BA Athletics Club News Digest 27th January 2020Events:
Our next Bedfont Club meeting will be on February 5th (Coaching Session) and 26th (Five Mile Handicap). All members are welcome. New members and potential members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at most of our events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Last updated: 8th January. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 8th January 2020) / # 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. Five Mile Handicap January 2020 result #The Wednesday winter five mile handicap restarted after a break since mid-December with round 4 of the current series. Ten runners (including two walkers) participated with Steve Newell and David Duggan looking after the timekeeping. The Helen Avenue variation introduced for the last run was used again and we will continue with this route now until the final run at the end of March. Ranking points are awarded in similar way
to Formula 1 motor racing. The aim to improve gradually or at least not
deteriorate too disastrously. New member Harjit Jhooti walked round the Harry Wild adopted route (approx. 2 ¼ miles) with Melanie Miller in 44 minutes. The route is Hatton Road – New Road – Staines Road to Bedfont Green, Hatton Road back to the club. Running results
Steve Newell Surrey Ladies Cross Country League - Match 4, 8th February 2020 #Hi Ladies, The last match of the season is on Saturday, 8th Feb at Richmond Park. Our division, Division 2, will be starting at 11.00am and is approximately 8.3km. I am working that day so will not be at the match. If you or you know of anyone who is running for us for the first time, please let me know so I can add them to the list and assign a bib number. I hope many of you will be able to make it. We have good attendance this season, so hopeful we will finish in a good position in the team standing. BAAC Cross Country Championships - Sunday 23rd Feb 10.30 Start #Hi all, On Sunday 23rd February we are going to hold our annual BAAC Cross Country race in Cranford Park, the start time of this event is 10.30 for the Ladies & Men`s races which is next to the small car park in Cranford Park alongside the church. The car park is accessed from the M4/Parkway roundabout. (Sat Nav TW5 9RZ) The course is flat and run on a mixture of grass and wooded paths, the course is often soft but rarely muddy. It consists of a lap of 1.5 miles and the men`s event is judged over three laps and the women over two (with the option of a third for the keen ladies). The leading male & female club runner are jointly awarded the club`s cross country trophy. If there`s anybody who can be there but not able to run that would be great, as we need Marshals there to help with the marshalling, and finish line duties. Please make yourself available and preferably email me (Gary) to say that you are coming - we would prefer all "able bodied" members to be able to run rather than be pressganged into marshalling on the day. There is also an event on Facebook that can be used to indicate your attendance: https://www.facebook.com/events/2498048587073397/ PLEASE, PLEASE pass the massage onto other runners, including friends and runners from other clubs, who may want to join us on the day - email me with names (runners and marshal please). There is no entrance fee...but also no prizes. Many thanks, Gary Rushmer. World Airline Road Races Hawaii, courses announced
PS Don't worry - Diamond Head is well extinct. October 23rd-25th https://www.facebook.com/WARR.worldairlineroadrace/posts/2940239499331537 Roderick Hoffman parkrun review Saturday 25th January 2020
We have now reached the end of January as far as parkrun is concerned and some people* have already clocked up six runs and with a leap day to come there will be five Saturdays in February. * Ian Cockram, Ian Cunningham, Mike Dennison, David Duggan, Roderick Hoffman, Maria Jovani, Chris Kelly, and Jacqui Musselwhite. We've started the year off spectacularly with members visiting ten parkruns we had never been to before and with Adrian Haines (20:30) adding Atholl in Johannesburg this week we have added 15 in just one month (the total is now 564). In the early days of parkrun it took us six years to log our first fifteen! How times have changed. Our newest member Harjit Jhooti (30:36) ran at Fulham Palace. Like some others, she is in training for the London Marathon in April. A former member who might be tempted back after a spell working overseas is Chris Dawson (23:52) who was spotted running at Gunnersbury this week. Two runners scored their first points in the 2020 challenge (the parkrun event number has to be a multiple of 20 and volunteers qualify as well as runners) – James Shoulder (25:33 at Rushmoor #280) and Alice Banks (28:07 at Frimley Lodge #520). Mike Dennison, Maria Jovani and David Duggan were all at Gladstone #400 a couple of weeks ago. Old Deer Park, Black Park, Osterley, Hanworth, Brooklands and many more offer scoring opportunities in February. Remember there is a Fullers Brewery tour on offer for the first runner/volunteer into double figures. Steve Newell Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats (updated to 4th Jan) Full club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Drat, foiled again
After a quick correction to the club database (your Alice Holt runs had somehow been missed) I can confirm that the two letters that you are missing are "U" and "Y". Of these the "Y" is the more difficult one and be aware that there is a rumour that "York" parkrun may be renamed "Knavesmire" in the near future. This would be one of the next in a series of renamings - for instance "Peterborough" parkrun changed its name in December to "Ferry Meadows". Roderick Hoffman Club parkrun Volunteering 2019 AnalysisOur parkrun reports include volunteer efforts on a hit and miss basis. If we know of a volunteer effort by a club member we'll include it but if we don't know then we don't. This is because the weekly reports from the parkrun website do not highlight volunteer efforts. However there is a parkrun report that lists total volunteer efforts by role and year. I'll gone through all the parkrun club members and produce a report of all your volunteer efforts. Roles include all credits given including multiple credits for the same day and also for Junior parkrun as well as for 5k parkruns. Historic roles for recent joiners are included. Firstly looking at the whole of 2019 David Duggan has most volunteer credits with 145 just ahead of Mike Dennison on 144. BUT in January Mike readdressed the balance with 15 credits to David's 14! Please note though that parkrun is a run not a race. Ian Cockram is a distant, but nevertheless creditable third with 61 credits followed by Zoe Ostley with 53 and Maria Jovani with 49. I've identified 45 club members who have volunteered over 2019 but there may be others including some with uncredited efforts. Between us over 2019 we achieved 752 credits. Each week Bedfont Lakes has about 25 slots for volunteers and 135 runners so they need about 0.185 volunteers per run. Over 2019 as a group we've recorded 1670 runs so we are achieving 0.45 credits per run and our efforts have enabled 30 parkruns over the year - not bad for a club with only about 100 members. There are two roles that club members have performed in previous years but not in 2019 - "Backup Timer" that has been phased out (doubling up on "Timer" instead) and "Lead Bike". However there were five roles that we carried out in 2019 that were not carried out in 2018. "Car Park Marshal" (22 times) is a new role as is "Event Day Course Check" (37 times). "VI Guide" (3 times) is a recently introduced role that our members took on for the first time in 2019 and "Communications Person" (7 times) and "Number Checker" (5 times) are roles we just happened not to have carried out in 2018. The most common role undertaken was "Volunteer Co-ordinator" (90 times) followed by "Run Director" (73 times, including by ten different club members) and "Results Processor", "Timekeeper" and "Marshal" all exceeded 50 times.
Roderick Hoffman Harrow Hill 10k Sunday 16th Feb 2020 from 10:30This event, popular with the likes of me, is open for booking at: https://metros.org.uk/harrow-hill-race/ It is not flat and there are two contrasting approaches to the event:-
Roderick Hoffman Marathon Update aka Where's Piers been this week
Piers Keenleyside 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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