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BA Athletics Club News Digest 2nd December 2019Events:
Our next Bedfont Club meeting will be on Wednesday 4th December (ad hoc runs), 11th December for the Five-Mile Handicap and 18th for our Christmas Run and Social. January club evenings will be on 8th (ad hoc) and 22nd (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: 1st November. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 18th November 2019) / # 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. Xmas Dream Mile THIS Thursday at 12:45Join us on Thursday for what could be the last ever organised Dream Mile on the Bath Road. Because of the season there will be mince pies and mulled wine after the run, so please let me know if you plan to make it so that we cater for the correct numbers. It would be great to see as many of the former runners as possible as we are thinking that this may be the last time that we formally organize this event which has been running for 6+years and 76 events (unless we missed a month). It could continue as an ad hoc diary date. As some of you know, I should be leaving BA in the next few months and thought this would be a good time to stop my involvement having taken over from the event originator Paul Knechtl in January 2017. As always new runners are welcome too. If anyone feels strongly about continuing the event and would like to take over organizing it then let me know and I will pass on the mailing list etc. The event will start at 12:45 by the Newport Road Junction-->http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=507119&y=176891&z=110&s….Route(http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6061575)
then heads back towards Waterside on the Bath road, stopping just before the
Thistle hotel. Neil Frediani {NeilF@barunner.org.uk} Perivale Five results #
Roderick Hoffman Piers adds "Did my fastest 5 miler for 2 years - not a great leap forward as it was only by 10 seconds or so but at least I'm going in the right direction. Finished in 40:29. Saw a few other BA runners in the results - 5 or 6 of us there? There were 97 Ealing Eagles out of 349 finishers!" Ed: I also speculate that Jas had a good run (i.e. finished ahead of me) despite, or perhaps because of, having recently had a few weeks off from running. Quiz ResultOur recent quiz was hard fought and very close. A small uprising by the quizzers over the identity of The Netherlands' capital was rudely suppressed by the question masters, while the correct pronunciation of "langue de chat" was probably never achieved. On to the good news: Thank you to everyone who made a donation at last Wednesday's quiz at our Bedfont venue. As a result of your generosity, £135 will be donated by BAAC to the White Lodge Centre for Disability at Chertsey. Steve & Linda Hillier Christmas ShoppingThere will be a Santa's Sack at our Xmas do on December 18th. Please buy a present of £5 value, wrap it and bring it on the night. And tell Steve to expect you on the night. Club parkrun results for Saturday 30th November 2019
This weekend served as a reminder that Global Warming doesn’t necessarily mean that balmy conditions persist right through the autumn, winter and spring on Saturday mornings. While some parks which were flooded last week have still to dry out sufficiently to allow running to recommence, other venues have now succumbed to the effects of sub-zero conditions variously reported as black ice, too icy, extremely icy, too slippery, only suitable for Torvill & Dean (remember them?) parkruns as far south as Hendon, Crawley and Weybridge were called off as short notice. November is not really a winter month either. Kay Trinder (21:02, 83.84%) achieved the best result of the day at Woking. That was the highest age-grade score at Woking on Saturday. Julie Barclay (23:23) did the same at Alice Holt Forest and Julie and Paul Watt (24:00) added the letter “A” to their collection. What did I tell you? Roderick Hoffman (32:00) wasn’t chasing the letter “J” at Jersey Farm (near St Albans) so much as completing the parkrun tour of Hertfordshire. He also eclipsed the club record previously held by Janet Smith (for almost a year). Janet Smith (34:31) visited the California parkrun (Wokingham) to collect a “C”. Trish McCabe (29:25) continued her tour of south London parkruns at Greenwich and established a female club record there. There are quite a few more to do in that part of the world including the appropriately named Hoblingwell Wood with plenty of grass, hills, maybe even some mud at this time of year! John Coffey (29:35) may have begun to feel he was getting bogged down at Hazelwood – he went back to Bushy for the first time since New Year’s Day (239th run there altogether). Janice Jones (28:17) made her first pilgrimage visit to Bushy and has now been to 20 different parkruns. David Duggan could be on his way to a world record after two more runs in Florida this week with a Thanksgiving Day run at Clermont Waterfront and a Saturday run at Weedon Island Preserve. He has done 53 this year already with all the Saturdays in December still to come and Christmas Day as well. Steve Newll Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats Full club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - Download and explore.
Petra Otto reports "Freezing cold and foggy in Whittlesey this morning. I could barely hang on to the slippery tokens with my ice cold fingers. However, my bobble hat and several layers of clothing had kept me nice and toasty. It’s always a real pleasure to volunteer. I’m at the end of the funnel to the right." Ed: All volunteers do a great job but they are not always equal jobs - it may not have been quite as cold at Bushy for Mike Dennison who had a similar role to Petra...but Bushy had 1281 tokens needing to be handed out whereas there were only 43 at Whittlesey. Black Park Pacers - 5th year anniversary!It will be the 5th year anniversary of my parkrun pacer squad at Black Park this coming Saturday. I formed the squad after fine tuning my pacing there each week, carrying a flag with my intended run time, for about 6 months in preparation for the 2014 New York marathon. Over the years we have only missed two weeks due to weather cancellation of the event. We will be calling it a 'special pacer thanks day' with as many members of the squad out on duty as possible. We will encourage runners not seeking PB's to run in convoy with their nearest pacer, as a social celebration and for potential new recruits to see how it is done. We will also ask all runners to thank their nearest pacer as they always feel fulfilled when gratitude is received. We are hoping for a bumper attendance, and are suggesting festive hats and tinsel are worn. Over the years we have had enquiries from many other parkruns about our pacer process and equipment used, so that they can follow our example. Joe Nolan Xmas and New Year parkrunsAs usual there are ample opportunities to work up an appetite for your Christmas dinner and also to start your New Year resolutions with either one or two parkruns. Personally, I will be trying to give everybody a good time at Northala Fields on Christmas Morning (Timekeeper) and on New Year's Day I hope to be doing a double of new-to-me runs in Melbourne. The list of special-event UK parkruns is here: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/special-events/ . Check this carefully because many events won't be operating on Christmas Day and those that do may have unusual start times. For other countries go via this page: https://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/articles/200565633-Special-Events. You may also spot, as I'm sure David Duggan has, that one could run in Finland or Norway on Christmas Eve, in Denmark on Christmas Day and then in Poland on Boxing Day. Someone will. If you are keen to try a double on New Year's Day then this page may make your planning easier: http://tailrun.uk/nyd/2020/ Roderick Hoffman Marathon Results
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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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Note
that Mike entered before joining BAAC and Maria and Piers have BAAC as a second
claim club. All of the above scored a point on the Club's Round-the-Block table
and this means that Steve Taylor, Maria Jovani and Mike Dennison all hit the
10point recognition barrier, so well done and thank you to them. There are just
two events left this year to enable others to join the 24 club members who are
at or above 10points. Those with BA club branding posed for a photograph
afterwards - with the branded club clock.
Steve Newell &
Roderick Hoffman