Just an easy 10km at lunch on my work 10km route, untimed.
Fucking annoyed with Athletics NSW not counting our Men's Over35 team result from the XC at the weekend. This was their response:
"Hi Tom,
Thank you for your enquiry and congratulations on a great run on Saturday.
The rules for cross country and team competitions in the winter running
events are on the web:
https://assets.imgstg.com/assets/console/document/documents/Winter%20Running
%20Rules%20120424.pdf
The process for calculating team results at the adidas Winter Series
competitions, including the NSW XC Championships, allows an athlete to run
up (for juniors) or down (for masters) an age group. The simple requirement
is that if an athlete is not going to be entered in his/her "natural"
age-gender, then the team manager must complete a form to modify the
"natural" age-gender and submit this prior to the race. These forms were
available at check-in on the day, and also available on the website prior to
the day of competition.
https://assets.imgstg.com/assets/console/document/documents/Agegender.pdf
By looking at the Age Group results for the final event at 3:00pm, we can
see that you (Tom) were in the 35-39 age group; Nigel Wickham and EJ Davie
were in the 40-44 age group; Paul Bruning was in the 45-49 age group. Teams
are in 10-year categories i.e. 35-44 and 45-54.
If Sydney Striders were to have a team, Paul Bruning could have been
submitted as a change of age-gender and entered into a 35-44 team. This did
not happen.
I recall a discussion with EJ before the 3pm race where I explained that if
all the athletes were competing in their "natural" age group, then no
paperwork was required by the team management. EJ expressed his opinion
that everyone in his proposed team was within the natural age group for
competition.
We have tried hard to make the process clear, and I spent some time on
Saturday explaining to many clubs how to enter their teams. I hope that
this helps to explain the situation and I look forward to seeing you at
other events this winter.
Regards,
Janet."
4 comments:
Seems logical that if the rules were made clear beforehand then you can' moan about the results afterwards.
I now know why the Aussies call you whingeing poms...!
I knew I was too old to run at Nowra.
Classic case of sports administration being more important than the sport itself!
Mmmm sounds a bit like a discussion we had about gun vs net vs garmin time Mr H.
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