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BA Athletics Club News Digest 14th October 2019Events:
We will be meeting at 18:00 at the Bedfont Club this Wednesday for ad hoc run and drink. All members are welcome. New members and potential members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at most of our events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Last updated: 29th July. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 23rd Sept 2019) / # 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. Last call for ROM # Milocarian AC Home Match at RMA Sandhurst on Sat 26th Oct 2019This is the last call for runners / spectators for the Milocarian XC. So far I have Christine, Alice & John, Barry, Jacqui & Tom, Mike D & Maria (running for RR) on the list. If you’d like to attend please email simon.turton@ba.com by Wed. 16 Oct. with the following details:
Simon Turton London Marathon OpportunitiesLondon Marathon 2020 - unsuccessful applicants: Many of you will be thinking of pounding the streets of London next Spring. Should your application turn out to be unsuccessful, there might be a second chance...... The British Airways Athletic Club provides the London Marathon with over one hundred marshals. In return LM provide us with some additional places that we can allocate to our members. We will have a limited number of places to hand out this winter. The BA Athletics Club committee will review applications from people unsuccessful in the main ballot during December, with priority based on the following criteria:
If you receive a rejection from London Marathon, and you want to be considered for a place, think about which of these categories apply to you! Then contact me on stevehillier@msn.com. Anyone offered and accepting a club place will be needed to pay the normal entry fee for the Marathon, to provide a minimum of two marshals to the BAAC to assist with the 2020 London Marathon and to contribute to this digest with their aims and experiences of training and running the Marathon. PS And then there is always 2021. You can improve your long-term chances of running in 2021 by volunteering for 2020. In the New Year we will be looking to fill our marshalling slots for the 2020 race. Five-mile winter handicap 2019/20 – starts Wednesday 23rd October 2019 #The club has held a Wednesday evening five-mile handicap series for many years with a shorter walking course for those who want it. The aim of the series has always been to encourage modest improvement month on month. The normal format is for slower runners to start earliest (e.g. 6 p.m.) and for faster runners to be given a start time so that the majority of runners will finish within a minute or two either side of 7 p.m. On the first evening when the sun will set after 6 p.m. but before 7 p.m. all runners can choose to start earlier than usual in order to enjoy as much daylight as possible. Runners are ranked after each run and points awarded. “Handicaps” are adjusted and a league table maintained. Only the best four results out of six (monthly) runs will be used to determine the final winner. Food will often (but maybe not always) be provided at the Bedfont club after the run – see the weekly digest for confirmation. The first three runs (and walks) will be on Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November and 11th December. The 20th November run will be followed by the ever-popular Hillier Quiz evening. On every “5-mile” evening, when possible, the club clock will be ticking down in the football club carpark from shortly before 6 p.m. If a volunteer timekeeper is not present when runners start or return then runners should time themselves either by reference to the club clock or their own stopwatch. There will also be a “brisk walking route” of about two and a quarter miles (3.5km) for those who want some exercise/”fresh” air but not a run. No points for style, one foot (or the other) should be touching the ground at all times. From the club turn left and walk down Hatton Road to Bedfont Green. Follow the path round to the left by the graveyard and join Staines Road towards Hounslow. After the shops and junction (traffic lights) with Bedfont Lane turn left up Richmond Avenue, cross the footbridge over the Duke of Northumberland’s River and follow the footpath/cycle track between the allotments and the school back to Hatton Road. Turn right and walk the last 400 yards back to the club car park. All runners should make themselves as visible as possible by wearing light coloured clothing or a reflective vest if possible. Start times for the new winter season: Those runners who ran last season will have their suggested start time carried forward. Others can select a time based on a recent five mile run or extrapolated from a parkrun time. On a normal week the hope is that most people will finish close to 7 p.m. Search parties will be sent out if anyone is more than ten minutes overdue. All those intending to run/walk on 23rd October are asked to register with Steve Newell in advance. Ladies Cross-Country result #
Clara In the team table we are currently 36th of 43 teams. It is a tough league including all age groups - had we had five of Julie we'd have only just finished in the top 10! Had we had a fifth team member, of the ability of our slowest, we'd have finished in 33rd place. Photo - left to right: Jan Jones, Christine Munden, Julie Barclay, Vera Simms. Men's Cross-Country result #A great start to the new cross-country season today. In the Surrey League men's division 4 we had 15 runners, more than double last season's first fixture. New member's Mike Dennison and Micheal Ball made their debuts. Paul Knechtl led the way for us with a top 10 finish and the team ended the day in 7th place. Thank you all for turning out on a very wet day. Neil Frediani
In the team table we are currently 7th of 12 teams. Because we had more than the minimum number of runners we also register in the B team results - 2nd of 6 teams, this is perhaps something we can dream of getting a top three finish in by the end of the season! Club parkrun results for Saturday 12th October 2019
* 14:10 was undercut at an actual parkrun on Saturday,13:29 at Mallards Pike, though this also isn't a record since Rowan (JM15) was dragged (or perhaps "flown") around the course by his dog (and the fastest Canicross time I'm aware of is faster, at 12:24). Volunteers include...[remember, we can only guarantee to include your volunteer efforts if you email us about them]
Parkrun numbers were down a little this week with several runners involved in cross-country league matches (some starting as early as 11 a.m.) on Saturday and/or the popular Cabbage Patch 10 starting and finishing in Twickenham on Sunday morning. Study the results to see who fitted in all three. The star performer this week was Dave Dixon (18:04) who returned to Groe in mid Wales and was first home, improving by over a minute, opening up a gap of almost two minutes on the next best in his age group and recording the second best age group percentage (85.06%) by anyone ever at Groe. Janet Smith (37:05) ran her first parkrun in Scandinavia with a visit to Toyen in Oslo. It is one of the places where the weather can cause cancellations even in an average winter. Denis Foxley (28:18) recorded his best time for a couple of years at Harrow. Trish McCabe (28:03) visited her 48th park at Catford (setting a new female club record) and has now done 300 parkruns. Piers Keenleyside (28:22) squeezed in a run at Jamaica Pond during a visit to Boston and he will be eligible for his 250 vest with just one more run. Gunnersbury next week is a strong favourite*. Scott Davison (25:28) has now done 250 runs, just at Bedfont Lakes. Steve Newell planned to celebrate ten years in parkrun by jogging round Osterley with Alan Anderson who nagged him for over two years before he finally got started (at Richmond Park). A pleasant surprise was to be joined by long lost club members from the 1980’s Bill Byrne (22:59) and Mike Lawrence (23:16), both still running well. A persistent sore knee spoiled the show and Steve announced his retirement over a cup of coffee afterwards. Don’t expect to see him mentioned in this column again anytime soon. Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats - UPDATED Full club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - UP TO DATE - Download and explore. Steve Newell / Roderick Hoffman * Piers adds... As you will have seen my 249th parkrun was done at Jamaica Pond parkrun in Boston MA - but not at Jamaica Pond itself. Due to park maintenance work the course has been moved to the Harvard University Arboretum - made for a very scenic run through the well maintained woodland on a single lap course. The downside was that it poured with rain the whole way round! Rubbish time of over 28 minutes mainly due to trying to get my watch to pick up a GPS signal - was 1/2 a mile into the run before it did! {Ed: "Rubbish time", just 13 seconds slower than mine at the same parkrun} I'll be doing #250 at Gunnersbury next Saturday.
Piers Keenleyside
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| Place | Chip | Gun | Name | Team | Category | Number |
| 220 | 01:12:23 | 01:13:07 | Maria Jovani | Runnymede Runners | Ladies 40-44 | 41 |
| 226 | 01:12:55 | 01:13:15 | Colin Haylock | British Airways AC | Men 50-59 | 23 |
| 286 | 01:13:50 | 01:15:29 | Mike Dennison | Men 60-69 | 148 | |
| 337 | 01:16:20 | 01:17:31 | Ian Cunningham | British Airways AC | Men 50-59 | 971 |
| 402 | 01:19:02 | 01:19:48 | Ben Chaytow | British Airways AC | Men 40-44 | 1820 |
| 543 | 01:22:37 | 01:24:23 | David Tyas | Men 40-44 | 428 | |
| 598 | 01:23:20 | 01:25:47 | Chris Kelly | British Airways AC | Men 50-59 | 300 |
| 868 | 01:31:15 | 01:33:08 | Scott Davison | British Airways AC | Men 45-49 | 1329 |
| 964 | 01:33:05 | 01:35:19 | Craig Lunnon | British Airways AC | Men 45-49 | 1041 |
| 1106 | 01:37:22 | 01:40:03 | Neil Frediani | British Airways AC | Men 60-69 | 21 |
| 1160 | 01:41:02 | 01:41:45 | Trish McCabe | British Airways AC | Ladies 40-44 | 62 |
| 1409 | 01:51:33 | 01:53:47 | Emma Parkes | British Airways AC | Ladies 40-44 | 1040 |
| 1445 | 01:53:25 | 01:57:08 | John Lennon | British Airways AC | Men 50-59 | 96 |
A good turnout for the Autumn Classic 10. Thanks to Joe Nolan for his support too. Apols if any missed.
Chris Kelly
Ian Cunningham adds: A good number of runners also represented the club at the XC on Saturday. Noticeably our leading performer, Colin, wisely chose to marshal at the XC to save his legs. Fortunately the rain held off for (most of) the race unlike the XC where it rained throughout!
Another couple of marathon results...
| Vienna 1:59 Challenge | Eliud Kipchoge | 01:59:40 | Not recognised as a record. | |
| Chicago Marathon | Ayee TAVARES | 04:09:05 | Half in 01:54:57 so well ahead of Eliud. | |
| Chicago Marathon | Michelle Garratt | 04:22:17 | Half in 01:58:59 so nearly a minute ahead of Eliud. |
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The elite men’s and women’s waves started five minutes apart just after sunrise with a 2.4 mile swim in the Pacific Ocean. That was followed by a 112 mile bike ride on the Big Island of Hawaii before a 26.2 mile marathon run to finish off in and around the town of Kailua-Kona. The winners were Jan Frodeno of Germany (who also won in 2015 and 2016) in 7hr 51min 13secs and Anna Haug (also from Germany) in 8:40:10. The leading British finishers were Lucy Charles-Barclay 8:46:44 (2nd female), Corinne Abraham 8:58:38 (7th female), Susie Cheetham 9:27:21 (19th female), Joe Skipper with 8:07:46 (6th male), Alistair Brownlee in 8:25:03 (21st male), Will Clarke 8:29:00 (25th male). Frodeno’s splits were 47:31, 4:16:03 (26 mph) and 2:42:43 (6:37 per mile) along with the two transition times of 2-3 minutes each. He was up near the front throughout and steadily drew well clear of the field during the run to win by over 8 minutes. Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee had only been 3 ½ minutes adrift at the start of the run and maintained a good pace for the first ten miles but lost a lot of time and places during the second half of the run to finish half an hour behind the winner. It was his first full Ironman race. Charles-Barclay who had been on the podium at Kona previously had a good lead after the bike ride but got caught on the run which Haug completed in 2:51:07. Steve Newell (Ironman1988) PS Steve also points out that it was tough when he did it - wetsuits were not allowed, so this weekends' competitors would have been disqualified. |
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Hi, After the really tough Reigate XC course and a wonderful picnic provided by Clara, a pity one short of a full team, I believe another member ready to join the club ready for the next fixture. Next day 13th Julie Barclay ran the off-road Rushmoor 10k in the drizzling rain across the open arena then along the canal tow path almost covered in conkers out/back and finish in the army rugby stadium. Paul and myself sat in the dry grandstand while the 952 runners dodged the puddles and conkers. The final 250m was worth seeing with three ladies entering the stadium side for stride and not one willing to give up, it was brilliant racing display with 1 second separated them crossing the line. Julie finished 1st 0/55 (drenched) and definitely not a PB course in the conditions. The event is very well organised by the Nepalese community and there must have been 200 Gurkhas marshalling, also a free 2k for the children that included a finish medal. Tom Rowley |
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At Priory Park XC today with Julie, Jan, Vera and Christine Munden. It had
been raining all night and drizzled on and off during the morning and into the
last of 4 ladies' races, our race. The course was pretty muddy and slippery in
some places resulting in some runners losing their footings.
303 Run - Hanworth on Saturday 19th October - help needed