BA Athletics Club News Digest 3rd July 2017Events:
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. *Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. Difficulty viewing this email? Read it off the website instead - http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Club Facebook Page "BARunner" https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/
Ed: I'll butt in at this point to say that next week's digest may be a challenge to produce and distribute on time. I'll be spending the weekend and next week on a canal boat without guaranteed access to the Internet but I will aim to get something out by the end of Tuesday. BA Staff Fun Run - Thursday 20th JulyWe are getting nearer to the date of this year's BA Staff Fun Run at Harmondsworth Moor. I need more volunteers to commit themselves for 16:30 onwards on that day (or as soon after that time as possible). We are determined to make the event as big as it can be despite having had the corporate support removed this year. It is also available for friends, family and colleagues to enter as an event - raising funds for Cancer Research UK. Volunteers to me at: Roderick Hoffman {roderick@rhoff.org.uk} Enter via: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/find-an-event/ba-fun-run-and-little-legs-for-life-2017 Schedule: Little Legs run (under 12s) from 16:30, 5k/10k from 17:30, presentations (so also end of duties) from 19:00. And this year's courses are the same as last years...
Grand Prix Track&Field at Uxbridge 26th June resultsSimon Turton showed a fine return to track competition on Monday night, with a win in the 1500m Grand Prix event. Roderick and Steve chased Simon around the Uxbridge track to no avail. The action then switched to the infield, with Steve shouldering the lighter weight and the spoils in the Shot Putt event. The next Grand Prix will be on July 31st. Come and test yourself in the 800m and discus! Results:
Steve Hillier (stevehillier@msn.com) Rosenheim Update - reminder of Kingsmeadow event THIS Wednesday.On the 21st June we took part on a scorching evening in the third of this season’s Rosenheim fixtures at St. Mary’s in Twickenham. This time we had a more ‘experienced’ team with no one under 50 years old. We could only field a men’s team and welcomed John Lennon for his first event. No one fancied jumping high so we didn’t participate in the steeplechase or the pole vault but I think we took part in all the other events (oops, except for the 3000m, it was way too hot!!). Thanks to:
Results are at:
http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=202006
Steve Hillier {stevehillier@msn.com} Neil Frediani {neil.frediani@ba.com} July Dream Mile this Thursday starting at 12:45The 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. Afterwards please email me with your time so that I can add it to the all-time results sheet. Any questions then please ask me by email. Neil Frediani {neil.frediani@ba.com} Club AGM at Wraysbury "Silver Wing" Sailing Base on Wednesday 28th June - ResultsThe important results will follow once Steve Hillier has had time to write up the minutes (but in short Roderick Hoffman took over as Chairman and Tricia McCabe joined the committee "Without Portfolio". The full committee list is on the website {www.barunner.org.uk/Club_Committee.shtml}). But prior to the meeting Steve Newell organised a one mile race which consisted of five laps around the sailing base. The results were...
Thanks to Paul Brandon for saying "Go", manning the stop watch and recording the results. Please note that Paul has a new email address now: Paul Brandon {pbrandon1@hotmail.co.uk} - his previous Amadeus address will no longer get to him. Surrey League Ladies Cross Country, 2017-18 SeasonThe dates and venues for this coming season are below. Please note there are some changes from this year to start times depending on how many races are run on the day at the same venue. When there are 4 races on the day, the Division 1 will start at 11.30am and Division 2 at 1.30pm. When there are 3 races on the day, both Division 1 & 2 start at 11.30am.
The last 2 matches may swap. I will keep you informed of any changes and remind you of start times of ach match nearer the time. For now, please out these dates in diaries ☺ . Clara Halket (Ladies Captain) Ride London 2017It's just four weeks to our last big contracted marshalling event of the summer. Thank you for your commitment to the London Marathon, Vitality 10K, and Great City Race. Last but not least comes Ride London 2017, a re-run of the Olympic race, on Sunday 30th July. Our role is to manage a pedestrian crossing and sweep at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, an amazingly iconic spot. In return, we are provided with lunch, T shirts, caps, and for a lucky few, flags and whistles! If you can spare the day, please drop me a line. Thank you, Steve Hillier {stevehillier@msn.com} Club parkrun results for Saturday 1st July
To maintain continuity let me start with an update on the progress of GAP Connaghs Quay Nomads in the 2017/18 Europa League (football) competition. On Thursday they scored a 1-0 home leg victory over HJK, their opponents from Finland in front of almost 500 spectators. The return leg is in Helsinki this week. HJK are currently top of the premier division in Finland having lost only once in 16 matches. Nomads’ manager, Andy Morrison, is open about his tactics and has said he intends to grab an early away goal to ensure progress to the next round which will involve a trip to either Moldova or Macedonia. Maybe a match v. Arsenal is just a few weeks away. I’ll keep you posted. There were good conditions at Bushy Park for the rally of 80-and-over parkrunners. The following finished and had remembered their barcodes:
Julie Barclay (21:47, 80.95%) was in good form at Rushmoor as was Richard Ruffell (20:28) as he lowered the club record at Aylesbury. Chris Kelly (19:54) dipped under the 20-minute mark at Reading yet again. Petra Otto has broadcast via facebook her pb at March. Ecstatic. Two former members running well were Duncan Wright (18:52,81.72%) at Burnley (parkrun pb) and Paul Westbrook (32:39). Paul is now MV75 and marshals far more than he runs these days. Alice Banks (28:16) along with 174 others was attracted to the inaugural run of the long-awaited Henley-on-Thames parkrun. The course is hilly, narrow, unsuitable for buggies, I imagine that means wheelchairs as well, and dogs are banned. The nearest toilet is a full km from the start/finish and parking may well not be free. BA park #342. Ed: 174 isn't that many for an inaugural run so many non-locals headed the advice to stay away. Those near-locals who did attend were made welcome, especially since Maidenhead was cancelled last weekend, but one wonders how the narrow course will cope week by week with the potential numbers Henley could attract? Looking more for somewhere where he hadn’t run before more than an even hillier challenge, Roderick Hoffman (29:27) went to Hadleigh in Essex where the course uses elements of the London 2012 Olympic Mountain Bike trail. The final climb to the finish line is particularly cruel. BA park #343. Roderick is now on 199 different parkruns and plans to meet up with the most single-minded parkrun tourist to date, Gregory Bailey, for his 200th at Beckenham Place (London Borough of Lewisham) on 22nd July. Gregory is currently on 197 parkruns with no repeats. The last eleven weeks have seen him at Bestwood Village (25:01), Catterick (22:45), week off(!), Harcourt Hill (34:16), Pomfrey Hill (25:00), Rushmere (25:44), Boston (27:31), Lancaster (25:15), Bexley (22:23), parkrun de Montsouris (21:35), Redcar (21:46). Gregory runs for Wakefield District Harriers and is in the MV50-54 age category. Unless there is some sort of pact I fancy Gregory will reach 200 a couple of minutes ahead of Roderick. We could all go along and watch the fun. Travel advice available from Steve Newell - he was there some weeks ago. No bike required. Steve Newell There are currently 999 active parkruns in the parkrun computer. Some others have ceased over the years and are no longer listed - obviously Little Stoke, but also others including early parkruns in Iceland, Zimbabwe and even Afghanistan. Some of those listed are yet to start (including several within range of West London) but it is only a matter of weeks before there will be 1,000 parkruns active. Members of this club have attended about 1 in 3 of those active parkruns (plus Little Stoke). Country by country we've run 62% of those in the UK, 56% of French parkruns, 50% of Singapore parkruns and 1 in 3 of those in the USA. We've yet to run any in Sweden and by the time we do, we can expect Norway to have been added to the countries offering parkruns. The 999 parkruns are all shown on the Club Google Map - green trees if not yet done, red trees if done. Click on a parkrun for more details.
If you want to promote a special parkrun then let Steve or I know... There is my 200 tourist parkrun at Beckenham Place on 22nd July and the August 5th Black Park Pacer Day (BA Run-of-the-Month for August). Roderick Hoffman
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