BA Athletics Club News Digest 4th January 2022
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - now for the 2022 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Next week's digest will revert to the usual late Monday release (leaving the editor free to attend the Tuesday evening Street-O!). This Week's EventsPlease help me by sending in your results, for instance by filling in the tables below and forwarding to News@barunner.org.uk. Some events will have "Prompts" set up in Facebook. These allow the posting of a single image and some text and make it easy to flip through everyone's entries. Track-on-Field (by end of Sunday 9th January, to be reported on in the following digest):
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by late Sunday) or use the Facebook group prompt:
40th Anniversary ClothingOur 40th Anniversary clothing is available to purchase - sweatshirts and a technical tee shirt. Both feature the 40th logo on the sleeve and the full club colours on the back. The club colours also feature on the front with a full image on the shirt (making them suitable as race shirts) and on the sweatshirts as a small image. The sweatshirts come in small, medium, large and extra large. The shirts come in a men's fit from small to extra-large and in a ladies fit from small to large. The ladies fit are slightly smaller than the equivalent sizes in the men's fit. The men's fit are longer - so if you are short and don't want a dress, choose the ladies fit. The price of the sweatshirts is £18 except that each paid-up club member can buy one sweatshirt for £10. The price of the tee shirts is £13 but again each paid-up club member can buy one shirt for £7. I'll also provide a free club logo bandanna with every order. There may be delivery costs also, but if we can arrange free delivery then we will. Please let me know what shirts you may want and I can then discuss with you when and how I can get them to you. Payment will be via electronic transfer to the club's account the details of which I will send you. So let me know how many tee shirts of what size and fit you are interested in and how many of each size for the sweatshirts. Also let me know where you are geographically.
2021 Athletic Achievements and Targets for 2022We had 32 listed last week and there are another 7 below. I've also had
"Happy New Year all club member" messages from contacts including Chris Kelly
and Malcolm Field.
Round Heathrow Run # 2021 Club Participation OutcomeLast Thursday, 30th December, Ian Cunningham and I met up for the traditional Christmas/New Year Round Heathrow Run. We ran together for the first half and then for the second I ran the standard second half so finishing the 12mile circuit in just over 2 1/4 hours and Ian ran the longer way via the canal for 17.5miles in just under 3 hours. This was the last featured run in the club's 2021 Participation competition so Ian and I got the final points on offer. No one else broke through the ten point barrier so I can confirm that across 2021 the 14 club members who contributed most to club participation at events were Amanda Coombs, Benita Scaife, Chris Kelly, Denis Foxley, Jain Reid, John Scaife, Julie Barclay, Mike Dennison, Paul Watt, Roderick Hoffman, Simon Turton, Stephen Taylor, Steve Hillier and Steve Newell. One of these will be presented with the Tom Rowley Club Participation trophy but which one I'm not saying. That is for two reasons, partly to save the surprise for the club 2021 awards evening (pencilled in for the 23rd of March) but primarily because I'm not sure of the winner myself - it is so tight at the top, including with the table administrator (myself), so I'm needing to refer the results to others for checking and adjudication. The first events of the 2022 Participation competition will be on January 15th with the Surrey League Cross Country matches. Roderick Hoffman Recent Activity AchievementsI picked up on 14 club members and friends reporting recent activity achievements.
Photos include some from the 2021 achievements lists. parkrun results for Saturday 1st January 2022At least 35 of us started off 2022 well with an early morning parkrun or volunteer. I don't have information on how much sleep individuals got the previous night - though it was well under six hours for me and my sisters. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
We have known for some time that the NYD parkrun experience this time round would be a little different. With 1st January falling on a Saturday it could have been business as usual but several core teams decided to take a rest especially if they had operated on Christmas Day. For once-a-week parkrunners the excuse of over over-exercising didn’t apply for once but whatever the official line about parkrun being a benefit rather than a hindrance to good health some people will have understandably stayed away from what are often crowded occasions. The 0900 starting time may have been a challenge for those partying into the small hours, in past years there have been many 1030 options available as well but not this year. In UK, Christmas Day attracted almost 76,000 runners spread over 362 events against the 103,000 at 762 events the previous Saturday. New Year’s Day witnessed 499 5km parkruns and 97,405 runners. With several parkruns in West London (e.g. Gunnersbury, Northala Fields, Crane Park. Wormwood Scrubs) not being held, Osterley Park attracted the biggest group of our members with Mike Dennison (19:54, 82.75%) achieving a top 10 finish and the best time and age grades of the day. Trish McCabe (29:05) was at Osterley for New Year for the first time with her usual choice of a Bushy/Crane Park double not on the menu this year. Our other runner with a top ten finish was Paul Watt (23:56), 4th at Bethlem Royal Hospital. That is less than half the time he took to limp to the finish at Old Deer Park last week. There were PBs for Maarten Stenham (23:52) at Lymington Woodside, and Sarah Gordon (34:39) at Brixworth Country. Melanie Miller (39:00) ran at a new venue for the club at Bartley Park in Southampton which only started the week before Christmas so 51 parks for her and 611 now for the club. She helped sort the finish tokens out afterwards as well so she’ll be invited back! Roderick Hoffman (30:03) set a new club record at Brixworth Country in Northamptonshire as he notched up his 314th different park. Life is a bit uncertain at the moment so trying to predict more than a week ahead can bring frustration and disappointment – so avoid it! Relax! Suffice it to say that Chris Kelly (24:07) was at Reading to record his 498th parkrun finish this week and hopes to complete his 500 later in the month. See below, but watch this space. Steve Newell Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download and explore (this is where I get most of my club stats from). Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Chris Kelly's current plan is to run his 500th parkrun on Saturday 22nd January at Reading parkrun. Obviously things may not go to plan, but if they do we would like members to support Chris becoming our second club member of the parkrun "500 club" (after Alan Anderson). However, that would create a bit of a dilemma for us since we had pencilled in Gunnersbury to be a Club Featured parkrun on that Saturday, and at least one of our members is listed on the Gunnersbury volunteer roster for that date. The club's philosophy with parkrun is that we don't tell members which parkrun to do, we encourage both local parkrun support and parkrun tourism and will point out opportunities for club participation. So we have decided that for the 22nd January we will have both Gunnersbury and Reading as Club Featured parkruns - feel free to join some of us at either of these, or run your local parkrun, or run any parkrun; your decision. Note that Steve is expecting to be away for the next couple of weeks so the weekly report is likely to be down to me - unless anyone else would like to volunteer (the process is that I extract the club's results on the Saturday, then Steve writes the report based on the weekly results on the Sunday or Monday). Roderick Hoffman Next Digest - Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send them to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. Difficulty viewing this? Read it from the website:- http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Club website: www.barunner.org.uk.
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