BA Athletics Club News Digest 3rd December 2018
Events:
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Thursday 6th December Bath Road Dream Mile (with Christmas treats) and/or
Retired Runners' Lunch
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Wednesday 12th December Five Mile Handicap at the Bedfont Club to finish at
19:00
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Wednesday 19th December Mile Relay / Christmas Social at the Bedfont Club
18:00 / 19:30
New members and potential 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.
Last updated: First week of October.
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(parkrun details updated 2nd week of October) /
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Perivale Five 2nd December Results #
Stephen Norris |
29:47 |
(20th) |
(TVH) |
Maria Jovani |
34:56 |
(84th) |
just ahead of 35' pacer |
Piers Keenleyside |
42:41 |
(206th) |
(Ealing Eagles) |
Jasvir Singh Modaher |
47:52 |
(263rd) |
Steve Hiller |
51:33 |
(302nd) |
355 finished
Steve Newell
Ladies Cross-Country - changes to dates and venues
The next two Ladies Surrey League Cross-Country matches will now
be held at:
9th February in Richmond Park (Kingston end) hosted jointly by
Kingston & Poly and Fulham RC)
- 11 am - Snr Div 1
- 12 noon - U15/U17
- 12.30 - U13
- 1 pm - Snr Div 2 (including BAAC)
2nd March in Lloyd Park hosted by Croydon H, Striders of
Croydon and SLH
- 11 am - Snr Div 2 (including BAAC)
- 12 noon - U15/U17
- 12.30 - U13
- 1 pm - Snr Div 1
Full match details will be on he website and sent out by the host
clubs nearer he match dates. I should like to remind you that
the Seniors (both Divisions) race over 8kms for both matches.
I am sorry if these changes are inconvenient but it was the best
I could do in order that we still had 4 matches.
Kind regards,
Ron Gobey, SLCCL Secretary
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Club Quiz Result from November 21st
Following the club handicap event at Bedfont on November 21st, runners,
families and supporters adjourned to the bar for a testing evening of quizzing.
Four teams scratched their heads over some testing questions (ABBA's last UK
hit? You'll be surprised!), with the Taylor family walking away with the
coveted trophy.
Steve Hillier
London Marathon thanks
A small team of us were invited to represent the club at a thank you event
last week. London Marathon Events Ltd, led by CEx Nick Bitel, Volunteers
Manager James Quinlan and a speaker from the London Marathon Charitable Trust
organisation, gave some highlights from 2018 and the year ahead.
London Marathon is staffed by 75 paid employees, but the race relies on 6,000
volunteers every year, so THANK YOU! The range of activities is huge,
covering crossings, water stations, baggage and much, much more. The
effort put in by the volunteers ensures that the race gets a high enjoyment
score from the runners each year.
The London Marathon is the most successful charity event in the world every
year. In 2018, £63.7 million was raised by participants. Since the
race started in 1981, £955 million has been raised for charities, so in 2019 the
£1 billion mark should be smashed!
The Virgin London Marathon will be supporting Dementia charities in 2019.
Meanwhile, the London Marathon Charitable Trust will also continue to support
facility and capital projects in London and Surrey, and providing grants, to
encourage people to get active. £8 million was spent in 2018, including a
bike trails project near our home patch in Osterley Park. Over 50,000
people have been helped by the work of the trust. Once again, thank you to
all our volunteers, who manned our six crossing points, and helped at all of the
other London Marathon organised events throughout the year.
Steve Hillier, Simon Turton, Melanie Holman, Alan Friar
Club parkrun results for Saturday 1st December 2018
1st December | parkrunner |
Time |
parkrun |
Comment |
Age Grade |
Adam |
Moquet |
17:49 |
Fulham Palace (cfp) |
M-4, club record |
73% |
Steve |
Taylor |
25:10 |
Fulham Palace (cfp) |
1st run at Fulham Palace, park #11 |
61% |
Steve |
Newell |
34:21 |
Fulham Palace (cfp) |
run #335, 12th at Fulham Palace |
54% |
Roderick |
Hoffman |
28:39 |
Jells (Melbourne) |
park #253, BA park #457 |
55% |
Charlotte |
Habgood |
40:03 |
Jells (Melbourne) |
run #35, park #10 |
44% |
Maria |
Jovani |
22:51 |
Brooklands |
run #250, F-2, park #33 |
68% |
Ian |
Cockram |
23:55 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands |
62% |
Bob |
Bannister |
24:29 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands |
67% |
Paul |
Watt |
24:58 |
Brooklands |
run #93, 2nd at Brooklands |
61% |
Caroline |
Cockram |
25:52 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands |
64% |
David |
Duggan |
28:14 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands + report writer |
56% |
Trish |
McCabe |
28:19 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands |
54% |
Anne |
Bannister |
29:05 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands |
67% |
Zoe |
Ostley |
52:28 |
Brooklands |
1st run at Brooklands, tailwalker companion |
35% |
Danny |
Norman |
23:22 |
Brooklands |
run #617, park #271 |
58% |
Chris |
Cowell |
41:15 |
Brooklands |
run #448, park #201 |
44% |
Emanuel |
Brousse (LCY) |
22:48 |
Southend |
run #49, 31st at Southend |
62% |
Denis |
Foxley |
28:42 |
Harrow |
100th run at Harrow |
61% |
John |
Coffey |
29:33 |
Hazelwood |
run #307, 31st at Hazelwood |
65% |
Petra |
Otto |
32:19 |
March |
run #67, 51st at March |
65% |
Ben |
Chaytow |
22:28 |
Crane Park |
run #212, 183rd at Crane, only 110 runners |
62% |
Sarah |
Gordon |
33:15 |
Houghton Hall |
1st run at Houghton Hall, park #103 |
58% |
Alan |
Anderson |
46:31 |
Gunnersbury |
run #535, 297th run at Gunnersbury |
49% |
Chris |
Kelly |
20:38 |
Reading |
run #408, 318th at Reading |
73% |
Chris |
Evans |
24:21 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #220, M-23, only 90 finishers at Bedfont |
62% |
Scott |
Davison |
27:01 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #276 |
53% |
Ian |
Cunningham |
26:02 |
Bushy Park |
run #353, 286th at Bushy, only 697 runners |
60% |
Kay |
Trinder |
21:26 |
Woking |
run #112, 87th at Woking |
81% |
Benita |
Scaife |
33:00 |
Gladstone |
run #137, 6th at Gladstone |
61% |
John |
Scaife |
33:25 |
Gladstone |
run #154, 7th at Gladstone |
50% |
Piers |
Keenleyside |
26:24 |
Stratford on Avon |
2nd run at Stratford, much quicker |
61% |
last |
week |
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Pymmes |
attendance record 109, this week 45 |
Alice |
Banks |
volunteer |
Higginson Marlow |
run director |
Parkrun
is not a race but in the UK the weather was the winner this week with plenty of
rain is SE England deterring parkrunners in their droves. Attendances at
many parks dropped by at least 50% but our members will still out there in
force. The club featured parkrun at the sometimes crowded Fulham Palace
(Bishops Park) was in some ways all the more enjoyable without the congestion
and it’s a pity only three members took part. Adam Moquet (17:49) lowered
the club record previously held by lifelong Fulham supporter Gary Rushmer.
Steve Taylor (25:10) and Steve Newell (34:21) both arrived on bikes.
(photo – without bikes). The next cfp in the diary is at Black Park on 2nd
February 2019.
Roderick Hoffman (28:39) completed his southern hemisphere tour in warm
sunshine at Jells in eastern Melbourne taking his total onto 253 parks and the
club figure edged up to 457. Readers should be reminded that this reporter
will stop counting when 500 is reached.
After last week when the Woking based runners tried out the new parkrun at
Brooklands this week was the turn of our regular Bedfont Lakes runners to escape
from the home puddles. Maria Jovani (22:51) was the pick of the bunch this
week. Chris Evans (24:21) and Scott Davison (27:01) were two out of only
90 finishers at Bedfont.
Steve Newell
Updated parkrun stats -
club parkrun stats
Largest parkruns
With an attendance of "only" 697, perhaps the first time ever, Bushy parkrun drops out of the top ten
worldwide parkruns in terms of attendance - and slips to 13th place behind twelve South African
parkruns. North Beach, with 1505 attendees, was over twice the size of Bushy!
There were also more parkrunners outside the UK last Saturday than there were in
the UK (though that is not the first time that has occurred). But also I've done
some 'work' for the Facebook 'parkrun Statsgeek' group that shows that at each
parkrun country's peak attendance, that per head of population there were more parkrunners per 1,000 population in Ireland than in the UK, and also more
parkruns per 1,000 population in Ireland and Australia than in the UK.
Roderick Hoffman
Running shorts...
- Dear Ed, Today ( 2Dec) my extended XC time was 40.04 (slightly slower
than last time). No need to clarify conditions underfoot but aquaplaning or
straight through the deep puddles was the order of the day. Andy Rayner.
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