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BA Athletics Club News Digest 5th December 2022
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - 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. 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. Monthly Mile (submit by end of Sunday 11th December):Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the prompt in Facebook. The mile can be somebody else's formal event or even one mile within a longer run. I'll then produce a fancy graph showing your time this month compared to those of other people and previous runs over the last year.
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by Sunday evening) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Christmas Do Details - Wednesday 21st December at the Bedfont ClubThere will be a mile event prior to our annual Christmas Party. From 18:00 we'll meet in the carpark and Steve Newell will organise us into teams and remind us of the one mile course. We would expect to finish the event for 19:00 and changing rooms with showers should be available. From 19:00 we'll meet in the function room. This will be an informal gathering which will feature:
Roderick Hoffman obo the club committee Perivale Five Results #
Roderick Hoffman Club Points # UpdateThere are due to be four final points club scoring events of the year - all marked with a "#" in the diary. I've updated the points table with events to date including the Perivale Five and two additional colleagues have reached the ten point target thereby beating the Christmas rush. Thank you and well done to Julie Barclay and Mike Dennison. There are now 18 of us that have achieved ten points over the year and there
are another ten on either 8 or 9 points so there could indeed be a Christmas
rush this year. Towards the top Steve Newell has been catching up with me and
Steve Hillier to make it a three horse race at the top and our third Steve,
Taylor, is now narrowly ahead of the Scaifes and Chris Kelly for fourth place.
I've listed 213 people having helped or run for the club and 85 of those have
done so more than once. NOW Syon Park 30th November 2022 - Report
There were six runners, two walkers and two late comers for the Syon Park NOW event last Wednesday. The runners followed the Capital Ring signs to Richmond Lock 2.5k away at which point we split into pairs, the Scaifes returned directly, Barry and Roderick did a lap of the Old Deer Park before returning and Julie and Paul ran on the Thames Path for a couple of km before getting back to the garden centre at about the same time as the others. The walkers, Steve and Alan, also made it to Richmond Lock and back. Melanie and John misjudged the traffic and arrived too late to run or walk but in good time for the cafe visit. Suggestions for future NOW events welcome please - we need a bit of green near a carpark and a cafe and, a host to recommend a running route and a walking route for up to an hour's exercise. Recent Activity Achievements19 club members and friends' achievements are listed below. Your achievement not listed? It could be because you didn't submit it.
Roderick HoffmanKelly's Heros...Chris Kelly reports: My parkrun this week was a "Future" Wilson #35 in Amersham, Church Mead, which I knew a little of from GBR Stage #5 and wasn't disappointed. I know a number of club members have already "enjoyed" it - including Alice Banks - who was back for another go! And she held me off even with the downhill finish. Fortunately, I was not the only Kelly represented, as my daughter Becca came with me and was a bit quicker (27:34). Meanwhile in South Manchester my Dad picked up his 250th Volunteer credit. Stephen's Consistency"Perivale 5 today, finished in 43:25, my pace was 8:34/mile, the same as
yesterday's Osterley 10k to the second and also the same as last week's 5-mile
handicap. If you're only allowed one achievement of the week then mine is 8:34." parkrun Results for Saturday 3rd December 202227 activities are recorded this week. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
parkrun review Saturday 3rd December 2022This week our members visited two newish parkruns within the M25 ring which started on the same day back in October and have now reached run number #7. Inaugural overwhelm anxiety is often mentioned in connection with new parkruns but I wonder if local apathy is more of a problem in the long run especially in areas where the next nearest parkrun may only be 5km away as the crow flies. Of course some locations are so attractive they will always attract a steady stream of visitors but that may put an unbearable load on a small band of volunteers but parkruns do occasionally get cancelled because of volunteer shortages. Steve Newell (48:34) and Alan Anderson (48:35) visited Leavesden Country parkrun at Abbots Langley in the enclave of Hertfordshire hemmed in between the London boundary and the M25. The start/finish, free car park and excellent café are all within 100m of each other. At this time of year the gently undulating three lap course is a little muddy on the extensive grassy stretches and the woodland paths are partly covered in fallen leaves. The inaugural on 22nd October attracted a potentially awkward 312 and numbers have fallen steadily as the weeks have gone by. This week there were fewer than a hundred, over half of those being first timers. A pleasing number of the minority returnees achieved pbs. The long established and challenging South Oxhey, five miles away attracts 50 or so runners each week, the much flatter Aldenham more like 100 now that the carparking charges have been made more affordable. Ben Chaytow (24:36) was there this week as a first timer. Several of us have been there but only once or twice. Meanwhile over at Lordship Recreation in the more thickly populated London Borough of Haringey (spellings vary!), which started on the same day with a mere 257, numbers have held up rather better. A peak of 290 attended on week 3 as “Londone” aspirants got to hear about it and the average after seven weeks is still over 200. Roderick Hoffman(29:16) was there to regain his Londone badge and reach the 450 parkrun landmark, 90% of the way to the “500”. This week there were 104 first timers in a field of 184, so it may be too early to draw conclusions. Years ago (about 10) the nearby Pymmes parkrun struggled for ever to attract even a couple of dozen finishers but now seems to be averaging about a 100 with first timers only making up 15%. Ian Cunningham (30:58) was at Bushy for the 380th time and finished in 700th place. Previously he has also finished in 100th, 200th, 300th and 400th. Can anyone match that – let the editor know. Chris Kelly (33:07) visited the seriously undulating Church Mead (Amersham). His first run there, in their 35th week. He is quietly putting together an impressive Wilson Index challenge but he needs to nail a “19” to move forward. Benita and John Scaife (both 34:26) visited Witney for the first time. John needs to find just one more new parkrun to join the Cowell Club (100 different parkruns). Steve Newell Matters Arising - Nelson 555 and other run numbers and finish positionsMelanie and Harjit were at Old Deer Park for event 555. This event number (5x111) attracted 260 participants - exactly twice the number at the previous week's event 554. Their highest attendance has been 553...at event 123 which was a special featured event in April 2013. Saturday's event had the third highest number of attendees in the event's history also behind the 296 attendees at the New Year's Day double in 2020. Melanie has now run at events 111, 222, 555 and 888. However, Ian Cunningham has taken part in Nelson events 333, 444, 555, 666, 777 and 888 (mostly at Bushy Park). But neither a 111 nor a 222 (though I note that Janet Cunningham does have a 111 to her name). On finish positions non-member Janet has also finished in 100th, 300th, 700th, 900th and 1300th - and obviously the positions she shares with Ian have been on different occasions. The next nearest club colleague to Ian is perhaps Steve Newell himself having finished 100th, 200th, 500th and 600th. Alan Anderson has scored "180" three times, more than anyone else. Roderick Hoffman Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps]
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Dear Ed, On my morning run today, my usual route offers a crossroad where I can finish at 5 miles or go further for 6 miles. Feeling fairly good, I opted for the longer route of the two. On this route, about 2km further, I found a nice crisp fiver on the floor! The moral of the story - go a bit further, you'll be rewarded in some way... Cheers Maarten Stenham |
I'd also like to remind/let Affiliated Members know in advance/again - that the England Athletics Registration for 2023-24 [effective 1 April 2023] individual registration fee is increasing by £1, from £16 to £17. This is a heads up in advance to explain why we will be asking Affiliated Members to increase their yearly subs [due 1st April 2023] to £9+£17 = £26 next year...Standing Orders can be changed now, to be correct then!
We don't do a charity calendar. But if we did then this would be one of the months...taken in December but not chilly, yes Chile.
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BA runners on a cold December morning for the annual Perivale Five. The
parakeets in the park laughed at us as we ran past, as they usually do.
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