BA Athletics Club News Digest 1st February 2016
Events:
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Thursday 4th February - Dream Mile*
Bath Road at 12:45
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Wednesday 10th February - "Heartthob Hash"*
- Heston venue from 18:00
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Saturday 13th February - Ladies and Men's Cross Country Matches - Richmond
Park 12:00 and Lloyd Park 14:00.
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Wednesday 24th February - 5 Mile Handicap*
Heston Venue from 18:00 and Club Awards evening from 20:00
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome
at all of these events. The full diary of club featured
events is on the club website at:
http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml.
*Club Event Map:
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Round-the-Block Tuesday 26th January Results
Hi All,
The weather could have been a bit nicer, but it could have been a lot worse
too. There was a constant drizzle of rain throughout the whole event. The best
was saved for the end as the last half mile was into the strongest wind of the
day.
With Gary Rushmer not taking part, it was left to Chris Kelly to take the
crown in a time of 21:05. This was after his warm up from work on the Bath Road.
Less than a minute back was Richard Ruffell (21:52) who was running the
event for the first time in about 10 years. Let’s hope it’s not another 10
before we see him again. In third place and great to see back running again was
Toby Houghton (22:31). In the ladies event Clare Regale-Day (37:06) has taken
the crown. She might have been the only lady running, but she beat everyone that didn’t turn up, so well done. Disappointingly there were no teams this
year.
Position |
Name |
|
Time |
1 |
Chris Kelly |
|
21:05 |
2 |
Richard Ruffell |
|
21:52 |
3 |
Toby Houghton |
|
22:31 |
4 |
Scott Davison |
|
22:35 |
5 |
Piers Keenleyside |
|
24:23 |
6 |
Neil Frediani |
|
27:14 |
7 |
Roderick Hoffman |
|
28:23 |
8 |
Kevin Holland |
|
29:20 |
9 |
Clare Regale-Day |
F1 |
37:06 |
Thanks to Brian Forrester & Paul Brandon for their time keeping and on the
day co-ordination. Thanks to Paul Brandon for his First Aid support, which
thankfully nobody needed and to Tom Rowley for on route marshalling duties. And
finally thanks to all of the you for turning out and raising funds for the White
Lodge Charity.
The 'Round the Park' race is scheduled to take place at Waterside on Tuesday
13th September 2016, so don't forget to put the date in the dairy. I will send
out some more details nearer the time.
Paul Knechtl
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BAAC 5M HC Results 27 Jan 2016
On a very pleasant evening, at least by January standards, 11 runners set off
on the 4th 5 mile handicap of the season, with 9 of the 11 finishing well inside
their handicap time and the first 2 home almost 3 minutes better. Of the 2
slower than their handicap time, 1 was nursing an injury and the other trying to
live up to a December time he has only bettered waaaaay back in March 2010.
27-Jan-16 |
Handicap |
run time |
Gap from handicap |
Rank this month |
Points this month |
Total points |
Next Start time |
Richard Ruffell |
35:00 |
34:36 |
00:24 |
11 |
25 |
80 |
34:30 |
Alan Friar |
46:00 |
45:14 |
00:46 |
10 |
22 |
68 |
45:00 |
Piers Keenleyside |
38:00 |
37:06 |
00:54 |
9 |
20 |
77 |
37:00 |
Chris Kelly |
35:00 |
33:49 |
01:11 |
8 |
19 |
19 |
34:00 |
Scott Davidson |
39:00 |
37:44 |
01:16 |
7 |
18 |
46 |
37:30 |
Alan Anderson |
52:30 |
50:43 |
01:47 |
6 |
17 |
69 |
50:30 |
Christine Runden |
49:00 |
46:42 |
02:18 |
5 |
16 |
43 |
46:30 |
Harry Wild |
44:00 |
41:19 |
02:41 |
4 |
15 |
78 |
41:30 |
Gary Rushmer |
34:30 |
31:37 |
02:53 |
3 |
14 |
32 |
31:30 |
Steve Hillier |
46:30 |
49:25 |
02:55 |
2 |
13 |
46 |
49:30 |
Roderick Hoffman |
43:30 |
46:51 |
03:21 |
1 |
12 |
23 |
47:00 |
The results see our winner of the previous 2 years, Richard, leading the
points table for the first time this season, with Harry and Piers in hot pursuit
only 2 and 3 points behind, and then a slight gap to the 2 Alans. See you Feb
24th for the 5th run of the season.
Paul Brandon
South of England Cross Country Championships Parliament Hill Results
Back in November Julie Barclay said she would like to enter a Major XC Champs
for the challenge/experience so we (Julie) suggested the South-of-England Champs
at Parliament Hill OUCH! We(Julie) started on a 6 week
schedule (a relaxing Christmas week period)
A six day week -- five of them running one hour on grass/mud and one on road.
One run was from Bishop Gate Windsor onto horse sandy bridle path to the
copper horse, down the Long Walk on grass, left at gate along alleyway full of
mud then left up Queen Ann drive then back onto sandy path to Bishops Gate.
Another run was the Stoke Park 5k course {Upton Court parkrun} twice (10k).
Another run was 2 miles on hilly sand dunes for 20 mins then run for 1/2
hour.
Arrived on the day on 30th January confident we (Julie) had prepared properly
although the mud was more like TREACLE. This was also Julie's first time
running from a club PEN at the start.
Many of you are aware of the first 1/2 mile climb including some of our girls
in the past; all went well coming up, then into the quagmire (I witnessed three
lost shoes). After the first 2 mile lap Julie looked comfy/smiling and in
the finishing "SAFE FAIL AREA" 1/2 mile still smiling and in no trouble to
finish in 43.13 (her time) - {Official time 43:15, position 304th of 501 women)
She had achieved her target. Julie's remarks after: "I enjoyed it with no
team/individual pressure", "Just run and think who put all this mud in my way".
The worst part? "The final flat 300m where 5 girls went past me"
Julie would like to thank the "Good luck" emails from the lads and pals at
work.
One absentee today - Harry Wilde. I have competed against Harry here
4/5 times and over the past 10 to 15 years Harry has been chief marshal at the
top of the first hill, his day starting at 9.30 until 4.00. But not today
- I missed you Harry.
Today it was really " 'appy 'amsted" for Julie and I was also " 'appy"
for Julie. Julie's next race is on the 27th Feb., in the Orlando 5k event
while on leave.
Tom Rowley
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Club parkrun results for Saturday 30th January 2016
30th Jan parkrun |
family & friends |
club |
time |
comment |
|
Aldenham |
Roderick HOFFMAN |
British Airways AC |
00:28:58 |
park #141 |
Bedfont Lakes |
Barry WALTERS |
British Airways AC |
00:21:25 |
Bedfont Lakes |
John LENNON |
|
00:27:14 |
Bedfont Lakes |
David DUGGAN |
British Airways AC |
00:28:11 |
Black Park |
Joe NOLAN |
British Airways AC |
00:25:26 |
Bracknell |
Benita SCAIFE |
|
00:33:35 |
Bracknell |
John SCAIFE |
|
00:33:36 |
Bushy Park |
Ian CUNNINGHAM |
British Airways AC |
00:22:29 |
Bushy Park |
John COFFEY |
British Airways AC |
00:25:38 |
Frimley Lodge |
Graham TAYLOR |
British Airways AC |
00:23:55 |
Guildford |
Kevin HOLLAND |
British Airways AC |
00:30:09 |
Guildford |
Alastair HESLOP |
|
Volunteer |
Gunnersbury |
Kerstin LUKSCH |
|
00:21:44 |
Gunnersbury |
Alan ANDERSON |
British Airways AC |
00:30:43 |
Harrogate |
Linda DODSWORTH |
British Airways AC |
00:29:15 |
Maidenhead |
Alice BANKS |
British Airways AC |
00:26:35 |
March |
Petra OTTO |
|
00:36:54 |
2nd parkrun |
Menai (Sydney) |
Neil CAMPBELL |
Qantas Running Club |
00:32:07 |
25th parkrun |
Menai (Sydney) |
Ann CAMPBELL |
Qantas Running Club |
00:32:18 |
26th parkrun |
Reading |
Christopher T KELLY |
British Airways AC |
00:23:12 |
Tooting Common |
Caroline COCKRAM |
|
00:42:20 |
BA park #225 |
Tooting Common |
Ian COCKRAM |
|
Volunteer |
Upton Court |
Sreeram SETHURAMAN |
British Airways AC |
00:32:08 |
Woodley |
Alan FRIAR |
British Airways AC |
00:28:17 |
Steve Newell is away so the stats above is my best efforts of the evening -
apologies for any omissions but don't blame me - thank Steve for doing such a
great job 50 weeks a year!
I ran at Aldenham near Watford for the first time - a relatively nearby
parkrun that I had been avoiding due to the very high £4.50 car park charge. I
was there on Saturday just after they announced a trial arrangement whereby by
presenting your barcode you can get a parking token for just £2.
If you also get the chance please visit over the next couple of months so that the
trial period reveals a growth in numbers.
Caroline ran at BA park number 225 so we are beginning the approach to the
250 milestone achievement.
Club friend Petra Otto has marched five weeks ahead of herself by running in
March in January. This new parkrun is near Peterborough and close to where
she now lives so she will probably become a regular at it. Note that Petra
pointed out that parkrun to us but I have to take full responsibility for the
puns.
I note Neil and Ann Campbell who have become regular parkrunners at Sydney's
Menai parkrun. Several of us know Neil and Ann from their support and
participation at WARR most years. Neil tells me that he is recovering from
an injury and it is all that he can do at the moment to keep ahead of Ann
(not that parkrun is a race of course).
Roderick Hoffman
parkrun Tourism - new events
There were two big inaugural events Saturday just, only one of which
was promoted.
The promoted one was the first Paris parkrun at (or in) Bois de
Boulogne. This attracted a field of 41 runners over half of whom
were clearly not Paris based but there were a significant number of first parkrunners including some with French sounding names. The Les
Dougnes (Beudeux) parkrun has had a maximum attendance of just 22 so
Paris is well ahead already. Six parkrunners have run at both French
parkruns and hence appear on the French site "Most Events" table. More
on that in just a mo.
The un-promoted inaugural parkrun was at Tooting Common in Wandsworth.
This parkrun has had a difficult birth with the local council being dead
against any event taking place in one of their parks without a fee being
paid and without a commitment to limit numbers to a maximum of 100
participants. Progress has been made to the point whereby the parkrun
can run as per normal parkrun arrangements (free and unrestricted) for a
trial period. The local and national parkrun organisation were
very concerned that the first event could be overwhelmed by hundreds of
parkrun tourists and the first event might also become the last. They
had put the word that although anyone was free to attend they would
prefer it if tourists stayed away until the event had become
established. On Saturday the event went ahead with 200 parkrunners
and, looking through the results, less than a dozen of the attendees
could be said to be parkrun tourists (and that is including Paul
Sinton-Hewitt!). There were 23 runners with barcodes doing their
first parkrun and 16 "Unknown" runners without barcodes. It is
reported that the event went well but they are likely to continue to be
nervous about tourists for a while yet. We did have one runner at
Tooting - Caroline Cookham whose other half was in the large experienced
parkrun support team for this event. I suspect that had four hundred
tourists turned up then Paul S.-H. and Caroline wouldn't have run but would
have assumed volunteer duties instead.
But on the subject of crowds one parkrun didn't happen last Saturday
because the previous week's event had proved too popular. Tramore Valley
in Cork in Ireland had seen over a thousand people register in just 16
days after some local publicity in January and attendance went from
under 150 over Christmas up to 340 on the 16th January and then 533 on
the 23rd. Access roads to the park failed to cope with the volume
and with the prospect of even more turning up the council stepped in and
asked for the event to be cancelled. The parkrun team hope to
reestablish the event shortly, with revised parking arrangements - like
getting the council to provide a safe road crossing from the nearby
park&ride car park. Providing alternative parkruns in the city are
probably also being actively discussed. One to monitor.
Note that this situation at Tooting should not be seen as typical for
future parkruns. There was also another UK new parkrun at Mount Edgcumbe
near Plymounth - the inaugural had 131 finishers and tourists were more
than welcome at that and future events there - indeed tourists will
probably be expected to make up much of the field many weeks.
Back to Paris where tourists were most welcome - and they will be
welcome this Saturday also and I will be there to secure my place on the
French "Most Events" table. I'll be pleased at that and I'm proud
of my position on the International table (currently 25th). But then I
looked around and discovered that at the very top of the US "Most
Events" table, having run four of the now five US events, is our own David Duggan (http://www.parkrun.us/results/mostevents/ ). What
plans do you have for Washington David? [note that some of his runs were
before he joined the BA club - so revisits to Florida and North Carolina
are also needed at some point].
Roderick Hoffman
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