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BA Athletics Club News Digest 8th May 2023
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2023 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Results for Next WeekPlease 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 (running late this month - please submit by end of Sunday 21st May):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:
2023 Concorde One Hour on 4th June and Speedbird Ladies on Wednesday 21st JuneWith one month to go we've so far received 12 registrations for the Concorde event and 10 for Speedbird Ladies. Please do what you can do to promote these club events.
Concorde event details: baRUNNER Concorde Road Race Concorde Entry via ventrac: https://www.eventrac.co.uk/e/concorde-one-hour-race-9484 Full details and FAQ: baRUNNER Event Ladies Race page Enter via Eventrac: Speedbird Ladies 5k 2023 - Eventrac
Speedbird Ladies publicity poster (A4) (corrected link): http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/SpeedbirdLadies_Aug2023_A5_1.pdf Concorde One Hour and Speedbird Ladies (A5): hthttp://www.barunner.org.uk/Concorde_Event/2023_Concorde_Speedbird_Ladies_A5.pdf
We will need volunteers on the day, particularly for the Concorde event. Track and Field – May 2023 - First Fixtures and First Inter-Club CompetitionOur T&F season started on Wednesday night at the windy Feltham track. Although not as pretty as in its glory days, there’s still much to be said for it, despite its fading décor (I’m talking about the track, not the competitors). We started the summer with the downhill side of a pyramid: 1500/800/400/200/100. Three athletes: Roderick Hoffman and Steves Taylor and Hillier, competed in all five disciplines, to be joined for the sprints by Steve3 (Newell) and some moral support from Chris Kelly. The two longer events stretched out the field, with recent London Marathon finisher Steve T leading home recent Oslo parkrun finisher Roderick. Gaps started to close in the 400m, while the two sprints saw blanket finishes. We survived the various scooters and electric bikes crisscrossing the track, and now look forward to the league season. Results:
Ed: The graph reveals quite a bit of consistency with our runs at the equivalent event last year. Roderick has been very consistent, Steve Hillier has got slower but has still got the edge at the 100m - note that Steve H's speed at the 100m is roughly double his speed at the 1500m. Steve Taylor is slightly slower apart from at the 100m which he didn't push himself for last year (being prior to long distance races). We are now only a week away from the start of this Summer’s T&F matches. The first week is a busy week, with Veteran’s League and Rosenheim League matches just two days apart. These are friendly competitions for runners, jumpers and throwers of all standards and all ages. Please do all that you can to attend.
Please let me know during the next few days if you plan to compete, so that I can complete our team declaration. Event Details:
NOW Run Eton 10th MayWe are going ahead with the NOW run at Eton on Wednesday, 10th May. Meet at 12.00 outside the Watermans Arms in Brocas Street, Eton SL4 6BW. The route for runners is 5.6 km. The course is completely flat apart from two bridge crossings. The start/finish is on the Thames Path so walkers can either do a simple out and back along the river or a shortened loop which will be explained on the day. There are council car parks at Eton Court and Meadow Lane which are next to each other and are less than 100 metres from the Watermans Arms. For train users Windsor Riverside station (on South Western Railway) is a 5 minute walk to the start. Windsor and Eton Central (on the GWR line) is a 10 to 15 minute walk. There are public toilets adjacent to the Eton Court/Meadow Lane car parks. John & Benita If you let us know to expect you we'll know to look out for you at the start. Recent Activity Achievements15 members communicated their achievements to me or found on Facebook. Your achievement not listed? It could be because you didn't submit it.
Roderick Hoffman parkrun Results for Monday 1st May and Saturday 6th May4 and 31 activities are recorded below. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
The above four parkrunners took advantage of Norway having changed its annual special day from Christmas Day to "Labor Day" held on 1st May. We were not alone. 566 took part across the six parkruns hosting an extra event; for comparison Saturday's seven parkruns had a total of 338 finishers. I did an analysis of the 566 and determined that 336 of them were from the UK and just 175 from Norway. The passport checker at Oslo airport was heard to remark "Another UK parkrunner, I've been letting you in all week" and anyone at the airport in trainers was worth approaching to see which parkrun they normally did. Most tourists went to Ekebergsletta so Paul, Julie and Harjit ran with 150 UK tourists, only twenty Norwegians and nine from other nations. I ran at Nansenparken which is held in the park that has replaced the old Fornebu airport (1939 to 1998). It was quite flat and well paved, helping my time. Although there were fewer tourists there we made up with quality - James Russell (parkrun employee and on 678 parkruns), Paul Freyne (662 parkruns and 618 different parkruns, more than anyone else), John Matthews (572 total, 497 different, 3rd on the list), Dave Oldfield running his 500th parkrun (becoming about the 506th member of the "500 Club") and Peter Fordham (another original tourist now on 375 different events and running his 499th parkrun before joining the 500 club on Saturday). Handing out the tokens was parkrun's Northern Europe manager Deri Thomas, who I had a good chat with in the hotel. Monday's weather was cold and drizzle turning to light snow, but those of us there for days either side of the public holiday got lovely blue skies.
parkrun Review 6th May 2023 (Coronation Day)For the second successive British Monarchy Coronation it rained in the London Area and some parkruns were affected more than others. Possibly more members than usual chose to run near to home this week. A new “Londone” constituent parkrun started at Thames Towpath Woolwich (the 62nd) with very little advance publicity and a manageable inaugural turnout of 149. It is well served by land, sea and air transport links including London City Airport, Elizabeth line, DLR, Southeastern trains, North and South circular roads and Thames Clippers, not to mention a foot tunnel under the Thames, so attendances in the coming weeks are likely to be bigger. The run features a climb and then a descent of a “mound” around half way – you have been warned. (I’m planning to steer clear until 10th June and then check for rail strikes!– Steve). Ed: Thames Towpath Woolwich wasn't announced until Sunday morning, the day after its inaugural. Another new UK parkrun started in Bristol, near the location of the former Little Stoke parkrun. That one was announced on the Saturday morning but attracted about the same number of attendees. Week 2 for both events may be much busier. David Cowell (17:38, 80.43%) ran a parkrun pb and 4th place at Hove and was our fastest runner this week. Mike Dennison (20:36, 81.39%) was 3rd at Hanworth where Maria Jovani (23:16, 69.63%) was the first lady to finish. Emma Moreton (22:30, 68.89%) was second lady home at Bedfont Lakes. Ian Haylock (20:57) has finished at Bushy in under 21 minutes every week for the last three weeks. Keith Johnson (23:13) had his best run this year so far at Houghton Hall (Beds) while Neil Frediani (29:21) has now run as many parkruns (25) at Prudhoe Riverside as he ever did at Bushy. Steve Newell Extra parkrunsFor those who fancy an additional parkrun the next opportunity is next week - Finland on 18th May (I'll be there). Then the Netherlands on Monday 29th May followed quickly by Denmark on 5th June and Sweden on 6th June. There is a bridge between Denmark and Sweden with four parkruns in Copenhagen on the Denmark side and one in Malmo on the Swedish side. However the Malmö Ribersborg parkrun has been refused an event permit for fear of an invasion of UK tourists (their average attendance of 50 grow to 287 last June 6th, and more would be expected this year). But several parkruns are due to operate in Stockholm, Gothenburg and elsewhere. Club parkrun Volunteer Efforts - Corrected Data!Last week's "quick addition" was done too quickly and some of you spotted that the totals were badly off. The following is probably correct. This table shows counts of volunteer tasks all time, by those parkrunners who were BAAC members in the first quarter of this year. Some tasks are now retired - such as Backup Timer. As a team we've set-up more than twice as often as we've closed-down. We've handed out Finish Tokens more than we've sorted them afterwards. As a group of individuals we can say that about 250 parkruns couldn't have taken place without our combined input.
Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download or save a copy, and explore at your leisure. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Roderick Hoffman Next Digest - Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send them to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. Difficulty viewing this? Read it from the website:- http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Club website: www.barunner.org.uk.
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