BA Athletics Club News Digest 11th November 2013
Forthcoming Events:
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Wednesday 13th November - Club Winter Quiz - Concorde Centre from 20:00 -
Steve Hillier (details below)
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Wednesday 27th November - 5 mile Handicap - Concorde Centre from 18:00 (to
finish around 19:00)
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Saturday 30th November - Club Featured parkrun - Black Park for
09:00
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome
at all of these events.
The full events diary is on the club website at:
http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. UPDATED 11th
November 2013.
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Quiz Night 13th November from 20:00 at the Concorde Centre
Quiz night Wednesday November 13th, 8pm, at the Concorde
Centre. Come as a team, come as an individual, just come and enjoy yourselves!
Everyone is welcome, you don't have to be a section member and you don't have to
be brilliant. Just look forward to having your grey cells tested! Entry is just £1 per head, with all proceeds going to our club charity, White
Lodge. (You can donate more if you wish!)
See you there,
Steve Hillier
Men's Surrey League XC Div 3/4 9th November Roundshaw Downs for 15:00
Hi all,
The men's second cross country race of the season took place at Roundshaw
Downs on Saturday 9th . We had a good turnout of 9 runners + 1 guest. We
finished a very good 3rd on the day with 3 runners in the top 9 in div 4 and now
lie second overall (Bring it on). Paul Knechtl led the team home finishing a
excellent 3rd overall closely followed by Gary Rushmer in 8th & John Taylor in
9th. Credit also to Steve (the bolt) Hillier, it took him over 2 hours to get
to the course but he ran the last 200 meters of the race in 20 seconds (eat your
heart out Usain). See you on Monday night training at the track to see the
legend with top coach Eddie.
Look forward to seeing you all at our next fixture which is on Saturday 11th
Jan 2014 at Oxshott with start time 2.30pm.
Division 4 results:
Paul Knechtl |
3rd place: |
28.53 |
Gary Rushmer |
8th place: |
32.27 |
John Taylor |
9th place: |
32.29 |
Barry Walters |
18th place: |
33.24 |
Simon Turton |
24th place: |
34.31 |
Mark Taylor |
28th place: |
35.12 |
Graham Taylor |
43rd place: |
37.13 |
Neil Frediani |
47th place: |
39.31 |
Steve Hillier |
57th place: |
59.04 |
Anybody wishing to take part in the national x/c championships in Nottingham
on 22nd Feb 2014 (Teams or Individual) let me know as I have some entry forms.
Closing date to send forms off 6th Jan.
Thanks Gary Rushmer. E- mail:
gary.rushmer@btinternet.com or phone: 07927930414
Club family parkrun results and stats for 9th November 2013
Not many parkrunners this week due to the men's Cross Country event - but there
were a few including three doing volunteer duties. Steve Newell points out
that this coming Saturday our club family total of runs is likely to pass
2013... in the year 2013! This will make 2013 unique.
Now just for a moment imagine that you are the Chief Executive of an airline and
your growth figures for the last ten years looked like the graph above. You would feel very optimistic about
the future and you would have Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier and other manufacturers
queuing up to sell you new aircraft. So what is this graph?
It shows the growth of parkrun since it's inception in 2004. It has grown
from one 5k event in Bushy Park, London to 325 weekly events worldwide and from 13
runners that first Saturday to 49,649 last week (and there had been over 50,000
the previous week). The growth rate has been almost doubling every twelve
months. This is no longer a UK only phenomena - it covers eight countries with
more coming next year. Take Australia - this year there have
already been 34 new parkruns in Australia with another five on the way to bring
the total there to 52! One Australian parkrun last week attracted a Bushy
Park size field of 944 parkrunners.
Bushy Challenge 16th November: Neil and I are going head-to-head next week at the home of
parkrun Bushy Park - same parkrun, same day, same conditions. This table shows how
close we are currently. Others are welcome to join us - especially Tony,
Joe and Scott.
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Average of recent fast parkruns |
best |
Roderick Hoffman |
24:34 |
23:39 |
Neil Frediani |
24:28 |
24:16 |
Tony Hird |
25:00 |
23:49 |
Joe Nolan |
24:06 |
22:47 |
Scott Davison |
24:03 |
22:47 |
Roderick Hoffman
An addition to the family: "Saturday's parkrun was
Bonnie's inaugural parkrun, and was meant to be a slow run but Bonnie
seems to have the same competitive instinct as the rest of the family,
we started at the back and she just wanted to keep overtaking the whole
way round, my arm was more tired than my legs at the end from pulling
her back! For those who don't know Bonnie, she has 4 legs. I think if we
attached her to Chris Kelly rather than me she could easily go under 20
minutes!" Richard Ruffell
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Steve's parkrun stats
Magic Mile Thursday 7th November Results
Perhaps one day the Magic Mile event will have the same growth pattern as
parkrun.
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05-Sep-13 |
03-Oct-13 |
Difference |
07-Nov-13 |
Difference |
Best Time |
Paul Knechtl |
00:04:56 |
00:04:56 |
-00 seconds |
00:05:05 |
+09 seconds |
00:04:56 |
Bernard Sexton |
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00:05:39 |
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00:05:39 |
Jeremy Short |
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00:05:49 |
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00:05:49 |
Matthew Stratful |
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00:05:44 |
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00:05:52 |
+08 seconds |
00:05:44 |
Richard Ruffell |
00:06:10 |
00:06:03 |
-07 seconds |
00:06:05 |
+02 seconds |
00:06:03 |
Helen Lawrenson |
00:06:35 |
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00:06:16 |
-19 seconds |
00:06:16 |
Deby Helsdon |
00:06:48 |
00:06:21 |
-27 seconds |
00:06:21 |
-00 seconds |
00:06:21 |
Simon Ashford |
00:06:18 |
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00:06:22 |
+04 seconds |
00:06:18 |
Neil Frediani |
00:07:18 |
00:07:10 |
-08 seconds |
00:07:11 |
+01 seconds |
00:07:10 |
Mandy Warren |
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00:08:22 |
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00:08:22 |
Full results and details including from previous magic mile runs -
linked here
Paul Knechtl
Mailbox...
All, Just back from Nice after clocking (just) another sub 3:30
marathon - 3:29:42. Nice is a great place to escape the onset of a British
winter - the temperature was well into the 20's over the weekend and we were
eating outside for lunch and dinner! The race started early at 8:00am and I
had decided to try and follow the 3:15 pacers for as long as I could. I kept
them in sight until about mile 14 when I started slowing because of a very
strong westerly head-wind that got stronger and stronger as we got nearer to
Cannes. The course was mainly very flat as it followed the coast road all
the way but there were 3 or 4 hilly bits - the worst when we got the Antibes
and had to climb steeply up to the old castle. At the end we had the best
give-aways I have had in a long while - a technical t-shirt, a good quality
medal, a sports ruck-sack, as many bottled drinks as you could carry, cereal
bars, all sorts of fruit and crusty current rolls! Piers
Keenleyside |
This Sunday 10th November Natalie and I decided to run the Grand Union
Half as a different way to do a long run. As neither of us have done any
real longer run training for many months this was to be a steady run
rather than a race. I think the last time I ran anything like this distance
was just before I pulled up injured in the Berkhamsted half back in March.
When we collected our numbers at the start Natalie wondered why she had a
red number and I had a blue....I pointed out she was a girl and I am a boy!
However looking round this quickly proved to be the wrong reason. When we
entered I put 1.45.00 as my predicted time and 1.44.59 for Natalie on the
basis she always just goes ahead in the last 2 yards. Well it appears the
race starts in waves to thin out the numbers as the canal path is not very
wide, and the red wave was 1.44.59 and under and the blue wave was 1.45.00
to 1.59.59. Oops! So the red wave started with a blue runner tagged on
to the back of the group. We were aiming for 8 minute miles and went
through 10 miles in 79.59. Good pacing dad. The pace then picked up a
little from here on as Natalie's competitive instinct started to kick in, we
ran the last 5k just 9 seconds slower than I had run the park run the day
before. As for the half results Natalie and my clock finish times were
exactly the same to the nearest hundredth of a second at 1:43:48, so no
final surge to create a 1 second gap at the end. But our chip times were 0.5
second apart as I had started just behind so victory for the old man.
Who said it wasn't a race!! We had met Colon Haylock at the start and we
met up again at the end. Colin had also been planning a steady run,
targeting 1.36. He finished in 1.35.47, so pretty good pacing from Colin as
well. For those interested in running this in the future it is a well
organised race from Uxbridge to Watford, with 12 miles on the canal. This
makes it quite hard going as the canal path is uneven at best, with many
large puddles to be avoided, a few bridges, the odd gate to squeeze through
and several cyclists trying manfully to cycle the opposite direction to the
874 runners. Certainly not one for a PB, but as I always enjoy running along
the canal it is one I may do again. Richard Ruffell
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Dear all, I was, as a Marlow Half marshal, privileged to see the
three BA runners through; especially my old comrade-in-arms and fellow
whistle blower at Lambeth Bridge during the London Cycle Ride event.
Attn Mr Hillier: I can tell you Jasvir looked intrepid as usual??!!
Andy Rayner.
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Hi, I hope you like my new website which is full of brilliant half
and full marathons in the UK and around Europe;
http://www.marathonandahalf.co.uk If you think some of the British
Airways AC members may find it useful it would be great if you could
link to it next time you are updating your website. Thanks
Matt Davies Mossley Hill AC
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