BA Athletics Club News Digest 6th May 2019
Events:
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Wednesday 8th May - Speedbird Ladies (see below)
*#
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Monday 13th May London Vets League Match 1 Battersea from 18:30 (see
below) #
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Monday May 20th - Track&Field Grand Prix - 1000m, Shot, Long Jump, Welie
Wanging! Uxbridge from 18:00 *#
We meet at 18:00 at the
Bedfont Club
on most Wednesdays throughout the year BUT NOT THIS WEDNESDAY (see Speedbird
Ladies below)
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.
Last updated: 4th April.
* Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps]
(parkrun details updated 5th May) /
# 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.
Speedbird Ladies this Wednesday - reminder
Schedule for Wednesday...
- 15:00 onwards - I'll be setting the course. This should be finished well
before 17:00 unless bits have to be revisited to replace washed out flour!,
- 17:30 onwards - all men welcome to turn up to be assigned marshalling
responsibilities - the more the merrier,
- 18:00 All men welcome to test run the course,
- 18:00 Onwards - Ladies turn-up for registration - we have over 70 already
registered plus we'll have more turn-up on the night,
- 18:45 Men to their marshalling positions - the forecast rain will have
stopped (only 28% chance of rain according to the BBC),
- 19:00 The 2019 BAAC Speedbird Ladies Race,
- 19:40 Prize giving,
- 20:00 Tidy up and go home (or round to the Five Bells).
Roderick
Hoffman
T&F Vets League, Monday 13th May, Battersea, 18:30
After the team's success at the Rosenheim meeting at Sutton [expect a report
on this in next week's digest], our next fixture
will be at Battersea Park track on May 13th. All over 35s are welcome!
Please think about the event(s) you would like to enter, and if you know before
the day, please let me know as it helps with the declaration. We will aim
to cover all three age groups: V35, V50 & V60. Any questions? feel free to
ask.
The events will be: Discus, 100m, 2K walk, High Jump, 400m, Shot, 1500m
and Long Jump, to be followed by a 4 x 400m relay.
See you there!
Steve Hillier
Volunteers for Vitality 10K, BH Monday 27th May
I hope those of you who have run or volunteered at the Marathon are now
fully recharged for the next outing!
London Vitality 10K is around the corner, and I am looking for more
volunteers to help out at this event. This is a half day outing with food
and shirt/jacket provided by the organisers.
We are asked to provide 40 marshals, and I thank those who have already
informed me of their availability. There are places for another 10
volunteers. If you are able to help, I will be very pleased to hear from
you, by Sunday 12th May if possible.
This year volunteers are expected to register online with LM Organisation.
If you have marshalled at the Marathon you will already have registered
under BA Athletics Club and will not need to do it again. If you have not
registered previously, you will need to do so (me included). Let me know and
I will send you a link to get onto the website to register. We need to get
all volunteers on the register ASAP.
Separately, volunteers please let me have the following information:
- Coach. Yes/No
- Food. Meat/Veg
- Shirt. S/M/L
- Mobile. For the day
Some of you who have volunteered for this event have already provided
this information, so thank you. As usual, we will have a coach to take us to
the venue and take us back. You can also meet us at the venue if that is
more convenient for you. For those who would like to take the coach, we are
going to use the car park at Accommodation Lane in Harmondsworth (same as
last year) as our meeting place. I will circulate final details nearer the
time.
Thank you
Clara
{Clarapn@aol.com}
London Marathon 2019 Reports (part one of several)
James Glover
Thank you so much for my place this year & please pass on my thanks to
the committee too.
I had a great day, bit cold at the start & I think I got carried away &
went off a bit too fast. I felt good until 20m & then started to slow. Had
to walk for a couple of minutes at 25m but managed to get going again to run
Parliament Square, Birdcage & Spur Rd - what a great job the marshals did &
the crowd round the course were fantastic & very supportive. Think I drank
too much Lucozade sport as I felt a bit dodgy later in the run. Also, I
didn't like the 'LSport' bottles with no tops or the paper cups with 'LSport'
in them - really hard to drink & loads get spilled, especially at the last
station where your shoes were sticking to the road!
All in all another fantastic experience & thank you once again for the
opportunity - I'll never forget it - also managed to raise a few quid for
Macmillan - so great all round.
Hope your day went well too,
All the best,
James Glover
Diane Ross
Firstly a big thanks to Steve and the Committee for my place - it felt
such a privilege to run "London" - only my second ever marathon but
what an awesome experience! The wall of noise as I rounded the corner onto
Tower Bridge and then later at Canary Wharf was almost overwhelming, but
massively encouraging.
My knees started really aching about mile 16 but I just dug in and ticked
off the miles, which seemed to get longer with each one. Meeting "Ian Beale"
on the way round was fun, what a friendly guy.
It was great to see family and friends marshalling at Parliament Sq., my
usual spot, I hope to be back there next year and you may have won some new
recruits as they enjoyed it so much!
Have to agree with others about Lucozade jelly bean gels, they just got
stuck in my mouth - not pleasant.
Thanks to all the marshals - what a great job they all do.
What a day, once I stop aching it may sink in that I have done London -
thank you for the unforgettable opportunity.
Diane Ross
Alison Joyce
Thank you & BAAC so much for giving me the opportunity to participate in
the London Marathon yesterday. This was my first ever marathon at 60!
I had an amazing day full of highs and a few lows. I got round in 5 hours
18mins with all toenails intact. I'm hoping to marshal again next year.
Alison Joyce
Gary Rushmer
Hi everyone, well done to everybody who ran yesterday.
Firstly I like to thank all the marshal's in that last mile, I was gone
by then with my groin injury but they kept me going.
My race started really well dropping down two zones at the start which
helped not going off to fast, then fealing like I was still running well my
groin all of a sudden went at 15 miles. I managed to run/walk to the finish
in 4.21.
Again thank you to all the marshal's who had a longer day than I did, I'm
complaining about my groin.
PS: said I wouldn't but yes I've entered next year.
Gary Rushmer
Results
Place (Overall) |
Place (Gender) |
Place (Category) |
Name |
Runner Number |
Category |
Race Status |
Time |
15281 |
11128 |
1104 |
Glover, James (GBR) |
21555 |
50-54 |
Finished |
04:01:37 |
33582 |
12326 |
217 |
Joyce, Alison (GBR) |
60708 |
60-64 |
Finished |
05:18:09 |
37240 |
14393 |
1275 |
Ross, Diane (GBR) |
60431 |
50-54 |
Finished |
05:43:47 |
20358 |
14288 |
716 |
Rushmer, Gary (GBR) |
21554 |
55-59 |
Finished |
04:21:42 |
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Dream Mile - May - Results
02-May-19 |
Paul Prescott |
00:05:36 |
02-May-19 |
Jeremy Short |
00:06:20 |
02-May-19 |
Simon Ashford |
00:07:15 |
02-May-19 |
Neil Frediani |
00:08:19 |
02-May-19 |
Roderick Hoffman |
00:08:25 |
02-May-19 |
Steve Hillier |
00:08:53 |
02-May-19 |
Melanie Miller |
00:10:55 |
It was too soon after the London Marathon for Chris Kelly to risk a one mile
sprint so he showed his versatility by acting as starter, tail to lead cyclist,
finisher and photographer.
For the first time since January
we only had a light wind to contend with and times were consequently good.
We welcomed Mel for her first run with us.
Paul Prescott ran the fastest time on the course since November 2016. He
becomes the joint 7th fastest, though Jeremy Short's equaling time had been wind
assisted. The record remains an unimaginably fast 04:56 by Paul Knechtl
from 5th September 2013.
Club parkrun results for Saturday 4th May 2019
Steve's still away "Saturday was South Korea, parkrun free zone. Today
in Hiroshima at quayside free wife zone. Steve". So, I'm updating the parkrun results
table. IMPORTANT - if your time on Saturday, or that of someone you think should or
could be included, isn't in the following list, please let me know so that I can
add them next time.
Roderick Hoffman
Volunteers - The parkrun organisation have still not provided a report of
volunteer efforts. For that reason we can ONLY include specific volunteer efforts
each week if we are emailed about them by 17:00 on the Monday after
the run. I may look to include a periodic report on total volunteer efforts.
4th May 2019 |
parkrun |
role |
Steve Taylor |
Northala Fields |
Token Scanning |
Some of you may have read between the lines of my comment last week to realise
that a new local parkrun was imminent - Hanworth parkrun launched on Saturday
and locals Marie and Paul attended. I will now organise a Club Featured parkrun
for Saturday 25th May. Hanworth parkrun takes
place in Hanworth Air Park which is next to the swimming pool and leisure centre just off
the A312 just south of Feltham. It is just over one mile away from Crane Park
parkrun but there is no reason why the two can't coexist.
There were also three new-to-the-club parkruns run by Ian & Caroline at Coldhams
Common (Cambridge), Petra at Snowden Field (Crowland in South Holland in the
Fens - pictured) and David at Foro Italico (one of three parkruns in Palermo on Sicily). So
how close to 500 does that take us? I've now loaded over 13,000 parkrun
results into a database, and plugged in each runners' BAAC membership details
(dates of when they joined and left the club), and the reports I've run suggest
that we are now on 496. I'll be doing a new club parkrun on Saturday (Millennium
Country near Bedford) and so we'll be getting very close to 500 - if you fancy finding a new parkrun that no one from the club has done, I
have updated the club map with all of the current parkruns - those we've done in
green, those we are yet to visit in pink.
I'm also making the new database available to all members, though only with read
access. You will probably find that to use it you have to download it onto your
PC and load it into an up-to-date
version of Excel (and have some
practical ability with Excel) HOWEVER I may be wrong and you may find the online version
usable. The first few tabs are the data and after that there are various
reports including, if you are interested, how well club members are
progressing on the Alphabet Challenge, Seconds Bingo and the Wilson Index. If
these make no sense to you then you are probably wiser than those to whom some
sense is made! If you do try to use the database and either succeed or
fail - please let me know.
Roderick Hoffman
Steve's parkrun stats -
club parkrun stats - NOT UPDATED
NEW club parkrun database -
{read access to new
club parkrun database} - UP TO DATE
Petra Otto adds
Brrrrr, what a very cold and windy first Snowden Field Parkrun in
Crowland, near Peterborough {Ed: What do you expect
at a parkrun called "Snowden"?}. Great atmosphere, a lovely course, but very
hard work as the whole 5km was on grass. Definitely not a PB course, I
think, despite it being flat. A lovely gathering of participants
afterwards at the local coffee shop. I was happy trotting around in
35:30 mins. 112 runners took part.
Petra
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Running Shorts
- The last Street-O of the current season is on Tuesday 14th at Wimbledon -
meet at the Dog & Fox (SW19 5EA) anytime from 18:15 (http://slow.org.uk/category/streeto/
).
- Tom Rowley points out that Kay Trinder ran a 0/50 PB time of 40.52 in
the Frimley 10k on Sun. 5th.
- Melanie Holman posts on Facebook "Revenge of the Fifth Half Marathon:
That was the nuttiest, un-runnable half marathon ever with the best views, in
some fantastic hills and an awesome medal to finish, no better way to get a
PW time!"
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stories - send them to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at
news@barunner.org.uk.
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