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BA Athletics Club News Digest 13th May 2013

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Forthcoming Events

Don't forget the following priority club events:

• CIE Wednesday 22nd May - "Ruffell Runaround" - Concorde Centre from 18:00 followed by...(see below)
• Bank Holiday Monday 27th May - BUPA 10,000 Central London - Major club marshalling event
• Saturday 1st June - Club Featured parkrun - Wormwood Scrubs

New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at all of these events.

Joe Nolan undertook an athletics coaching course a little while ago. He will be at the Concorde Club on May 22nd, after the Ruffell Runaround, to talk to members about how we might best use Joe's new found knowledge. You're all very welcome to come along and join in.

The full events diary is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml.

Concorde Five Mile Road Race call for help

The next big club hosted event is the Concorde Five Mile Road Race on Sunday 9th June.  We need course marshals and other helpers to make this a top quality event - and it would be really good to have club runners free to race as well.  There is a Kid's Race from 10:00 and then the Five Mile Race starts at 10:30.  Helpers are needed from 09:00 (or earlier) and to help out until 13:00.  The following roles need to be filled so please email me and offer your help - telling me if you want to perform a specific role.  Note that on the day some helpers may perform more than one role.

We will also have St Johns providing first aid cover and a Run Britain Event Adjudicator as well.

I would like anyone and everyone in the club who wants to run the race to have the opportunity to do so so, and I may regret saying this, if you want to run the race AND you can provide at least one non-Athletics Club member to help, then please enter by sending Alastair Heslop an entry form with the race fee and notify me of your helper.  I'd like the only exceptions to this to be me and Alastair.

Roderick Hoffman (Race Director) - contact me to volunteer yourself or others: roderick@rhoff.org.uk (name / contact details / role)

Race entry form for yourself or to pass to others http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/ConcordeEntry2013.docx

Speedbird Ladies Results

The Speedbird Ladies race was held on Wednesday 8th May.  The event went off without incident with even the weather holding true.

Results for All Competitors in finish order

There were 18 finishers in the All Competitors category.

Result of the Ladies teams team competition.

(3 competitors per team. Based on cumulative position.)

May Run-of-the-Month Stockley Park 10k Results

There were 183 finishers at this well organised local event.

Congratulations to Brian for not only thrashing the other club competitors ( ;-) ), coming first in his age category and being well ahead of the first MV60 but also for getting the Age Group record for the event.  Did they need to see your birth certificate before presenting you with your prize?

World Airline Road Race 2013 Cape Town News

The World Airline Road Race will be held in South Africa and near (rather than in) Cape Town on the weekend of 12th/13th October.  Full details haven't yet been announced and the event isn't yet open for bookings but it will happen.  The delay is due to a cycling event planned for Cape Town that weekend which has caused the host committee to have to change their plans.  We know how difficult it is to set everything up for a WARR weekend so hopefully we can be patient but keep our leave aside for that period.

Please let me know if you are anticipating going to WARR this year - it will be useful to have an indication of names and numbers.

Roderick Hoffman.

LADIES SURREY CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE

DATES & VENUES FOR 2013/2014

• Match 1 – 19 Oct 13 – Lightwater Country Park (hosted by Woking AC)
• Match 2 - 07 Dec 13 –Farthing Downs, Coulsdon (South London H)
• Match 3 – 11 Jan 14 – Putney Vale/Wimbledon Common (Thames H & H)
• Match 4 – 08 Feb 13 – Lloyd Park, Croydon (Striders of Croydon/Croydon H)

All matches start at 12 noon and are double fixtures with the men’s league EXCEPT Match 2 which will be Ladies only.

Clara Halket

Bridges Relay Wednesday June 26th 7pm

After the disappointments of no Green Belt Relay or Round Norfolk Relay this year why not join the team for the Bridges Relay on Weds 26th June at Westminster? This relay starts at 7pm with each leg being 2.3 miles down the Thames over a couple of bridges and back. Teams are either 4 for mixed and men or 3 for ladies. We can enter as many teams as we like so let's go for a bumper turn out this year.

If you are interested please send your name to me at Richard.ruffell@ba.com.

Richard

Track & Field Events

2 events for the track season coming up:

• On Wednesday 15th May, the 2nd Rosenheim meeting of the season at Walton - 6.45pm start.
• Then on Monday 20th May is our 2nd Grand Prix at Uxbridge - 6pm Start -1500m & Shot Putt.

Hope to see you there,

Eddie Giles

Charity Dance

Another Brilliant Marathon Day report

parkrun Results and Statistics

Last Saturday twelve BAAC parkrun family members ran at a total of nine different parkruns - perhaps a record for the number of different parkruns run by club members on a single day.  The list of parkruns visited was boosted by one with Gareth Snook doing his second parkrun this time at his home town Cardiff.  Between us we have now run at 60 different parkruns and Steve and I are currently planning on running at the inaugural "Queen Elizabeth" park parkrun just off the A3 towards Portsmouth this coming Saturday - Note that I have space in my car for more.

The following table shows the full BAAC parkrun family listed in order of the total number of parkruns run.  This shows that Alan Anderson retains and perhaps is even extending his lead being over two year's parkruns ahead of his nearest rival.  At least we can now say that the next two of us, Chris Kelly and John Coffey, have run more parkruns between them than Alan has.  In third place John  Coffey is only a whisker ahead of Joe Nolan in this list.  Ian Cunningham most recently joined the "100 Club" and Steve Newell looks like being next to achieve that.  Kerstin Luksch and myself are now well established in the "50 Club" and Piers Keenleyside could be next though Gary Rushmer and Robert Fleming could give him a sprint finish.

But then look towards the bottom of the list.  43 family members have run more parkruns than our one and only Dave Dixon and all 47 family members have also run parkruns FASTER than Dave!  That must be a very encouraging thought to all of you...except that is if you are the one and only Dave Dixon {Ed: I checked the facts and Dave pointed out that he did start that parkrun after arriving over ten minutes late - but the rule is that whatever is in the parkrun computer must be the truth}.  Also note that eleven of the family have run fewer parkruns than Robert Brown.  Given the unlikelihood of Rob increasing his count in the near future (freedom runs don't count) those eleven family parkrunners shouldn't have much difficulty climbing the list.

Thanks as ever to Steve Newell for putting together the stats to enable such trivia.

Steve's parkrun stats

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