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BA Athletics Club News Digest 2nd January 2023
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2022 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. This Week's EventsPlease 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 (submit by end of Sunday 15th January):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.
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British Airways Athletics Club - ConstitutionBAAC is affiliated to England Athletics. This affiliation brings the club and members a number of benefits, which include Insurance, Legal representation, Safeguarding support and Advice in staging events. As you will be aware, Safeguarding and Health & Safety legislation continues to become more complex, as society attempts to deal with a minority of misguided individuals who are attracted to our sport. Accordingly, we need to demonstrate to EA that as a club we are committed to operating in a safe and open way. England Athletics have developed seven Club Standards, which all clubs have been asked to work towards achieving. The first is to publish a Club Constitution. Your committee have drafted a document based on EA guidelines, adapted to reflect our legal status as a section of British Airways Clubs. > Constitution Draft (MS Word document) This draft now needs to be approved by the membership, ready for publication. Please would you take a look at this text, and either confirm that you are happy with it, or suggest any appropriate changes. Please make your comments to me by February 15th, in order for the committee to review at our late February committee meeting. If you don’t comment, we will take it that you are signing off this draft. We intend to publish the constitution as a completed document for 1st April 2023. Thank you, Hon Sec BAAC
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| Colleague | Activity | Distance | Course | When | Duration | Comments |
| Adrian Haines | Sprints | Withdean Stadium (Brighton) | Wed | Withdean stadium. 10 x 300 preparing for 800m indoor on Bank holiday Monday 2023 at Lee Valley [averaging 49seconds so 3k in 8minutes]. | ||
| Andy Rayner | Cycling | Local | Sun | 00:12:08 | Just two bike rides of the local estate and Ockwells estate. Mon 26 Dec 14:11 and Sun 1 January 12:08 (fast). [And for the Christmas Week - a 3mile walk and 5mile cycle] | |
| Barry Walters | Running | 6km | Bracknell | Wed am | 00:48:39 | Ran an easy 2k warm-up from home on tarmac in the morning in wet conditions. Did an interval session consisting of 10x 1minute with 30secs recovery. Then ran 2k home to warm-down. |
| Benita Scaife | Race | 5km | Serpentine Last Friday of the Month (Hyde Park) | Fri lunch | 00:30:27 | We came prepared for the heavy rain that had been forecast, but in the end we got round in dry, mild but windy conditions. The start had been moved back by about 80 metres from its usual place by the boathouse… |
| John Scaife | Race | 5km | Serpentine Last Friday of the Month (Hyde Park) | Fri lunch | 00:30:27 | ...with a slight alteration to the route. We were satisfied with our 30:27, albeit trailing in the wake of Piers Keenleyside (25:27) and Fiona Bishop (25:40). [Also Oliver Mathai 27:40] |
| Clara Halket | Running | 9km | NYC | Thur am | Got to Central Park! Another destination run ticked off this morning, NYC time, logging over 9km in a decent time, despite waiting at multitude of pedestrian crossing lights there and back! | |
| Emma Moreton | Running | Half-M | To/up/down/from St Ann's Hill | Wed or Thur am | 02:29:00 | Half marathon running to hill club (in the morning darkness) and back on 29th Dec. |
| Jain Reid | Running | Half-M | Central London | Sat am | 02:20:00 | A social half marathon in London 'The Big End of Year Run' - a lovely way to end the year. Starting at Marble Arch and ending at Embankment tube (via Primrose Hill, Regent's canal, Hyde Park, Big Ben, Millennium Bridge. See #BigEndofYearRun for next year. They do a mid-summer one too from Marble Arch to Hammersmith. |
| James Edwards | Running | 8km | Pen Y Ffan (Brecon) | Xmas | Xmas eve early morning trail run up Pen Y Ffan (Brecon) 8km, 540m elev. Weather was calm in the carpark and stormy/cloudy on top. Thankful for having the right gear keeping us warm and dry. | |
| Janet Smith | parkrun | 5km | Stevenage | Sat am | A bit of parkrun tourism to finish 2022. A slow one as I have been ill for a few weeks but it was a nice one. Had a chat with fellow tourists over coffee. They had come on the train from Haywards Heath. Looking forward to many more parkruns in 2023 ♀️ | |
| Judy Turton | Running | 2km | Sun | 2km run today, lovely start to the New Year. | ||
| Julie Barclay | Running | 11km | Wellesley Trail and Basingstoke Canal | Thur | 01:05:00 | 4.75k run along canal with a 1500m threshold run along Wellesley Trail and then 4.75k back. |
| Paul Watt | Running | 11km | Wellesley Trail and Basingstoke Canal | Thur | 01:05:00 | As Julie |
| Michael Ball | Sprints | St George's College | Wed | This week 6x200 at St George's college with some of the Woking gang cold wet and windy. | ||
| Neil Frediani | parkrun | 5km | Prudhoe & Newbiggin-by-the-Sea | Sat/Sun | Two parkruns to end 2022 and begin 2023. Both just sub 30min. Saturday was my local run at Prudhoe and Sunday was a new run for me at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea (pictured). Best for the year was the 15+mile Stanhope trail 'half' marathon in March on no training. Rest of the year was pretty rubbish, total running distance about 350 miles, about 30% of my usual total. 2023 target is at least one race per month, 25 parkruns and 15 volunteering stints and to at least double the 2022 mileage. | |
| Piers Keenleyside | Race | 5km | Serpentine Last Friday of the Month (Hyde Park) | Fri lunch | 00:25:27 | As John and Benita, I did the LFOTM 5K in Hyde Park - I had been hoping for sub-25 but that will have to wait until next year. This was my 36th and last race of 2022 of which 17 were marathons. I've covered 2,144 miles this year with 604 of them in races. |
| Roderick Hoffman | Running | 19km | Round Heathrow Run | Thur | 02:18:00 | See above, with Amanda Coombs and Piers Keenleyside. Including Saturday's parkrun my mileage total for 2022 came to 1,176miles from 256 runs. |
| Simon Turton | Orienteering | 6.7km | Tilehurst, Reading | Sun | 00:45:00 | New Year’s Day Street-O to blow away the cobwebs. Running with Hayley, first time she’s tried this kind of event and she really enjoyed it. Undulating but patches of off-road made for a good outing in mild conditions. |
| Steve Hillier | Running | 4.6km | Roxbourne Park | Sun | 00:32:33 | I've tried to catch up with some cycling this week: three local rides totalling 39km. Today I returned to running, a plod through Roxbourne Park, past the miniature steam railway, with several engines chugging around. |
| Steve Newell | Indoor Rowing | 2000m | Home | Sat am | 00:09:36 |
Photos: Top row are held over from the Christmas week. Sideways names indicate the photographer, rather than the subject.
Roderick Hoffman
35 activities are recorded for December 31st, and 25 for the 1st January. 23 did activities both days. Looking across the whole holiday period 42 club members did at least one parkrun of the four available and 16 of us did four parkruns over the period (but no one travelled to Poland to run a parkrun on their special day, Boxing Day). Ten of the 16 ran at four different parkruns over the period. In contrast Ian Cunningham was very loyal to Bushy Park - running there four times.
Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
| Club parkrunner | parkrun | Day | Run# | Pos | Time | Age Grade | Comment |
| Alan ANDERSON | Rickmansworth | 31 | 233 | 372 | 0:47:52 | 54.63% | first run at Rickmansworth, park #19 |
| Alastair HESLOP | Guildford | 31 | 456 | Run Director at Guildford | |||
| Alastair HESLOP | Guildford | 1 | 457 | Pre-event setup (but neither the run, nor a subsequent role) | |||
| Alice BANKS | Higginson, Marlow | 31 | 136 | 118 | 0:50:52 | 41.09% | tailwalker's companion ? |
| Alice BANKS | Black Park | 1 | 640 | 314 | 0:46:11 | 45.25% | 13th visit to Black Park, P-Index is 5 * |
| Anne Bannister | Black Park | 1 | 640 | 209 | 0:32:21 | 63.63% | 5th run at Black Park, P-Index is 5 * |
| Barry WALTERS | Rushmoor | 31 | 347 | 181 | 0:29:38 | 57.65% | |
| Ben CHAYTOW | Crane Park | 31 | 486 | 33 | 0:23:51 | 59.89% | plus course setup volunteer |
| Ben CHAYTOW | Bushy Park | 1 | 911 | 265 | 0:24:50 | 57.52% | run #319, 23rd at Bushy, P-Index is 2 * |
| Ben Kelly | Reading | 31 | 582 | 17 | 0:22:38 | 57.00% | |
| Benita SCAIFE | Guildford | 31 | 456 | 182 | 0:33:51 | 62.68% | 249th parkrun |
| Benita SCAIFE | Cassiobury | 1 | 348 | 158 | 0:31:02 | 68.37% | run #250, 2nd run at Watford * |
| Bob BANNISTER | Osterley | 31 | 404 | 123 | 0:27:43 | 61.09% | 30th run at Osterley, P-Index is 5 |
| Bob BANNISTER | Black Park | 1 | 640 | 124 | 0:27:52 | 60.77% | 13th run at Black Park, P-Index is 5 * |
| Christopher T KELLY | Westmill | 31 | 215 | 58 | 0:42:51 | 36.48% | first run at Westmill, park #72 |
| Christopher T KELLY | Reading | 1 | 583 | 101 | 0:47:54 | 32.64% | second consecutive New Year run at Reading * |
| David Cowell | Rushcliffe | 31 | 468 | 7 | 0:19:28 | 72.86% | 3rd run at Rushcliffe, P-Index up to 3 |
| David Cowell | Kingston | 1 | 591 | 4 | 0:19:12 | 73.87% | First run at Kingston. BA fastest man. * |
| David DUGGAN | Hanworth | 31 | 116 | 40 | 0:34:52 | 46.80% | 56th parkrun of the year |
| David DUGGAN | Kingsbury Water | 1 | 408 | 168 | 0:36:02 | 45.28% | run #440, 1st at Kingsbury Water, park #116 * |
| Denis FOXLEY | Harrow | 31 | 328 | 122 | 0:29:55 | 61.34% | |
| Denis FOXLEY | Rickmansworth | 1 | 234 | 171 | 0:29:49 | 61.54% | run #205, 15th at Rickmansworth, P-Index is 3 * |
| Diana Smith | Bushy Park | 31 | 910 | 1141 | 1:00:08 | 38.94% | Tail walker at Bushy |
| Emma Moreton | Bedfont Lakes | 31 | 623 | 15 | 0:23:26 | 66.15% | |
| Fiona Bishop | Dulwich | 31 | 498 | 236 | 0:25:31 | 78.25% | run #217, 3rd at Dulwich, 507 finishers |
| Fiona Bishop | Bushy Park | 1 | 911 | 316 | 0:25:40 | 77.79% | run #218, 24th at Bushy, P-Index is 5 * |
| Frankie HOGGE | Dinton Pastures | 31 | 166 | 6 | 0:21:19 | 69.43% | PB by 67 seconds. First female finisher |
| Harjit Jhooti | Aldenham | 31 | 320 | 47 | 0:36:49 | 48.53% | first run at Aldenham, park #65 |
| Harjit Jhooti | Frimley Lodge | 1 | 603 | 222 | 0:35:55 | 49.74% | 1st run at Frimley Lodge, park #66 * |
| Ian CUNNINGHAM | Bushy Park | 31 | 910 | 365 | 0:25:40 | 62.47% | |
| Ian CUNNINGHAM | Bushy Park | 1 | 911 | 283 | 0:25:06 | 63.88% | run #488, P-Index is 4 * |
| Jain REID | Richmond Park | 1 | 736 | 170 | 0:30:00 | 61.17% | Third New Year run at Richmond - 20,22,23 * |
| Janet SMITH | Stevenage | 31 | 272 | 195 | 0:36:32 | 50.91% | First BA lady. First run at Stevenage, park #52 |
| Joan FOXLEY | Harrow | 31 | 328 | 194 | 0:41:14 | 57.76% | |
| Joan FOXLEY | Rickmansworth | 1 | 234 | 274 | 0:43:17 | 55.03% | run #238, P-Index is 3 * |
| Joe NOLAN | Black Park | 31 | 639 | 328 | 0:33:16 | 51.35% | |
| Joe NOLAN | Black Park | 1 | 640 | 219 | 0:32:55 | 51.90% | 359th run at Black Park, P-Index is 4 * |
| John SCAIFE | Guildford | 31 | 456 | 183 | 0:33:51 | 50.96% | |
| John SCAIFE | Cassiobury | 1 | 348 | 159 | 0:31:03 | 55.56% | 2nd run at Watford * |
| Julie BARCLAY | Tidworth | 31 | 28 | 19 | 0:25:42 | 73.41% | 53rd parkrun of the year. BA ladies record and grade record. |
| Julie BARCLAY | Hoblingwell | 1 | 222 | 29 | 0:26:19 | 71.69% | BA fastest lady and best age grade, park #121 * |
| Maria JOVANI | Hanworth | 31 | 116 | 15 | 0:24:45 | 64.78% | |
| Melanie Miller | Basingstoke | 31 | 709 | 313 | 0:56:36 | 31.57% | first run at Basingstoke, park #95 |
| Melanie Miller | Sandhurst Memorial | 1 | 81 | 84 | 1:01:06 | 29.24% | 1st time at Sandhurst, park #98, parkwalker (v) * |
| Mike DENNISON | Hanworth | 31 | 116 | 2 | 0:20:49 | 79.82% | |
| Mike DENNISON | California Country | 1 | 129 | 4 | 0:20:22 | 81.59% | 1st run at California, park #63, BA best age grade record. * |
| Murray Hogge | Dinton Pastures | 31 | 166 | 7 | 0:21:20 | 76.48% | PB by 65 seconds. |
| Neil FREDIANI | Prudhoe Riverside | 31 | 241 | 63 | 0:29:39 | 56.55% | 17th run at Prudhoe Riverside |
| Neil FREDIANI | Newbiggin-by-the-Sea | 1 | 203 | 110 | 0:29:51 | 56.17% | 1st run at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, park #67, David Cowell retains club record * |
| Paul TIMMS | Tetbury Goods Shed | 31 | 114 | 30 | 0:23:29 | 67.71% | |
| Paul WATT | Tidworth | 31 | 28 | 7 | 0:22:22 | 69.90% | 53rd parkrun of the year. BA male record. |
| Paul WATT | Hoblingwell | 1 | 222 | 11 | 0:23:11 | 67.43% | BA fastest man, park #117, "Londone" a bit closer but still a long way to go * |
| Roderick HOFFMAN | Great Salterns | 31 | 51 | 26 | 0:32:21 | 50.44% | 4th "Great" parkrun. Very muddy, windy and raining. |
| Roderick HOFFMAN | Lymington Woodside | 1 | 249 | 70 | 0:31:51 | 51.23% | Slowest of 10 club runs by 7 club members. Conditions not great! Park #347 * |
| Sarah GORDON | Braunstone | 31 | 564 | 219 | 0:36:19 | 56.68% | |
| Scott DAVISON | Hanworth | 31 | 116 | 30 | 0:29:11 | 50.94% | 399th parkrun |
| Steve NEWELL | Rickmansworth | 31 | 233 | 373 | 0:48:36 | 41.32% | Fibonacci streak 1 - 233 |
| Steve NEWELL | Bushy Park | 1 | 911 | 920 | 0:47:24 | 42.37% | 8th run at Bushy, P-Index up to 8, a nine eleven event with a happy ending * |
| Trish MCCABE | Osterley | 31 | 404 | 151 | 0:28:45 | 55.25% | 35th run at Osterley, P-Index is 5 |
| Trish MCCABE | Bushy Park | 1 | 911 | 487 | 0:27:57 | 56.83% | run #396, 16th at Bushy * |
* Best time and grade of 2023!
35 members ventured out on New Year’s Eve for their final parkrun of 2022 and while many stayed close to home our wanderlust sent us to several new places as if on a summer weekend. Harjit Jhooti (36:49) headed north to Aldenham Reservoir in Hertfordshire while Melanie Miller (56:36) opted for a stroll round Basingstoke. Roderick Hoffman(32:32) rediscovered his love for “Great” parkruns with a visit to Great Salterns near Portsmouth. It provided a case study of the first year in the life of a new parkrun which attracted an average of 200 for the first three weeks and currently sees nearer 50. Alan Anderson (47:52) was given a lift to Rickmansworth for his first taste of the Aquadrome setting and was outgunned at the finish by John Butcher (Ware Joggers) who is several years his senior! Janet Smith (36:32) was at Stevenage for the first time while Chris Kelly (42:51) completed his year at the delightful setting at Westmill.
David Duggan (34:52) brought his innings to a close with 56 parkruns in a
calendar year at Hanworth where Scott Davison (29:11) took his parkrun career
total to 399. Benita Scaife (33:51) ended the year on 249 at Guildford.
Paul Watt (22:22) and Julie Barclay (25:42) wrapped up a busy 2022 both
completing their 53rd run of the year at Tidworth (Wilts). There was a
time when 40 parkruns in a year was considered “Obsessive”.
Finally, a
flurry of activity of a former member enjoying the summer at Curl Curl in
Sydney. Caroline Yarnell (24:53,79.1%) packed in two late runs on
Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve to take her total for 2022 to 7.
Many parkrunners across the nation will have fond memories of previous New Year’s Days with some runs available at 9 am but others at 10.00 or 10.30 allowing for the fleet of foot to take in two events on the morning – in some cases with a jog between the two venues keeping the muscles warm, or a later start for those juggling festive priorities. Not this year though so, in England, it was a question of 9 a.m. or nothing and 35 members stepped up to the mark - many making it two over the weekend, if not on the same day.
David Cowell (19:12) set the fastest time by a member in 2023 on his debut at Kingston, only 24 hours after another sub 20 run at Rushcliffe in Nottingham. The time is 7 secs better than Mike Dennison has achieved at the Thames-side course. Paul Prescott has run there in 18:46 but was not a member at the time.
Roderick Hoffman (31:51) kept an eye on the late cancellations list and visited Lymington Woodside for the first time as a late choice. More mud than he enjoys. He has retained his place in the top 25 parkrun tourists worldwide with 347 different events but competition is fierce.
Benita Scaife (31:02) earned the right to buy a “250” vest after finishing at Cassiobury Park. Fings aren’t like what they used to be!
Steve Newell
Roderick adds: "Whilst it seemed leisurely being able to do a New Year's Day double over a 25-hour period, rather than the previous three-hour period, you still need to feel for the parkrun results technicians. The first finisher of 2023 finished at Gisborne in New Zealand just 64minutes after the last finisher of 2022 had finished at Coquitlam in Canada."
John Scaife reports "At Guildford parkrun on NYE to help ex-BAAC member Will Blair celebrate his 250th parkrun. Run Director Alastair Heslop made it a BA foursome. Turnout of 222 wasn’t bad considering the awful conditions. The drainage in Stoke Park is v. poor and at the bottom of each loop the mud was ankle-deep. Will Blair did an impressive 24:29 with us paddling in behind in 33:51, three and a half minutes slower than the previous day's Serpentine LFOM in Hyde Park."
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