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BA Athletics Club News Digest 6th January 2020Events:
Our next Bedfont Club meeting will be THIS Wednesday 8th January for ad hoc runs and 22nd (Handicap). All members are welcome. New members and potential members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at most of our events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Last updated: 1st November. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 18th November 2019) / # Club Points event. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "front window" club page), BA Runner Facebook Group (informal "back office" - ask to join). Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Ladies Cross Country THIS Saturday #First of, Happy New Year to you all. Sat 11th Jan 1pm, Ladies Surrey League XC 3rd Match. This is to be held at Wimbledon Common. Division 1 starts at 11.00am and Division 2 starts at 1.00pm. The hosts are Belgrave Harriers and Hercules Wimbledon (joint hosts) and they have the minimum number of volunteers to help out on the course as marshals. I have volunteered myself as they expect each club to at least contribute a volunteer. The info for Saturday's match at Wimbledon Common follows. The location map can be found on the league website, https://surreyleague.org/sll/match/109/ We are in Division 2 and starts at 1.00pm. I hope to see many of you there. I'm marshalling on the day, likely have to help out from the start. I'll see you there though and will take my blue table. I propose we use that as our meeting point although I may not be there when you arrive but will see you on the course :)
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| Member | 1st January | parkrun | GMT | Time | Grade | PB | Comment |
| TRUE | Roderick HOFFMAN | Coburg | 21:29 31Dec-19 | 00:29:59 | 53.03% | run #379, park#293, BApark #550 | |
| TRUE | Roderick HOFFMAN | Darebin | 23:04 31Dec-19 | 00:34:14 | 46.45% | run #380, park#294, BApark #551 | |
| #N/A | Charlotte HABGOOD | Darebin | 23:10 31Dec-19 | 00:40:34 | 44.04% | ||
| TRUE | Paul WATT | Pole Mokotowskie | 08:21 01-Jan-20 | 00:21:41 | 70.25% | park #35, BApark #552 | |
| TRUE | Julie BARCLAY | Pole Mokotowskie | 08:21 01-Jan-20 | 00:21:45 | 83.22% | F-1, park #40, BApark #552, age cat rec | |
| TRUE | Paul Davis | Henley-on-Thames | 08:53 01-Jan-20 | 00:23:15 | 58.28% | 0830 start, park #31 | |
| TRUE | John Scaife | Dinton Pastures | 09:07 01-Jan-20 | 00:37:14 | 45.03% | 0830 start | |
| TRUE | Benita Scaife | Dinton Pastures | 09:07 01-Jan-20 | 00:37:18 | 54.33% | 0830 start | |
| TRUE | James Shoulder | Crane Park | 09:18 01-Jan-20 | 00:18:52 | 68.37% | PB | course pb by 1 sec |
| TRUE | Mike Dennison | Crane Park | 09:20 01-Jan-20 | 00:20:05 | 80.58% | 32nd run at Crane Park | |
| TRUE | Barry WALTERS | Andover | 09:22 01-Jan-20 | 00:22:23 | 74.24% | 1st run at Andover | |
| TRUE | Ian Cockram | Littlehampton Prom | 09:24 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:00 | 62.43% | park #84, BApark #553 | |
| TRUE | Maria Jovani | Crane Park | 09:24 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:07 | 64.75% | run #298 | |
| TRUE | Bob Bannister | Crane Park | 09:24 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:31 | 67.17% | ||
| TRUE | Ian CUNNINGHAM | Greenwich | 09:24 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:44 | 63.21% | club record, park #51 | |
| TRUE | Ben Chaytow | Crane Park | 09:24 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:55 | 56.05% | ||
| TRUE | Caroline Cockram | Littlehampton Prom | 09:24 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:55 | 67.29% | 1st run at Littlehampton, park #85 | |
| TRUE | Scott DAVISON | Crane Park | 09:25 01-Jan-20 | 00:25:04 | 57.91% | 4th New Year at Crane | |
| TRUE | Paul TIMMS | Stonehouse | 09:25 01-Jan-20 | 00:25:51 | 59.96% | run #42, park #13, BA park#554 | |
| TRUE | Anne Bannister | Crane Park | 09:28 01-Jan-20 | 00:28:07 | 70.01% | PB | course pb by 59 secs (4 years ago) |
| TRUE | David DUGGAN | Harwich | 09:28 01-Jan-20 | 00:28:36 | 55.59% | park #79, BApark #555 | |
| TRUE | Denis Foxley | Canons Park | 09:28 01-Jan-20 | 00:28:38 | 61.58% | PB | course pb by 46 secs |
| TRUE | Neil FREDIANI | Rushmoor | 09:30 01-Jan-20 | 00:30:25 | 53.64% | park #54 at 9 a.m. | |
| TRUE | Joe NOLAN | Black Park | 09:30 01-Jan-20 | 00:30:44 | 54.07% | 314th run at Black Park | |
| TRUE | Sarah GORDON | Hanley | 09:35 01-Jan-20 | 00:35:37 | 55.26% | club rec (F), park #115 | |
| TRUE | Petra OTTO | Snowden Field | 09:36 01-Jan-20 | 00:36:10 | 58.66% | 3rd run at Snowden Field | |
| TRUE | Janet Smith | Black Park | 09:36 01-Jan-20 | 00:36:21 | 49.15% | 46th run at Upton Court | |
| TRUE | Piers KEENLEYSIDE | Highbury Fields | 09:38 01-Jan-20 | 00:38:32 | 42.34% | 4th run at Highbury Fields | |
| FALSE | Joan FOXLEY | Canons Park | 09:38 01-Jan-20 | 00:38:55 | 58.16% | ||
| #N/A | Sarah KELLY | Tring | 09:43 01-Jan-20 | 00:43:52 | 44.22% | ||
| TRUE | Christopher T KELLY | Tring | 09:43 01-Jan-20 | 00:43:53 | 34.71% | park #52 | |
| TRUE | Trish MCCABE | Deerpark Forest | 09:59 01-Jan-20 | 00:29:09 | 53.17% | 2s slower than Saturday | |
| TRUE | Eddie GILES | Bournemouth | 10:27 01-Jan-20 | 00:27:15 | 65.50% | 10.00 a.m.start, park #21 | |
| TRUE | Denis Foxley | Harrow | 10:30 01-Jan-20 | run director | |||
| TRUE | Benita Scaife | Maidenhead | 10:30 01-Jan-20 | timekeeper | |||
| TRUE | John Scaife | Maidenhead | 10:30 01-Jan-20 | timekeeper | |||
| TRUE | Neil FREDIANI | Frimley Lodge | 10:32 01-Jan-20 | 00:32:50 | 49.70% | park #55 at 10 a.m. | |
| TRUE | James Shoulder | Osterley | 10:49 01-Jan-20 | 00:19:14 | 67.07% | PB | course pb by 7 secs |
| TRUE | Mike Dennison | Osterley | 10:49 01-Jan-20 | 00:19:59 | 80.98% | 6 secs better than at Crane Park | |
| TRUE | Paul Davis | Upton Court | 10:51 01-Jan-20 | 00:21:23 | 63.37% | PB | course pb by 13 secs |
| TRUE | Frankie HOGGE | California Country | 10:52 01-Jan-20 | 00:22:12 | 66.67% | PB | course pb |
| TRUE | Murray HOGGE | California Country | 10:52 01-Jan-20 | 00:22:13 | 71.57% | PB | course pb (18"), club record (M) |
| TRUE | Barry WALTERS | Southampton | 10:52 01-Jan-20 | 00:22:14 | 74.74% | 1st run at Southampton, park #45 | |
| TRUE | Ben Chaytow | Osterley | 10:52 01-Jan-20 | 00:22:21 | 62.49% | PB | course pb by 52 secs |
| TRUE | Bob Bannister | Osterley | 10:53 01-Jan-20 | 00:23:37 | 69.72% | faster than at Crane | |
| TRUE | Maria Jovani | Osterley | 10:53 01-Jan-20 | 00:23:38 | 66.08% | run #299 | |
| TRUE | Jacqueline MUSSELWHITE | Woking | 10:54 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:23 | 69.58% | 72nd run at Woking | |
| TRUE | Ian CUNNINGHAM | Bexley | 10:54 01-Jan-20 | 00:24:24 | 64.07% | club record, park #52 | |
| TRUE | Ian Cockram | Bognor Regis | 10:55 01-Jan-20 | 00:25:39 | 58.41% | 1st run at Bognor, park #86 | |
| TRUE | Stephen K TAYLOR | Osterley | 10:56 01-Jan-20 | 00:26:08 | 59.31% | 4th run at Osterley | |
| TRUE | Caroline Cockram | Bognor Regis | 10:56 01-Jan-20 | 00:26:13 | 63.95% | 1st run at Bognor ,park #86 | |
| TRUE | Paul TIMMS | Stratford Park, Stroud | 10:57 01-Jan-20 | 00:27:46 | 55.82% | run #43, park #14, BA park #556 | |
| TRUE | Keith Johnson | St Albans | 10:56 01-Jan-20 | 00:26:41 | 54.84% | run #40, 18th at St Albans | |
| TRUE | David DUGGAN | Clacton Seafront | 10:59 01-Jan-20 | 00:29:49 | 53.33% | park #80, BApark #557 | |
| TRUE | Anne Bannister | Osterley | 11:00 01-Jan-20 | 00:30:42 | 64.12% | only one pb today, sorry | |
| TRUE | Janet Smith | Upton Court | 11:05 01-Jan-20 | 00:35:46 | 49.95% | 10th run at Upton Court | |
| FALSE | Joan FOXLEY | Harrow | 11:08 01-Jan-20 | 00:38:53 | 58.21% | ||
| TRUE | Petra OTTO | March | 11:10 01-Jan-20 | 00:40:13 | 52.76% | 63rd run at March | |
| TRUE | Jain Reid | Richmond Park | 11:10 01-Jan-20 | 00:40:52 | 43.15% | very very crowded | |
| TRUE | Sarah GORDON | The Wammy | 11:10 01-Jan-20 | 00:40:55 | 48.11% | run #252, park #116, BApark #558 | |
| #N/A | Sarah KELLY | Wendover Woods | 11:17 01-Jan-20 | 00:47:02 | 41.25% | ||
| TRUE | Christopher T KELLY | Wendover Woods | 11:17 01-Jan-20 | 00:47:02 | 32.39% | park #53 | |
| TRUE | Alan & Ann ANDERSON | Osterley | 11:18 01-Jan-20 | 00:48:34 | 56.18% |
A truly astonishing New Year's Day for parkrun in UK with 390 events and close to 160,00 completed runs (not sure how many without barcodes!). After the huge crowd at Bushy Park (2545) on Christmas Day many regulars and irregulars (including all our members) chose to go somewhere else for a change. Our members were part of record attendances (or helping out) including Barry Walters (22:14) at the biggest of all - Southampton (1331), Eddie Giles (27:15) at Bournemouth (967), Richmond Park (913), Osterley (744), Bexley (721), The Wammy (674), Dinton Pastures (656), Maidenhead (625), Hanley (507), California Country (495), Wendover Woods (475), Greenwich (467), Woking (439), Stonehouse (383), Stratford Park, Stroud (320), Harrow (308) and Littlehampton Prom (295). (see table above for individual details). The panic request for extra finish tokens at Osterley was well justified – the 744 required was more than 150 than ever before and 230 more than 1st January last year.
Our biggest groups were the seven at Crane Park (9 a.m.) and eight at Osterley (10.30 a.m.) Of the seven at Crane all but Scott Davison moved on to run at Osterley as well.
We added no fewer than nine new parks to our collection in the space of a
morning (albeit across several timezones) moving the total onto 558. The
details (taking timezone, advertised start time and run time into account) and
the new club course records are – Coburg Vic, AU (Roderick Hoffman 29:59),
Darebin Vic, AU (Roderick Hoffman 34:14), Pole Mokotowskie, Warsaw (Paul
Watt 21:41 and Julie Barclay 21:45), Littlehampton Prom (Ian Cockram 24:00 and
Caroline Cockram 24:55), Stonehouse, Glos (Paul Timms 25:51), Harwich (David
Duggan 28:36), Stratford Park, Stroud (Paul Timms 27:46), Clacton Seafront
(David Duggan 29:49) and The Wammy, Newcastle under Lyme (Sarah Gordon 40:55).
Julie Barclay’s run in Warsaw where she was the first lady to finish lowered her
age category record by three quarters of a minute.
Some club records were
improved including Greenwich (Ian Cunningham 24:24), Bexley (Ian Cunningham
24:24) and California Country (Murray Hogge 22:13 – male record only!).
I will argue that some classic doubles are easier than others with the severity of the courses and the distance between them needing to be considered. I congratulate Chris Kelly and his wife Sarah who tackled the undulations at Tring at 9 a.m. and then made their way up to the summit of Wendover Woods to do it all again at 10.30. A tough workout even without the seasonal mud!
As an alternative to the Wilson Index chase which is restricted to those who have run at an inaugural (which was once promoted by parkrun HQ but now subtly discouraged) Steve Newell is issuing a new challenge just for this year 2020. The idea is to run (or volunteer) at as many parkruns with a run number that is a multiple of 20 (e.g. 20,40,60, 700, etc). Surprisingly, nobody was at one on New Year’s Day. Runs to aim for in the LHR area will be mentioned in the coming weeks. The usual pint of Fullers beer of the winner’s choice is being offered as the prize with a brewery tour ending up in the tasting room for anyone reaching double figures. 2020 will be a special year for parkrun as 29th February is on a Saturday for the first time since parkrun started. It won’t happen again until 2048 so realistically this is probably your only chance. Start planning now.
Steve Newell
PS: See next week's digest for the results from Saturday 4th January (as well as for the 11th, for those not doing the cross-countries)
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So, who travelled from where to where, how far and with how many others? 22 BA runners undertook a New Year's double. Ian Cunningham had least to travel between the two, but you can be sure that he did run between the two. Others also ran but obviously I've only got hearsay evidence of that. Sarah Gordon ran from Hanley to The Wammy and in total 355 went between the two - the largest crowd any of our runners experienced. Elsewhere 600 parkrunners travelled from Scunthorpe to Normanby Hall (and slightly more between a pair in South Africa).
Barry Walters travelled the furthest of us, about 25miles between Andover and Southampton (the world's largest parkrun on New Year's Day with 1331 attendees). I don't know if Barry travelled with the only other person to do that pair. But someone did manage to exceed the 25miles by running their first parkrun in Australia and their second in Canada - permitted on New Year's Day. Note that these numbers exclude volunteers - for example as well as the 304 runners at Coburg and Darebin I've calculated that a further 10 had a non-running volunteer credit at one and ran at the other. For the map showing all of the flows: https://www.google.com/maps/longstringofletters...
| From | To | Number | Distance |
| Greenwich | Bexley | 240 | 1.7m |
| Rushmoor | Frimley Lodge | 237 | 2.6m |
| Hanley | The Wammy | 355 | 2.7m |
| Stonehouse | Stratford Park, Stroud | 208 | 2.7m |
| Tring | Wendover Woods | 233 | 2.7m |
| Canons Park | Harrow | 119 | 2.9m |
| Black Park | Upton Court | 241 | 3.3m |
| Crane Park | Osterley | 179 | 3.5m |
| Coburg (au) | Darebin (au) | 304 | 5.9km |
| Scunthorpe | Normanby Hall | 600* | 3.9m |
| Littlehampton Prom | Bognor Regis | 112 | 5.6m |
| Dinton Pastures | Maidenhead | 68 | 8.7m |
| Harwich | Clacton Seafront | 127 | 12.4m |
| Snowden Field | March | 7 | 13.6m |
| Henley-on-Thames | Upton Court | 2 | 18m |
| Andover | Southampton | 2 | 25m |
| Zillmere (au) | Richmond Olympic (ca) | 1* | lots |
* not BA
Roderick Hoffman
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My version of Groundhog Day for new year was to finish in the same position at both Greenwich and Bexley this morning. Mind you the times were 20 seconds apart so it will have to be put down as “could do better”. Cheers Ian Cunningham |
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The records tumbled in Berkshire as Benita and I ran then queued at Dinton Pastures which attracted a record 656. Queued because there was a huge overflow leading back from the finish line which meant that folk in the mid-field bulge had to wait five minutes to get across the line and into the funnel. We then hared off to Maidenhead where we were the timekeepers, and another record field of 625, just beating Christmas Day’s 623. It was also Maidenhead’s 250th parkrun and a one-off course was engineered to finish adjacent to Braywick Court school which kindly opened up their premises where coffee and cake were served. I fear the caretaker will be cursing parkrun as he/she spends the next couple of days scraping dried mud off the floor. John Scaife |
Prison Break disguised by park run activity"Three prison escapees were quickly recaptured after they made a break for freedom from Lower Drummans prison in Northern Ireland on New Year's Day during a park run event organized by the inmates. They were quickly recaptured when alert park run staff spotted them at the nearby Derry City park run just one hour later." Ed: Well, I did say that I would have to make up false news if insufficient real news was sent in - or maybe there is some truth to this?. |
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