baRUNNER - a website for the British Airways Athletics Club
BA Athletics Club News Digest 4th June 2018Events:
We are still meeting at Cranford Community Centre most Wednesdays for an informal run from 18:00, including June 6th. From July we will be meeting at the Bedfont & Feltham Football & Social Club. 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] / # Club Points event 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. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "BARunner" page), BA Runner Facebook Group (ask to join) Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Brian Forrester
We would also like to put together a slideshow (PowerPoint) of pictures for Brian's funeral - covering all the years we have known him. Could you submit any electronic copies of pictures to Paul Brandon {pbrandon1@hotmail.co.uk} OR notify him if you only have paper copies [note that a smartphone photograph (without flash) of a paper photograph will probably provide sufficient resolution for inclusion]. We would like club members to share any short anecdotes of their times with Brian. Please submit these to me at roderick@rhoff.org.uk so that they can be published at a later date for all to share. Roderick Hoffman (Chairman) London Vitality 10K Thanks #On Bank Holiday Monday 28June, a group of us ventured out to the London Vitality 10K. As in previous years, we have been asked to look after the two Disley Crossings at The Strand and Birdcage Walk. This year we were not able to park at the former Concorde Club, however Accommodation Lane carparks and pickup worked out well. Personally I thought the Volunteer Check-in was better organised than last year. We were given everything we need to set up the crossings. The only item missing was bottles of water that Team Birdcage forgot to collect! Our crossings were expertly handled by experienced volunteers and it all went smoothly. At Birdcage we encountered the usual few disgruntled souls who objected to having roads closed and causing inconvenience to local residents. A couple of young fellows waiting to cross the road were making disparaging comments about some of the runners as they went by. I nearly smacked them on their heads! It was a very warm day, we thoroughly enjoyed the time there and I was sure some of us caught a tan. I would like to say a Big "Thank You" to all the volunteers for their continued support and sacrificing their Bank Holiday to come and help out at the event. For the record, some have already put their names down for next year! Clara Halket Rosenheim Meeting Two 30th May 2018 #On a lovely evening six of us plus super-fan Tom Rowley gathered at the devilishly difficult to get to Epsom and well track. I used my phones satnav mostly to find the fastest route there but stupidly followed it down a tiny lane almost onto the track itself!! A long reverse with a sore neck followed and then I turned down the road which I thought I should have gone down in the first place. Doh! Steve Hillier threw hammer and shot, Neil Frediani ran 400m and 800m, Paul Watt ran 1500m and 3000m, Jacqui Musselwhite ran 100m, 400m and 800m, Julie Barclay ran 1500m and 3000m and Kay Trinder making her debut ran 3000m. Julie and Paul had arrived straight from work and just in time for the 1500m. The adrenalin from the painful journey there paid off for Julie who was first lady home in the 1500m. Other results are below:
The ladies are going well sitting in equal 3rd, one match point off second. On a personal note I ran 400m and 800m and came in a distant last in both on very tired legs but got applauded home and found that I got pbs in both. You can only run against the clock when some of the runners are less than 1/3rd of your age. Neil Frediani # Club Points UpdateThe points from the two events above have been added into the Club Points table and Steve Hillier becomes the 8th club member to achieve 10points. Graham Taylor has improved his place to be in joint third with Joe Nolan and there are now a total of 59 people having been awarded points in two or more events. There are two events in the same week in July where we have marshalling opportunities so it would be good to see a rush of volunteers for one or both: Standard Chartered Great City Race 2018 - Tuesday 17th July #Following hot on the heels of both the VM London Marathon and the Vitality London 10000 comes the STANDARD CHARTERED GREAT CITY RACE (5km) (www.cityrace.co.uk), on TUESDAY 17th JULY. We’ll again be running two Disley Shuttles at 3.5 km and 4.5 km as well as continuing to provide course support around the Bank of England (2.5 km). I need 25 helpers across the 3 points. It’s a great evening and being only a 5km is all done and dusted by 20:15! Race start is 19:15 with road closures going in at 18:30. We’ll meet outside MOORGATE tube at 18:15. They'll be a T-shirt or jacket (not sure which yet) for everyone, a contribution towards travel expenses (£12) and some post-race refreshments in a local hostelry (and the Club gets a good donation to help keep membership costs down). If you can help please supply the following:
Thanks in advance for your continued support. Regards, Simon Turton {simon.turton@ba.com} BA Fun Run - Thursday 19th July #Once again, the British Airways Athletics Club is organising the runs within the BA Fun Run event in aid of Cancer Research UK (a "Race for Life" branded for "BA"). For this I'll need around twenty marshals. The marshals will get a sandwich and a drink or two - and the satisfaction of helping with a great fundraising event on Harmondsworth Moor and raising the profile of the club within British Airways. Please let me know that you'll be able to help: Roderick Hoffman {roderick@rhoff.org.uk} To avoid over-commitment please note that there is also a Rosenheim
Track&Field event on the Wednesday between these two events, also a points
event! Or alternately write the week off to supporting the BAAC and watch yourself raise in the points table! Club parkrun results for Saturday 2nd June 2018
This week we congratulate Kay Trinder (21:21) on her 100th run, this latest one at Woking. Kay ran her first parkrun, or maybe it was called a time-trial, back in 2008 so it has taken ten years to reach her century. Oliver Mathai (25:36 at Gunnersbury) finally reached the finish line for the 50th time exactly eleven years after his first outing Bushy Park (22:50) on 2nd June 2007 when the attendance was 394. Alan Anderson (34:57 at Gunnersbury) didn’t appear at a parkrun until 7th July 2007 when he ran at Bushy Park (24:07). Alan has recently celebrated his 500th parkrun! Barry Walters has had a long hibernation, so it was good to see him appear at Mole Valley (24:26) (Denbies Vineyard) and clip a full minute off the club course record previously set by Ian Cunningham. The event is now 12 weeks old, is attracting a field of around 300 runners weekly and proving to be challenging course. The sub 17 club is still awaiting its first member. Our fastest runner of the day was Richard Ruffell (21:00) who set a new club record at Fell Foot (Lake District). That takes Richard onto 76 different parkruns. Our ground-breaking tourists were Maria Jovani (23:12) who travelled to Italy to run at Roma Pineto and Steve Newell (37:19) who sought out a newish parkrun at South Woodham Ferrers where the course is by a tidal creek in Essex. Steve needs one more for his century of different runs (worldwide). Former member Katherine Stather (nee Henville) (21:41 at Torbay Velopark), who has given motherhood priority over sport rather more than Serena Williams, reappeared at a parkrun after an interval of seven years. Her 18:52 at Bushy Park still stands as the female club record for a parkrun. Steve Newell Updated parkrun stats - club parkrun stats CorrectionsFirst some corrections and additions from my report last week:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Mole Valley parkrun