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BA Athletics Club News Digest 6th November 2012

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Forthcoming Events

Don't forget the following priority club events:

  • Wednesday 7th/14th/21st/28th November - Sports Hall Fitness Session - 18:00 to 19:00
  • Wednesday 14th November - BAAC Winter Quiz - Concorde Centre from 20:00
  • Saturday 17th Club parkrun - KINGSTON - starts 9:00 - details next week.

New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at all of these events. 

The full events diary is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml.

5 mile Handicap result Oct 31st 2012

Here are the results from last week's 5 mile handicap.

Usually you have a good idea of your points from the time you finished, however for various reasons a few runners did not start on their handicap time. The points awarded are based upon the actual run time and how much it varied from the handicap time, and not how far away from 1:00:00 at the finish.

Next month (Nov 28th), we will aim for the finish time to be 17:50 to give time to put the clock away and still get to the sports hall for 18:00. After Nov (that is Dec Jan Feb Mar) we will revert to 'normal' aiming to finish at 19:00.

    Handicap Run time Time gap Pts Next HC
Colin Haylock 33:00 33:07 00:07 13 00:33:00
Steve Taylor 39:30 39:49 00:19 12 00:40:00
Graham Taylor 34:30 34:05 00:25 11 00:34:00
Simon Turton 33:30 33:56 00:26 10 00:34:00
Richard Ruffell 35:00 34:04 00:56 9 00:34:00
Roderick Hoffman 43:30 44:47 01:17 8 00:45:00
Steve Newell 48:00 49:42 01:42 7 00:49:30
Barry Walters 35:30 33:29 02:01 6 00:33:30
Eddie Giles 36:00 38:06 02:06 5 00:38:00
Chris Kelly 33:30 30:55 02:35 4 00:31:00
Denis Foxley 36:00 39:15 03:15 3 00:39:00
Alan Anderson 43:30 48:01 04:31 2 00:48:00
Alan Friar 38:30 43:29 04:59 1 00:43:30

Paul Brandon

Event format - over the winter months there are a series of "handicap" races.  Each race your target is based on the time that you achieved at your previous run.  Finishers are ranked by how close they finished to their target time and each finisher scores one point plus one point for everyone "behind" them. The season winner is the runner with the most points. The format rewards runners who are consistent - both in turning up but also in their finishing time.  Watches can be worn but the use of watches to optimise points would be considered unsporting.

Parkrun update

parkrun Date Time Runner Comments
Black Park 03-Nov 24:49 Joe Nolan  
Burnage (Didsbury/Cheadle) 03-Nov 19:23 Chris Kelly New BA attendance
Bushy Park 03-Nov 22:56 Ian Cunningham  
Gunnersbury 03-Nov 20:41 Simon Turtyon Club best at Gunnersbury
Gunnersbury 03-Nov 23:33 Piers Keenleyside  
Gunnersbury 03-Nov 26:28 Alan Anderson 241st parkrun
Gunnersbury 03-Nov 26:35 Kerstin Luksch New member
Little Stoke (near Bristol) 03-Nov 27:41 Roderick Hoffman New parkrun
Reading 03-Nov 26:19 Alan Friar  

Steve Newell

News for the next BAAC News Digest? Too frequent parkrun updates?  No three legged race updates? We can only publish what we are given.

The idea of this communication is to consolidate some of the news items that would otherwise be forwarded individually to all club members.  We will still send out prompt announcements for key events as separate emails. Please let us have your ideas for how club communications can be improved and please send us items for inclusion in the next Digest.  Results, news, feedback, jokes, stores - send it to us at news@barunner.org,uk.

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