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BA Athletics Club News Digest 6th May 2019Events:
We meet at 18:00 at the Bedfont Club on most Wednesdays throughout the year BUT NOT THIS WEDNESDAY (see Speedbird Ladies below) 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. Last updated: 4th April. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 5th May) / # Club Points event. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "front window" club page), BA Runner Facebook Group (informal "back office" - ask to join). Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.
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Volunteers for Vitality 10K, BH Monday 27th MayI hope those of you who have run or volunteered at the Marathon are now fully recharged for the next outing! London Vitality 10K is around the corner, and I am looking for more volunteers to help out at this event. This is a half day outing with food and shirt/jacket provided by the organisers. We are asked to provide 40 marshals, and I thank those who have already informed me of their availability. There are places for another 10 volunteers. If you are able to help, I will be very pleased to hear from you, by Sunday 12th May if possible. This year volunteers are expected to register online with LM Organisation. If you have marshalled at the Marathon you will already have registered under BA Athletics Club and will not need to do it again. If you have not registered previously, you will need to do so (me included). Let me know and I will send you a link to get onto the website to register. We need to get all volunteers on the register ASAP. Separately, volunteers please let me have the following information:
Some of you who have volunteered for this event have already provided this information, so thank you. As usual, we will have a coach to take us to the venue and take us back. You can also meet us at the venue if that is more convenient for you. For those who would like to take the coach, we are going to use the car park at Accommodation Lane in Harmondsworth (same as last year) as our meeting place. I will circulate final details nearer the time. Thank you London Marathon 2019 Reports (part one of several)James GloverThank you so much for my place this year & please pass on my thanks to the committee too. I had a great day, bit cold at the start & I think I got carried away & went off a bit too fast. I felt good until 20m & then started to slow. Had to walk for a couple of minutes at 25m but managed to get going again to run Parliament Square, Birdcage & Spur Rd - what a great job the marshals did & the crowd round the course were fantastic & very supportive. Think I drank too much Lucozade sport as I felt a bit dodgy later in the run. Also, I didn't like the 'LSport' bottles with no tops or the paper cups with 'LSport' in them - really hard to drink & loads get spilled, especially at the last station where your shoes were sticking to the road! All in all another fantastic experience & thank you once again for the opportunity - I'll never forget it - also managed to raise a few quid for Macmillan - so great all round. Hope your day went well too, All the best, James Glover Diane RossFirstly a big thanks to Steve and the Committee for my place - it felt such a privilege to run "London" - only my second ever marathon but what an awesome experience! The wall of noise as I rounded the corner onto Tower Bridge and then later at Canary Wharf was almost overwhelming, but massively encouraging. My knees started really aching about mile 16 but I just dug in and ticked off the miles, which seemed to get longer with each one. Meeting "Ian Beale" on the way round was fun, what a friendly guy. It was great to see family and friends marshalling at Parliament Sq., my usual spot, I hope to be back there next year and you may have won some new recruits as they enjoyed it so much! Have to agree with others about Lucozade jelly bean gels, they just got stuck in my mouth - not pleasant. Thanks to all the marshals - what a great job they all do. What a day, once I stop aching it may sink in that I have done London - thank you for the unforgettable opportunity. Diane Ross Alison JoyceThank you & BAAC so much for giving me the opportunity to participate in the London Marathon yesterday. This was my first ever marathon at 60! I had an amazing day full of highs and a few lows. I got round in 5 hours 18mins with all toenails intact. I'm hoping to marshal again next year. Alison Joyce Gary RushmerHi everyone, well done to everybody who ran yesterday. Firstly I like to thank all the marshal's in that last mile, I was gone by then with my groin injury but they kept me going. My race started really well dropping down two zones at the start which helped not going off to fast, then fealing like I was still running well my groin all of a sudden went at 15 miles. I managed to run/walk to the finish in 4.21. Again thank you to all the marshal's who had a longer day than I did, I'm complaining about my groin. PS: said I wouldn't but yes I've entered next year. Gary Rushmer Results
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Dream Mile - May - Results| 02-May-19 | Paul Prescott | 00:05:36 |
| 02-May-19 | Jeremy Short | 00:06:20 |
| 02-May-19 | Simon Ashford | 00:07:15 |
| 02-May-19 | Neil Frediani | 00:08:19 |
| 02-May-19 | Roderick Hoffman | 00:08:25 |
| 02-May-19 | Steve Hillier | 00:08:53 |
| 02-May-19 | Melanie Miller | 00:10:55 |
It was too soon after the London Marathon for Chris Kelly to risk a one mile sprint so he showed his versatility by acting as starter, tail to lead cyclist, finisher and photographer.
For the first time since January we only had a light wind to contend with and times were consequently good.
We welcomed Mel for her first run with us.
Paul Prescott ran the fastest time on the course since November 2016. He becomes the joint 7th fastest, though Jeremy Short's equaling time had been wind assisted. The record remains an unimaginably fast 04:56 by Paul Knechtl from 5th September 2013.
Steve's still away "Saturday was South Korea, parkrun free zone. Today in Hiroshima at quayside free wife zone. Steve". So, I'm updating the parkrun results table. IMPORTANT - if your time on Saturday, or that of someone you think should or could be included, isn't in the following list, please let me know so that I can add them next time.
| 4th May 2019 | parkrun ↓ | Pos ↓ | Time ↓ | Age Grade ↓ | PB? ↓ | Comment |
| Neil FREDIANI | Bedfont Lakes | 00:30:44 | 53.09% | |||
| Scott DAVISON | Bedfont Lakes | 00:24:37 | 58.50% | |||
| Joe NOLAN | Black Park | 00:31:06 | 53.43% | |||
| Lesley Chamberlin | Bushy Park | 00:27:08 | 70.52% | |||
| Anne Bannister | California Country | 00:28:36 | 68.82% | |||
| Chris Evans | California Country | 00:24:28 | 61.78% | |||
| Trish MCCABE | California Country | 00:28:52 | 53.70% | |||
| Caroline Cockram | Coldham’s Common | 00:25:05 | 66.84% | New event for BAAC | ||
| Ian Cockram | Coldham’s Common | 00:23:48 | 62.46% | New event for BAAC | ||
| Ben Chaytow | Crane Park | 00:22:53 | 60.52% | |||
| Julie BARCLAY | Dinton Pastures | 00:22:48 | 78.36% | |||
| Paul Watt | Dinton Pastures | 00:25:27 | 59.86% | |||
| Piers KEENLEYSIDE | Fire Service College | 00:28:01 | 58.24% | |||
| Richard RUFFELL | Gedling | 00:21:45 | 71.88% | |||
| Maria Jovani | Hanworth | 00:31:49 | 49.08% | New event | ||
| Paul Davis | Hanworth | 00:33:26 | 40.53% | New event | ||
| Denis Foxley | Harrow | 00:31:24 | 56.16% | |||
| Joan FOXLEY | Harrow | 00:38:59 | 57.12% | |||
| Barry WALTERS | Hazelwood | 00:22:38 | 72.75% | |||
| John COFFEY | Hazelwood | 00:28:38 | 68.68% | |||
| John Scaife | Higginson, Marlow | 00:26:07 | 64.20% | PB | PB by over 4.5 minutes | |
| Ian CUNNINGHAM | Homewood | 00:24:10 | 64.14% | |||
| Janet Cunningham | Homewood | 00:32:37 | 56.26% | PB | PB by over 30 seconds | |
| Roderick HOFFMAN | Northala Fields | 00:27:42 | 56.92% | |||
| Christopher T KELLY | Reading | 00:21:21 | 70.80% | |||
| Petra OTTO | Snowden Field | 00:35:30 | 58.87% | New event for BAAC | ||
| David Duggan | Foro Italico | 00:28:36 | 55.59% | New event for BAAC |
Volunteers - The parkrun organisation have still not provided a report of volunteer efforts. For that reason we can ONLY include specific volunteer efforts each week if we are emailed about them by 17:00 on the Monday after the run. I may look to include a periodic report on total volunteer efforts.
| 4th May 2019 | parkrun | role |
| Steve Taylor | Northala Fields | Token Scanning |
Some of you may have read between the lines of my comment last week to realise that a new local parkrun was imminent - Hanworth parkrun launched on Saturday and locals Marie and Paul attended. I will now organise a Club Featured parkrun for Saturday 25th May. Hanworth parkrun takes place in Hanworth Air Park which is next to the swimming pool and leisure centre just off the A312 just south of Feltham. It is just over one mile away from Crane Park parkrun but there is no reason why the two can't coexist.
There were also three new-to-the-club parkruns run by Ian & Caroline at Coldhams Common (Cambridge), Petra at Snowden Field (Crowland in South Holland in the Fens - pictured) and David at Foro Italico (one of three parkruns in Palermo on Sicily). So how close to 500 does that take us? I've now loaded over 13,000 parkrun results into a database, and plugged in each runners' BAAC membership details (dates of when they joined and left the club), and the reports I've run suggest that we are now on 496. I'll be doing a new club parkrun on Saturday (Millennium Country near Bedford) and so we'll be getting very close to 500 - if you fancy finding a new parkrun that no one from the club has done, I have updated the club map with all of the current parkruns - those we've done in green, those we are yet to visit in pink.
I'm also making the new database available to all members, though only with read
access. You will probably find that to use it you have to download it onto your
PC and load it into an up-to-date
version of Excel (and have some
practical ability with Excel) HOWEVER I may be wrong and you may find the online version
usable. The first few tabs are the data and after that there are various
reports including, if you are interested, how well club members are
progressing on the Alphabet Challenge, Seconds Bingo and the Wilson Index. If
these make no sense to you then you are probably wiser than those to whom some
sense is made! If you do try to use the database and either succeed or
fail - please let me know.
Roderick Hoffman
Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats - NOT UPDATED
NEW club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - UP TO DATE
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Brrrrr, what a very cold and windy first Snowden Field Parkrun in Crowland, near Peterborough {Ed: What do you expect at a parkrun called "Snowden"?}. Great atmosphere, a lovely course, but very hard work as the whole 5km was on grass. Definitely not a PB course, I think, despite it being flat. A lovely gathering of participants afterwards at the local coffee shop. I was happy trotting around in 35:30 mins. 112 runners took part. Petra |
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