BA Athletics Club News Digest 4th September 2017
Events:
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Tuesday 5th September, Run-of-the-Month, Round-the-Park at Harmondsworth
Moor at 12:30*
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Thursday 7th September, Dream Mile, Bath Road from 12:45*.
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Monday 11th September, Track & Field Grand Prix, Sprints & Javelin, Uxbridge
Track 18:00*
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:
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Round-the-Park
Tuesday 5th September Harmondsworth Moor start 12:30
The event starts near the wooden bridge beyond the main car
park. It is a two lap course and is approximately three miles in
length, so just a bit shorter than five km. This is a fun event and ALL
levels of runners/joggers are welcomed. If you are not quite up to the
full course you can do it as a one lap, two mile run.
Due to staff being turned over, this is likely to be the last running
of this event. It was previously held in Cranford Park but in
recent years has been regularly held at Waterside. If you think you can
make it then please let me know, although you won’t be turned away if
you just turn up! Full details are on the Running and Jogging group on
Yammer for those still within BA.
Any questions, please ask.
And bring a friend! Get to the start ready for a 12:30 off.
Neil Frediani
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BA Men's Surrey League Cross Country Dates for season 2017-8 and
Milocarian's (Men and Ladies) info.
It will soon be time to get your muddy shoes on again for the cross country
season, although the mud doesn’t usually make an appearance until after
Christmas.
The following are the men’s Surrey League fixtures for the coming season, the
races are approximately 5miles long:
- Oct 14th Wimbledon Common @ 3pm (after Div 2 fixture at 1:30pm so
parking may be difficult) – hilly hopefully not too long this year!
- Nov 11th Epsom Downs @3pm – a hilly gallop and not just for
thoroughbreds
- Dec 2nd Roundshaw Downs @ 3pm – a nice mostly flat one
- Feb 10th Lloyd Park (of course) @ 2pm (before Div 2 fixture at
3pm) – usually muddy (or frozen) and always hilly
Anyone planning to run the league fixtures who has not run in the last 2
years then please let me know along with your date of birth so that I can add
you to our team list. Just because you are on the list doesn’t mean that you
have to turnup, it just makes the admin. easier on the day. Also if you
unexpectedly decide that you fancy a bit of mud partway through the season then
feel free to just turnup.
Also we have the Milocarian fixture at Sandhurst Military academy on the 28th
October. This is a popular event with teams of 6 if my memory is correct and is
followed by sandwiches and cakes laid on by the hosts. Again, let me know if you
are interested in taking part. This is open to ladies and men.
Neil Frediani (neil.frediani@ba.com)
Ed: And don't forget the ASCA Cross Country in Dublin on
Saturday 4th November.
Club parkrun results for Saturday 2nd September
2nd September |
family & friends |
time |
parkrun |
commentary |
grade |
Joan |
Foxley |
35:58 |
Rickmansworth |
run #70, course pb |
60% |
Denis |
Foxley |
26:12 |
Rickmansworth |
run #81, 4th at Ricky |
66% |
Steve |
Newell |
34:45 |
Old Deer Park |
run #279, 16th at ODP |
53% |
Roderick |
Hoffman |
28:30 |
Westmill Farm |
run #267, park #205 |
55% |
Jeremy |
Short |
22:22 |
Osterley Park |
run #88, 14th at Osterley |
69% |
Benita |
Scaife |
32:23 |
Heritage Harbor, IL |
F-1, first US parkrun |
61% |
John |
Scaife |
32:24 |
Heritage Harbor, IL |
M-8, first US parkrun |
51% |
Ben |
Chaytow |
22:01 |
Crane Park |
run #175 |
62% |
Piers |
Keenleyside |
27:20 |
Fulham Palace |
run #176, 2nd at Fulham Pal |
59% |
Janet |
Smith |
34:40 |
Rother Valley |
1st run at Rother Valley |
50% |
Paul |
Watt |
20:51 |
Rushmoor |
run #53 |
72% |
Julie |
Barclay |
20:58 |
Rushmoor |
course pb |
84% |
James |
Shoulder |
22:16 |
Lonehill, ZA |
BA park #359 |
58% |
Chris |
Evans |
23:45 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #176 |
63% |
Caroline |
Cockram |
24:55 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #281 |
66% |
Trish |
McCabe |
27:14 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #199 |
56% |
David |
Duggan |
29:25 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #215 |
53% |
John |
Lennon |
32:15 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #260 |
48% |
Neil |
Frediani |
41:02 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #176 |
39% |
Anne |
Bannister |
25:59 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #147, parkrun pb |
74% |
Ian |
Cunningham |
24:38 |
Bushy Park |
run #299 |
62% |
John |
Coffey |
25:24 |
Bushy Park |
run #251, 2017 sb |
75% |
Chris |
Kelly |
19:42 |
Reading |
Reading celebrates 400th |
76% |
Alice |
Banks |
25:42 |
Black Park |
run #95, 11th at Black Park |
75% |
Joe |
Nolan |
33:01 |
Black Park |
33' pacer |
49% |
Tony |
Barnwell |
33:01 |
Wycombe Rye |
run #149, 70th at Wycombe |
57% |
Alan |
Friar |
27:31 |
Woodley |
run #241, 72nd at Woodley |
66% |
Steve |
Taylor |
24:51 |
Northala Fields |
run #71, 42nd at Northala |
61% |
Richard |
Ruffell |
23:32 |
Beeston (Notts) |
park #67, club course record |
66% |
Barry |
Walters |
22:00 |
Cranleigh |
run #70, 1st at Cranleigh |
74% |
Sarah |
Gordon |
33:08 |
Burnham&Highbridge |
1st run at B&H, park #86 |
58% |
Eddie |
Giles |
27:31 |
Salisbury |
run #88, 12th at Salisbury |
63% |
Petra |
Otto |
31:50 |
March |
run #24, 21st at March |
65% |
Mark |
Turner |
26:04 |
Clover Point |
run #9, 1st at Clover Point |
58% |
Kimberley |
Turner |
26:11 |
Clover Point |
run #16, 3rd at Clover Point |
62% |
Bob |
Bannister |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes |
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Ian |
Cockram |
vol |
Bedfont |
run director |
Jonathan |
Cox |
vol |
Crane Park |
backup timer |
Alan |
Anderson |
volunteer |
Osterley |
finish token support |
There was more pioneering tourism this week. The day started early at 8
a.m. in South Africa with James Shoulder (22:16) running at Lonehill in Greater
Johannesburg. A few thousand miles and two hours later Roderick Hoffman
(28:30) was at Westmill Farm near Ware in Hertfordshire. He warns that it
is not the flattest of courses and could be particularly challenging come the
winter. A couple of hundred miles further north but in the same time zone
found Janet Smith (34:40) at Rother Valley in South Yorkshire {see below}. Finally,
across the Atlantic, Benita (32:23) and John Scaife(32:24) who not so long ago
were running in New South Wales made their outing at an American parkrun at
Heritage Harbour in Ottawa, Illinois and that takes the club total to 362
different parks. Curiously just one week earlier (26 Aug) former members
Steve and Linda Dodsworth were also at Heritage Harbour and grabbed first male
and first female (3rd overall) placings. What might have been. Just
to keep the sun moving over to the Pacific coast we then had Mark Turner (26:04)
making his debut at Clover Point on Vancouver Island while Kimberley Turner
(26:11) was just a few seconds behind. Kimberley still holds the overall
club record with 26:01.
Paul Watt (20:51) and Julie Barclay (20:58) were in good form at Rushmoor.
That is Julie’s best ever time at Rushmoor and the age-grade score of 84% is
impressive. Both of them intend to run at Black Park next week and improve
on the times they ran there last month. Joe Nolan was back in action this
month as a pacer (33 minutes) at Black Park for the first time in over a year
and his squadron helped 129 out of the 672 runners to a pb. Maybe next
time (7th October) he will be the 32 minute pacer. parkrun is not meant to
be too serious but there is an undoubted culture of ever ongoing improvement
always lurking in the background. That is not sinister – the human race
has always been like that.
Richard Ruffell (23:32) set a new club record at Beeston (near Nottingham).
He has now run at 67 different parkruns. New York City Marathon entrant
Chris Kelly (19:42, 76.06%) maintained his recent run of good form (equalling
his 2017 age grade best) at Reading where they were celebrating the 400th run.
Chris has been there for 277 of those and is our most loyal member when it comes
to running at home. Joe Nolan (Black Park) on 271 is not far behind.
John Coffey (25:24) who completed his 250th parkrun at Bushy Park (214 runs)
last week was back for more and recorded his best time of the year. With
its long history, Bushy Park is the one run where club age group records have
some meaning. In the VM75-79 group Alan Anderson’s best there was 24:58.
Moving on to the VM80-84 group, the mark set by Derreck Brion (29:47) has stood
for almost a decade. He only ran there once as an 80-year-old. Alan
Anderson’s best at Bushy since turning 80 is 30:32.
Steve Newell
Updated club parkrun stats
parkrun records and movements
Late Friday or early on Saturday Whistler parkrun in Canada finally published
their results for the previous Saturday, 26th August. This was significant
because this was the 1,000th parkrun result for that Saturday, the first time
that the 1,000 runs figure has been reached.
Several parkruns had record numbers last Saturday. Jersey parkrun had
had a record turnout of 347 the previous weekend, for their 99th run, but for
the 100th the record was exceeded again with a massive 515 participants.
Jersey has only been going for 100 runs, Wimbledon Common had a new record of
578 participants on its 563rd run.
Hatfield Forest (a National Trust property near Stansted Airport) had a
record 363 participants and may get another record at the next planned event on
September 16th. This is ahead of their last planned event on September 23rd (and
a request has been published asking for this to be a "locals only" event).
On September 30th the whole team move to Castle Park in Bishop's Stortford where
a new parkrun will start up from event number 1. The reason for the
closedown and startup is that the existing venue cannot cope with the numbers,
particularly during the winter months, and the replacement venue is too far from
the original venue for the same name to be retained (and "Hatfield" itself is
40km away, next to Ellenbrook Fields parkrun course!).
Roderick Hoffman
Pacer day at Black Park parkrun 2nd September
Another
very successful pacer squadron sortie at Black Park parkrun last
Saturday - in the words of the Event Director 'Well done to the 129
runners who recorded a new PB this morning - sounds like the pacing team
did a top job'. We had 672 runners in total, and I was really pleased to
re-join the squad properly (on 33 minute duty) after a year absence due
to injuries. Nearly every pacer amazingly managed to be within just 1
second of target, and steady all the way, receiving so many words of
thanks.
More good news is that Paul Watt and Julie Barclay, who enjoyed the
course so much on the club run of month day in August, are coming back
again next week for another go - everyone is most welcome again.
Joe Nolan {thejoenolan@gmail.com}
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Orienteering Challenges
Remember that this weekend there are three opportunities to Orienteer in
London - Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For details see:
http://slow.org.uk/events/cityrace2017/ and note that Simon Turton and I
will be running the Saturday event from the Barbican. There are different
distances depending on your age and experience including a 4k course for
"Newcomers" (of any age). Enter via the website and meet us in the Barbican OR
parkrun at Highbury Fields and travel in with me from there (once I've scanned
your parkrun token).
Also note that this season's first Street-O event will be in Fulham on the
19th September (a week later than previously planned, due to a football fixture
on the original date).
http://slow.org.uk/streeto/sep17/
Roderick Hoffman
A day in the life of...........Janet Smith.........
Once
upon a time, a few months ago anyway, I decided to enter the British
Masters Weight Pentathlon Championships. This year they had moved to
Sheffield which would require an overnight stay due to the distance from
home. Like all good parkrun tourists, I had a thought. Can I fit a
parkrun in before competing in 5 throwing events in the afternoon!
I started to look at the parkruns in the area and then what hotels on
the M1 were close by. I of course then consulted the BA parkrun stats to
find out if there were any parkruns in the vicinity that had not yet
been run. I came up trumps with Rother Valley.
Having arrive in Sheffield late on the Friday night, I found the
venue quite easily the next morning. It was £1 to park for parkrun
runners. The course was around a couple of lakes and was stunning. It
was 1 lap on tarmac and limestone paths and was pretty flat. Very
friendly people and they did a great bacon and egg bap in the café
afterwards. I would definitely recommend this one if you are in the
area. Lots of parking and plenty of toilets.
It was then on to Sheffield Woodburn stadium for the afternoon's
event and I managed to leave with a gold medal! British Champion
for 2017. The end of the athletics season for me and looking forward to
a bit of a rest. Of course, I will still be turning up at parkrun :)
Janet Smith
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Tom's Running Days
On Wed. 30th Aug. Paul Watt and Julie Barclay headed to Portsmouth to
run in the Lakeside 5k (series of 5) involving two laps around
the North Harbour complex. Having to run 3 of the 5 to be among
prizewinners. Owing to shift pattern Julie/Paul had ran two before so this
was their 3rd run. They like the course, plus can visit Paul’s
parents who live in the area.
Their training was geared to explode
any minute. And they took advantage of feeling in great
shape and went off with the very fast leaders hoping to stay as
long as possible with them. Paul lead Julie, as planned, knowing they
can run the same pace.
The result was Paul finished 1st 0/50 (60th
o/a) in a PB time of 20.15 with Julie still in Paul's slipstream to finish 1st
W0/50 also in a wonderful PB time of 20.30 Age graded
of 86% (national standard). Julie also won the ladies prize for
her three top wins. The race had some real class lads running
16/17 mins. and the last runner of the 146 finished in 33.00.
Sat. 2nd Sept. Both ran the Rushmoor park run before going to work
a late shift and both still feeling in the hurry-up mode
again went out fast. I was able to time them with 400m to
end of first lap and to the funnel. And the first lap was
very fast in 10min and kept their pace going with Paul placed 29th in
20.51 (best being 20.28). Julie in great form and moved up
slightly up to Paul to finish 2nd lady (1st 0/50) in 20.58.
Two PBs in 3 days so it’s now rest week until they are hoping
to return to Black Park next Sat. as they liked the course
(More Cakes ??).
Tom Rowley
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Regents Park Summer 10k series, Sunday 3rd September 2017
Place |
Name |
Bib No |
Gun Time |
Net Time |
Category |
Categ Pos |
Gender |
Gender Pos |
Club |
Lap 1 Time |
Lap 2 Time |
Lap 3 Time |
197 |
Oliver Mathai |
2813 |
00:51:10.0 |
00:50:06 |
V60 |
4 |
Male |
164 |
BAAC |
00:17:38 |
00:16:56 |
00:16:37 |
285 |
Roderick Hoffman |
1768 |
00:55:38.0 |
00:55:12 |
V50 |
24 |
Male |
214 |
BAAC |
00:18:12 |
00:18:24 |
00:19:03 |
This well organised regular event has a three lap course and this includes the timing
mat at the end of each lap - note that Oliver got faster on each lap whereas I
got slower. I didn't have a problem with that - my target was to get under
60 minutes which I did easily.
Roderick Hoffman
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