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BA Athletics Club News Digest 8th October 2018Events:
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: First week of October. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] / # Club Points event. 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. 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. This Wednesday......October 10th, there will be ad hoc runs from the Bedfont Club from 18:00 prior to an informal social in the bar. If you need to use the changing rooms before 17:50 please check with Steve Hillier what time he expects to arrive with the keys. Roderick Hoffman obo Steve Hillier {stevehillier@msn.com} October Dream Mile ResultsFive runners turned up this month. Matthew Stratful was first home in 6:08 with Neil Frediani a rare second place in 6:54 followed by Steve Taylor {unknown time}, Simon Ashford {unknown time} and Steve Hillier (9:11). Conditions were good with a slight angled head wind. Neil Frediani Next event - Thursday 1st November, 12:45. WARR Event PhotographsSorry - I've still not had sufficient downtime to sort through my own photographs let alone those of others. Perhaps next week. Roderick Hoffman PS And I'm still hopefully some of my team colleagues will submit some words
to describe their experiences at WARR this year. RUNNERS NEEDED for MEN’S SURREY LEAGUE CROSS COUNTRY FIXTURES 2018/9Our men’s league fixtures are as below:
I will be sending out more details of locations as each match comes along. For now I would like to know if you are intending running for us at all this season in the cross countries and if you know now that you plan to attend or not specific events then that would be good to know. If anyone needs a lift to/from home or a station then let me know and I will see if one of us can help. To any newcomers, I will need your date of birth OR if you have one then your England Athletics number. There are no individual race fees. League website is: http://surreyleague.org/slm/. We are currently in Division 4. Neil Frediani {neil.frediani@ba.com}
And the Ladies... Surrey League Cross Country Ladies FixturesSurrey League Ladies XC dates, venues and start times are:
Team Captain Clara Halket will not be there on the 1st and 2nd matches due to conflicting committed events. Monica Alonso will be there at match 1 to hand round the bib numbers. Clara Halket {clarapn@aol.com}
Club parkrun results for Saturday 6th October 2018
Firstly a brief summary of the second half of September. New club records were set by Alice Banks (27:48) at Higginson, Marlow, Ian Cockram (23:35) at Clapham Common, Ian Cunningham (23:58) at Clover Point and Maria Jovani (20:36) at Nonsuch. Three new parks were added to the club collection taking the total to 444. David Duggan (26:47) has been to Victoria, Kitchener in Ontario and also to the inaugural at Orleans (Ottawa) where he was one second faster. Roderick Hoffman (29:10) visited Des Moines Creek in Washington state. Bob Bannister (22:49) improved his pb at Bedfont Lakes yet again (on his 274th appearance there). Moving on into the post WARR October, the mornings are darker and cooler but the pace doesn’t really slow. Maria Jovani (20:31) went to Bushy Park for the first time in a couple of years and was caught momentarily in her BA vest by the sky news team doing a feature on the parkrun 14th anniversary. There were over 1500 at Bushy this week – over 100 times more than the original time trial in 2004. Julie Barclay (23:47) ran at Homewood for the first time and set a new age category and female club record. Jacqui Musselwhite (22:45) ran at Horsham for the first time and set a new female club record. Her brother Adrian Haines holds the male record with 17:50. As the 603rd anniversary of the battle of Agincourt (25/10/1415) approaches, Ian Cockram (22:52) and Caroline Cockram (25:49) were at parkrun de Rouen in northern France for the first time. The parkrun there has been going for a little over a year and the attendance was 46. lingering on in British Columbia Ian Cunningham (25:04) survived chilly conditions up in Whistler (22 runners), a venue for the winter Olympics in 2010. Travel difficulties confined Roderick Hoffman (40:20) to Nose Hill (Calgary) close to where Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards found fame in the 1988 version {and Roderick adds that Eddie had much better equipment than him, for the conditions!}. Chris Kelly (23:13, club record) ahead of his challenge match with Mo Farah in the Chicago Marathon** met up with David Duggan (28:28) at Heritage Harbour in Illinois. There were just 46 runners there too. The curtain came down at Heartwood Forest in Hertfordshire where there was a turnout of 466 for the 47th and final run of the parkrun there {2 more than double the previous record!}. The team there hope to find a new venue not too far away soon. Steve ** Marathon “novice” Sir Mo beat Chris by about 70 minutes! Steve Newell Updated parkrun stats - club parkrun stats
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KLM Road Runners CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS SATURDAY 15th December 2018 at the “Langevelderslag” Beach + DunesHighly recommended, and since Adrian Haines ran and finished first in this event last December it would be good to turn up with a larger team this year. Please let me know if you are considering entry: Roderick Hoffman {roderick@rhoff.org.uk} Dear airline colleagues, You are hereby invited for the KLM Road Runners 2018 club championships. The location of the beach/dune run is Langevelderslag www.nederzandt.nl +/- 20 km south west of Schiphol airport. The race distances are 6km and 10km. The start of our event is at 15:00 for the 6km and 15:10 for the 10km (14:30 children's run). Directly after the start, the race goes north following a winding footpath. After a few kilometers and a challenging climb over the dunes and the race returns to the finish following the sandy beach. The 6km runners finish at the beach ntre; the 10km runners will run an additional smaller loop. There are awards for male seniors and masters, female seniors and masters on both distances and every finisher will receive a special KLM Road Runners souvenir. All runners take part in a free lottery with many fine prizes. The award ceremony starts at 17:00. A free bus service will be available. It will pick-up runners from Schiphol airport (AMS) at 13:30. We will also take care of transport back to the airport. The bus will return at 17:30 to Schiphol airport. If you want to join us for our run on the beach and dunes than please sign up via https://klmrri.nl/site/informatie/entry-forms/. Participating in the race for invited airline runners and family is FREE!! After the Race we continue with a buffet BBQ dinner and if you decide to stay for this dinner you can sign up also via https://klmrri.nl/site/informatie/entry-forms/.. The costs are €29.50,- for the buffet dinner per person. (Children under 13 are € 9.75). Payment: This year we ask the attendance for the dinner to pay upfront (no cash payment on race day). This can be done via a normal EU bank transfer (Swift / ban), see registration website for details. Also for those runners who will stay for the dinner we will organise transport to Schiphol Airport. Hope to see you at the beach and dunes on the 15th of December. Met vriendelijke groeten / kind regards, Frank Jegers KLM Road Runners |
Correction - the next Street-O event will be at London Bridge on Tuesday 9th October. Registration is at the Horseshoe Inn SE1 3QP. Details: http://londonorienteering.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/streeto_london_bridge_oct2018_flyer.pdf . I'm not expecting there to be a control point on the top floor of the Shard. But you never know.
Dear Ed, due to my injuries sustained last out on my XC (advised last week at 35.30 PB). I am unable to jog however, I can walk. So, today I did so on my Cookham six and a quarter which is XC but at walking pace=2Hrs 2Min. Andy Rayner.
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