BA Athletics Club News Digest 3rd March 2014
Forthcoming Events:
§ Thursday 6th March - Magic Mile, Bath road from
12:45
§ Saturday 8th March - Club Featured parkrun
Guildford for 09:00 (details below)
§ Wednesday 19th March - Club In-house Event -
"Mad March Twister"
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.
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British Airways
Athletics Club Awards for 2013, presented on 26th February 2014
The following trophies and awards were presented at the awards evening on
Wednesday 26th February:
Special
Marathon Award
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Jagjit Singh Batth
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For running over 100 marathons on seven continents
including Antarctica and raising money for various charities, supporting
young and upcoming sportspeople to fulfil themselves through sport and
supporting many events including our own Concorde 5Mile.
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Chairman’s
Award
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Roderick Hoffman
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For improving club communications with the
introduction of the BARunner website and the weekly
news digest, provided in digital and paper forms.
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Tom Mitchell
Trophy
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Chris Kelly
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Awarded by BA Clubs to the top sportsman amongst its
thousands of members. Chris has
dominated the Reading parkrun and broke three hours in the London Marathon in
2013 – very good for age.
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Alamo Trophy
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Richard Ruffell
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After much debate Richard has been awarded the Alamo
Trophy for his participation in the Stellenbosch World Airline Road Race and
attracting significant support for the team.
Or for something else.
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Brian Forrester
10K Trophy
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Paul Knechtl
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Being the overall winner of the highly prestigious
World Airline Road Race 10K.
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Round The Block
Trophy
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Steve Newell
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Competing in, planning and marshalling more key club
events than any other members – and for the second year running. We would be a poorer club without him.
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Men’s Track and
Field
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Gary Rushmer
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Competing strongly in the Rosenheim League and our new
campaign, the Vets League, including running outstanding times over 800m,
1500m and 3000m. He won the most of
our own Grand Prix events, not only on the track, but also triumphing in his
new speciality, the Triple Jump.
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Men’s
Cross-Country Trophy
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John Taylor
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A narrow winner in what this year was a highly
competitive event – calculated taking into account of age, appearances and placings in the cross-country league.
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Ladies
Cross-Country Trophy
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Marion Woodhouse
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Achieving more for the club through appearances and placings than our other ladies - despite strong
challenges from Helen and Mel.
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Most Improved
Athlete
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Roderick Hoffman
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Now running faster in his fifties than he ever did in his
forties - cutting his typical 5k times from 30 minutes to 25 minutes and five
mile handicap time from 49 to under 40 - thanks in part to a two stone weight
loss.
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Female Athlete
of the Year
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Helen Smith
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A constant presence in the ladies cross country team,
and a regular competitor at our in-house events and Runs of the Month.
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Male Athlete of
the Year
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Steve Hillier
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Regular attendance at our Track and Field events and
establishing the club in the London Vets League by being undefeated in the
hammer competitions over two matches.
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Veteran’s
trophy
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John Coffey
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Back from a difficult period to show his determination
to run well, despite everything that has been thrown at him.
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Well done to everyone mentioned above AND to everyone else who was in the
running for one of these awards and anyone who succeeded with their own
personal running goals.
Fuller details of the reasons for each award are available on the website: http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/Awards_Speech_Notes_February_2014.doc
parkrun
update for Saturday 1st March
No space for a results table this week partly because it would have been an
extra big table with 19 family members involved in parkruns
last Saturday including seven ladies.
Both the total and the number of ladies may be records for the
club. Alastair Heslop was not one of
them – perhaps he was fitting in some secret training! High spots included:
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Congratulations to Neil Frediani for his 100th
run AND getting a course PB at Bedfont Lakes. Steve Newell did his 125th at the
same venue and also got a course PB,
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Alan Anderson for his 300th run,
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Colin Haylock, Alice Banks and Daniela Mayerova
all achieved parkrun PBs at Bushy, Woodley and Black Park respectively.
Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls
Roderick
Hoffman / Steve Newell
Club Featured
parkrun Guildford Saturday 8th March for 09:00
We've been using an 'extreme weather' course at Guildford for the last month
or so, avoiding all the grass stretches as they have been very
wet/muddy/standing water. It remains to be seen if things will have dried
out enough to be able to use the standard route on March 8th, but either way
there will be a run and as it will be the 100th Guildford parkrun, it is quite
possible that there will be a bit of a celebration afterwards.
Looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it. I'm all set for
it to be the first time I run in it (as opposed to helping to run it).
Alastair Heslop
Try to get there in plenty of time so that we can
have a BA team photograph AND try to stay afterwards for a coffee and a cake or
late breakfast at the Costa Coffee in the Spectrum sports centre. You can park in the park&ride
section of the car park – sat. nav. postcode GU1
1UP. Website details: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/guildford/course/
. If you need to know more contact Alastair
or Monica Alonso. If you need a lift please ask on the BARunner
facebook page.
Track Training
Session – from Monday 24th February
Photo left to right - Tom "the shining" Rowley, Eddie
"hamstrings" Giles, Gary "Junior" Rushmer, Gary "not
quite so junior" Rushmer, Julie "run, skip then jump from here to
here" Barclay and Steve "better late than never" Hillier.
Photo credit: Roderick "making up the numbers" Hoffman.
This was a well-run training session and hopefully Tom and Julie will be
willing to do some more like it in future months.
And a marathon
training opportunity
Quite a few BA have asked me more about the
free Datchet Dasher 20 mile marathon training event
happening next Sunday 9 March as I mentioned this in my training reports and have
done over the last few years. I spoke
to the DD chairman last Saturday at Parkrun who confirmed it is all on as
usual - here are the details. It is a
very friendly event - no frills and just put on to help anyone - just turn
up, run, enjoy and limp home straight after!
Details:
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Sunday
9 March, 9am start, briefing 8.45am Annual Datchet
Dasher 20mile mara training run (free),
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Starts
at their clubhouse: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SL4+6HX
(Romney Lock Road) Windsor Home Park,
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Loos/changing
facility at club,
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Go
right the way down until you see the clubhouse on the right, park for free
about 50yards beyond on the left,
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Sign
in and put predicted time and collect/wear ident
ribbon/clip (very important),
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Check
out the route map which should be in the clubhouse,
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Advertised
by “word of mouth” as it goes through Windsor Park as an 'unofficial event'.
Not a race - don’t wear club vests,
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There
are marshals and water stops,
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Normally
between 50-100 runners from neighboring clubs, ranging from 6 to
12+min/milers.
Hope to see a few of you there,
Cheers, Joe Nolan
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