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BA Athletics Club News Digest 28th October 2013Forthcoming Events:
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Notes: * The 5k course was definitely long - perhaps at about 5.65k - so 5k times above should be reduced by about 12% to make them compatible with other 5k results. # Awards are as recorded as being given out on the evening - these have not been confirmed (and not all seem to tally with the results). Overall stats - 40 airlines and aviation related companies took part with 442 WARRiors finishing one or both races - 378 finished the 5k, 188 finished the 10k (123 ran both races). With 17 runners in the BA team we were the 10th largest team. KLM were the largest with 31 runners, then Jet Blue (29) and Emirates (28) ahead of South African (27). American Airline shad just four runners and Iberia were not represented. Club Events Promotional Poster for October through JanuaryPublicity poster please print & post. We need more members and participants - please load the following poster (500Kb), print it on a nearby colour printer and put it up on your nearby notice board. Surrey League Results - MenHi guys, The first men's Surrey league cross country race of the season took place at Lightwater Country Park on Saturday 19th. Conditions underfoot were very good and in mild weather. With some of our runners injured or ill we had a turnout of 7 runners + 1 guest, but still finished a very good 3rd on the day. Chris Kelly lead the team home finishing 8th overall in div 4 followed by Richard Ruffell in 17th. It was also good to see new member Mark Turner & Gary Rushmer Jnr (as guest) run in their first cross country races. Our next fixture is on November 9th at Roundshaw Downs with same start time of 3pm. Division 4 results:
Many thanks Gary Rushmer. Ed: I hear that Neil ran himself into the ground to get one more place and hence one more point for the team - not realising that the guy he was overhauling was an "unbranded" BA colleague. The effort IS appreciated. Surrey League Results - LadiesThe first race of the season was held at the Lightwater Country Park on Sat 19 October hosted by Woking AC. We were expected to provide an official for this event, and not knowing whether our ladies would be back in time from Cape Town I put myself forward in case no one else turned up. A couple of days before race day Helen got in touch to say she would be running and that Natalie was also available so after asking around, Richard/Bridget offered to take my place as the official so that I could run. In the end it was Graham Taylor, the first of our supporters to arrive, who helped with the funnel duties. We had a good turnout with 6 runners - Kat, Lissa, Helen, Natalie, Carole and
me. Kat led our team finishing in 26:34, 6th overall followed closely by Natalie
in 29:20. Helen, fighting fit from WARR shot ahead of me early on and kept the
lead despite my increased effort to catch up. I was totally puffed out by the
end of the 2nd lap and then I realised there was a 3rd lap! Despite the forecast
for rain, it remained dry with a light breeze for the duration of the race. A big 'Thank You' to our supporters who cheered us on around the course.
League table - total 35 teams (this may change as for some reason they recorded a phantom runner wearing one of our allocated numbers. This number has not been issued to anyone and is still in my possession!) BAAC 'A' 9th BAAC 'B' 32nd The next match is taking place on Sat 07 December at Farthing Downs, Coulsdon. I look forward to seeing many of our ladies there :) Clara Halket Club family parkrun results and stats for 26th October 2013
* Richard's time was as provided by himself since due to "a complete malfunction of the timer" all 253 finishers were given the same official time of 59:59. When this happened to me it think it was at Pymmes with only 12 competitors most of whom went to the cafe afterwards and so they were able to rebuild the full results. Not so easy with 253! I was sent apologies from Kerstin who after the build up I gave her was unable to attend at Gunnersbury last Saturday but should be there this Saturday to accept her points award. In her place Alan Anderson was given a special award as volunteer of the year. I'll also mention that Tony Hird came third in the Gunpowder points competition and these week-in week-out parkrun attendance and support is critically important for parkrun. Steve Newell's Stats show that the club is about to run its 200th run at Black Park, its 300th at Bedfont and its 600th at Bushy! Meanwhile I carried on my tourist ways at Fulham, my 59th different parkrun venue. My time was another PB and two seconds faster than Joe at Black Park who must have thought he'd have had me this week! Neil Frediani has challenged me to a 24 minute target race at Bushy on November 16th - so we'll be racing over the same course and with the same conditions (and a 24 minute pacer). Anyone who wants to is welcome to join us. Next Saturday though it's the tourist trail to the inaugural run at Aylesbury. Lifts possible if you are keen. Roderick Hoffman BA Clubs Members Advisory Council – Election to be held on Thursday 7th November.
World Masters Outdoor ChampionshipsFollowing last week's M45 800 metres seventh place (2:05:13) Adrian Haynes made the final of the M45 1500 metres and finished fifth with a time of 4:20:83. Meanwhile in the Ladies W45 weights Janet Smith won silver in the Hammer (41.29m), had to pull out of the Discus, was fifth in the Weight Pentathlon and won GOLD for GB&NI in the Weight throw (13.56m).
Fleet 10k Sunday 27th October results
Photo Caption Competition
Captions for photo above of Simon of BA and Jim of Woking AC taken at the Surrey League Cross Country event on Saturday. Brian: "HANDS OFF - I'M NO GAZZA" Simon: "I thought it was only Vinnie Jones who employed tactics like that!" Neil: "Get your baton out of there Simon or I will squeeze harder!" {in fact Jim was running injured having fallen and somersaulted on the first lap and at this stage couldn't move his right arm - update from Woking AC: "Jim is fine, left with a small graze & bruised hand but no long term damage"} News for the next BAAC News Digest? I also need a club running related photograph every week so help me out here.Please let us have your ideas for how club communications can be improved and please send us items for inclusion in the next Digest. Results, news, feedback, jokes, stories - send it to us at news@barunner.org,uk. You can copy Paul Brandon and Roderick Hoffman in BUT the news@ address is the one that we use when the digest is compiled. Club website:
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