USATF Grand Prix 2005

Agree to do 3 and join the USATF and we'll mail the single to you before the Grand Prix races begin. E-mail me here for your singlet. You're as good as your word. Don't do the 3 races and we'll send you a bill! Read more....

The guidelines for submitting a road race to be a USATFNE Championship History of the Grand Prix Competition Guidelines.

Click the bear for larger image of CMS singlet you'll receive for entering the USATFNE Grand Prix 2005

Click the links above for complete information from USATFNE regarding the Grand Prix, or follow me on the quick version of this popular and competitive race series. Here's how the Grand Prix works:

• Race director assemble before a crowd made up of USATF members. One member; one vote. The USATF meeting on November 8, decided which races will be chosen to make up the 2005 "series" of races. Each race is a 2005 New England Championship race of a distinct distance.
• To participate in the Grand Prix, you must join the USATF. Join here.
• To represent the Central Mass Striders you must join the club. Join here.
• The Grand Prix 2005 schedule is the same as 2004:

March 20, 2005 -- New Bedford 1/2 Marathon, New Bedford, MA

May 21, 2005 -- Bedford Rotary 12K, Bedford, NH

June 5, 2005 -- Rhody 5K, Lincoln, RI

June 26, 2005 -- Whirlaway 10K, Methuen, MA

October 2, 2004 -- Ollie Road Race (5 miler), South Boston, MA

October 30, 2004 -- Cape Cod Marathon, Falmouth, MA

• Depending on the race and the age group, the first 2 to 5 folks finishing score for the team and the combined time of the finishing team determines how they place among the competitors.
• The USATFNE keeps track of teams and individuals in each age group as the year, and the series progress.

So, by now you're wondering, what's news about this? After all, CMS has an outstanding history of competition in the team divisions in all age groups as well as in individual standings. As a matter of fact, there's a not-so-obscure award: This from the USATFNE website, "A perpetual award will be loaned for a one-year display to the club who has the highest overall point total, with the name of this club added to the plaque. "

CMS has been the recipient of the annual (virtual?) plaque so often that the USATFNE doesn't even announce it anymore. We think the "C" the "M" and the "S" have all probably worn off the USATFNE keyboard. Perhaps they'll upgrade their office equipment in time for the 2004 announcement. No, wait. That's not it or it'd be the U ATFNE. Must be someting else. But I digress....

Here's the news for 2005.

• We'd like to encourage greater participation in the USATFNE Grand Prix. To that end, if you tell us you intend to run at least 3 of the Grand Prix races, we'll send you a free singlet (picture above and also here. Microfiber, high tech stuff. Guaranteed to make you faster or double your money back) Agree to do 3 and join the USATF and we'll mail the single to you before the Grand Prix races begin. E-mail me here for your singlet. You're as good as your word. Don't do the 3 races and we'll send you a bill!

• And there's more. Once you've signed up, each time you run a Grand Prix race you'll be entered into a drawing. That's up to 7 entries per person with the drawing to be held after the final 2005 Grand Prix race--the Cape Cod Marathon. The winner will receive either a DVD player or a pair of Crescent Moon Snowshoes.