BA Athletics Club News Digest 12th August 2013
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Forthcoming Events
Don't forget the following priority club events:
-
REVISED DATE Wednesday 28th August - Cranford
Park Relay followed by social with food - details to be finalised
-
Saturday 31st August - Club Featured parkrun - The inaugural parkrun in
Osterley park (see below)
-
Lunchtime Tuesday 3rd September - 'Round The Park' - Venue to be confirmed
(Harmondsworth or Cranford).
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.
Track & Field Training - Every Monday at the Uxbridge Track
| Hi Everyone, Monday's track and field training will continue
throughout the year.
Good news is that my hamstring injury is now allowing me to start light
jogging again. As my physio has given me good training and help with
hamstring repair, for the next two Mondays (August 12th and 19th) I will include some exercises to
help protect the hamstrings from damage. Hope this will be helpful, all
welcome to join.
Regards
Eddie Giles |
6pm onwards at Hillingdon Athletics Stadium, Gatting Way, Uxbridge UB8 1ES
Map and travel details:
http://www.fusion-lifestyle.com/centres/Hillingdon_Sport_and_Leisure_Complex%20/Contact
Car parking costs around 50p for an hour and entry to the track is £3:40
(£3:00 for Hillingdon residents) and BAAC members can get a subsidy on this -
contact
Eddie for details. All are welcome and you can join in the club
session or do your own thing.
Club parkrun Results for Saturday 10th August 2013
| Place |
parkrunner |
Time |
Category |
Grade |
Gender |
G.Pos |
Club |
Note |
Total Runs |
| 115 |
Alan ANDERSON |
0:26:09 |
VM75-79 |
76.80% |
M |
86 |
BAAC |
Gunnersbury |
278 |
| |
Chris Kelly |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
155 |
| 85 |
Joe NOLAN |
0:23:53 |
VM55-59 |
66.02% |
M |
75 |
BAAC |
Black Park |
136 |
| |
John Coffey |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
132 |
| 109 |
Alan FRIAR |
0:24:03 |
VM65-69 |
71.73% |
M |
100 |
BAAC |
Reading |
116 |
| |
Ian Cunningham |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
113 |
| 154 |
Steve NEWELL |
0:28:40 |
VM65-69 |
60.81% |
M |
106 |
BAAC |
Gunnersbury (100th parkrun) |
100 |
| 34 |
Roderick HOFFMAN |
0:27:04 |
VM50-54 |
55.85% |
M |
27 |
BAAC |
Alice Holt (Course PB by 387 secs) |
69 |
| 87 |
Kerstin LUKSCH |
0:24:54 |
SW30-34 |
59.71% |
F |
15 |
BAAC |
Gunnersbury |
68 |
| 35 |
Robert FLEMING |
0:23:35 |
VM40-44 |
58.73% |
M |
32 |
BAAC |
Bedfont Lakes |
46 |
| 278 |
Oliver MATHAI |
0:23:29 |
VM55-59 |
67.71% |
M |
250 |
BAAC |
Bushy |
18 |
| 64 |
Stephen Keith TAYLOR |
0:23:36 |
VM50-54 |
62.50% |
M |
57 |
BAAC |
Gunnersbury |
14 |
The list above may be incomplete since I'm producing this a day early - Steve's
stats will be updated once we get the parkrun report on Monday. Note that
Steve Newell becomes the seventh club family member to make the 100 club.
Steve's parkrun stats
New parkrun - Osterley Park starting Saturday August 31st
This will become the nearest parkrun to the Concorde Centre and might become
the home parkrun of several club members who live to the east of the airport.
The format, for those yet to try parkrun, is that a 5k time trial course will be
set up for 09:00 every Saturday morning. Anyone can take part in the event
- all you need to do is pre-register (for free) via
www.parkrun.com and print off your
individual runners barcode. As you finish your finish time is "clicked"
and you are given a finish token. Then the finish token and your runner
barcode are scanned to link you to the place to your time - which is then logged
in the big parkrun computer in the cloud. You will be emailed or texted your
result during the afternoon.
For the event to work a significant number of volunteers are needed to help
out - some perhaps most weekends but most just every so often. Anyone who lives
near Osterley Park might like to put themselves forward to be a regular
volunteer - and volunteers don't need to be runners!
| Many thanks for your generous offer {to publicise the start-up and pass
on requests for helpers}, I look forward to seeing you all there. I'm going
on holiday until 19th Aug so I'll sort out specific volunteer roles when I
return.
We have a practice run scheduled for 21st Aug at 7pm with runners from
Ealing Eagles. You are all welcome to come along and test the course. We'll
obviously be there earlier to set up the course.
You may be aware that I'm ex-BA and chat to Steve when we meet at
Gunnersbury parkrun. Having the BA Club and Ealing Eagles within easy reach
should be good for Osterley parkrun
Thanks again, Geoff Miles
|
We've moved the Club In-house event from the evening of the 21st August so
that club members can join in the test run if they want.
If you want to offer yourself as a regular volunteer then you can contact
Geoff at osterleyoffice@parkrun.com.
Please mention the BA club if you do.
PS The club got some good mentions in the write-up from Upton Court the other
week -
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/uptoncourt/news/
WARR World Airline Road Race 2013 October 2013 Update
I've got three more names which brings the BA team up to around ten but I
wouldn't be surprised if there are half a dozen others still thinking it
through. It is easier to plan with more information so please let me know: Roderick Hoffman
The WARR website has some more details of the event including details of
local hotels and is the site through which you register for the event:
WARR Website.
Note that the race headquarters hotel doesn't currently have any availability
but that might change and they are running a waitlist.
Stellenbosch where?
I had a flight to Hong Kong on BA's new A380 on Tuesday so I
picked up and read on board a guidebook on Cape Town. This is what it had to
say on our WARR venue:
"Founded by Simon van der Stel in 1679, Stellenbosch is the second oldest
town in South Africa and arguably the most beautiful. Running north from the
banks of the Eerste River below the Jonkershoek Mountains, the stately
avenues of this university town are lined with venerable Cape Dutch
buildings and the shady trees that earned it the nickname of Eikestad (Town
of Oaks)." DK Eyewitness Travel Guide The
guide lists the top ten features in the town and eight of them are not wine
related.
PS The service on the A380 was
excellent but after five hours we had to return to Heathrow. The flight was
so smooth and the aircraft so quiet it was as if we had never left ;-)
Roderick Hoffman |
Round the Rock (Jersey)
| I did another ultra at the weekend - 'Round The Rock' a 48 mile race
around the coast of Jersey. The weather was fine and sunny - just the right
side of not being too hot for running. I was hoping to beat my time of 9:43
from last year but in the final section I took a wrong turn and by the time
I got back on track had wasted 25 minutes and a lot of energy scrambling up
and down through thick undergrowth! I finally finished in 10:10 which meant
I only got a bronze medal this year. You get a gold for sub 8 hours, silver
sub 10, bronze sub 12 and nothing for above 12 - which is what happened to
about 6 people this year.
Piers Keenleyside |
BA Clubs Changes
| Forums have been set up, where the Chairman Chris Byron will be updating
section officials and members about changes at the Concorde Club that are
being proposed and will be presented to members at the AGM on 26 September.
Attached
is a letter explaining the changes, which will be sent to all members
within the next week or so. If anyone wants a question raised at any of
the meetings below, you can send an email to Chris Byron at
'enquiries@baclubs.com'.
The Forums and AGM will be held in the Olympus Hall on the following
dates:
- Thursday 29 August at 6.30 p.m. - for Section Officials (plus any
members who cannot attend on 2 September)
- Monday 2 September at 6.30 p.m. - for All Club Members
- Thursday 26 September at 6.30 p.m. - London Club AGM for all Club
Members
Regards,
Pat
French P.A. to Tony Dormer, Chief Executive BA Clubs, Concorde Club
(S544) Middx TW5 9PQ |
Ray Hampton
| Many thanks for the card and good wishes for my 70th birthday. It was
really nice to know you still think of me. I celebrated by doing a trail
marathon in the Peak District. I look forward to meeting up at some future
event.
Best wishes to all
Ray Hampton |
Ride London Thanks
The weekend of August 3rd/4th saw the staging of Ride London. Saturday's
event closely followed previous year's "Skyride" events, with tens of thousands
of people cycling around a seven mile circuit of central London, on bikes
ranging from three year olds on tiny bikes with stabilisers, to twenty foot high
contraptions with outriggers, and everything in between. Sunday featured a
repeat of last year's Olympic event, with a thousands of cyclists heading off
into Surrey for a 100 mile race.
BAAC and friends helped to marshal the event. Across the weekend we provided
thirty marshals who managed crossings on Saturday at Westminster, and on Sunday
in Whitehall at Lambeth Bridge. Each brought it's own challenges: on Saturday we
were dealing with pedestrians crossing a huge and sedate stream of bicycles; on
Sunday we dealt with pedestrians, riders pushing their bikes, and vehicles,
crossing the course of the race.
Thank you to everyone who was involved. Here's some feedback from the
organisers:
| Thank you on behalf of the organising team for volunteering your time
this weekend at the inaugural Prudential Ride London festival of cycling. We
hope you had an enjoyable time carrying out your role and would like to
thank you for helping to make the event a huge success. Your hard work and
enthusiasm has not gone unnoticed and countless participants, staff members
and spectators have praised your efforts.
Once again thank you for getting involved and we hope to see you next
year. The dates have been confirmed as 9th & 10th August. Many Thanks,
Claire Larbey | Volunteer Manager | Virgin London Marathon Marathon House
| 115 Southwark Street | London | SE1 0JF |
Steve Hillier
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