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AGN NOTICES

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AGN GENERAL INFORMATION SECTION

2010 LICENCE NUMBERS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE AGN OFFICE.

Costs remain as in 2009.

Senior = R 100 each.

Junior = R 50 each.

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 2010 ASA LICENCE FORM
(45 KB PDF)

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PROVISIONAL 2010 AGN EVENTS CALENDAR
(75 KB XLS Excel Spreadsheet)

2010 LEAGUE EVENTS
(22 KB XLS)

EVENT INFORMATION PER MONTH FOR 2010
for

ROAD RUNNING

RACE WALKING

CROSS COUNTRY

TRACK & FIELD

IS NOW PARTLY AVAILABLE AS SEPARATE WEB PAGES

(rest will follow soon).

PROVISIONAL ASA EVENTS CALENDAR FOR 2010
(55 KB MS Word)

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New AGN Board Elected on 30 January 2010

Will be displayed here once available.

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INSURANCE POLICY INFORMATION FOR AGN ATHLETES (132 KB PDF)

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ATHLETE’S PRESTIGE AWARDS 6 FEBRUARY 2010:

Once our new board has been voted into office  on the January 30th  2010, the Athlete’s Prestige Awards Ceremony is an excellent platform to introduce our new board members to the media. February  6th 2010 has been reserved for the  2009 Athlete’s Prestige Awards.

Fond regards

Walter Vilakazi

General Manager

Athletics Gauteng North

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DOWNLOAD ACROBAT READER
(33.5 MB) to read PDF files.

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AGN TRACK & FIELD SECTION

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OPPORTUNITIES TO PREPARE FOR THE 2010 ATHLETICS SEASON (290 KB PDF)

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AGN ROAD RUNNING & WALKING SECTION

Hi from Magnolia,

Over the years I have received an e-mail from you enquiring about our 60 km long run and I would like to send you a personal invite to this year’s run. I have also forwarded an invite to all AGN club chairpersons. 

Magnolia will be holding our eight long run on 11th April, and would like to invite your club to join us on the day.

With less than 100 days to go and we are all making plans for your long runs in April. As an alternative, the Magnolia 60km long run is ideally placed 7 weeks before the big event, Please see attached flyer for all the details.

It will be appreciated if you could please forward to your members or display our flyer on your clubhouse notice board.

To assist with catering arrangements, it will be appreciated if you could please indicate how many of your members will be attending. Last year 330 attended our long run.  

I can be contacted at the following numbers for any additional information:

tel 012- 361 2965 Home

     012 - 842 2566 Work

     082 578 3935

     cbillau@ford.com    work

     billauc@absamail.co.za   home

Yours in running,

Colin Billau

Chairman Magnolia Road Runners

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APOLOGIES FROM ROAD RUNNING COMMISSION TO ALL AGN CLUBS

Members

As the Chairman of Road Running commission I first would like to apologize for the manner in which the AGN half marathon championship was organized at TUKS on Saturday. The Road Running commission was not aware that TUKS race was a championship race. When I took over as the new chairman of Road running, I was not briefed about any outstanding issues or coming events. The fliers for the race were not approved by the commission or the Office.

I would like to assure you that a thing like this will not happen again as long as I am the chairman of road running. Please feel free to contact me or the office with any road running issues that you know so that we as the commission can address and deal with them.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Regards

Dukes Mokonoto
(Chairman Road Running Commission)

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MAZDA race on 3 April 2010 is CANCELLED.

TELKOM Race on 24 April 2010 is CANCELLED.

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2010 COMRADES MARATHON

Qualifying period for 2010 will be as follows: 24 May 2009 to 26 April 2010.

Runners who finished the 2009 Comrades Marathon can use their finishing time as a qualifier for 2010. As in 2009, runners will be able to enter before they qualify. This means while all entries will have to meet the entry criteria above, runners will still be allowed to qualify in official qualifying races up until the month of April 2010, with the 26th April 2010 as the final cut-off date. Upon qualification, runners simply need to submit the time and details of the qualifying race through to the CMA office. Upon receiving the qualifying information the runner’s entry will be confirmed.

Licenses for 2010 (for South African athletes only)

With the new opening and closing dates of entries for Comrades 2010, athletes will not be in possession of their 2010 licenses by the time of entry, however athletes will still have to comply with the rule that they must be licensed through an officially registered athletics club affiliated to Athletics South Africa in order to run the 2010 Comrades Marathon. As with the new qualifying criteria, you will be able to enter for Comrades 2010 before having received your 2010 license. You will however have to submit your club name and license number to the CMA before or by the 26th April. Failure to submit these details will result in your entry being rejected. Please note that the CMA will verify your license details with your club.

Thanks

Colin

Magnolia

012-842 2566 work

ASA Ruling about RACE WALKING ID Tag

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AGN ROAD RUNNING & WALKING LEAGUE SECTION

Newest LEAGUE information will be added at the top of this section, from now on -

i.e. just below here.

Hi

For the benefit of all those that are new to participating in league races … both running and walking … there are some important points that you should be aware of when entering a league race.

1. The league races only apply to Athletics Gauteng North … Agn. It does not apply to Central Gauteng Athletics … CGA.
   
   When doing the league calculation I start off by doing a sort on the 'Prov'. If you therefore fill in the ‘Prov’ section with Gauteng or GP or G or leave the ‘Prov’ section blank you will be deleted from the league calculation unless someone from the club emails me that you are in fact a registered Agn athlete.
   
   This rule applies to every Agn athlete and not only to some who happen to be members of a club with a sister club with the same club name in another province.
   

2. If you don’t fill in your gender or sex you will default to “Male’
   

3. If you do not fill in your age you will default to ‘Senior’

I'd like to email the logs out Friday morning ... early. So could I set the deadline for corrections to reach me by Thursday evening.

God Bless
Ken

Partial Walking League results after the 2010 Deloitte race.

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Hi

It will be a miracle if I have managed to get all the corrections and changes into the McCarthy Toyota league calculation without a few slip-ups on my part. But that's that and it's finished.

One thing I am pleased about is that I did give clubs an opportunity to check the number of licences bought from Agn as at the end of Jan. Only Hqh came back and had Agn correct their figure. So for those clubs that had not bought any licences as at the end of Jan ... even though your athletes earned individual points in the McCarthy Toyota league race ... you did not earn any league points because the number of licences bought as at the end of the month prior to the league race, is part of the handicap calculation..

Clubs that did not email me that their athletes who failed to fill 'Prov' when they entered, were registered Agn athletes, were deleted from the league calculation.

Although the McCarthy Toyota results were the cause of a way above average number of queries and corrections I must thank the many clubs for putting in the time and effort to sort out and query the results with regard to their own club, to Hank Bezuidenhout who made an effort to sort out the problems that were refered to him and then finally to Magaret Chamberlain for making all the changes and corrections on 'raceresults'

God Bless
Ken

League Log 02 2010
(56 KB Excel)

Super League Log 02 2010
(380 KB Excel)

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NEW 2010 AGN WALKING LEAGUE FORMAT
(29 KB MS WORD)

NEW 2010 AGN WALKING LEAGUE POINTS
(32 KB MS EXCEL)

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FINAL 2009 RUNNING & WALKING LEAGUE RESULTS

Hi

RUNNING LEAGUE:

Div 1:   Arete 1st      Ilanga 2nd         Relegated to Div 2:  Mazda and Kentron
Div 2:   Vtm  1st       Exxaro 2nd ... both promoted to Div 1         Relegated to Div 3:  Centak and Running Free
Div 3:   Bmw 1st      Running Inn 2nd ... both promoted to Div 2

SUPER LEAGUE:

Male:      New Balance 1st      Nedbank 2nd      Irene 3rd
Female:   Irene 1st      Tuks 2nd      Nedbank 3rd

WALKING LEAGUE:

1st   Acr         2nd  Irene         3rd  Agape

Congratulations to the champions!

Remember that with the start of the 2010 walking league there will be a completely new format.


God Bless
Ken

FINAL FULL 2009 RUNNING LEAGUE RESULTS
(239 KB Excel)

FINAL FULL 2009 SUPER LEAGUE RESULTS
(57 KB Excel)

FINAL FULL 2009 WALKING LEAGUE RESULTS
(42 KB Excel)

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Hi

League race organisers please take note ... below is a comment from Haffie who sent the Ace 10km results through to me.

N.B: There was no column for “ages”, only a column for “category”
“Category” could have meant:
-          WALK or RUN
-          MALE or FEMALE
-          VET, MASTER, GRANDMASTER . etc
This is some of the information that was filled in on the stickers.

An example of the 21km results as received by me from Chamberlains:

No age ... default senior
No sex ... default male
Prov ... Gauteng, Gaut, GP, G or blank ... delete from league calculation

1. Excel spreadsheet
2. Initials and name
3. Club
4. Age    (the league does not have sub vets or juniors, also some athletes are entering the wrong age category)
5. Province        (several of the Agn clubs have sister clubs in other provinces. Eg Fit 2000, Harmony, Run and Walk for Life … )
6. If your race is also a Race Walking League Race then a separate set of results for the walkers or alternatively a separate column is required to indicate whether the athlete entered to “R” or “W”
7. Time in the following format          “format”   “cells”   “custom”   “hh:mm:ss”
   

Just a suggestion from me ... League race organisers please look at the design of your entry form / slip. If you can have a tick block for 'Run' and another tick block for 'Walk', is it not possible to do the same for "prov" ... tick block for 'Agn' another for 'Cga' and another tick block for 'Other'. The reason I've suggested 3 tick blocks is that there is always a large number of Cga athletes who enter our races and there is always some who enter their province as Agn, so 3 tick blocks will hopefully eliminate an area of potential confusion for Gauteng athletes.

God Bless
Ken