opportunity for the sport to be national uniforms would be appreciated. Full details on Jim Tobin nzmastersathletics.org.nz Would all members please note more relevant to hundreds of thousands of | JIM TOBIN PHOTO Editor that this issue contains an amended entry form. runners, joggers and walkers. The form also gives information of the stadium location. 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Sid Pavett (WBP) won the M75 grade at the NZ Road Champs, Pakuranga DECEMBER 2010 | 2 DECEMBER 2010 | Vetline | COMMITTEE . CONTACTS Vetline | COMMITTEE . CONTACTS Centre Committees Jenny Fee Secretary Pam Flaus Secretary Francis Bayler New Zealand George White Selma Turkkal Women’s Representative 28 Meadowbrook Drive 33 Lewis Street Waireka Road 12A Gulfview Road World Masters Turkey Palmerston North Invercargill RD4 Masters (NZMA) Blackwood 5051 Athletics (WMA) [email protected] Northland 06 3537739 03 218 7490 Wanganui Australia Val Babe President 06 342 2289 [email protected] fl [email protected] Colleena Blair Life Member Stan Perkins President 5A Park Avenue Mike Weddell World Delegates 43 Elmlie Road 4 Lawnton St Whangarei Allan Roberts Treasurer Debbie Telfer Treasurer 1 Haggart Street Wellington