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BA Athletics Club News Digest 26th June 2023
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2023 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Results for Next WeekPlease help me by sending in your results, for instance by filling in the tables below and forwarding to News@barunner.org.uk. Some events will have "Prompts" set up in Facebook. These allow the posting of a single image and some text and make it easy to flip through everyone's entries. Monthly Mile (please submit your June Mile performance by the end of the month):Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the prompt in Facebook. The mile can be somebody else's formal event or even one mile within a longer run. I'll then produce a fancy graph showing your time this month compared to those of other people and previous runs over the last year:
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by Sunday evening) or use the Facebook group prompt:
2023 Speedbird Ladies Results for Wednesday 21st JuneThis was a very successful event on a gloriously hot Wednesday evening on the very scenic Harmondsworth Moor course. And with numbers up from last year and costs down we will probably be able to make a £112 donation to the charity White Lodge. The event was made possible by the helpers - thank you to all - myself (Run Director), Clara Halket (including as Tail Walker), Paul Brandon (First Aider), Steve Taylor with Marion (Results), Chris Kelly and Denis Foxley (Timing Team) and Paul Watt, Steve Newell, Mike Dennison, John Coombs, Piers Keenleyside, Simon Turton and Mark Taylor as marshals. Ken Saunders was our Event Auditor as usual. Julie Barclay was injured but agreed to walk round with Clara in order for BA to record a team result. We had a new winner this year in Alex Slotwinska but full credit to last year's winner Veronika Gill in coming third this time - she won last year's August's race then discovered she was two months' pregnant and clearly the birth of the child in February and subsequent care has made training a challenge. Results Individuals
Results Teams
Photographs by Pippa Cumber.
Track & Field 2023 – biting Ewell and sunny BatterseaOur latest Rosenheim league fixture took place at the Epsom and Ewell track on the 14th. We were warned to prepare ourselves for the biting midges close to the river, but I for one escaped unscathed. Just two of us again did battle with the might of Kingston, St Mary’s, Walton et al. Mike continued his consistent times at the sprints – interval training is paying off. Steve had a tough night with the Javelin. Three throws landing flat necessitated a safety-first approach for the final throw to get the points. Rosenheim League Track & Field, Ewell 14th June 2023
Full results awaited. Our final two matches are shown below. I hope we can get out a big team out for both. Please let me know if you are available.
NOW run RunnymedeThere is a NOW run planned for this Thursday 29th June. Meet at 12.00 at Runnymede Riverside car park (NT) which is opposite the Magna Carta Tearooms (also NT) on the A308. Postcode is TW20 0AE but make sure you use the NT car park and NOT the Pleasure Ground car park which has the same postcode but which is 2km further east, close to the M25 and the Runnymede Hotel. What3Words users head for ///curvy.horses.snap.
There is path laying work going on in the area of the Writ in Water and Magna Carta memorials. Everything is still accessible but the works areas are fenced off and some minor detours around these will be required. For those who can stay we will meet back at the tearoom afterwards - and those who choose not to go up the hill can take a seat and wait for us (photo). Finally, if you tell John to expect you then he'll know to wait for you! Pre-AGM MileNext week we have the AGM and as a warm-up we'll have our traditional pre-AGM mile event. This year we'll make our way to the Feltham Track - some may choose to change at the Bedfont Club or just meet there and jog over from 18:00 (2.2km). There will be a walking race from 6.15 p.m. (slow, medium or fast walking permitted) and a running race at 6.30 p.m. (or as soon as the last walker has finished, if later). Please plan on joining us. Roderick Hoffman and Steve Newell Big Half 2023 Sunday 3rd SeptemberOur club supports the London Marathon Events organisation in marshalling five events during the year. On Sunday 3rd September we have been invited to return to Greenwich. We will be looking after the pedestrian crossing close to the end of the Big Half race at the Cutty Sark. This year, the race incorporates the trial for the World Road Race Championships. The day is hectic, but fun and rewarding, and gives you the best possible view of the race. We need twenty volunteers who are prepared to give up their valuable time. If demand is sufficient, we will lay on transport from Bedfont to Greenwich. Please could check whether you are available for this event, and contact me as soon as possible, so that we can put together a marshalling team. Thank you, Recent Activity Achievements12 members' achievements were communicated to me. Your achievement not listed? It could be because you didn't submit it.
parkrun Results for Saturday 24th June41 activities are recorded below. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
parkrun Review 24th June 2023Melanie Miller (60:18) was at Treviso parkrun (North of Venice) this week, a new run for the club and taking our total to 740 different parkruns. John Wright also volunteered. Alastair Heslop added to the growing list of parkruns where he has been a volunteer, with a barcode scanning role, at Frimley Lodge and chalked up his 308th volunteer shift. The Guildford parkrun looked unlikely to happen but the travellers occupying Stoke Park left with enough time to restore normality and over 300 runners were there, but Alastair honoured his Frimley Lodge commitment. He expects to be barcode scanning at Guilford next Saturday. London’s newest parkrun – Thames Towpath, Woolwich – was the Elizabeth Line destination for Mike Dennison (19:48), Maria Jovani (21:53) and Roderick Hoffman (29:34) all making their first visit. Roderick is “Londone” again. David Cowell (19:45) was just 3 seconds faster (than Mike) at Stockley Country – the first sub 20 minute run at Stockley by one of our members. There will be a rally and photocall for all parkrunners aged 80 and over at Bushy Park next Saturday (1st July). Alan Anderson will probably be our only representative and be hitting his old stomping ground in good form – he achieved his best time (46:37) this year at Osterley. Paul Watt (20:12) and Julie Barclay (23:12, 82.47%) bettered previous club records at Pymmes. Fiona Bishop (25:10 at Woking this week) recorded at 24:01 (83.14%) at Pymmes in April. The men’s parkrun record (on any course) had been held by Andrew Baddeley (13:48) with his run at Bushy during the London Olympics in 2012; until this week. Andrew Butchart (13:45), himself an Olympian and Scottish record holder at 3000m, 5000m and 10000m, zoomed round the flat and fast Edinburgh course. Is he a regular parkrunner? Let’s just say that officially he had never run at one previously. Steve Newell Other Matters Arising
Halfway through the year and that was my tenth parkrun. Obviously my total has been constrained this year due to Stockley Country. Paul Watt and Julie Barclay have managed 31, Harjit Jhooti and David Duggan 27, Melanie Miller 26. Then with 25 we have Alan Anderson, Trish McCabe, Mike Dennison and Maria Jovani. Four club members have registered just one parkrun this year to date - Paul Knechtl, Simon Turton, Judy Turton and Eddie Giles but, that is as many as Andrew Butchart has run, so count the quality rather than the quantity. Browsing other tables I note that despite her expertise as a parkrun volunteer timekeeper Joan Foxley has run 260 parkruns but has never finished in a time of "...and 16 seconds", Alice Banks is missing a "17 seconds" over 229 parkruns and Harjit has run 203 parkruns but has never finished with a time of "...and 1second".But both Julie Barclay and Paul Watt have two gaps despite their large number of parkruns. In the place bingo Steve Newell has a gap of _97th place (including 197th, 297th etc.) over his 469 runs. He has finished _52nd ten times! Scott Davison has several gaps but has finished _25th 17 times (though in Scott's case his distribution of finish positions is strongly influenced by the size of the parkrun he normally runs at, and his speed).
Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download or save a copy, and explore at your leisure. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Roderick Hoffman 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 route heads initially east on a good path beside the Thames before
crossing the road to head across a grassy meadow towards Cooper's Hill. The
climb up Cooper's Hill is strenuous but for those choosing to do it the reward
is a stop at the beautiful Air Forces Memorial which is maintained by the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This is a social not a competitive event and
there is no shame in walking up the hill; you won't be the only one. There are
however opportunities to avoid some or most of the climbing by turning right
across the meadow and back towards the tearooms. With any of these options there
are interesting stops en route at Writ in Water, the Magna Carta Memorial and
the Jurors. The distance to be run, including the hill, will be approximately 5.5km.
At
Thames Path, Woolwich I wasn't expecting to know anyone but I spent my time
chatting to club colleagues, ex-BA Kate Sayers and non-running partner Neil
Cottrell, a guy I once shared a flat with in 1982 and a guy in a Perivale shirt
I'd also chatted to at Stockley Country last week. And the photographer was
Bruce from Northala Fields who is well known for taking the official parkrun
photos such as the one with Alan finishing with Ann. And I should have been
chatting to the locals. You are never alone at parkrun.