BA Athletics Club News Digest 2nd March 2015Events:
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at all of these events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Updated Feb20th. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook "BA Runner" (link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/636199849751546/). This news digest is being sent to you because you are on the BA Athletics Club email list. To be removed please email us at news@barunner.org.uk. Difficulty viewing this email? Read it off the website instead - http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. 2014 Club Annual Awards - the resultsOur annual awards were issued last week. For those who weren't there, and those who were but weren't taking notes, details of the winners are on the baRunner website at http://www.barunner.org.uk/News_Trophies.shtml. But to save you clicking on the link here are the details:
* It has been pointed out that Paul Knechtl also took part in the Ghost Busters dance - but I don't recall him doing the Irish jig and besides which he has shares in two trophies this year and is a past winner of the Alamo. Better late than never Alan Friar got his 70th Birthday Cake during the awards evening. I've now been asked to get a photo ready for his 75th. Roderick Hoffman Berkhamstead Half and Five Mile "Fun" Run 1st March 2015 ResultsOn a cold but sunny Sunday morning many runners gathered for the annual Berkhamsted Half and 5 mile runs. Amongst those were about a dozen from BA and another dozen or so from Clapham Chasers, all who did their runs at varying speeds and then headed back to the Ruffell’s for a shower and some lunch. Bridget (Mrs R) and her mum, now 93, had spent all Saturday and all Sunday morning preparing food for 28, and on reflection this is more of a marathon than the mere half the runners were attempting. Everything came together and food was served at 13.30 and enjoyed by all. As well as a big thank you to the chef’s an extra thank you to those who were kind enough to bring along some deserts to ensure Barry was happy. This year we decided to ask for £5 from each person to be donated to charity, hence proving there is no such thing as a free lunch. We collected £110 and this has been distributed between 3 charities.
Richard Ruffell For those who have never done it the Berkhamstead Half is a tough event. With steep uphills at 3 and 7 miles and other undulations. As an example my pace averaged 9:20 minute/miles but my slowest k was between 4 and 5K at 11:06m/m and my fastest was between 8 and 9 at 8:01m/m. Roderick Hoffman ASCA Cross Country, IcelandThere is a video on facebook of the start of the ASCA Cross Country in Iceland, hosted by Iceland Air. Daniela and Steve Hillier can be seen in the video starting off on a snow covered track but sadly there has been no news of either of them or other participants since. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10204439692884657&set=vb.1001517628&type=2&theater Could anyone willing to help form a search party please put themselves forward. Club parkrun results for Saturday 28th February 2015
Club parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls (not updated this week) Steve's away so apologies for anyone whose efforts have been missed. Steve did manage to fit a run in before heading off for the airport and he also managed to drop me a quick line "A gentle drizzle drifted over Gunnersbury Park as almost 300 runners set off. Kerstin Luksch continues her astonishing improvement dipping under 22 minutes for another PB. Oliver Mathai seems to adopting Gunnersbury as his new park run of choice. Marion Taylor beat Piers (nursing yet another injury ahead of a Sunday ultra run), Alan Anderson and Steve Newell". Richard Ruffell and I were both running parkruns in Watford, though at different parkruns, Richard at the inaugural Cassiobury and Roderick catching up on the 5th running of South Oxhey. Each of us were saving ourselves for the next day's Half Marathon and both were accompanied by family members though Richard did a better job of running with Bridget than Roderick did with his sister. Bridget is thinking of running a parkrun perhaps every other week - why should Richard have all the fun! Interesting news from Bushy parkrun - the established route is probably going to be changed from April because the park authorities are worried about the soil above the chestnut tree roots in the first k getting too compacted by the 1,000 runners each week. More details including a map of the proposed new course: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/bushy/news/ Roderick Hoffman Brother for Elise StatherCongratulations to Kat and John for their new arrival, Toby, born last Monday, 23rd February 2015. I'm sure that Kat put in most of the effort though I'm reliably informed that Monica was a great help at short notice. £5 DISCOUNT ON BRIGHTON & HOVE 10 MILE ROAD RACE"We are very pleased to offer your club members a £5 discount on the new 10 Mile Road Race that is coming to Brighton & Hove in 2015. The Bright10 sits one week before The Great South Run, and two weeks before The Cabbage Patch 10M, creating a 10 mile season in the South East. The unique discount code for your club is {contact me for the code: roderick@rhoff.org.uk} {this event is on Sunday 18th October, the Sunday before the week of WARR}. Your members should enter the code during registration to receive the discounted entry rate. To help spread the word of this limited time offer we would greatly appreciate you forwarding this message onto your members. Link to enter:
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