Jim Reilly and Mary Rosado have provided more details on the club selection for the Millrose Games masters 4×4 relays — probably more info than you need to know. But what the heck. I was curious (and some correspondents were, too.) Jim wrote: “I compiled the team entries and verified team times. Once the 1/9 date passed I sent the list to Mary Rosado who made the final decision. We asked for a team relay time from within the last 12 months that we can check.”

Jim provided this list of clubs and marks:
Teams, times, and meet:
Southwest Sprinters 3:31 ( Penn), Central Park 3:38.4 (Penn), Synergy TC
3:41.6( Armory 12/30), 2nd Wind TC 3:42.7 (Penn), Shore AC 3:46.7 (Penn),
The Running Company 3:51.4 (Armory 12/30)
Alternates:
Phila. Athletic Charities TC 3:51.5 (Penn), Mass Velocity TC 4:02.78
Jim continued:
“All the times above were checked. One team did submit a combined time of their runners best times for the year and a slower team relay time. I presented the team’s relay time and presented the combined time to Mary. But as mentioned, a confirmed team relay time is what was used to seed the all the teams and we had to seed them with the relay time. Even if we wanted too, we could not go back to the teams and ask them to submit combined times of their best 400m after telling them we needed a verified team relay time. Some of the men’s teams even traveled to the Armory 12/30 to get a team relay time.
“I am a volunteer and I tried to set up the race as fair as possible. If anyone has any questions, please have them contact me. I would be more then happy to answer their questions.”
Mary added:
“For the women, without going into the meets (which were all verified ) and times, there were only 6 applicants who ran relays; the alternate team did not run a relay, so I could not factor them in. They became the alternate automatically. If they had run a relay, they would have been factored in and possibly another team displaced.”
Meanwhile, I got some nice notes from Larry Libow, president of Mass Velocity TC, one of the clubs that didn’t make the men’s cut for Millrose. No complaints about the selection process. He just wanted to bring me up to date on his club.
Larry writes:
“Back in March, 2005 you wrote about Mass Velocity in your blog as a virtual track club. It was true that we started out that way. But in less than a year, Mass Velocity Track Club has become a USATF club (#273) with nearly 30 dues-paying men & women sprinters from throughout New England. In addition, our website (www.MassVelocity.org has become a meeting place for nearly 60 Masters track & field competitors, some of whom might belong to other clubs or are simply unattached.
“I mention this because Mass Velocity submitted an entry for the Millrose Masters relay. If it weren’t for your blog, we’d still not know our team wasn’t selected. Being a new club, we didn’t have many opportunities to put a 4×400 relay on the track so the time we submitted wasn’t really representative of the time our A-Relay is capable of running.
“Check our our website, visit the About Us / Who We Are page and read the mini-bios of many members and non-members, notice that we have some world-class and national caliber sprinters as well as just (how did you put it…) “relatively mediocre” guys such as myself. Also, you might change our club’s description on your links page when you have a chance.
“Look for Mass Velocity at the Penn Relays where, in proper age-groupings (not this 40+ nonsense) we should do quite well. Thought you should know that while some Masters clubs might be in decline, Mass Velocity Track Club is here to stay and growing stronger.”