California Track & Running News Jan-Mar 2013, VOLUME 39 NUMBER 2 | 页面 6

CTRN-JanFebMar2013-_Layout 1 1/17/13 6:27 AM Page 6 pacific assn President’s Message, LDR Irene Herman Mark Winitz 6 ct&rn • Jan–Mar 2013 [email protected] President’s Message The Pacific Association has the largest cross country series in the United States! Thanks to our energetic clubs, you had 12 cross country races to pick and choose from. If you participated in 5 of them, you were eligible for Grand Prix scoring, including the PA championship (and Western Region champs) on Nov. 18. The winners of the Grand Prix and the open men and women PA champ winners will be funded $250 each to compete in the Winter USA Cross Country Championships in Clayton, MO on Feb. 2. Looking ahead, the Pacific Association proudly announces that we’ve been awarded the 2015 Club National Cross Country Championship at Golden Gate Park. The date is the second weekend of December. Our local organizing committee will start meeting this year and will provide a progress report and advise you as to how PA clubs can assist in sponsorship. John Rembao, our marketing chair and XC meet director, will work with our website com-com committee on advertising and marketing this event. There’s also talk that the national office is considering a joint Cross Country Junior Olympic Championship with the Club Nationals. We’ll know more later, when a decision is made. If this can be done, then San Francisco is the perfect place for it. It’s a great destination with lots of activities for the youth, and public transportation is easy. Our membership year begins Jan. 1 of each year and expires on Dec. 31. On Oct. 31, 2012, USATF closes the prior year’s membership counts. We had a few hundred fewer members in 2012 than we had in 2011, when the WMA [World’s Masters Athletics] championships in Sacramento created a spike of 150+ members. Increased membership does bring funds into our association; however, it’s the event sanctioning and insurance that bring prize money and programs to our association. If you hear of clubs or events that need sanctioning and insurance, please direct them to our website where there are explanations and forms. Remind your club to renew its membership just as individual members must. You will be automatically renewed with your current team/club. If you plan to change clubs, the 90-day rule still applies from the date of the last sanctioned event. Please renew with your current club and email me that you wish to become unattached from the date of your last sanctioned event. Remember that during this time, you must wear generic athletic attire to compete as Unattached. Close to the conclusion of the 90-day period, email me again so that we can update your profile to your new club. Post-Christmas Relays is a good time to do this because the first LDR road race is in March. Club captains and representatives: It’s important for you to check www.pausatf.org and confirm that your members did renew and did not accidentally become unattached by forgetting to input a club, especially new members. Everybody should know this, young and old. With the online registration, it’s easy to pass a field quickly and make a mistake. Youth clubs: Please have your members renew before practices begin. Youth members should not be practicing with a club if they aren’t affiliated with that club. Club practice insurance is provided to the club; unaffiliated youth working out with a club are not insured for liability. The annual USATF meeting was in Daytona Beach, FL Nov. 29–Dec. 2, 2012. President Stephanie Hightower was re-elected and former president Bill Roe is the new LDR Chair. (Editor’s Note: Look for an overview of the annual meeting in our next issue. See page 20 in this issue for a list of national award winners.) Look for an update soon about San Francisco’s Kezar Stadium and its need for rehabilitation. For the moment, if you know of track & field facilities that might be available for our youth meets or practices, please let me know. Carl Rose of Strawberry Canyon recently told me about the renovated Cal-Berkeley track, so get ready for the All-Comers at Berkeley in February. LDR News Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot Elite 5K PA/USATF Championship - Open Individuals San Jose; Nov. 22, 2012 On a bright morning perfect for fast running, 20,000-plus finishers turned out and completed mass-participant 5K and 10K events at this rapidly growing Thanksgiving Day event in downtown San Jose. Those who stuck around after their races witnessed course records in the separate elite men’s