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BA Athletics Club News Digest 3rd November 2014Forthcoming Events:
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. 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. First 2014/15 Winter Handicap 29th October result
On a mild October evening the first 5 mile handicap of the 2014/15 season got under way. There were 10 participants including Harry doing his (shorter) walk, not the biggest turnout but hopefully there will be more next month (Wed Nov 26th). The evening was fairly uneventful with most runners within 2 minutes of their handicap time, not bad for the first run of the season. It did spit on to rain near the end before the runners went for a shower and the marshalls (Paul, Brian, Paddy and Andy Eynon junior) adjourned to the clubhouse waiting for the runners to join the usual chat and gossip. Paul Brandon Surrey League Matches - Details of Men's events on 8th NovemberDear All, The second match of the men's Surrey X/C League takes place on Saturday 8 November at Epsom Downs hosted by 26.2 RRC. The race starts at 3pm. The start and finish are located near Tattenham Corner, just inside the race course. Attached is a map showing the course route which will be 2 laps of about 2.5 miles. There are several car parks on Epsom Downs near to the start and public toilets close by. Please remember all new members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are all welcome at this event. If you have any questions, please let me know. Gary Rushmer 07927930414 Club parkrun results for Saturday 1st November
Unseasonal exceedingly mild weather extended in November (in southeast UK anyway). Natalie and Richard Ruffell ran at the well attended inaugural Tring parkrun with Natalie establishing the club record (22:51). Earlier, at 7am in Singapore, Roderick and Daniela (and Roderick's sister Sarah) were our first runners at Singapore's East Coast Park parkrun. That takes the club's worldwide total to 138 parks and Roderick's score to 94. Expect both to edge higher during the coming month. Meanwhile, at Gunnersbury, Alan Anderson complete with Halloween costume and
a 30' minute pacer's vest was keeping up with the 27' and 28' pacers for the
first km but overall finished very close to his target. Up North, Chris
Kelly took the Wythenshawe club record (20:26) from Ray Hampton. Down
South, newish members Mark and Kimberley Turner ran at Chichester, the recent
haunt of Simon Ashford who switched to support his father's efforts at Black
Park and where Janet Smith ran for the third consecutive Saturday. Steve Newell With several club parkrun "Tourists" extending their tourist parkrun counts this month it is probably worth mentioning that any parkrunner who appears on the parkrun "most events" table is able to join the facebook parkrun tourist page UK parkrun tourists. There were raised voices this last week on that page and on the equivalent "New Parkrun" page because the organisers at Tring went public on discouraging Tourists from their inaugural event. This polarised views between those who believe that the parkrun spirit is such that everyone should be equally welcome at every parkrun and those who agree with the view that too many parkrun tourists at inaugurals risk overwelming and putting locals off. I don't think we have the answer yet - several parkrun tourists went to Tring anyway - many like the Ruffells because Tring is a new local parkrun for themselves. Don't forget that parkruns are not just for life, they can also be run at Christmas. Several parkruns are having special runnings on Christmas Day including the following West London parkruns. Everything is as normal though don't expect the café to be open afterwards. Then on New Year's Day there are even more - and the start times vary. One parkrun result per parkrunner is allowed on Christmas Day and two on New Year's Day - Black Park followed by Upton Court perhaps? With Saturdays as well this gives you the opportunity to boost your parkrun count by 6 in 15 days. Or you can have breakfast with the in-laws. List mapped here (with some missing):
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Many parks are still to announce their intentions - see http://www.parkrun.org.uk/christmas-compendium/ for the updated official list. Roderick Hoffman Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls Updated BA parkrun map: http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/BA Parkruns 2014.jpg {some parkruns may have been missed} Running Shorts
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