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BA Athletics Club News Digest 8th September 2014

Forthcoming Events:

• Tuesday 9th September - 'Round the Park' - Waterside 12:30 (see below)
• Wednesday 17th September - 'Equinox' 5k - Concorde Centre 18:00
• Sunday 28th September - Track & Field Championships and Family Fun Day at Eton track (see below)

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.

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Newbury Triathlon

Congratulations to Janet Smith for completing here first Triathlon at Newbury on Sunday.

Club "Run of the Month" for September - Round-the-Park - Tuesday 9th September - Waterside Parklands

This year’s Round the Park race takes place on Tuesday 9th September 2014 at 12:30. Like last year the event will be hosted in the Waterside Parklands. The event starts near the wooden bridge behind the main car park.  It is a 2 lap course and is approximately 3 miles in length, so just a bit shorter than 5 Km. This is a fun event and ALL levels of runners/joggers are welcomed.

Those not at Waterside wishing to take part, will find it very difficult to park in the Parklands. Due to this, you are encouraged to use the bus to get to Waterside, where the start will be a 10 minute walk away. For people where this is not an option please let me know and I will try and arrange parking.

The entry fee is £1 per person and all proceeds goes to the White Lodge Charity. You can either enter the race as an individual or as part of a team. Teams are to be made up of 4 mixed runners, including at least one male and one female.

In an attempt to avoid too much of a rush on the day and inform the wardens of expected numbers, please could you let know if you are going to take part. If you are entering as part of a team, can you please complete the attached form and email it to me. We will hand out numbers and collect your entry fees on the day at the start so please arrive a few minutes early. Entries will still be taken on the day.

If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Regards,

 Entry Form==> Paul Knechtl

Same course as last year (but on the 9th, not the 10th):

Magic Mile September 2014 Results

Hi All,

On near perfect conditions we had 8 people take part in 3 batches. A main group of 6 all run together, while Dave and Tom did individual runs for the anniversary event. There was 1 PB this week, with Roderick Hoffman going 4 seconds quicker than his previous time and now only 2 seconds away from his target time of 07:06 which was set back in 1999. There were also good runs for Dave Bird and Steve Taylor who managed to be within a couple of seconds of their best times.

	Previous Best Time	Previous Run	Previous Time	04Sep14	Difference	Best Time
Roderick Hoffman	00:07:12	07-Aug-14	00:07:20	00:07:08	-12 seconds	00:07:08
Dave Bird	00:05:52	05-Jun-14	00:06:04	00:05:54	-10 seconds	00:05:52
Simon Ashford	00:06:18	03-Jul-14	00:06:35	00:06:25	-10 seconds	00:06:18
Sharon Kassemzadeh	00:06:47	03-Jul-14	00:07:09	00:07:02	-07 seconds	00:06:47
Chris Kelly	00:05:43	03-Jul-14	00:05:51	00:05:50	-01 seconds	00:05:43
Steve Taylor	00:06:45	07-Aug-14	00:06:49	00:06:48	-01 seconds	00:06:45
Paul Knechtl	00:04:56	05-Jun-14	00:05:20	00:05:24	+04 seconds	00:04:56
Tom Palmer	00:06:25	06-Mar-14	00:06:25	00:06:42	+17 seconds	00:06:25

There may possibly be 2 events next month. The next date should be the 2nd October, but with most people traveling to Dublin for WARR there may be no one around. So will be making the next official event 9th October, but will probably still hold an official mile on the 2nd October as well!

Paul Knechtl

Results of the 6th and final Grand Prix of the season at Uxbridge, Monday 1st Sept 2014

The 6TH GP of the season was split in half, as our 1st session before the 100m, we welcomed Tom Rowley & Julie Barclay to the track for some warm up exercises (in the rain).  Warmed up sufficiently , Steve, Rod & myself ‘sprinted’ the 100m, the front 2 showing me a clean pair of heels.  Thanks to Tom for starting & Julie for timing the event.

Then on to the 2nd half of the training, distance & speed work was next and a very good session it was. Then on to the Hammer where Steve reigns supreme to get another win this season.  Again thanks to Tom & Julie for twice giving us a visit at Uxbridge this year, and to everyone who came to previous GPs , hope you all enjoyed them all, and see you all again next year.

Regards,

Eddie Giles 

Track&Field Championships and Family Fun Day - Eton track - Sunday 28th September 12:00 to 17:00

Please put this date in your diary and plan to be there and bring your family, colleagues and friends.  The events will include most of those that you might like to try your hand at...and your legs too.  Free to enter but you must turn up to take part.

Provisional list of events:

[participants take part entirely at their own risk. Some advice may be given before each event]

More details - email Eddie Giles

Club parkrun results for Saturday 6th September

6th Sept 14	runner	time	parkrun	comment	grade
Barry	Walters	19:28	Woking	age category record	81%
John	Coffey	23:50	Bushy Park		76%
Chris	Kelly	19:42	Reading	run #202	74%
Colin	Haylock	19:25	Bushy Park		73%
Piers	Keenleyside	21:28	Gunnersbury		73%
Alan	Anderson	28:15	Gunnersbury		73%
Eddie	Giles	24:33	Upton Court	run #49	68%
Alan	Friar	25:36	Woodley	6th consecutive performance improvement	68%
Ian	Cunningham	23:20	Bushy Park		64%
Tony	Barnwell	28:46	Wycombe Rye	pb at Wycombe Rye	63%
Janet	Cunningham	27:36	Guildford	run #100	62%
Roderick	Hoffman	24:28	Netley Abbey	park #86, BA park #127	62%
Steve	Taylor	23:55	Gunnersbury	run #19	62%
Ben	Chaytow	21:47	Crane Park		62%
Kerstin	Luksch	24:20	Gunnersbury	leads female points table	61%
Steve	Newell	29:42	Gunnersbury	30' pacer	59%
Joe	Nolan	27:06	Black Park		59%
Tony	Hird	25:23	Gunpowder	run #72	58%
Marion	Taylor	29:17	Gunnersbury	all time parkrun pb	57%
Sreeram	Sethuraman	30:44	Upton Court	new associate member	43%

Pride of place this week goes to Barry Walters who tried out the recently inaugurated parkrun course at Woking and set an excellent MV55-59 age category record of 19:28 which is also the new club course record.  His WAVA score was 80.99%.
Alan Friar (25:36 at Woodley) and Tony Barnwell (28:46 at Wycombe Rye) both maintained an improving trend over recent weeks.
It was a notable day for two spouses of club members with Mrs Ian Cunningham (Janet) completing her 100th parkrun at Guildford (27:36) and Mrs Steve Taylor (Marion) achieving her best parkrun time ever (29:17) at Gunnersbury. 
At Upton Court, Eddie Giles completed his 49th run in 24:33, let's hope he doesn't leave his score there as long as Gary Rushmer did!  Also at Upton Court, one of our new associate members, Sreeram Sethuraman (Amadeus) appeared on the radar for the first time.  He has a parkrun best of 27:43 set at Black Park.
Roderick continued his tour with a visit to Netley Abbey in maritime Hampshire (24:28).  That makes it 127 different parkruns for the club and 86 for Roderick.
With only six weeks of the season to go Kerstin Luksch (holder) leads the female points table at Gunnersbury.  In a desperate bid to lose the title she has volunteered for lead bike duty next Saturday!  Following the London Mela the grass has just been mown quite short.
 
Steve Newell

Tom Rowley adds:

Just a SMALL  report of a BIG  club performance.  On Sat 6th Sept. I was lucky enough as a marshal to witness a wonderful BA club record.  Barry Walters turned up at the Woking Park 5k looking really mean, more so than normal.  As a marshal I had to restrain him to wait for the other 116 runners to start.  My marshal position was perfect for (non-official) timing of the start/finish of each of the three laps.  Barry came round 1st lap in 6/7th place in a 5.58 and still with looking mean.  2nd lap was 13.01ish and he was running very relaxed and comfortable.  3rd lap in 18min with 150m to tape I told him to hurry-up (he took no notice) and he finished in 19.28.   NOT the end of the story...
The 50/55 course record of 19.51 was broken, well done Barry, BUT still not he end of story...
The record was held by BA staff member Mike Waine, a very good mate of Barry's and many BA lads over the years plus for the forthcoming XC season will see them clash many times.  Well done lads, may be one day Mike and Barry will turn-up together at Woking and give us another brilliant performance.  NO NOT finished yet...

 Barry's age performance of 80.99% was the best on the day PLUS is the highest of ALL age groups Woking course record holders     Congratulations Barry.  I loved it, please come again Barry.

Tom Rowley

Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls 

ASCA T&F Event - Dublin

Two weekends after WARR in Dublin Aer Lingus are also hosting the ASCA Athletics event with the main events being on Saturday 18th October.  Please let us know if you might be interested in representing the club and airline at this event.

 Steve Hillier

Coach Development FREE Workshops Save the dates 2014-2015

Again - let Steve Hillier know if you might be interested in any of these.

Concorde Club Rebranding

As previously advised the Concorde Club property and administration was taken over by Imperial College last Monday 1st October.  Officially the sports ground is now called the "Imperial College London Heston sport ground" but it is likely that we'll continue to refer to it by its old name until we get new membership.  Some contact details have changed:

For Sports bookings: 0207 594 6866,

Main Reception: 0207 594 6868.

 Note that BA Clubs continues to be a British Airways unit. 

BA Enquiries (situated at reception): 0208 51 32000 / 32001 and note that Pat French's email is now pat.french@ba.com .

"I've bin here before!"

Following Joe's recollection last week of finding himself running in the same place again... In the late '80s I was running for the club in a cross-country race in the woods at Ruislip.  We had had a good turn out so I would be a non-scorer.  I was struggling round the fallen tree obstacles and through the thick mud and the only thing keeping me going was that I was running directly behind Jane Herbert. My mind wondered and I remembered that ten or so years earlier I had made some appearances for my school at cross-country events, again to make up the numbers in case anyone of the elite dropped out, and on one occasion I had run round these very same woods at Ruislip.  And I had hated it then as well.  At that point Jane, as a lady, finished her second and last lap...and so did, even though I should have done a third, and I retired from cross-country racing on the spot.  I haven't run a cross-country race since.  A few muddy parkruns perhaps but never cross-country. Roderick Hoffman

So what is your earliest memory of running or have you had a realisation recently about having run somewhere before?  Please email it in.

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