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BA Athletics Club News Digest 17th June 2019Events:
We meet at 18:00 at the Bedfont Club on most Wednesdays throughout the year including this Wednesday - but numbers will be low so let me know to expect you. 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: 4th April. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 9th June) / # 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. Club Survey - please respondMany people have joined this club since we last asked what you wanted from it. And many others run with us and receive this digest without being members. For that reason we have set up a club survey to find out what the club could be doing better to suit its members and non-members. Please give us ten minutes of your time by clicking on the link that follows and answering the set of ten questions. The results of the survey will be printed in the digest and, if appropriate, we will hold a members' forum at the AGM on 31st July to discuss the results and plan actions accordingly. To start the survey, click on: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PQY5RYK Any questions or issues – contact me at roderick@rhoff.org.uk . Roderick Hoffman
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| Member | 15th June 2019 | parkrun ↓ | Pos ↓ | Time ↓ | Grade↓ | PB? ↓ | Comment |
| TRUE | Dave Dixon | Groe | 6 | 00:19:06 | 79.76% | M-1, age cat rec, club record, BA park #504 | |
| TRUE | James Shoulder | Hanworth | 2 | 00:19:42 | 65.48% | M-2, club record | |
| TRUE | Paul PRESCOTT | Bushy Park | 59 | 00:19:43 | 65.51% | ||
| TRUE | Mike Dennison | Bushy Park | 65 | 00:19:45 | 81.94% | ||
| TRUE | Richard RUFFELL | Isabel Trail | 14 | 00:20:40 | 75.65% | 10th/163 in age group list, park #87, BA park #505 | |
| TRUE | Murray HOGGE | Reading | 33 | 00:21:21 | 73.85% | ||
| TRUE | Ben Chaytow | Crane Park | 29 | 00:22:20 | 62.01% | ||
| TRUE | Ian Cockram | Crane Park | 46 | 00:23:49 | 62.42% | ||
| TRUE | Scott DAVISON | Bedfont Lakes | 31 | 00:24:16 | 59.82% | ||
| TRUE | Piers KEENLEYSIDE | Gunnersbury | 150 | 00:24:58 | 65.35% | ||
| TRUE | Ian CUNNINGHAM | Bushy Park | 655 | 00:26:40 | 58.13% | ||
| TRUE | Natalia Prescott | Bushy Park | 720 | 00:27:14 | 54.35% | ||
| TRUE | Roderick HOFFMAN | Great Denham | 102 | 00:27:34 | 57.19% | park #275, BA park #506 | |
| TRUE | Caroline Cockram | Crane Park | 124 | 00:27:48 | 60.31% | ||
| #N/A | Becky Thurtell | Bushy Park | 829 | 00:28:09 | 66.07% | run #500, 143rd at Bushy Park | |
| TRUE | David Duggan | Hanworth | 39 | 00:28:10 | 56.45% | first run at Hanworth, park #65 | |
| TRUE | Alice BANKS | Newbury | 312 | 00:28:43 | 68.54% | 2nd run at Newbury, age grade improvement | |
| TRUE | John COFFEY | Hazelwood | 50 | 00:28:52 | 68.13% | ||
| TRUE | Joe NOLAN | Black Park | 323 | 00:29:35 | 56.17% | ||
| TRUE | Denis Foxley | Harrow | 140 | 00:29:52 | 59.04% | ||
| TRUE | Benita Scaife | Maidenhead | 221 | 00:33:04 | 61.29% | 1 second improvement over last TWO runs | |
| TRUE | John Scaife | Maidenhead | 222 | 00:33:05 | 50.68% | ||
| TRUE | John Lennon | Bedfont Lakes | 107 | 00:33:23 | 47.23% | ||
| TRUE | Petra OTTO | Alstervorland | 17 | 00:34:29 | 60.61% | Hamburg, Germany. BA park #503 | |
| TRUE | Sarah GORDON | Bedford | 367 | 00:34:51 | 56.48% | 2nd run at Bedford | |
| FALSE | Joan FOXLEY | Harrow | 222 | 00:38:26 | 57.94% | ||
| TRUE | Steve NEWELL | Dinton Pastures | 251 | 00:40:05 | 47.28% | run #359, park #111 | |
| TRUE | Alan ANDERSON | Osterley | 332 | 00:41:29 | 56.65% |
Volunteers...
| 15th June 2019 | parkrun | Volunteer role |
| Zoe Ostley | Bedfont Lakes | Run Director |
| Bob Bannister | Bedfont Lakes | Timekeeper |
| Anne Bannister | Bedfont Lakes | Finish Tokens |
| Alastair Heslop | Guildford | Timekeeper (and pictured from last week) |
| Maddie Heslop | Guildford | Volunteer |
Dave Dixon (19:06) ran at the Groe parkrun in Builth Wells to record the fastest ever parkrun time by a member in Wales. His standards are high, so this was his second slowest parkrun ever, his slowest was when he arrived at the start in Finsbury Park about fifteen minutes late but caught the back of the field! Dave also holds the club records for England with 17:10 at Hackney Marshes and Ireland with 18:37 at Castle Demense in County Cork. Natalie Ruffell has been our fastest runner in Scotland with 20:37 in Edinburgh.
(Note: In 2018, Adam Moquet ran Fulham Palace in 17:04 (twice) but that was before he joined us at the start of the cross country season. He is quite a bit younger too and could still improve.)
Three other parkrun venues were brought into the club collection on Saturday with Petra Otto (34:29) finishing 17th at Alstervorland in Hamburg, Richard Ruffell (20:40) at Isabel Trail in Stafford and Roderick Hoffman (27:34) at Great Denham in Bedfordshire. Others with “Great” names still to be run include Great Dunmow and Great Cornard (both in Essex). {Ed: Steve is politely not mentioning that me and my sister, Sarah Gordon, each ran in Bedford at parkruns barely two miles apart, without meeting up. The reason for this is that I had run the Bedford parkrun before (twice in fact) and that Sarah was tight for time and there was a one mile walk between the car park and Great Denham parkrun. Or that is our story, and we are sticking to it.}
James Shoulder (19:42) ran at our new local run at Hanworth for the first time and shaved a few seconds off the club record. Mike Dennison (19:48) and Paul Prescott (19:59) have also been round in under 20 minutes. They both ran at Bushy Park this week and clocked under 20 minutes again with Paul Prescott finishing in 19:43 just ahead of Mike Dennison in 19:45. Ian Cunningham also returned to Bushy after his Comrades run last week and joined the celebration for two of last Saturday's three new 500 club members - one of them being Becky Thurtell known to several of us. There are now 62 members of the 500 club with Alan Anderson still sitting in 19th place on 556 runs.
The dangerous looking tree at Henley was finally chopped down last week and the long awaited 100th parkrun took place on Saturday after a month long suspension. There was a slightly above average attendance of 88 so it remains one of the less crowded places to visit on a Saturday morning. The Saturday of the annual regatta (6th July) is one to avoid but hopefully lots of us will be helping or running at Hanworth that morning {Ed: I've now got a full roster although a couple of adjustments will allow anyone yet to volunteer to be fitted in. Also no one has yet offered to bring some cake}.
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Steve Newell / Roderick Hoffman
Rapa
Nui (Easter Island) Marathon. Two weeks ago I ran the Easter Island Marathon. It was somewhere I have been looking to visit for a while and when I saw there was a marathon there I thought I would kill two birds with one stone! The island is not much bigger than Jersey so the route basically went from the main town (only town) Hanga Roa in the south to Anakena beach in the North and back again. The first 13 miles is a gradual incline for 10 miles then a sharp descent to half-way and then the return, so it was quite challenging It was about 22 degrees so quite pleasant temperature wise. I came in 12th place on a field of 89 in a time of exactly 4 hours. (First Brit too, out of 5!) I had hoped to get in under 4 hours but a slight confusion at the last junction due to the lack of marshalling cost me a couple of minutes. This isn’t a cheap entry fee but it is well worth the expense in a truly amazing place!!!!
Cheers Tim Bellars
So, 4 laps later and 20 miles in 24 hours including getting up at midnight for a lap and then again at 6.30am. Almost no sleep due to the calls of "Carrie are you up? Your lap next!" And the sounds of zips opening and closing at all hours of the day and night, I loved every min. Unfortunately I picked up an injury on my 4th lap and was told by the lovely lady in the massage tent that that 5th lap probably shouldn't happen, I wanted to outdo my distance from last year as I knew due to lack of training I wouldn't out do my time but it wasn't to be. Oh well, there is always next year.
Kelly Davis
Another Sunday another marathon (my
159th) - this time I went Up North to do the Baht'at Trail Marathon which
started and finished in Keighley in Yorkshire. The route took us up to and then
round Ilkley Moor (hence the name) twice. Official results not yet published but
I think I did a shade under 5:40:00. Before setting off I was thinking it would
take about 5 hours. After the first 4 miles, which were all up hill, I was
thinking 6! Managed to get beaten by a bloke juggling with 3 balls all the way
round! Total elevation gain was 3,689 feet!
Piers Keenleyside
Adrian's latest exploits have been featured in the BA Engineering News. This link may work for those who haven't seen it: http://britishairways.newsweaver.com/engineering/1g1jg9v5ze119gktv5rpnt?a=1&p=
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