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BA Athletics Club News Digest 18th June 2018Events:
We are still meeting at Cranford Community Centre on 27th June for our last Heston runs to finish at 19:15. From July we will be meeting at the Bedfont & Feltham Football & Social Club. 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.. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] / # Club Points event Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. / Difficulty viewing this? Read it from the website:- http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "BARunner" page), BA Runner Facebook Group (ask to join) Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. This edition of the Digest, and next week’sThis digest has a slightly different format as an experiment in collaborative writing. This is because I’ll be away next weekend and week and uncertain over what access I’ll have to the Internet. Consequently Paul Brandon, Steve Newell and myself will write the digest jointly and Paul will attempt the distribution. This might work smoothly…or it may not. Roderick Hoffman Next week only – items for inclusion send to me AND Paul Brandon {pbrandon1@hotmail.co.uk}
Notice of BAAC AGM on Wednesday 25th JulyBAAC will be holding its Annual General Meeting at the BA Sailing Club, Wraysbury*, on Wednesday 25th July. Please add this to your diary and attend if at all possible. We will discuss more details of our future plans, as well as reviewing and celebrating our successes of the past year. The meeting will also see the election of a new committee for 2018/19. As always, all committee positions are open for election. If you would like to nominate someone to stand, or you would like to put yourself forward, please contact me before Monday 16th July. The committee roles are:
* These posts must be filled by members who are also members of BA Clubs and, if contested, then only members of BA Clubs are allowed to vote. We will also elect Special Committee members, or Committee Members without portfolio, to provide important help with running the club. During 2017/18 we have been operating without a Deputy Chairman or a Track & Field Captain, with other committee members covering those roles. I look forward to hearing from you! Steve Hillier {stevehillier@msn.com} There will be a running event at the Wraysbury Club before the AGM and changing rooms and showers are available. More details nearer the time. Concorde Five #
And from a personal point of view it was good to be able to stand up and address the runners at the start, and to announce the winners at the end, given that seven weeks ago I was in a hospital bed unable to produce any sound from my throat or mouth, or communicate in any other way other than to nod. My secret auditor (thanks Trish) reported that all marshals were wearing yellow bibs, amongst other more useful feedback. Could all marshals, or anyone else involved, please feedback to me any other comments so that we can learn how to do this and other events better in future. Roderick Hoffman {roderick@rhoff.org.uk} Vets League Track & Field, Perivale, 4th June 2018 #Our second Vets League fixture was moved from the Hillingdon track to Perivale, as the cage at Uxbridge was considered unsafe for throwing. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. We started with a very small team of three: Paul, Janet and Steve, but we received two bonuses as the evening wore on. Janet started with a great win in the Shot, one of her less favoured events. I joined the massive queue for the men’s discus, which took over an hour to complete. Paul, meanwhile, was enjoying himself on the track, picking up a PB in a competitive 800m. One of my discus judges then piped up: can I run in the 200m? It was Christine Munden, no less, and she blasted round half a lap before returning to discus judging. The second bonus of the evening arrived soon after. Tony Barnwell had flown in from a gruelling walking weekend in Jersey, to take on the Shot Put and claim 3rd place. Janet finished the evening with another victory, this time in the Discus, while Paul chose to run 7 1/2 laps in a good time, as a warm down from his PB success. Another friendly, fun evening. Our third event takes place at Battersea on June 18th, with our finale back at Perivale on July 11th. Come and pit yourself against your peers on track and field! Steve Hillier
# Club Points UpdateWith club events coming in thick and fast and long another four of our colleagues have smashed the ten-point barrier – so a big thank you to Steve Hillier, Steve Taylor, Harry Wild and John Coffey. Meanwhile Roderick Hoffman and Steve Newell have hit twenty points. 225 of you have helped the success of at least one event and 65 have helped with two or more. Further opportunities follow… Club Featured parkrun Saturday 23rd June Mole Valley #Mole Valley parkrun has now been going for three months and is attracting around 300 runners every Saturday morning. The inaugural run was held up for several months while a new carpark was constructed. The run takes place in and around Denbies Vinyard just north of Dorking off the A24. Postcode RH5 6AA. Some members will have run in cross-country fixtures at this venue and enjoyed the café afterwards (10% off with your barcode). Toilets available from 08:30. The course is challenging, and it is one of the few parkruns where no man has beaten 17 minutes and no woman 20 minutes, so far. The club records are held by Barry Walters (24:26) and Trish McCabe (30:01). Barry Walters is featured in at least one of the photographs on the Mole Valley parkrun website – take a look. See you there on Saturday. Steve Newell Rosenheim League Match 3 20th June 2018 at Twickenham (and Match 4 at Kingston on 4th July) #Our next two Rosenheim track and field fixtures occur in the next few weeks, details below. I will be making my way over after Brian Forrester’s funeral gathering on the 20th June. Anyone else interested in taking part please let me know in advance that I should expect you. I will not be around for the fourth match but hope that a deputy will be available.
Neil Frediani {neil.frediani@ba.com} Club parkrun results for Saturday 16th June 2018
Several of our runners tried somewhere new this week and some came away with a club course record to their name. John Taylor (29:45) and his wife Marion (31:33) were at Cassiobury Park in Watford after travelling up the canal from Rickmansworth the previous day. John’s time shaved 22 seconds off the mark set by Richard Ruffell in 2016. This was also John's best ever age grade! John Coffey (26:46), after 12 weeks at Hazelwood, decided to try Rushmoor for the first time and went straight into second place in the rankings for his age group there (out of 13). Ian Cunningham (21:39) ventured to Cranleigh for the first time and bettered Barry Walters’ best time there by 21 seconds. Ian has now been to 29 parks and needs one more to be acknowledged as a Planet Earth parkrun tourist. Recent joiner Kay Trinder (21:03) who did her 100th run last week kept up the good work with a club female course record at Woking. Caroline Cockram (23:52) and Ian Cockram (23:53) went away to Milan to escape the football world cup fever and set new club marks at Milan Nord. Steve Newell Updated parkrun stats - club parkrun stats Running Shorts
Next Digest - Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send it to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. Club website: www.barunner.org.uk.
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We had a great Concorde Five Mile Road Race yesterday. The extra problem thrown at us this year was the gas main replacement work in Langley Crescent. We were on top of the planned work, as was the contractor Cadent, but then it was discovered that the map of gas pipes that Cadent was working to didn't reveal that the pipes in Langley Crescent also fed the row of houses in Cranford Lane. Consequently, from the Friday, there were emergency gas works in Cranford Lane that involved eleven holes completely blocking the pavement
for 180 meters - and related vehicles blocking half of the road also (pictured). Having spotted this, and with no easy way of bypassing this stretch, we had to throw marshals at the problem - step forward Chris Kelly and several Taylors. But this meant that other marshalling points had to be unmanned or undermanned - consequently at least two of the runners went off course at one point. However, everyone who started the race also finished without any reports to St John for treatment. Fuller results next week but highlights from the provisional results… 
Thank you to everyone who helped make this event a success - and I have to focus on Jas Modaher and Tejinder Modaher who provided the refreshments at half way and at the end, requiring no contribution from BAAC.