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BA Athletics Club News Digest 5th January 2015Forthcoming Events:
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Roderick Hoffman OBO the BAAC Committee Men's Surrey League Cross Country Oxshott match detailsHi guys, hope you all had lovely Christmas and a good New Year. Now's a good time to get out and lose some of those extra pounds you've put on over this time. Below are the details of our 3rd Surrey League cross country race of the season at Oxshott on the 10th January 2015. Don't forget this race STARTS at 2.30pm. Look forward to seeing most of you there. Gary Rushmer Surrey XC League Race 3 10/01/2014(Please note the start time, the 2XU Surrey web site reports the incorrect time). Time: Men 14:30, 10th January 2014 Parking: Oxshott National rail station KT22 0TA (free parking on Saturdays) Toilets: Until 14:00 at Oxshott National rail station Start: 1 minute walk from Oxshott National rail station Car Park (signed) Course: The course has been designed, marked and marshaled by Elmbridge Road Runners. It starts on a wide grassy area but quickly narrows to a (three person width) bridleway. Fast runners are urged to establish an early lead in the first 75 meters. The course then meanders through a mixture of bridle ways, single track paths until you reach a sharp hill. Marshals will urge you to stay right as you climb the hill. There are several sharp bends. The course continues along wider paths until 100 meters to the end which narrows to a single path track until the wide start/finish area. The course will be marked using tape and flour. Runners should be aware of roots and stones along paths. We do not have priority over other users of the woodlands, please respect their rights. Men: Three laps (approx. 5.1 miles) Declaration Sheets: Please hand your declaration sheets to the marshal close the Elmbridge Flag Questions or queries please contact: Adam Hecquet, Elmbridge Men’s Captain {via Gary} Club parkrun results for New Year's Day and Saturday 3rd January
Several members took advantage of pairs of runs, geographically not too far
apart on New Year's Day and with start times at least an hour apart. The
one new venue for the club was Ipswich with a curious 8.45 a.m. start which
attracted Roderick Hoffman - this made it club parkrun #150 and the first
parkrun starting with the letter "i"! He then moved on to
Colchester Castle where Neil Frediani has also run in the past. Richard
Ruffell stuck closer to home and checked out a couple of runs near the north and
east extremity of the Piccadilly Line (Grovelands and Oak Hill). He was
very even paced. Ben Chaytow who ventured further afield to Panshanger and
St Albans clearly held something back on the first run. Other popular
choices were Reading and Woodley, Black Park and Upton Court, Bushy Park and
Crane Park. PS We failed to report last week that Natalie Ruffell also ran on Christmas day at Panshanger (22:23). Richard managed to beat her for once! Another occasional parkrunner who hasn't been given the mention he deserves is Adrian Haines who has appeared three times at Tilgate in recent weeks, being first to finish one week and setting a pb of 17:52 on another. Groundwork for the upcoming indoor vets track season. Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls Steve Newell Ipswich and Colechester Castle parkrunsSo I started the New Year the same way I ran most of the old one by doing two new parkruns. The first was at Ipswich. A ninety minute drive away and with an 08:45 start on New Year's Day. Why??? Well, it was on my list to do because it is the first parkrun for me and the club that starts with the letter "i" (and much easier to get to than Inverness (Scotland), Izmailovo (Russia), Inverloch (Australia) or the other Ipswich (also Australia). So I got up at 6am and got myself ready for the drive - and rushed out of the house because my Sat Nav had changed its mind overnight and now said that it was a 105 minute drive away! Fortunately that was a false alarm - the Sat Nav was predicting that British workmen would be setting up roadworks on the M25 at 7am on New Year's Day - so I got to the park 15 minutes before the off. Ipswich parkrun is a straightforward two laps on paths and grass with a few contours including having the finish 10metres higher than the start. The grass was soft and slippery in places. Some of the locals were celebrating park-one day by running in onesies. I didn't. Having finished I had sufficient time to walk across the far side of the course to take my tourist parkrun photograph (I put in a facebook album a single picture that reminds me of each different parkrun I have run), and then drive to the local Tesco to use the bathroom and pick-up a takeaway coffee. I thought of doing some shopping but wisely I didn't because getting to Colchester Castle parkrun wasn't as easy as my Sat Nav suggested it would be. The event postcode takes you to a walled car park in a private estate. I found somewhere nearby to leave the car and then found I had to walk the length of the park and half way up the castle hill to get to the parkrun gathering area. But I arrived with five minutes to spare and then the parkrun started five minutes late. The Colchester Castle parkrun course is an odd one. Although described as "two laps" it had significant lengths run once, twice and three times. Starting at the bandstand you run up the hill and looped round the castle, then you go down to the bottom of the hill and run a lap of the field. There is then a long out and back segment before you climb back up the hill to complete "lap one". My Garmin was already reading 3k at this point so I was wondering what the total distance would be. We then did a second lap of the castle, a second run round the field BUT didn't have the out and back segment. We then had a final third lap of the castle before having a 300m downhill and flat segment to finish alongside the bandstand. The odd laps and the undulations made pace judgement difficult but I was pleased with my time - especially since it was faster than the Ipswich time (and Neil's previous time at Colchester ;-) ). But then I had a long drive home before going back to bed. I was happy on Saturday to be able to lie in and do my local Northala Fields parkrun - I jog out to that one since the nearest part of the course is only 1.5k from where I live. Roderick Hoffman BA parkrun map: http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/BA-Parkruns-2014.jpg {some parkruns may have been missed}. Flitch Way Marathon...In a weak moment after completing the New York Marathon a friend suggested I might like to join them running the Flitch Way Marathon (the Flitch Way is a long distance path in Essex along an old railway line) on New Year’s Eve.. And before I thought too hard about it I had submitted my online entry – hey ho! Having only ever run big city road marathons a small local trail marathon was quite a change. 200 runners rather than 50,000. Run on trails (and some mud) rather than non stop roads. Friendly aid stations where you could stop for a quick chat and pick a sweet of choice (Freddos please!) before carrying on. I ran without all the usual time pressures and enjoyed it much more as a result – I got to half way in just under 2 hours as planned and then the 2nd half I pushed on a bit to finish in 3:53:07. The winner was just under 3 hours to give a feel for the pace of the field. Next year they’re planning a double header on NYE and NYD!! I don’t think I’ll be doing that but another trail run seems likely… This should explain why my New Year's Day parkrun time was a touch slower than usual!! Cheers Ian Cunningham Details of Coaching and Officials Courses provided by England AthleticsDon't forget, BAAC encourage to take part in these courses, and will be happy to help foot the bill. South Course flyer 01.01.2015 onwards.pdf Officials Course flyer 01.01.2015 onwards.pdf Running Shorts
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