Hawaii Masters track club

Hawaii Masters Track Club

Hawaii Masters Track and Field Club is affiliated with USA Track and Field Association. It has been in existence from more than 30 years. It sponsors periodic meets on the island of Oahu. The schedule, noted in the link below, shows the meet venue and times. Members are open to both men and women and the only three stipulations for competing in the HMTC sponsored meets are: (1) membership (see attached link for details) in HMTC (2) insurance with USA track and field. (3) member must be more than 30 years old. Competition are age graded in 5 year intervals from 30 to 34, 35 to 39 etc. All traditional track events are offered including multi-events like the Outdoor pentathlon, Decathlon, Weight Pentathlon.

2008 Senior Olympics Date/Time: Nov 1, 3 pm, running and jumping events, UH Nov 2, noon, throwing events, Univ. Of Hawaii. Download entry form

TRACK AND FIELD/Race walk Schedule

Men’s & Women’s events: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Pole Vault, 1,500 race walk; discus, shot put, javelin, hammer throw.

ALSO OPEN TO MASTERS & OPEN COMPETITORS.• Date/Time: Nov 1, 3 pm, running and jumping events, UH Nov 2, noon, throwing events, Kaiser High School

• Entry Fee: $25 per person for up to five events.• Format: Track events will be held to schedule as much as possible; athletes are responsible for checking in

and being at start of their events when called; all events are finals; participants grouped according to age and available lanes; one false start permitted; all field equipment will be provided.

• Rules: Only 1/4-inch pyramid spikes allowed.

Javelin, discus and hammer, not at Kaiser. But at Cooke field as scheduled on 2 November 2008

• Deadline: Oct 30; late entries accepted ($5 extra).

Gentlemen:

I would like your help in getting the word out to all competitors for the Hawaii Senior Olympics track meet that the venue has changed.

UH informed me on Monday that we would not be able to use Cooke Field on the 1^st due to the rescheduling of the field resurfacing project – it now is supposed to start on October 13, and finish sometime around thanksgiving, and while we will not in any way bother the project the attorneys do not want anyone anywhere near the site during the project. I even have to move my trailer out of Cooke Field, and take down the camera poles, which I will be doing this weekend.

I sent a note to Dick Townsend, who is acting AD at Kaiser HS, and he has informed me that Kaiser’s field is NOT being used that afternoon-evening, so we can have it for our event. He has put in a request form which has reserved it for us. I would like your assistance in re-evaluating the schedule of events to see how we can=2 0improve the flow of activity that afternoon, but I think we should be able to manage just fine. We will do all events at Kaiser except the discus, hammer and javelin, which we will do at UH on Sunday at noon. I will bring the timing equipment to Kaiser – may even bring the trailer. May also bring Bob Martin over from Big Island to help me. But as of now it looks like a complete GO at Kaiser on Saturday, November 1 at 3 pm. We will not do the steeplechase.

FYI, I will mail a post card to all athletes who sign up alerting them of the venue change. But if you could help spread the word, I would appreciate it – I want to make sure all persons know about it well in advance.

Thanks, guys.

Mark Zeug