BA Athletics Club News Digest 19th October 2015
Events:
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20th to race day 23rd October - World Airline Road Race Dubai (mapped*)
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Wednesday 28th October - Winter Handicap race one (mapped*,
see below)
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Club "Run of the Month" - Thursday 5th November - Magic Mile on the Bath
Road (mapped*)
New members and non-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.
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Information / ideas for digest or map - Roderick Hoffman
roderick@rhoff.org.uk
Winter Handicap series 2015/16 - First event Wednesday 28th October
This year will follow on in much the same way as the previous season.
- Dates:- Runs are the last Wednesday of the month October thru March, the
exception is December 9th allowing for Christmas and the December CIE on the
16th.
- Points total:- Best 5 out of 6 runs. Can you win the trophy this year? Last
year only 4 runners ran 5 or 6 times.
- Scoring system:- As last year, closest to handicap 25 points, next 24, 23
....... If there are more than 25 runners then it will be adjusted accordingly.
- Handicap time:- First run the season based upon last year if available.
Special cases for first run. Adjustments due to injury or illness will also be
considered. 2nd and subsequent runs to be adjusted to the nearest half minute of
the previous run.
- Watches/Garmin etc.:- It is preferred that runners do not wear a watch
eliminating any possibility of pacing from the watch, intentional or otherwise.
For those using Garmin (and similar) to record data for their records. Don't let
me catch you using it to pace the run, otherwise I'll have to think up a
suitable punishment.
Have a great winter season.
Paul Brandon
The course is a clockwise loop around Heston from the Heston Venue. It
has ben measured at about 4.8miles or 7.7km. The course is shown on the
the club map:
Club Map
Cross Country 17th October 2015
[photo Mark Turner]
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"Well done to the 7 hardy souls who competed at the Milocarians
invitational XC at Sandhurst today. Bazza had been out practicing on
Saddleback ridge (about 3 miles from his house) and it paid off as he
led the team in. A 'short' course this year of just a tad under 5 miles
(instead of the traditional 6 miles) but the hills were challenging so I
don't think anyone was complaining.... and then the tea and cakes; I
wonder if Bazza's still there? Thank you Neil for organising and good to
see the event firmly re-established on the calendar again after a few
years absence.
PS. Thank you to the supporters, the encouragement was very welcome."
Simon Turton on Facebook
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Club parkrun results for Saturday 17th October 2015
17th Oct 2015 |
Family, Friends,+ |
Time
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parkrun
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Comment
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Grade
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| Alan |
Anderson |
32:04 |
Gunnersbury |
run #380 |
66% |
| Alice |
Banks |
28:28 |
Newbury |
1st run at Newbury, ladies course pb |
66% |
| Julie |
Barclay |
22:41 |
Frimley Lodge |
course pb, ladies course pb |
76% |
| Ben |
Chaytow |
21:17 |
Crane Park |
90th run at Crane Park |
63% |
| Ian |
Cunningham |
22:32 |
Bushy Park |
run #214 |
67% |
| Scott |
Davison |
23:28 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #133 |
60% |
| Paul |
Fielding |
24:45 |
Maidenhead |
UK park 250 |
62% |
| Denis |
Foxley |
25:02 |
Harrow |
run #19 |
68% |
| Joan |
Foxley |
33:34 |
Harrow |
run #11, all at Harrow |
62% |
| Alan |
Friar |
26:07 |
Reading |
123rd run at Reading |
68% |
| Matt |
Gardner |
21:09 |
Fulham Palace |
erstwhile member |
61% |
| Roderick |
Hoffman |
25:44 |
Malling |
park #127, BA park #200 |
60% |
| Kevin |
Holland |
28:22 |
Woking |
15th run at Woking |
60% |
| Piers |
Keenleyside |
24:45 |
Gunnersbury |
100th male finisher |
64% |
| Kerstin |
Luksch |
24:04 |
Gunnersbury |
|
62% |
| Steve |
Newell |
29:00 |
Fulham Palace |
2015 parkrun sb |
62% |
| Joe |
Nolan |
28:43 |
Black Park |
run #238 |
56% |
| Lissa |
Pritchard |
22:58 |
Gunnersbury |
parkrun pb, run #9 |
66% |
| Richard |
Ruffell |
22:46 |
St Albans |
run #91, 20th at St Albans |
67% |
| Benita |
Scaife |
30:05 |
Maidenhead |
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64% |
| John |
Scaife |
30:06 |
Maidenhead |
run #26 |
54% |
| Sreeram |
Sethuraman |
25:24 |
Upton Court |
run #62 |
52% |
| Janet |
Smith |
32:54 |
Black Park |
run #37 |
52% |
| Steve |
Taylor |
23:32 |
Northala Fields |
run #42 |
64% |
| Gill |
Westbrook |
28:24 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #41 |
66% |
| Alastair |
Heslop |
volunteer |
Guildford |
barcode scanning |
This week the club's runners chalked up the 200th different parkrun when
Roderick Hoffman (25:44) made his way over to Malling in Kent. The event
there has been going just three weeks but it is fast, flat and on a good
surface. Of the 200, 193 have been run by men while our women have only
run at 50. Alice Banks (28:28) nailed the 50th for the women when she ran
at Newbury.
Some of our WARR bound runners had pleasing final outings before heading for
Dubai. Lissa Pritchard (22:58) ran her fastest parkrun ever at Gunnersbury
while Julie Barclay recorded a course pb (22:41) at Frimley Lodge. Steve
Newell (29:00) had his fastest parkrun of the year at Fulham Palace. With
some of our stalwarts in action at the cross country match (and cake eating
contest) at Sandhurst Julie Barclay was the only one of our members with a WMA
score of over 70% this week. Her time places her 9th out of the 283 women
in her age group who have run at Frimley over the years.
Apparently Janet Smith was in Black Park strictly parkrunning on Saturday
morning and then in Windsor Great Park she was Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday
evening.
Updated club parkrun stats:
www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls
Steve Newell
Club 200th tourist parkrun
Malling became the club members' 200th different parkrun run. It is a
new parkrun, Saturday was its third running, and it is located just off the M25
before you get to Maidstone in Kent. It's a fast, flat and scenic course -
almost exactly two laps on a broad hard-packed cement path around an attractive
lake - so well recommended for anyone wanting a fast time who doesn't mind a bit
of a drive to get there.
As a club we have now run 200 different parkruns. I've run 127 of them
and now not only can I now claim to be 29th on the all time table but I'm one
different parkrun ahead of Paul Sinton-Hewett. Paul has enabled the
start-up of around 690 parkruns worldwide but he has only been able to run at
126 of them. To put me in the shade Paul Fielding ran his 250th
different UK parkrun at Maidenhead this week and the worldwide record is held by
Paul Freyne who has run a total of 267 different parkruns. Our next target
is 250 different parkruns and if you check out the club map you'll see that
there are lots of green parkruns still to be done - not many near Heston but you
don't have to go that far to find virgin territory and new parkruns are
springing up all the time (ten in the last fortnight, including "Rushmere" near
Leighton Buzzard - not to be confused with Rushmoor at Aldershot - another one
for the Rushmers to run and call their own!).
Roderick Hoffman
parkrun and non-parkrun contributions
parkrun is free and there is no obligation to contribute in any way. But that
doesn't mean that you can't make a contribution is you want to. Personally I make a donation each year to
the parkrun "new events" fund - see
https://www.parkrun.org.uk/aboutus/ . Others donate to their home
parkrun financially or through volunteering or other assistance. And
you'll have noticed that parkrun has partnered with Alzheimer's Research UK and
during October is encouraging you to donate an amount equivalent to your parkrun
time to Alzheimer's Research UK - for more details see
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/sponsors/alzheimers-research-uk/ .
And then there are contributions that are not directly linked to parkrun.
The new friends we make through parkrun sometimes ask for support for a good
cause they are working towards. I thought that you might appreciate me
drawing your attention to one of these in particular. The parkrun founder
Paul Sinton-Hewitt has decided to run a marathon, the Palermo Marathon on 15th
November, and he wants to raise a significant fund for what he considers a good
cause. Peter Wright was one of the original 13 runners in parkrun number
one back on 2nd October 2004 and sadly Peter has an aggressive non-operable
brain tumour and is not expected to live past Christmas. The fund will be used
to prolong Peter's life, as possible, with leftover funds donated to research in
the area of Glioblastoma. Please consider making a donation to help or at
least wish Peter well if you get the chance (he is hoping to continue running
including parkruns until close to the end).
https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/psh-peter-wright
Roderick Hoffman
Meet the Committee - Paul Brandon - Deputy Chairman
I am no longer an active runner due to left knee problems.
My involvement with the BA athletics section includes :-
- Organising and reporting results for the Winter 5M handicap
series.
- Leading the marshals on the Spur road crossing point for the
London marathon.
- Marshalling the Ride London 100 (cycling event) crossing point
in Whitehall, 2 out of 3 years and I rode the event the other
year.
- Time keeping for a lot of the CIE events.
- Helping with other club events such as cross country, Speedbirds
5k, and Concorde 5M whenever possible.
Other than that I am a member of a cycling club (Woking), and the BA
GYM where I take part in organised spinning and circuits classes. Low/No
impact activities.
Paul Brandon
Ed: Having been through hundreds of my photographs
from the last few years and failed to find a single good one of Paul it could also be suggested that Paul is camera
shy and when seen will be towards the back and alongside or behind
taller members of the club esp. Nick Edge.
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From our Rowling Correspondent...
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A small local report from Frimley and Croydon
Julie Barclay training with Dubai in mind over the past 4/5 weeks and trying
to prepare for the heat (If that is possible) and now beginning to feel more
positive about her sciatica niggles. Our plan was to run slightly slower
so as to ease the discomfort it cause’s plus less 1 or 2 exercises that upset
the situation.
Running a few Frimley Park 5ks below par (23+). Julie’s final week-end
running before flying out on the 19th was to go hard as possible at Frimley and
she ran a course PB of 22.41. Then final test the Croydon 10k (Julie being
a bread and born Croydon girl) and also celebrating her mum’s birthday.
The plan was to try and run just DOUBLE the previous days time. I drove around
the course (a bit to tough for my little Suzuki).
It is on road on the
outskirts of the Lloyds Park area. A brilliant gutsy effort 24.06 at 5k
and then speeded up to finish in 46.17. The second 5k was as hilly as the
first. Julie finished collecting the 1st 0/50 prize making mum Vera’s
birthday a happy one to remember.
Julie hoping for a successful first attempt at WARR and that she is able to
cope with the heat factor. Julie has promised NOT to text me immediately
she crosses the finish line (my phone does not start work until 9am GMT).
Good luck to every one going to Dubai,
Tom Rowley
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Running Shorts
Thanks for the name check {1st finisher at Old Deer Park parkrun 10th
October} - my first 'win' ever at any run - not to shabby for an old codger 55+!
Cheers
Bill Bryne
Ealing Eagle at Les Dougnes parkrun, France
I thought you might be interested in this FB post from an Ealing
Eagle:
"parkrun tourism - Les Dougnes: I had a good run on Saturday in
France's only parkrun, down near Bordeaux. A lovely course around bamboo
beds though next to a power station (you can hear the overhead cables
buzzing). I'm not sure if it was the power cables interfering with my
Garmin but what would have been a fast course measured 5.25 k. Also
challenging was the 8:30 start time which at this time of year is just
20 minutes after dawn. Anita and Alex, the organisers used to be at
Wormwood Scrubs parkrun and fondly remember Arlene and Kelvin for
starting Gunnersbury and taking half their runners! Anyhow they say that
new parkruns are expected soon in France including one in Paris."
Piers Keenleyside
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