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  The camp will be at Dell Park Road Caravan Park in Dwellingup. Arrive Friday 4th March depart Monday 7th March. The cost will be approx $90 per person. Please contact Elaine Dance

The club have now ordered the new uniforms from our supplier and these will be available in early March. Options will be singlets for men, singlets and crop top for women. Note that a range of samples were given to members during the selection process. None of these samples are the club uniform, and anyone possessing…

There will be a presentation day breakfast at the Marathon Club rooms after the Racecourse Run on 24th July, commencing around 9:15. Medal and trophies will be presented for: Road Running and Walking Championships Half Marathon Racewalk trophy To save runners having to wait too long for breakfast, the walk will commence at 7:30am The…

Just a reminder that there will be no T & F meet on Australia Day

Invitation to launch of new book by James Brear: “Decima Norman – The First Golden Girl” WA history that you may not know! Free event on Friday 26 February 11am see flyer below for details if interested: Launch Invitation Please RSVP to James Brear

Bob Braid is running a course in February on Course Measurement, leading to accreditation. The Marathon Club have kindly invited MAWA to send someone on the course. This is a great opportunity for someone interested and it will be very good for MAWA to have a member accredited. Only criteria is to be focused and…

Friday night at WAAS saw the completion of the State Combined Event Championships and a regular Strive programme. Three pending Australian and five State Records were set, giving a total of 14 State Records and 3 pending Australian Record over the 2 days. Wendy Seegers set yet another pending Australian Record in the 100m with 12.01s. Mark and…

A great night for the throwers at WAAS in conjunction with the AWA combined championships. Nine state records were set during the evening. Thanks go to Stephen Stingemore for facilitating this event and to all the officials for giving their time. State Championship Throws Pentathlon results

Stan Jones, Australian Masters medalist in racewalking events, passed away Monday evening at age 90. He was the 10th Australian centurion (100 miles in under 24 hours) in 1975, and still had 20km walk times in his 60s under 2 hours. He was a WWII SAS veteran and a 1948 Olympic Marathoner. Stan was competing at ECAC…

There are 2 changes to the published WAAS programme: On 12th January there is insufficient time for a 3k, a 2k steeple and a 3k steeple. Therefore there will be no 3k, (unless there are no takers for the 3k steeple) WAAS is closed on Australia Day, so there will be no meet that Tuesday