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BA Athletics Club News Digest 24th December 2018Events:
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. Last updated: 10th December. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 10th December) / # Club Points event. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "front window" club page), BA Runner Facebook Group (informal "back office" - ask to join). Next week's digest...end of year / New Year specialWill be published as usual sometime on New Year's Eve. Please send me your best achievements from 2018 and your running ambitions for 2019. Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. We are NOT meeting at the Bedfont Club on Boxing Day this Wednesday, but will resume there from Wednesday 2nd January 2019.
Annual Round The Airport (Heathrow) Run - Thursday 27th DecemberThis 13 or 15 mile run will take place from 12:00 on the 27th December and will circumnavigate Heathrow starting in Moor Lane behind Waterside and will take in Stanwell Moor, Stanwell, Hatton Cross, Cranford, Sipson and finishing in Harmondsworth for a quick pint. Most of the run is on trails and minor roads and the aim is to be round in 2 to 2.5 hours. Take your Oyster card or cash card and you can hop on a bus/tube to make it a shorter run. To get to the start at postcode UB7 0AP enter Moor Lane at Harmondsworth village from A3044/Hatch Lane. Pass the 5 Bells pub on your right side and continue for 400m and park on the right near the narrow bridge. Let me know if interested at: neil.frediani@ba.com Courses subject to adjustment but last year... http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/1381830652 (15 miles) http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/1381805632 (13 miles) Ed: I'll be doing it again this year and I know a couple of shortcuts - I've never run more than 12 miles and this year I'll be running at a steady 11 minute mile / 7 minute km pace. Roderick Track Season FinaleThe last race of BAAC's track season took place at Uxbridge on Monday evening. As well as the Rosenheim and Vets League competitions, we have been working our way through track and field events as domestic competitions. Simon Turton took top honours in the lung-busting 400m, outpacing Steve Hillier. Times:
Training will resume in January. If you would like to come and try something different, let me know. Steve Hillier{stevehillier@msn.com} Club parkrun results for Saturday 22nd December 2018
The weather conditions were fairly benign for late December in SE England although it was wet underfoot in places and puddles remained in evidence on many courses. Many members stayed close to home with even globetrotting parkrun tourist Roderick Hoffman (27:30, 57.33%) remaining within the M25 visiting Brooklands. Roderick registered his best age grade % score of the year and 19 of us have now visited Brooklands at least once since the parkrun started there on 17th November. The Ruffell family (Natalie 19:56, Richard 21:10, Bridget 29:56) held a family reunion at Dulwich. Richard’s time is a new male club record. Natalie is a member of Clapham Chasers these days but still holds our club record with 20:44. We had three of the Davis family at Kingston this week with Kelly (32:04) finishing well clear of Paul (50:07) who ran with young daughter Chloe. Colin Haylock (26:45) became the latest member to run at Mole Valley – it was his first parkrun for 15 months. With just one week of 2018 left we have two members – David Duggan (52) and Alan Anderson (50) who have already run 50 times. Chris Kelly and Trish McCabe are both on 48, impressive scores. Next Saturday (29th January) will see Black Park hosting parkrun for the 500th time, a milestone unlikely to go unnoticed. Janet Smith (pb 30:26) was our first runner to try the course through the woods in 2009, intends to be there again next Saturday and hopes a few others will join her. Thirty-eight members have logged a total of 504 finishers (with barcodes) over the years. Paul Knechtl (17:54) and Maria Jovani (20:52) hold the club records. Joe Nolan (282 runs) has worked tirelessly behind the scenes setting up a squad of pacers who on the 500th will probably be off duty and just having a relaxed run round the course. Steve Newell Updated parkrun stats - club parkrun stats Ed: *There is a rumour that Alan Anderson took his wife Ann for a spin around the Gunnersbury parkrun circuit. This can't be confirmed. Christmas and New Year parkrunsAs well as the regular parkrun next Saturday morning, there are additional parkruns tomorrow, Christmas Day, and on New Year's Day. Not all parkruns are operating on either day and start times may vary. The official list of additional parkruns is here: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/special-events/ . On New Year's Day you are allowed to run two different parkruns and have both results filed in the parkrun computer. Two parkruns on the 1st of January is a great way to kick start your 2019 running ambitions. This map: Google New Year Map shows all the New Year's Day parkruns including colour coding their start-times to enable you to plan a double. There is also this list: http://tailrun.uk/nyd/2019/uk/ for finding doubles. Some that might prove popular with members:
If I wasn't planning on doing two "new to me" parkruns (Billericay and South Woodham Ferrers) I'd probably be heading for Tring! Roderick Hoffman Running shorts...
Want to see someone else's performances here? Send them in... Next Digest - - - - Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send them to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. 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. Club website: www.barunner.org.uk.
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The start and finish are on the pavement in Hatton Road (essentially
outside Bedfont FC) just beyond the nearest bus stop. After approx.
1/4 mile the course turns left and uses a cycling/pedestrian route to the
turnaround point just short of the Duke of Northumberland River.
Runners then retrace their steps and turn right back on to Hatton Road at
the 3/4 mile point. (thanks to Piers Keenleyside for marshalling at this
point).