Bays Cougars

Tony Delerios
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Last weekend the NZ National x/c Champs took place at Waikanae over a very testing course.
Bay's masters athlete Sue Parcell who was selected for the Auckland team after her five 2nd places in the Auckland GP series had a strong run to finish in 11th place overall in a field of 35 masters and in the process help the Auckland Ladies to take the Team Gold, beating Wellington into 2nd place.
This was a fitting climax to the x/c season for Sue,
after the second GP Sue ran in the Oceania Masters T&F Champs in Tahiti winning both the 800/1500m age race's setting big pb's in the process.
Sue's next competition will be the Auckland Road race Champs on 22nd August.
Tony Deleiros [coach]

Auckland's x/c Championships which included the final round of the Grand Prix series took place last Saturday 18th at Pukekohe showground's in very heavy  underfoot conditions. Bay's runner Michael Craig o/45 finished in 4th place and in the overall standing of the GP series finished in 3rd place.
Sue Parcell o/40 was running strongly when at half way picked up stitch which slowed her down, but in spite of this Sue still finished in 2nd place and was 2nd overall in the series. Carolyn Smith o/45 had a good strong run in the testing conditions and finished in 3rd place.
Congratulations to Sue for being included in the Auckland x/c team for the Nationals Champs being held in Waikanae on 7th August - Go Sue !

Late news from Tahiti, Margaret Peters collected another gold to add to her other 3  in the 4x100m relay.

Training.
After 2 months winter training on hills and grass
training now transfer's to the track, commencing on Sunday 25th July at 9am. If anyone fancy's a try out why not come along?
Tony Deleiros


Althea Mackie, Sue Parcell, Tui Ashe and Margaret Peters have just returned from completing in the Masters Oceania T&F Championships held in Tahiti. The four Golden girls came away with a total of 13 golds; 7 silver & 4 bronze medals, excellent results considering they are still in mid winter training.
Tui  o/55 was the busiest athlete completing in 14 events of which 5 were in the pentathlon, Tui winning that event and also gaining gold's in the individual 400m; 4x100m & medley relays and picked up silvers in the 100/200/800m/SP/DT
and bronze in the 60m dash.
Althea o/40 was also a busy athlete with gold's in the HT/WT/WPent, silver in the TJ and Bronze in the SP/JT/60m also picking up one or two pb's on the way.
World Champion & NZ track star Magaret o/75 duly won gold's in the 60/100/200m leaving her fellow competitors well behind.
Sue o/40 who has been running in this winters Auckland x/c series with exellent results transferred her good form onto the track with hard forte golds in both the 800/1500m and set pb's in both events taking 4 and 17 seconds off her previous 800/1500m best times, and just for good measure won gold in the NZ medley relay team.
CLICK ON IMAGES FOR TAHITI PHOTOS
Sue now has to adapt from running in temperatures of 35c back down to 6c this weekend for the last of the x/c races which includes the Auckland x/c champs being held at Pukekohe show grounds.
Tony Deleiros

Cross Country.
The four Bay's masters continued to run well at the 4th round of the x/c series held at Long Bays at the end of June.  Michael Craig [5th] Sue Parcell [2nd] Carolyn Smith [3rd] and Paula Sharpe [3rd] and  the shorter distance seemed to suit the track athletes this time and has set them all up well in the overall points age tables with one race to go.
The final race is the Auckland x/c Championships on 17th July at Pukekohe A&P Showground's.
Overseas News
Four Bays athletes are at present completing in the Oceania Masters T&F Championships in Tahiti.
After the first three days of competition, Althea Mackie o/40 has won 2 Golds[weight/w.pent]; 2 silvers; 1 bronze.
Sue Parcell o/40 1 Gold [800m] Tui Ashe o/55
3 silvers & 1 bronze and Margaret Peters 2 Golds [60/100m].
The athletes still have 3 more days left  to add to their totals.
Well done so far!
A full report will follow on their return
tony Deleiros












Manukau Sports ground was the venue for the 3rd GP Auckland cross country  series, on a cold blustery day, luckily the rain held off for most of the masters races.  In the 10k race, new member Michael Craig 0/45 continued his fine seasons form to finish in 5th place.
In the ladies 6k race, a close battle took place between two Bays runners, Sue Parcell 0/40 and Carolyn Smith 0/45 with Carolyn just having the edge over the last 1000m. Both athletes finished in 2nd place in their respective age groups.
After three races both Sue & Carolyn are in 2nd place overall in their a/g.

The 4th round of x/c  races are at Long Bay on Saturday 26th June the masters ladies starting at 3.10 & the Masters men at 3.30pm.
Racing starts at 2.20 with girls/boys grade 8, so if you have never been to a x/c meeting, now's a good chance to see some fine racing.
Tony D
masters club coach


















Winter training is now well underway for the T&F athletes and fine warm weather has been a bonus for the long sessions at Auckland Domain, Cornwall Park and The Trusts with grass runs and hills and more hills ! - still this is a good base for the 2010/11 season.
Three members of the group have taken part in the 1st Auckland  cross country Grand Prix races of  the
season at Papakura. Sue Parcell in the o/40 age group who after setting PB's in the 800/1500m at the National T&F Championships at Easter continued her fine form with a great 2nd place in 5k race beating runners who were in front of Sue at last years x/c races.
Michael Craig o/40 a new member of the group took part in his first x/c since leaving school and ran into 5th place over the 7.5k course.
Paula Sharpe who is a 200/400/800m runner decided to give the x/c races a try this season to improve her strenght need for these events, unfortually Paula started off a bit too fast and retired at the halfway mark, but has vowed to finish the next time she runs.
Sunday 23rd May Michael Craig and Ho Young Do [the groups high jump coach] took part in the Huntly half marathon which attracted 1500 runners with Michael finishing 131st [35th in a/g] in a time of 1.29:08 and Ho Young 484th [79 in a/g] in 1.45:20.
Saturday 29th May saw the 2nd round of the GP x/c races held at Pakuranga, Again Sue Parcell was placed 2nd over the 6.5k course & a busy Michael now moving up to the very strong o/45 a/g and was placed 5th.
The 3rd round of the series is at the Manukau sports bowl on Saturday 12th June.
Tui Ashe, Althea Mackie, Margaret Peters and Sue Parcell are into full training to take part in the Oceania T&F Championships in Tahiti from 3rd - 10th July.
Tony Deleiros
NSB masters coach

















**WINTER TRAINING FOR MASTERS STARTS**

Friday 30th April see's the start of winter training sessions for the NSB masters 2010/11 Track & Field season.
Venue: The Sports Hall in the Millennium Institute of Sport. The sessions start from 5pm to 7pm EVERY Friday.
The group has athletes aged from 30 to 80, male & female and we cater for sprints/jumps/middle distance and throws.
If you have children already with the club or you are interested in taking up athletics again after some years out, why not come along and see what goes on and have a chat.
We have other training days, this will be explained to you when you arrive.

SEE YOU FRIDAY 30th between 5 & 7pm
Tony Deleiros
coach

NZ Masters Track & Field Championships 2010

Eleven Bay's masters made the trip down to the OE11 stadium, Christchurch for the NZ Masters
T & F Championships held over the Easter w/e and came away with 17 national titles.
Tui Ashe was the most successful athlete winning all her 5 events, and again just missed out on breaking the National record in the Pentathlon.
Susann Rothkoph set two new pb's in the 100/200m taking one second off her previous best time in the 200m, new members Phillipa Green and Sue Parcell also set pb's, Phillipa in the 200m and Sue in both the 800/1500m. Two athletes had freak accident just prior to the meeting, Corney Carstens damaged his ankle and had been in a Moon Boot right up to a week before the meeting, but lined up for the 100/200m, he missed out on  the 100m but came back to win the 200m. Anne Goulter broke two fingers in her hand the week before but still managed to to throw the Hammer and Weight, gaining two Silvers.
In the Inter-Provincial 4 x 100m relay,Auckland "A"
sprinted away with a fine win [49.45] the team included three Bays members, Susann Rothkoph; Corney Carstens; Phillipa Green and the final leg was brought by Auckland's John Campbell, John [o/45] also had the fastest times of all the sprinters in the 100/200m. Auckland were also able to put of a "B" team which included Manfred Rothkoph and Tui Ashe, but were disqualified at one of the changeovers.
These Championships ended a long T&F season, which for some began in Sydney back in October and they are now taking a well deserved three week break, Then it's back to winter training in early May.  
Athletes places:
o/35 Corney Carstens: 2nd 100m;1st 200m
o/40 Phillipa Green: 1st 100/200m
o/40 Sue Parcell : 2nd 800m; 3rd 1500m
o/45 Anne Goulter: 1st TJ; 2nd HJ;HT;WT;DT;3rd 200M
o/45 Susann Rothkoph: 2nd 100/200m; 3rd SP;
o/50 Hans Barnard: 1st HT; 2nd WT/WT Pent; 3rd SP.
o/50 Manfred Rothkoph; 2nd HJ; 3rd 800m
o/55 Tui Ashe: 1st 100/400/SP/DT/Pent
o/60 Anne Deleiros: 1st LJ/TJ; 2nd HJ; 3rd HT/DT
o/65 Chris Waring;  1st 100/200/400
o/65 John Lester : 1st 100/200m.
for full results go to New Zealand Masters Athletics.
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Australian Masters Championships, Perth.

Bays Althea Mackie o/35 decided to give the NZ Champs a miss and go for the Aussie Champs instead and as she had hoped for had glorious weather over the 4 days of competition. The events was held in the new Perth Stadium [WAAS] and was very well orginized. Althea who has only been in the sport for 10 months set three new pb's in theTJ, WT and WT Pent, winning Gold in the TJ and Silver in the WT/ WT pent/JT and picked up Bronze in the DT/SP.
Althea will take a short break before starting training for the Oceania Masters in Tahiti in July.
Tony Deleiros NSB masters coach

Bays Masters Top Team

Last Sunday was the 3rd and final round of Auckland Masters Top Team competition and again a strong team of 15 Bay's athletes turned out for the meeting.  With a commanding lead after the two previous rounds Bay's once again produced excellent performances during the match and went on to comfortable win by the end.
Over the three matches 24 individule Bay's masters athletes took part in this competition which must rank as good if not better than at senior matches, and goes to show the growing interest in masters athletics.
The final league table [top three positions]
1st NSB 1308 points; 2nd Glen Eden 524pts; 3rd Auckland Masters 313pts.
This meeting was also the end of the Auckland Masters 2009/10 season and the Bay's athletes won the following trophies:
Woman's Weight Pentathlon : Aggie Boxall
Gideon Tait Trophy & Highest Age Graded Performance : Margaret Peters.
Fred Tapling Trophy : Christine Waring.
Congratulation's to these winners, but I would like to thank ALL the masters athletes who took part over this season and also thanks to those who were injured but still supported the whole team .
This weekend is the NZ Masters T & F
Championships at Christchurch QE2 stadium with 12 Bay's members entered and also a bit further afield Althea Mackie is taking part in the Australian masters champs in Perth over the same w/e, good luck to all taking part.
Tony Deleiros
masters coach

Bays Masters' Sprint Coach gains a silver medal

Tony Deleiros the Bay's masters sprint coach was in good form at the 4th World Masters T&F Championships held in Kamloop, British Colombia, Canada from 1st to 6th March 2010.
The meeting was held in a new indoor facility in Kamloops which attracted over 1500 athletes from all over the world. The indoor track was a level 200m 6 lane with a 8 lane 60m straight, this track being diffent from the Euopean indoor banked tracks.
In Tony's first event the 60m he was third in his semi final [8.56] and in the final after a very poor start ran home 6th [8.72]
In the 200/400m races only the winner of the three s/f and the next three fastest times went though to the 6 lane final. Tony won his 200m s/f and had the fastest overall qualifying time of 28.01.
During his warm-up for the final his achilles was playing up and at one stage was unsure if he would be able to run, However being a major final he lined up and came home with a silver medal in a time of 27.79, against the winning time of 27.37.
In 400m indoor events athletes stay in lanes for 160m, they then break to an inside lane. Although Tony has run many 400m outdoors this was his first experience of an indoor 400m and also had not run a 400m race for over 4 years due to knee operations.
Tony won his s/f with ease, winning by over 20 meters. In the final he was drawn lane 5, at the breaking zone all the athletes were level, Tony gained the upper hand and after some pushing from behind he was leading at the bell, going down the back straight with a 3 meter lead from the chasing athletes, when with just 80m to go his achilles/soleus decided to pack up and pulled up as if being shot in the leg, The race over !
The race was won by the German athlete  who was in second place at the time Tony pulled out.
An eventful, well run championships and enjoyable Yes - No,  had come to an end.