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BA Athletics Club News Digest 2nd January 2017Events:
New members and potential 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. HAPPY NEW YEAR, and welcome to the Athletics Club's 36th year.*Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. Difficulty viewing this email? Read it off the website instead - http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook Page "BARunner" https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ Dream Mile - Thursday 5th January Bath Road, start at 12:45First the bad news - Sadly Paul Knechtl, who has set up and administered the Dream Mile event since its inception (September 2013) has now left BA and taken another job too far away for him to get back to Heathrow for the monthly event (though he intends to remain an active member of the club). Then the good news - The Dream Mile will continue to be held on the first Thursday of the month starting from the usual place on the Bath Road (see club map) at 12:45. Each month it will be administered by either Neil Frediani OR Roderick Hoffman (or both) but please expect to have to self record and report your times from now on (unless Neil's mile times improve remarkably, or I invest in motorised roller-skates). The start is the hydrant stone, the finish line is the last post on the left just before the water pump. See you on Thursday. This link should take you to an editable copy of the time trial results spreadsheet - LINK (internal BA only) Roderick Hoffman Ladies Cross Country on Saturday, 14th Jan 2017Ladies, Hope you have had a great Christmas and looking forward to a great New Year. One of our New Year resolutions is likely to be keeping fit and healthy and what better way to start or keep going than to come along to the next Ladies Cross Country run! This will be held on Saturday, 14 January at Lloyd Park, and the run starts at 12 noon. The details are attached for your reference. Details: attachments\LADIES XC LLOYD PARK 14 JAN 2017.docx Course map:
That leaves me to wish all of you a Happy Active New Year, Clara Halket (clarapn@aol.com) Club parkrun results for Saturday 31st December
For the last Saturday of 2016 we had an astonishing number of runners and some of them did very well indeed. Adrian Haines (17:44, 82.52%) made his first visit to the Bushy parkrun. His time was good enough to earn 25th place out of a field of 1173. In the all-time list the run puts him 40th out of 3018 in his age group. Its tough at the top. The time is the best by a member at Bushy during 2016 but doesn't quite match the 17:28 (79.21%) by Paul Knechtl in January 2012. The best time anywhere in 2016 was by Dave Dixon (17:25, 86.03%) at Hackney Marshes on 1st October (where he did 17:10 in 2015 - it is a fast and flat out and back course for anyone looking for a pb!) James Shoulder (20:02) who joined us only recently is getting into his stride. He set a pb and was second across the line at Bedfont Lakes where Gary Rushmer still holds the club record with 18:42. Gary (20:07) was at Wimbledon Common to add another park to his club record collection. There were course pbs for Trish McCabe (26:18) at Osterley and Helen Smith (30:21) at Homewood. The curtain has now come down for the last time at Homewood and next Saturday the "Chertsey" parkrun will re-emerge at Ottershaw Memorial Fields with a larger car park, toilets, a playground and a mobile coffee bar on the finish line. After what appeared to be a post retirement hibernation Richard Ruffell is clearly out and about again and back on tour. This week he went to Canons Park (near Edgware) and lowered the club course record to 25:00. That was his 64th different parkrun. Roderick Hoffman (27:29) notched his 179th at Sittingbourne, another park where Gary Rushmer set the club record (20:22) earlier in 2016. On the grander touring stage Ian (26:19) and Caroline Cockram (33:37) stopped off in the West Country to try Lanhydrock (code LHR ?). That brought the club total to 309 different parkruns at year end but it is not likely to stay there for long. Indeed as parkrun continues to grow maybe a club target of 500 is not as ridiculous as it once might have been. At the end of 2015, after Caroline Cockram's Boxing Day run at Longrun Meadow, the total had only reached 220. Sreeram Sethuraman (28:40) at Upton Court completed his 100th parkrun to earn his black vest. Steve Newell (35:07) is limping towards 250 after his 99th run at Gunnersbury brought his grand total up to 248 as the year ended*. Just to prove it is never too late to start, Jeremy Short (22:05) ran his first parkrun of 2016 at Crane Park and having left it to the very last moment (following the demise of Concorde operations to USA.) So out of the 56* runs on offer who ran the most in 2016? I've only counted the weeks from when new members joined so some of the keen people who joined from springtime onwards haven't been included. It helps to know the usual suspects - Alan Anderson (48), Ian Cunningham (48), Scott Davison (49), Caroline Cockram (44), David Duggan (50), Roderick Hoffman (49), Chris Kelly (50). As a tiebreaker we could add in the number of non running volunteer days and David Duggan (4) would become a worthy winner. In addition to her 44 runs Caroline Cockram also volunteered for a non running task on seven occasions. Former member David Tyas (Amadeus) completed 52 runs in 2016 and ended the year on 433, five behind Alan Anderson having caught up slightly during 2016. A race to the "500" finish line in 2018 is still in prospect. Women: Natalie Ruffell produced the best run for the women with a 19:47 at Amager Strand in Copenhagen. She is also having a go at triathlons so doesn't appear in the parkrun results that regularly. Julie Barclay, under the watchful eye of Tom Rowley, has had a good year with many runs under 22 minutes at Rushmoor. Alice Banks continues to run well at Maidenhead while Trish McCabe has joined us during the year and continues to improve setting pbs at many of the runs local to Heathrow. And in the tourism stakes Roderick Hoffman ran at 44 parks he hadn't visited before. No-one else comes close although the way the name of his sister Sarah Gordon pops up in new places every now and again suggests these things may run in families. Steve and Linda Dodsworth, based on Tyneside, have contributed to the club's presence north of the Humber with great enthusiasm and are still improving. * 53 Saturdays plus 2 on 1/1/16 and 1 on 25/12/16 {Ed: beyond the club, the record for last year is taken by Paul Frayne who managed to run 57 of the 56 possible (so including a double in Copenhagen last August). Also worth noting that all 57 of Paul's runs were different and new for him parkruns. Paul leads the International "Most Events" table with 337, so making Roderick's total, now at 181, look feeble} Steve Newell Updated club parkrun stats [including results for Xmas Day featuring 21 club runners] New Year's Day parkruns - who did you travel with on New Year's Day?
The table of results from yesterday show that eleven club members took advantage of the option of starting the new year by running two parkruns. We were not the only ones. Richard Ruffell was one of a massive 249 parkrunners who made their way between the two Milton Keynes parkruns. Or, to put it another way, only 84 of the record 333 at Linford Wood didn't make it to Milton Keynes parkrun! (and 22 of those 84 made it over to Buckingham parkrun instead!). Sarah Gordon was in almost as large a crowd in Hull who flew between the Peter Pan and Humber Bridge parkruns. Paul and Julie were probably in a stream of cars rushing from Rushmoor to lodge at Frimley Lodge. But there are always some of us who do our own thing - I was the only person to travel between Maidstone and Canterbury parkruns. That was a bit of a logistical challenge - made more so by five minutes of extra announcements before the start at Maidenhead and the fact that the finish there is 500 meters beyond the car park where the start was. Most locals did the Maidstone to Shorne Woods pairing (162 parkrunners) or the Whitstable to Canterbury pairing (116 parkrunners). Perhaps I should try to meet up with the one person who did Whitstable to Shorne Woods! How do I know all this? There are many (additional) sad people who have nothing better to do on a New Year's Day afternoon than poor over parkrun statistics. The results of their labours can best be seen in this map showing all of the flows that took place yesterday:
Some trivia from New Year's Day parkrun results.... Members Trish McCabe, John Lennon and myself (David Duggan) ran a double header at Bracknell (9.00am) and Upton Court (10.30am) this morning, along with Guilaine Sheward who has a BA marathon place. At both events, Trish finished in 104th place and I finished in 125th place. John was initially given 101st man at both and Guilaine was 14th lady at both.... all coincidental, or were there other spirits working at the start of 2017? David Duggan Finally...* Steve Newell is now on 249 runs and chances are he'll turn up at Gunnersbury on Saturday 7th January for his 250th. If you are able to make it I'm sure that he'll appreciate the extra support and cheer. Harrow Hill 10k Race 10:30 Sunday 12th February 2017This traditionally well organised event is open for entry. For the last few years it has been run over the 10k distance but should be seen as a hill challenge rather than a 10k road race. In the first k the run climbs half way up Harrow Hill then loops back to the bottom prior for a full ascent - with the leaders at that point earning the King/Queen of the Hill prizes (provided they finish the whole distance). From then on the course is easy - two gradual descents of the hill with only one ascent - so some people deal with the event as a 1k hill walk followed by a 9k run. Full details and entry form: https://metros.org.uk/harrow-hill-race/ Route Map: 2017 route map Roderick Hoffman - and let me know if you have entered and I'll look out for you at the start. January Street-O event - Wednesday 11th JanuaryUnusually, this month's Street-O event is on Wednesday at Balham, meeting at The Regent and with start times from 18:30 to 19:30. More details at http://slow.org.uk/category/streeto/. Let me know if you plan to attend and I'll look out for you.
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