BA Athletics Club News Digest 25th February 2019
Events:
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Wednesday 27th February - Five-Mile Handicap #
and Club Awards evening at The Bedfont Club (see below)
*
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Saturday 2nd March - Ladies Surrey League final match at Lloyd Park,
Croydon from 11:00 (more details below) #
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Thursday 7th March Dream Mile Bath Road from 12:45
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We meet at 18:00 at the
Bedfont Club
on most
Wednesdays throughout the year.
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: 11th February.
* Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps]
(parkrun details updated 5th February) /
# 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.
Reminder - Wednesday Awards evening and Five-Mile handicap
(please respond if you have not already done
so)
This Wednesday 27th, we have the British Airways AC Awards evening.
A dozen awards are handed out to those members who have achieved the
most over the 2018 year. The Awards Evening will be held at The
Bedfont Club (http://www.barunner.org.uk/Background_Locations.shtml).
Timing are:
- 18:00 February Five Mile Handicap (runs to finish for 19:00) see
next #,
- 19:30 Food provided by the committee for members and guests,
cash bar,
- 20:00 Awards followed by social,
- 22:30 End
Please let us know to expect you, so
that we can order the right amount and variety of food. Either
reply to me
Roderick
Hoffman or to the Facebook event at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/502213200303640/
. If you are a regular, but don't expect to be able to make it, please
also let us know so that we don't cater for you.
Five-Mile Handicap
The next round of the club winter five-mile handicap is this
Wednesday 27th February. Start times are based on the intention to have
a close finish back at the Bedfont Football Club car park at 7 p.m. Those
who have already run in the series this winter will have a start time
based on earlier performances. Any newcomers will be given a mutually
acceptable time guided by recent parkruns or other 5km/10km/5 mile
races. Please email
Steve Newell {teve-newell@blueyonder.co.uk} in advance.
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 20th
February NOW run at Northala Fields
Last Wednesday saw a very successful Non-Office Workers run around
Northala Fields. Nine of us gathered for the run including Tony Barnwell
on just his second run after a long layoff. We ran around a variant of
the parkrun course - a simpler route proposed by myself, but rejected due
to worries of the potential condition of one of the paths used (though
with no issue on this occasion). Shortly after finishing Chris caught us
having run from work, but after obtaining an authorising signature and
having the team photo taken, he ran back to return to work. The
rest of us had a more leisurely lunch at Santos' Remo Cafe before
marching up the spiral on the tallest mound to admire the view.
The park was busy - it always is but particularly last week due to
half-term but there was plenty of space for all of us even in the cafe.
Photo left to right - Steve Newell, Chris Kelly, Alice Banks, Benita
Scaife, John Scaife, Christine Munden, Steve Hillier, Tony Barnwell,
Roderick Hoffman and Piers Keenleyside.
The next NOW event will be on the 20th March, the first day of Spring,
at Brooklands. A run around the area within the old motor racing
circuit, including a photo-opportunity at the Concorde guardian angel,
will be followed by a visit to the Brooklands Museum - first stop the
cafe!
Roderick Hoffman
SURREY LADIES CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE - 4th
Match, Sat 2nd March 2019 at Lloyd Park at 11.00am
Hosted by Striders of Croydon, Croydon Harriers & South London
Harriers
Address: Lloyd Park, Coombe Rd, Croydon CR0 5RA
Race Start Time: Division 2 race at 11am, U17/U15s 12pm, U13s
12.30pm, Div 1 at 1pm
Travel / Parking: You are advised to arrive by tram as the easiest
way of getting to the start. Alight at Lloyd Park Tram stop, which is
adjacent to the start. Lloyd Park is on line 3 running from Wimbledon to
New Addington via East and West Croydon stations for easy access.
If you come by car, we attach some information about the parking
options available. Please pass this on to anyone you know is coming
to the race and encourage car sharing.
Refreshments – Café on site near to the start/finish. Please remove
muddy shoes and use the changing rooms next door if you need to get
changed. DO NOT GET CHANGED IN THE CAFE.
Toilets and changing facilities - are adjacent to the Cafe.
First Aid – Supplied by First Aid Cover Ltd.
Course - The adults course is approximately 5 miles long made up of 2
laps over varying and in parts hilly terrain. The route is all on
grass/trails and is suitable for spikes and can be muddy/waterlogged
underfoot. There are some exposed tree roots, overhanging branches and
rutted sections of the course. U17s/U15s do one lap. U13 do 1 lap of 2
miles.
Let Clara know if you are able to make it or to ask for further
details.
Clara Halket
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Club parkrun results for Saturday 23rd February 2019
| 23rd Feb | Runner |
Time |
parkrun |
Comment |
Age Grade |
| Kay |
Trinder |
20:56 |
Woking |
F-1, 90th run at Woking |
83% |
| Jacqui |
Musselwhite |
23:11 |
Woking |
run #74, 63rd at Woking |
72% |
| Julie |
Barclay |
23:41 |
Woking |
run #154, 20th at Woking |
75% |
| Paul |
Watt |
27:01 |
Woking |
run #98, 7th at Woking |
56% |
| Joe |
Nolan |
32:18 |
Black Park |
improving streak now 6 weeks |
51% |
| David |
Duggan |
337:25 |
Feltham (HMYOI) |
run #296, inaugural by invitation only |
42% |
| Sarah |
Gordon |
33:07 |
Fire Service College |
1st run at Fire Service College, park #105 |
59% |
| Piers |
Keenleyside |
28:47 |
Fire Service College |
run #227, 2nd at Fire Service College |
56% |
| Becky |
Thurtell |
24:57 |
Fire Service College |
(nm) run #486, park #261 |
75% |
| Steve |
Newell |
38:06 |
Wormwood Scrubs |
run #346, 5th at Wormwood Scrubs(#400) |
49% |
| Chris |
Evans |
23:25 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #229, 222nd at Bedfont Lakes |
65% |
| Scott |
Davison |
23:32 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #291, 237th at Bedfont Lakes (#498) |
61% |
| Anne |
Bannister |
27:58 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #191, 156th at Bedfont Lakes |
70% |
| Zoe |
Ostley |
53:15 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #223, 155th at Bedfont Lakes |
34% |
| Ian |
Cunningham |
25:34 |
Bushy Park |
run #368, 299th run at Bushy Park |
61% |
| Jonathan |
Cox |
28:34 |
Crane Park |
run #379, 84th at Crane Park |
55% |
| Ben |
Chaytow |
32:27 |
Crane Park |
run #223, 192nd at Crane Park |
43% |
| John |
Coffey |
29:41 |
Hazelwood |
run #318, 39th at Hazelwood |
66% |
| Tony |
Barnwell |
44:14 |
Higginson, Marlow |
run #182, 2nd at Marlow |
44% |
| Benita |
Scaife |
31:22 |
Maidenhead |
run #142, 72nd at Maidenhead |
64% |
| John |
Scaife |
31:22 |
Maidenhead |
run #163, 75th at Maidenhead |
53% |
| Petra |
Otto |
47:38 |
Manor Fld, Whittlesey |
run #79, 7th at Whittlesey |
44% |
| Jeremy |
Short |
24:27 |
Osterley Park |
run #110, 22nd at Osterley Park |
64% |
| Trish |
McCabe |
27:14 |
Osterley Park |
run #275, 15th at Osterley |
57% |
| Alan |
Anderson |
42:49 |
Osterley Park |
run #542, 12th at Osterley |
53% |
| Chris |
Kelly |
24:28 |
Reading |
run #422, 328th at Reading + barcode scanning |
62% |
| Maria |
Jovani |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes |
run director |
| Alice |
Banks |
volunteer |
Higginson, Marlow |
run director |
| Denis |
Foxley |
volunteer |
Harrow |
token sorting |
| Joan |
Foxley |
volunteer |
Harrow |
token sorting |
| Roderick |
Hoffman |
229:02 |
Zielona Gora (Poland) |
run #337, park #363, BA park #473, "Z" |
57% |
The best performers this week were from Tom’s stable at Woking. Kay
Trinder (20:56, 83%) was the pick of the bunch and she had run the
last-Friday-of-the-month Hyde Park 5km in 20:00 the day before. After a week in
Kiev Paul Watt (27:01) managed to run round for the first time this year.
Joe Nolan (32:18) is also returning from injury but managed to improve his time
at Black Park for the sixth week in a row.
David Duggan (37:25) was in a celebrity line-up at the inaugural parkrun at
Feltham Young Offenders Institution (on the other side of the railway tracks by
Bedfont Lakes) {also see below}. Parkrun founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt (27:27) led the inmates
round the course. Judging by the times it seems a fair bet that shoe laces
had been tied together to make sure the guards didn’t get left behind.
Checking the volunteer roster it
has been suggested that the timekeepers were a gang of crooks.
The other new park in the club collection was added by Roderick Hoffman at
Zielona Gora in western Poland. This may be just one episode of a
developing international story – for now we will just say he can include “Z” in
his alphabetic parkrun collection (not yet available in UK). Sarah Gordon
(33:07) became the second member to run at the Fire Service College and
established a club female record. Piers Keenleyside (28:47) was also there
but failed to improve on his previous time – maybe a marathon in the Spanish
sunshine six days earlier had something to do with that. Club friend Becky
Thurtell was also there but at best the three only exchanged nods.
Steve Newell (38:06) continues to attend parkruns celebrating multiple
centuries (100’s of runs) and this week dropped in at the never overcrowded
Wormwood Scrubs for their 400th. The course has been straightened out a
bit, is now the full 5000m and includes a longer pleasing downhill finish.
For the second successive week Steve was lapped by a young woman who went on to
be first finisher overall. Other century runs in the offing include Bedfont
Lakes (500) and Harrow (200), both on 9th March and the big one at Bushy (800)
in early August.
This time next year we will be looking forward to the first
ever leap day parkrun – 29th February 2020. To anyone who cares about this
kind of thing I suggest you start making plans now. There won’t be another
29th February on a Saturday until 2048 and that could be too late for some of
us.
Steve Newell
Updated parkrun Stats -
club parkrun stats
Feltham parkrun
Over the past few weeks, Bedfont Lakes parkrun has been assisting Feltham
parkrun core team with preparations for the launch of their parkrun. Feltham
parkrun is located within the Feltham Young Offenders Institution and at its
closest point is approximately 60 metres away from the Bedfont parkrun route and
therefore believed to be the closest two parkruns in the world!
As part of the Bedfont core team, I was privileged to be invited to attend
the inaugural Feltham parkrun, along with parkrun representatives, business
partners and community links. In the days prior to the event, we had submitted
security information and having arrived at 8.00am we were taken through airport
style security which ensured we did not have GPS/smart watches or mobile phones
with us.
Approximately twenty runners and five volunteers joined the 'locals' to
produce a total number of participants of thirty runners and twelve volunteers.
The pre-run briefing explained there had been a last minute need to change to
the course - originally it was going to be five laps of an enclosed area of
playing fields, however in the past few days a new fence had been erected
dividing the playing fields into two. The course had therefore been revised and remeasured, resulting in the number of longer laps being reduced to 4.5 (this
may change again in the future) - without any of the runners wearing a GPS
watch, it was strange to be totally in the hands of the Run Directors' briefing
as to the route and not knowing the speed/distance you were running. The course
is mainly on grass, with a section of concrete path being included when
traversing between the playing fields. Whilst running and around the finish area
there was a typical parkrun atmosphere between all participants, with
encouragement being given to each other, high fives along the section where
people ran in both directions and general discussion about the run when
finished.
As stated earlier, I regard myself privileged to have been invited to this
event. The overall experience combined what I have experienced all over the
world with parkrun, along with communicating with those who are completely new
to the parkrun family.
David Duggan
Inaugurals
As expected California Country parkrun was launched and was successful
despite the large crowd who turned up - 392 parkrunners (including 93 new
parkrunners and those without barcodes). It was one of four regular
parkruns that started in the UK last Saturday. That is in addition to the
limited access parkruns including Feltham. The parkrun representatives at
Feltham included
Paul and Joanne Sinton-Hewett and Paul enjoyed his third ever first finish after
Les Dougnes last year and then at Pymmes in 2011. It has been suggested on
Social Media that the only reason Paul was able to finish first is because he
was running against those that got caught! The guests were certainly not
inaugural chasers - for most including Dave it was their first UK inaugural.
Paul's first ever parkrun inaugural run was at Bedfont Lakes in 2009 and since
2013 he has averaged just one per year, and every other one of those is
overseas.
Next Saturday there are SIX inaugurals of UK regular parkruns.
Yes, I've counted them twice as part of my forecasting activity. One of
them, Groe, is in the middle of Wales near the settlement of Builth
Wells. This is miles from anywhere else, the nearest existing parkrun is
Newtown 25.4 miles away as the dragon flies. My forecast for them is for
61 runners at their inaugural - and I may have been generous. So, if you
are desperate to get to a UK inaugural, start making your plans. But
I'll warn you - I've just checked and Google recommend the quickest
public transport route takes six and a half hours and includes a two and
a half hour bus journey from Cardiff. Nevertheless I'm sure you'll
be most welcome.
Roderick
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Tom's Diary
With four ½ marathons (Hillingdon, Thorpe Park, Wokingham and Brighton) on a
very busy day for hundreds of volunteers/officials.
A couple of results to report:
On Friday 22nd Kay Trinder ran 20.00 minutes in the Brooks Serpentine 5k in
Hyde Park, her best 0/50 time and age graded 85.4% Point of interest
the first lady and 0/55 was Clare Elms who ran a course record and a 99% grade
in 17:39.
At Woking on Sat. a special day for a former staff retired member and
colleague dispatcher of Julie/Paul Mike Cussan who was running his 100th in
33.19 so a celebration.
Other members were 1st lady Kay Trinder in 20.56; Jacqui Musellwhite 56th in
23.11; Julie Barclay was 64th in 23.41 who had been in Kiev for a week and
retuned Fri. with Paul who ran his first 5k since December the 10th (Osterley)
and been injured since but managed to get round in 27.01.
Tom Rowley
 On
My Travels
I took this photograph of an Imp statue in Zielona Gora. It is obvious who it
is modelled on (inlay).
Roderick Hoffman
Running shorts...
- I completed the Wokingham Half marathon on 24/02/19 in a time of
2:08:02. It is a very pleasant route and was an enjoyable run in the
sunshine. I used this run as a warm up for The Vitality Big Half on 10/03/19
which will be my second half marathon of the year. Trish McCabe
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