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BA Athletics Club News Digest 6th October 2014Forthcoming Events:
New members and non-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. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook "BA Runner" (link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/636199849751546/). This news digest is being sent to you because you are on the BA Athletics Club email list. To be removed please email us at news@barunner.org.uk. Difficulty viewing this email? Read it off the website instead - http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. London Marathon 2015 OpportunitiesMany of you will be thinking of pounding the streets of London next Spring. Should your application be unsuccessful, there might be an alternative...... The BA Athletics Club provides the Virgin Money London Marathon with over one hundred marshals. In return VMLM provide us with some additional places that we can allocate to our members. Therefore we have a limited number of places to hand out in December or early in the New Year. The decision as to who will be allocated places will be taken by the BA Athletics Club committee and priority will be given to those who meet the following criteria.
If you want to be considered for a place, think about which of those categories apply to you! Then contact me on stevehillier@msn.com Information about running and marshaling is provided through the weekly digest which is available in the Running and Jogging Yammer group and to anyone on the mailing list - request addition to the mailing list by emailing news@barunner.org.uk. Anyone offered and accepting a club space will be expected to pay the normal entry fee for the Marathon and to provide a minimum of two marshals to the BAAC to assist with the 2015 London Marathon. Steve Hillier WARR World Airline Road Race 2014 Dublin - Results and write-up next weekThe photo shows Adrian Haynes, Paul Knechtl and Dave Dixon ready at the start of the 10k. But how well did they get on? Lets say for now this has been a most successful WARR both in terms of being a global event and also for BA's participation.
Roderick Hoffman Surrey League Matches - Details of Men's events on 11th and 25th OctoberDear BAAC members & non-members, We have two British airways cross country events coming up: The first is the men's cross country at Richmond park on the 11th Oct at 3.00pm. The starting point will be a few hundred meters from the entrance to the Isabella plantation, across the road from Brookfield hill car park (in-between Kingston Gate & Robin Hood Gate which has no entry - see linked map: courses/2014MensXCMatch1Course.pdf). Also again British airways A/C has been invited to run at Sandhurst Barrages on the 25th Oct at 2.30pm for the 6 mile cross country race. Last year BA came 4th on the day with some very good food at the end (same again this year I hear - food that is, hopefully result also). If anybody is interested in this very good event can they please let me know as soon as possible at gary.rushmer@btinternet.com / with car reg, colour & names of people in that car please. [just in case there is any misconception we need to know the colour of the car NOT the colour of the people. I hope that that clears that up. ED ;-) ] Many thanks, Gary Rushmer Track&Field Championships and Family Fun Day - Eton track - Results/Write-upHi Everyone, The results of the BAAC Championships & Family fun day at Eton track Sunday 28th September 2014.
* Superstars event What a day for the BAAC Championships at Eton with glorious sunshine and not a hint of a breeze all afternoon. 11 BA member associated with the club + 2 others competed and everyone there enjoyed the challenges. The Superstars event included 6 carefully chosen challenges !! of which Neil & Derek were on a battle to be crowned Superstars Champion. In the 400m a dead heat was at first declared, but with another look at the situation using Roderick's finish photograph (see last week's issue) Derek was deemed the winner as his chest was above the finish line whereas although Neil had his foot over the line his chest was clearly behind the line. However that was Derek's only victory as Neil won the other 5 events so well done for Neil as Superstars Champ. If there was a man of the match award, it has to go to Harry Wild, who not only was our Starter, Marksman, timekeeper he also chalked up a few MV80 records and won the acclaimed Wellie Wanging event. A big thank you also to Paul Brandon & Lesley Giles for help with the timing & Roderick Hoffman for being around as well. Nice to see the Holman family out in force, all enjoying the events, Philipa & Alex eating the eggs after the egg & spoon races, Haloween inspired Cadburys "Scream" eggs, yummy or what!! When I asked how old they were, Philipa said "four", Alex said "seven", and they said Laurie in the push chair was "Zero", (he is actually eleven months). They have grown up so fast. On the day as I said, Neil won the Superstars and also competed in the most events 10 of 12, Eddie won the most event 4 of 12 Harry bagged the most club records & Roderick ran the longest distance, 5,300m. Steve Hillier managed to get to the track at 4pm with Linda, as they had a Sunday lunch with some of her church parishioners on her sadly leaving the church. We all wish her well for whatever Linda goes on to do. Roderick suggested that Linda had left her leaving for Eton having eaten but perhaps he shouldn't have. That’s it for this year’s Track & Field excitement, see you all next year. Eddie Giles Club parkrun results for Saturday 4th October (parkrun's tenth anniversary)
A good club turnout on parkrun's tenth birthday celebration event. Ten club family ran a pre-WARR parkrun at three different Dublin parks and at Guildford. Most of those achieved slower than normal parkrun times but Daniela was chased round by Neil and PK to easily her best parkrun time and Denis ran his first ever parkrun ahead of an award winning result in WARR. Steve Newell / Roderick Hoffman While most of the BA team were doing some parkrun tourism in Dublin I was (as ever) at Bushy Park to get the full-on 10th anniversary experience. The atmosphere was really quite special with 1705 (!!) runners and a large team of marshals. Paul Sinton-Hewitt was there, wearing his CBE, as well as the original 13 runners from 10 years ago. Given the astronomical growth in the last few years who knows what the next 10 years will bring!! Ian Cunningham Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls (later this week) Updated BA parkrun map: http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/BA Parkruns 2014.jpg {some parkruns may have been missed} Running Contributions
Ran my all time 10k PB today (South Bucks 10k) with a 46m48s - life in m'ageing bones yet ! Pleased with that (previously 47m25s at Brighton in 2011) Cheers, Joe Nolan
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