BA Athletics Club News Digest 13th September 2021
For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.
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This Week's Events
Please 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.
Solo Mile (submit before Monday 20th September):
Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the
Facebook prompt.
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.
Mile Participant |
Location |
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Start Time |
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Weekly Athletic Achievement (by late Sunday) or use the Facebook
group prompt:
Participant |
Event |
Distance |
Location |
Day/Start |
Time or Duration |
Details or comment, and other achievements |
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Editorial - London Approaches!
It is obvious from the chatter that the London Marathon is
approaching with many members reporting long training runs and races. Ready
or not, things are looking good for it actually happening on 3rd
October. The club has also got 120+ volunteers limbering up to manage
five crossing points on the course and a briefing and kit handover
session has been penciled in for Wednesday 29th September (to be
confirmed). This will be one week after our 40th anniversary event on
22nd October. The club's launch can be traced back to the first London Marathon
(29th March 1981) and the running euphoria that that event generated.
But perhaps in the UK we are at the start of a new sports revolution
- with everyone under the age of 19 now picking up a racket and
believing that they can achieve anything!...and all those over the age
of 19 putting their rackets away and taking up another sport.
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Round-the-Park at Osterley this Wednesday - meet from 12:00 for a 12:30
start
Meet in front of the house in Osterley Park from 12:00. Toilets available.
From 12:30 we will do the race around the current two lap parkrun course
(pictured - the only tricky turn is the one into the woods but if you miss it
and go straight on you don't add any distance, just have a gate you need to pull
open to rejoin the course). Afterwards we'll recover using the National Trust Café for
drinks and food. We request that participants make a £1 donation which the club
will pass on to one of our regular charities.
Note that parking in the park is free for National Trust members. There is a
charge for non-members but you no longer have to book in advance. Parking at the
end of Osterley Lane (from Norwood Green) is free. There are also some free
unrestricted parking in the streets to the south of the park.
If you tell us to expect you we'll look out for you at the start - reply to
me or use this events "Sign up" in the diary.
Roderick
Hoffman
Surrey Cross-Country League Fixtures
Match fixtures for the 2021-22 season have now been published. For our men’s
team (division 4) there are venue changes to those previously reported.
All ladies’ matches will start at 11am. Men’s division 4 matches will start
at 3pm, with the exception of the February match which is 2pm. Times (and
venues) may be
subject to change.
If you have run (or volunteered) with us in the league previously, you are on
our database and will be contacted with further information on the individual
matches once we receive it from the host clubs. If you haven’t, please consider
doing so! It’s a great winter league, and our ladies’ team in particular is
short on runners. All welcome. You will need to be a paid-up member of BAAC and
England Athletics to take part. Please contact Alan (Membership@barunner.org.uk)
to check or add your England Athletics affiliation. The club pays an affiliation fee
to the Surrey League each season;
there is no charge for members to race.
Each men’s race is approximately 8km. Ladies race over approximately 6km for the
first two matches and 8km for the second two.
Contact us for further info, and please spread the word!
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16-Oct |
13-Nov |
15-Jan |
19-Feb |
Division 1 |
Richmond Park Organisers: Ranelagh with help from Belgrave |
Wimbledon Common Organisers: Fulham Runners and Thames Hare and
Hounds |
Mitcham Common Organisers: Herne Hill with help from Clapham
Chasers |
Effingham Common Organisers: Guildford and Godalming |
Division 2 |
Epsom Downs Organisers: Epsom and Ewell Harriers |
Denbies (TBC) Organisers: Dorking and Mole Valley |
Richmond Park Organisers: Stragglers |
Lloyd Park Organisers: Striders of Croydon & Croydon Harriers |
Division 3 & 4 (incl. BA) |
Epsom Downs Organisers: 26.6 |
Denbies (TBC) Organisers: Walton AC |
Richmond Park Organisers: Wimbledon Windmilers |
Lloyd Park Organisers: Ful on Tri/other clubs |
Ladies (BA) |
Richmond Park Organisers:Ranelagh with help from Belgrave |
Wimbledon Common Organinsers: Fulham Runners and Thames Hare and
Hounds |
Mitcham Common Organsisers: Herne Hill with help from Clapham
Chasers |
Effingham Common Organisers: Guildford and Godalming |
Amanda Coombs >
Ladiescaptain@barunner.org.uk
Gary Rushmer >
Menscaptain@barunner.org.uk
Activity Achievements for the week 6th September to 12th September 2021
19 activities recorded.
Colleague |
Activity |
Distance |
Course |
Start Time |
Duration |
Comments |
Adrian Haines |
parkrun |
5km |
Horsham |
Sat am |
00:18:40 |
4th place. Back in the 80% +age grade. Quite pleased after a night
out at my friends wedding reception. |
Andy Rayner |
Running |
4miles |
XC route |
Tue |
00:52:00 |
Just one report as my birthday falls on 9/11 day. Also 55 minutes on
the same course the previous Friday. |
Ben Cooper |
Running |
10.44km |
Cardiff |
Fri am |
00:56:27 |
Garmin coach training run, decided to explore other local Cardiff
estates to keep things interesting. Got absolutely drenched in the last
10 minutes. |
Benita Scaife |
Running |
5km |
Flackwell Heath Park |
Tue am |
00:33:50 |
Laps of Flackwell Heath park while John sat on a bench reading
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (foot a bit sore after the
weekend). |
Clara Halket |
Running |
12.2km |
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Sun |
01:00:04 |
Today's run was hell, though also fastest in a long time. Now taking
a 8-week hiatus from running to allow the leg injury to heal properly.
[also last week 34.14km run in 3:25:57] |
Emma Moreton |
Running |
20miles |
Windsor to Weybridge |
Sun |
03:03:00 |
20 miles training for VLM starting with Beat the Boat 10k in
Windsor. We did beat the 55 minute boat! . |
Jain Reid |
Running |
6.71km |
Home from Richmond |
Sat am |
00:45:45 |
Finally back running. Choose a nice downhill run home after parkrun
volunteering. It feels like it will be a long road back but v happy to
have started again |
Jasvir Singh Modaher |
Race |
Half-M |
Maidenhead Half |
Last week |
02:34:49 |
Spotted by Alice Banks, still promoting the airline and running
club. |
Julie Barclay |
Race |
5km |
Cosham |
Wed |
00:22:21 |
Last race of three race series. |
Kelly Davis |
Running |
20.01miles |
Windsor and back |
Sun |
00:04:40 |
Last long run. We went out for 18 miles but decided we were having
too much fun and did 20 |
Melanie Miller |
Walking |
16.31km |
Lymington to Barton |
Sat |
03:32:00 |
Coastal walk via The Lighthouse Cafe near Milford-on-Sea then
followed an undulating headland route whereby The Needles were clear to
see, a tad windy but lovely route nonetheless. |
Michael Ball |
Running |
5km |
Naked Run |
Sun |
00:27:08 |
First over 50, doing my first naked run. [no - this wasn't a run
without technology, it was a "bare is beautiful" run organised by the
Naturist Foundation]. |
Neil Frediani |
Running |
17.5miles |
Newcastle |
Sun |
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Another struggle including getting trapped between the barriers on
the GNR course . |
Piers Keenleyside |
Race |
10km |
Kew Gardens |
Sat |
00:56:15 |
Another 10k race - times improving but slowly. Over 1 1/2 minutes
quicker than last month's EE 10K. |
Roderick Hoffman |
Hill Work |
6km |
Deck of Regal Princess |
Tue |
00:43:38 |
With the cruise ship sailing into a strong wind this was a tough
session - 26 climbs into the wind and 26 times blown to the back of the
boat. Earning my "all-you-can-eat" breakfast. [photo from previous day] |
Simon Turton |
Orienteering |
9.61km |
Wargrave |
Sat am |
00:50:22 |
I repeated the Wargrave Street-O, in the opposite direction to my
run last Monday and varied two of the controls. 50 min time limit.
Local to me and enjoyed but quite undulating so working hard. |
Stephen Taylor |
Race |
20miles |
Willen Lake (Milton Keynes) |
Sun |
03:22:58 |
Part of my London Marathon training, partly for the distance and
partly to get used to the routines around a real event and making sure
you have everything you need. |
Steve Newell |
Walking |
2.51km |
Bedfont Lakes |
Wed |
00:31:49 |
With the wheel, measuring the Equinox course. |
Tim Bellars |
Race |
Marathon (plus) |
Brighton |
Sun |
04:15:00 |
Marathon distance plus 568metres. The website claims the Brighton
Marathon is the second largest in the UK…now they can also say that it
is the longest! See below. |
I couldn't find any pictures of Michael's race, which is perhaps a good
thing since I'm still having problems due to the photographs printed of
Piers from years ago.
Roderick Hoffman
Brighton
Ultra
I went into this marathon rather anxious. Just over two years since
my last one, I struggled to motivate myself through the pandemic. After
the Green Belt (virtual) Relay I got back into some sort of running
routine. Unfortunately this was cut short when I had a bad fall at the
beginning of July where I severely bruised my ribs and curtailed my
training for a month. With my entry in London too I thought I would give
Brighton a go and if I pulled up I would treat it as a training run!!
Fortunately for me I trained really well over the last month up to 16
miles.
Many of you know my son Luke who has attended a few WARR events was
also running. We both set off together at a good pace which was lovely
running through the streets together. He then left me as we turned left
heading for Ovingdean. I reached halfway in under two hours but I was to
pay for it later. When I hit 19 miles the lack of ‘banked’ miles in
training showed. My knees were quite painful. I slowed my pace and
started swinging my legs rather than bending them. Pace dropped but it
worked. Last 5k was really tough but wind behind helped. Finally crossed
the finish line just under 4:15 and was very happy with that (second
slowest marathon for me) but after hearing the news the distance was
wrong and over by 560 metres, Strava indicated that I had actually run
marathon distance in 4:10!
FYI Luke struggled in the second half too but came through in his
first marathon in 4:33:17.
A week's rest for me then two weeks' preparation for London!
Tim Bellars
Ed: The organisers have officially apologised for the mistake that
led to the course that was run being 568metres too long. But
perhaps they should turn this around and proudly announce that all of
the event's finishers have completed their first (or next) ultra!
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parkrun results for Saturday 11th September 2021
38 runners and volunteers below - get in touch if your result is missing.
Last week (4th Sep) we had to meet an early deadline for the digest so I’ll
start with a few comments that didn’t make the “stop press”. Paul Watt’s run
at Storeys Field took him to 49 different parks. He was also in 50th
position which will add an extra challenge next time out. He won’t be invited to
join the Hoffman club however as that is reserved for non repeaters who run
their first 50 parkruns without ever going back to try for a course pb.
Paul’s collection of 49 parks includes just 10 he has revisited. Melanie
Miller (37:29) ran at the newish parkrun at Itchen Valley and established a new
club course record (all genders).
Every week thousands more people apply for a barcode than do their first run
and over time the number of never used barcodes has grown into several million.
Lovely to report then that Di Smith decided to wait no longer and finally felt
ready to try Bushy Park after such a long delay she can’t really remember how
many years it was. She has been a formidable opponent for the last five
decades, we had better well all look out. A good thing that parkrun is not
a race.
Moving on to this week and the number 98 keeps springing up. Roderick
Hoffman, run #398, (29: 21) was treading new ground at the 98th edition of
Pocket parkrun in Cambridgeshire, Steve Newell (43:38) was very pleased with his
official time at the 98th Clapham Common parkrun while Jacqui Musselwhite
completed her 98th parkrun, this latest one at Woking. Two other courses
run for the first time this week were Irchester Country Park in Northamptonshire (Sarah Gordon, 36:40) and Sale Water near Manchester (Ray
Hampton, 32:28). That was Ray’s first parkrun for three and a half years.
Paul Watt (25:33) limped round his 150th parkrun and 50th different venue at
Cranleigh where the locals were celebrating their 300th. Another
parkrun reaching 300 this week was Horsham where Adrian Haines (18:40, 81.61%)
clocked our best time this week. He once achieved a 17:50 there when he was much
younger and this week’s run improved his best age grade score ever over 63
parkruns. Eddie Giles (26:57) is on a roll. Since the end of
lockdown he hasn’t missed a run at Salisbury and each Saturday he has been
quicker than the week before.
A new parkrun started this week in London, indeed inside the South Circular
where only low emission vehicles will soon be welcome. Sutcliffe Nature
Reserve in Eltham (Greenwich Borough) becomes the 57th parkrun within the GLA
boundary which means that the 111 parkrunners who were “Londone” are now undone
so expect a few tourist visits over the next few weeks. This cycle could
be repeated several times over the coming few months as the lingering effects of
the pandemic unravel.
Steve Newell
Full club parkrun database -
{read access to
club parkrun database} - Download and explore.
The club map marks all parkruns and is updated about once a month.
The icons used for parkruns are green trees for those which club members have run and red
trees for those that are yet to be run. If you click on a parkrun it will list
various items of data including who from the club was the first to run that
parkrun and what are currently the fastest male and female times and the best
age grade. There is also a link to the parkrun's website page.
Triathlon Update
The "Badlands" 746km bike race in southern Spain started from Granada on
Sunday (5th September) and double Olympic triathlon champion Alistair Brownlee
finished on Tuesday afternoon in 57 hours and 20 minutes (ave speed 13km/h).
He claims to have had 7 hours of sleep and spent another 7 hours fixing
punctures so might have done better than finish 7th. The winner finished in 45
hours and by Friday afternoon (10th Sep) about 75 solo entrants had finished and
most others had given up with just a handful still crawling towards the finish.
Some people entered in pairs taking turns on the bike but none of them did any
better. Alistair might try again next year if his Ironman schedule allows.
Alistair praised the organisers for the amazing course which includes
crossing deserts, going over mountains and along beaches and suggests that
anyone who finishes at all has really achieved. I'm not going to argue.
https://www.transiberica.cc/
Steve Newell
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