BA Athletics Club News Digest 14th February 2022
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy
- for the 2022 title.
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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.
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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e.g. Running |
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February Mile Results
8 milers over the last couple of weeks, including Steve Newell walking a mile
and Maria and Mike running in the Ealing Mile. Melanie recorded her fastest so
far, but everyone else was average at best.
Roderick Hoffman
Fourth and final Cross Country Matches, Saturday 19th February
#
Our men will be running at Lloyd Park from 2pm. Contact Paul
Knechtl if you need more details.
Our ladies are due to run at Effingham Common at a rearranged time of 1pm -
but are struggling to get a team together. If you are able to be there contact
Amanda Coombs for details.
Green Belt Relay 2022 - 14th/15th May 2022 - 3 months to go!
#
We have entered a team in this event - recently virtual, previously physical
- for about 15 years, and I still haven't managed to do all the Stages...! But
seriously, there are some terrific runs out there - and running from point to
point, (village green to village green) with a little map reading, is a great
way to enjoy them. The magic of the relay is that you also get to enjoy
cheering other runners off, cheering them in, marshalling tricky crossroads,
and our fine accommodation in Essex.
We have most of a team already, but need a couple more/new/old runners, able
to run both Saturday and Sunday - 6miles or more - so please let me know if
you'd like to join, or just find out more.
It's tough, it's beautiful - and besides the running, there's a lot to enjoy!
Details and more flavour:
http://www.greenbeltrelay.org.uk/
Regards,
> Chris Kelly
Harrow Hill Race Sunday 13th February (Run-of-the-Month #)
 Harrow
Hill does not get any flatter over the years. This is one of those races which
traditionally gets impacted by road works on the morning of the event. This year
was no exception only the road works were closer to home, being the
redevelopment of the roads around the Harrow School Sports Centre where the race
is based, and which the event uses in the preamble to the Football Lane climb
(and so also to stretch the event distance to 10k). The first 700m of this
year's race was spent on the same stretch of road - 100m to the north-east, U
turn, 300m to the south-west (climbing), U turn, 300m to the north-east and then
straight up Football Lane [pictured]. It worked, but only perhaps because
numbers were down on previous years (189 finishers, vs 234 of the previous run
of the race in 2019).
I was the only BA runners and my strategy was simple - focus on enjoying running
the downhills even if that meant walking most of the uphills. Whereas the winner
finished the course in just over 34mins (and the first lady just under 40mins)
my time was a more modest 1:03:44 - compatible with my 2019 time.
There was an issue with my result which meant that I had to submit it myself,
but having submitted the clock time they were able to find my chip time. Just
one query in 189 finishers is good going. But I will be making a complaint
about the medal - a totally unrealistic representation of what we experienced.
The medal presented is shown in the left of the photo - my realistic
representation is shown on the right.
Roderick Hoffman
Recent Activity Achievements
I picked up on 22 club members and friends reporting recent activity
achievements.
| Colleague |
Activity |
Distance |
Course |
When |
Duration |
Comments |
| Andy Rayner |
Running |
3miles |
|
Wed |
00:46:55 |
Also 2.2miles fast walk on Friday in 36:10. |
| Barry Walters |
Running |
11km |
Lightwater |
Sum am |
01:07:41 |
This run around the Windlesham country lanes went much better than
expected. Halfway was reached in just over 35 minutes and I was much
quicker on the return. Conditions were dry and windy. |
| Benita Scaife |
Walking |
11km |
Freyinet National Park |
Sun |
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Our activity on Wed was a walk through Freycinet National Park in
Tasmania, ending on the beach at Wineglass Bay (pictured in the
distance)… |
| John Scaife |
Walking |
11km |
Freyinet National Park |
Sun |
|
...before returning to the NP visitor centre. 11km round trip with
250m elevation gain each way. |
| Clara Halket |
Mixed Walk/Run |
6.06km |
Trails |
Thur |
01:01:19 |
| David Duggan |
parkrun |
5km |
Pegwell Bay |
Sat am |
00:30:15 |
Quickest parkrun post Covid. |
| Denis Foxley |
Running |
6miles |
|
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01:10:00 |
| Ian Cunningham |
Race |
10km |
Valentines 10k |
Sun am |
00:45:41 |
First race of the year .. and the first race for many months.
Valentines 10k in 45:41. Better than I was expecting given my recent
lack of running |
| Jacqui Musselwhite |
parkrun |
5km |
The Old Showground |
Sat am |
00:23:56 |
The Old Showground in Frome, Somerset which was an almost 4 lap
course on tarmac paths. Some ups and downs and felt good to be going a
bit faster this week. |
| Julie Barclay |
Running |
5miles |
Falmouth |
Thu |
00:50:00 |
Off-road run along coastal cliffs from Falmouth Castle |
| Paul Watt |
Running |
5miles |
Falmouth |
Thu |
00:50:00 |
Off-road run along coastal cliffs from Falmouth Castle |
| Melanie Miller |
Race |
10km |
Winter Run |
Sun |
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The start of the 10k Winter Run which wos fun luckily managed to get
the job done b4 the heavens opened above thanks to team Harjit Jhooti
for her wonderful support. |
| Michael Ball |
Walking |
|
Bushy park |
|
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This week's activity, a walk around Bushy park |
| Mike Dennison |
Race |
10km |
Valentines 10k |
Sun am |
00:41:16 |
In quite windy conditions. It's an undulating course anyway, with
uphill bits in the last 3kms, and the final km today was also into the
wind, so I was pleased to finish in a course PB. |
| Neil Frediani |
parkrun |
5km |
Herrington Country Park |
Sat am |
00:30:02 |
Running a parkrun in 30:02 without the need to walk was an
achievement for me at Herrington country park near Sunderland. |
| Petra Otto |
parkrun |
5km |
March |
Sat am |
00:43:24 |
Parkrun in March or, as I now call it ParkWalk. New Nordic Walking
PB in 43:24 mins., plus the usual gym. |
| Piers Keenleyside |
Ultra-run |
29miles (+) |
LDWA Punchbowl Marathon |
Sun |
08:14:00 |
My first ultra in nearly 4 years - 29 miles across the wilds of
Surrey - except I did 31.26 after going the wrong way a few times! I was
placed 98th. Takes my marathon total now to 180. |
| Roderick Hoffman |
Orienteering |
9.69km |
Liverpool Street Station Street-O |
Tue |
00:59:49 |
Despite a bad start with four minutes to get properly orientated, a
really good run from me through the night lights of the City of London.
Finished 17th of 60. (see also below) |
| Sarah Gordon |
Skiing |
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Hinterglemm, Austria |
Sun |
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On the slopes. |
| Stephen Taylor |
Running |
14miles |
Eal Pye Island and back |
Sun |
02:31:53 |
A long run on Sunday down the canal to Brentford and along the
Thames to Eel Pye Island and back. Choosing an out and back route to
make sure that I made the distance planned. |
| Steve Hillier |
Running |
5.2km |
Roxbourne Park |
Sun |
00:36:37 |
Before the rain. |
| Steve Newell |
Swim |
1600m |
Indoor pool |
Wed |
00:57:50 |
First long swim in a pool for quite a while, I hope I counted the 64
lengths correctly! |
My photo last week was of the course of Tetbury Goods Shed parkrun.
Roderick Hoffman
parkrun Results for Saturday 12th February 2022
33 activities are recorded this week.
Please get in touch if your activity
is missing.
| Club parkrunner |
parkrun |
Run# |
Pos |
Time |
Age Grade |
PB? |
Comment |
| Michael
Dennison |
Southall |
6 |
6 |
0:19:43 |
83.52% |
|
BA men's and age grade record / Day's best age grade & age category
record |
| Maria
JOVANI |
Southall |
6 |
22 |
0:22:40 |
70.74% |
|
BA ladies record |
| Ian
CUNNINGHAM |
Southall |
6 |
24 |
0:22:54 |
69.43% |
|
run #447, park #53 |
| Roderick
HOFFMAN |
Southall |
6 |
69 |
0:28:11 |
57.42% |
|
park #318, Lon-reDone |
| Denis
FOXLEY |
Southall |
6 |
71 |
0:28:19 |
63.86% |
|
run #176, park #11 |
| Joan
FOXLEY |
Southall |
6 |
109 |
0:39:18 |
59.58% |
|
| Steve
NEWELL |
Southall |
6 |
116 |
0:44:46 |
43.93% |
|
park #118, Lon-reDone |
| Piers
KEENLEYSIDE |
Southall |
6 |
|
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dnf (#dfyb!) Would have been 55th in about 26:50. |
| Melanie
Miller |
Bartley Park |
9 |
183 |
0:42:28 |
41.52% |
|
2nd run at Bartley Park - slow to conserve energy for Sunday's race |
| Diana
Smith |
Bushy Park |
864 |
1122 |
1:01:16 |
37.57% |
|
Tail walker at Bushy Park |
| Trish
MCCABE |
Canons Park |
213 |
58 |
0:29:06 |
54.58% |
|
BA Ladies record |
| Ben
CHAYTOW |
Crane Park |
443 |
23 |
0:23:48 |
59.59% |
|
| Alastair
HESLOP |
Guildford |
417 |
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Barcode Scanning at Guildford |
| John
COFFEY |
Hazelwood |
125 |
97 |
0:35:42 |
58.87% |
|
99th run at Hazelwood |
| Neil
FREDIANI |
Herrington Country |
63 |
74 |
0:30:02 |
55.83% |
|
run #263, park#64, BA park #627 |
| Alice
BANKS |
Higginson, Marlow |
93 |
146 |
0:51:26 |
40.02% |
|
Tail walker at Higginson |
| Keith
Johnson |
Houghton Hall |
144 |
32 |
0:24:09 |
62.04% |
|
run #70, best this year |
| Benita
SCAIFE |
Huskisson |
149 |
62 |
0:30:48 |
67.86% |
|
BA park #624 / 18th NSW parkrun, best time since last September |
| John
SCAIFE |
Huskisson |
149 |
63 |
0:30:48 |
55.47% |
|
18th NSW parkrun |
| Maarten
STENHAM |
Lymington Woodside |
201 |
22 |
0:23:09 |
60.76% |
PB |
43 second improvement, 4th run there, all PBs. |
| Harjit
Jhooti |
Maldon Prom |
377 |
192 |
0:30:50 |
57.19% |
|
BA ladies record, park #37 |
| Petra
OTTO |
March |
239 |
111 |
0:43:24 |
50.46% |
|
Nordic walking PB (and faster than last week's jog) |
| Scott
DAVISON |
Osterley |
363 |
86 |
0:26:26 |
55.80% |
|
| David
DUGGAN |
Pegwell Bay |
385 |
101 |
0:30:15 |
53.94% |
|
BA male record, first run at Pegwell, park #98, run #390 |
| Paul
WATT |
Penryn Campus |
16 |
4 |
0:21:41 |
71.48% |
|
park #70, BA park #625 |
| Julie
BARCLAY |
Penryn Campus |
16 |
16 |
0:25:49 |
72.05% |
|
Paul & Julie have now run twice on the grounds of Exeter
University…at parkruns 96 miles apart (Exeter Riverside being the other). |
| Ben
Kelly |
Reading |
540 |
25 |
0:21:40 |
59.54% |
|
|
Christopher T KELLY |
Reading |
540 |
124 |
0:28:15 |
54.87% |
|
run #503 |
| Jain
REID |
Richmond Park |
689 |
286 |
0:31:52 |
56.80% |
|
| Barry
WALTERS |
Rushmoor |
313 |
231 |
0:28:14 |
59.98% |
|
two weeks in a row at Rushmoor |
| Eddie
GILES |
Salisbury |
279 |
177 |
0:28:13 |
65.03% |
|
66th run at Salisbury "First run for 12 weeks ,started at the back
of field of 303 to overtake 126 to come 177th. 2nd age cat. Very pleased
with the time." |
| Jacqui
Musselwhite |
The Old Showfield |
58 |
58 |
0:24:07 |
72.22% |
|
BA park #626 |
| Kay
TRINDER |
Woking |
303 |
52 |
0:23:15 |
77.85% |
|
For the second week in a row the earliest results in were from ‘downunder’
where Benita and John Scaife (30:48) had travelled to the start/finish line of
Huskisson parkrun at Moona Moona Creek on Jarvis Bay south of Sydney. The
nearest rail station identified by parkrun is 30km away! The course is a
flat and fast out-and-back along the coast.
 The club featured parkrun at Southall attracted a small group on a dry but
chilly morning and with the overall attendance smaller than the very early weeks
parking proved to be less of a problem than feared. The course is over
three clockwise laps, mostly tarmac paths, with no serious gradients to worry
about. Mike Dennison (19:43, 83.52%) was our star performer. The
photo is from the parkrun team and was taken whilst Mike and Maria were warming
up and Piers was still cycling in. The
next Club Featured parkrun will be at Homewood (Ottershaw Memorial Fields) on 19th March and
will have more of a cross country feel to it. The course is completely
different to the “Homewood” parkrun the club visited in November 2016 and an
opportunity for many members to try a different venue, albeit with an old and
arguably misleading name!
More new parks were added to the club list with Paul Watt (21:41) and Julie
Barclay (25:49) adding Penryn Campus (of Exeter University) in Falmouth, Jacqui
Musselwhite (24:07) at The Old Showfield at Frome in Somerset (so a “T” and not
an “O” or an “S”!) and Neil Frediani (30:02) at Herrington Country Park in Tyne
& Wear. New member David Cowell has also run at Herrington in the past
before he joined us.
Elsewhere Trish McCabe (29:06) set a club female record at Canons Park
(Harrow Borough) where Fibonicci aspirants will be eyeing up a “233” towards the
end of the summer. Trish McCabe still holds the club record (26:03) at Pegwell
Bay where David Duggan (30:15) visited this week to set a male record.
David is closing in on Freyne Club membership (100 different parkruns). He is
now up to 98. Martin Stenham (23:09) improved his time at Lymington Woodside,
four PBs in a row there for him. Young Jakob (25:37) is now old enough to run on
his own (and behind, but only for the time being I suspect!).
There are warnings about seriously wild weather that could disrupt us next
weekend. It is always worthwhile just checking
https://www.parkrun.org.uk/cancellations
to make sure your chosen run is still on.
Steve Newell
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my club stats from).
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Club Featured parkrun # - Saturday 12th February Southall parkrun
This is a couple of extracts from my run report that has been published
this week...
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I'm an experienced parkrunner as well as a statsgeek and six weeks
ago Southall became my nearest parkrun - albeit as the crow flies since
I live the far side of the canal and have to deviate round to get to it
- walking to the start my watch recorded 2.99km from doorstep to
start/finish line on Saturday. This was the first time I've run the
parkrun though I was present as timekeeper a couple of weeks ago and I
had done a "freedom run" of the course even before week 1. My personal
run was good, though tiring, I had one colleague just ahead of me
{Piers} and
one just behind {Denis} so I had to push myself throughout to a finish time of
28:11, close to my year's best.
On Saturday, Southall's run 6, there
were 132 finishers which is exactly the same number as in week 4. The
average so far has been 176. In total there have been 1059 finishes of
Southall parkrun by at least 850 different people. I say "at least"
because 48 finishers were by people who didn't produce a barcode at the
finish and therefore don't have a formal result (eight this week, for
example). Some of those "no-barcode" finishers may be the same people
week on week or may have finished in a subsequent week with a valid
barcode. From a stats point of view we never know quite how to count the
"no-barcodes". I usually make the assumption that these are mainly local
people who have joined in on the day but either aren't interested in
being logged in the system, or haven't got around to getting themselves
a barcode or getting into the habit of bringing it down to the park on a
Saturday morning. But that will be wrong in some cases. It is rumoured
that some top class athletes do take part in parkruns and finish high up
but don't present their barcodes because that will show up to their
coaches that they haven't been following their rest day instructions.
I'm not sure we've had any of them at Southall yet. But then there will
be the odd experienced runner, with hundreds of parkruns to their name,
and even hundreds of marathons and other races, who doesn't get their
act together on a Saturday morning to turn up with their barcode. And on
Saturday one of my club colleagues was one of them! But I can't mention
his name, because parkrun policy is "no barcode, no accreditation".
...
This week I brought six of my club colleagues to the event and I also
notice in the results a group of six from the Bromley / Orpington area.
Visiting different London parkruns is "a thing" and there are many more
visitors to be expected. There are now 59 parkruns within Greater London
and although 32 parkrun tourists have already visited Southall to
reclaim their "LonDone" status there were still 58 who only needed a
visit to Southall to achieve it. Five of those visited on Saturday so
can now claim to be "LonDone", including myself and my colleague Steve
Newell, but you can expect the other 53, and more, to visit over the
next few months. I was also the runner with most different parkruns to
their name (318 - but visitors in previous weeks have run at more), my
colleague Ian Cunningham has the highest number of runs to his name
(448) whereas Paul Rostern with three runs fewer, does have the lowest
parkrun ID of those attending on Saturday ("1669", first running at
"Bushy Park Time Trial" in March 2006). The finisher with the highest
Age Grade percentage was another colleague of mine, Mike Dennison with
83.52% (just two runners on previous weeks have achieved higher grades).
First finisher on Saturday was Jonathan Horan in 17:55, the third
fastest run at Southall, and for the ladies Rosie Vallance was first in
20:16 which is the second fastest ever at Southall.
For the rest - check news | Southall
parkrun .
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Roderick Hoffman
Street-O Series Results
Five of the eight Street-O events have now been completed and following my
good run last Tuesday I'm lying in a dizzyingly high position of 8th out of 151
runners, with 351 points (so averaging 70 per event). But it is very misleading
at the moment because the event is judged over the best five results out of
eight events and with just five events completed I'm one of only seven runners
to have done all five, and I'm behind the other six and also behind one of the
competitors who has only done four runs. Over the next three events I'll be dropping well down the
table although, hopefully, I'll get another couple of good runs in to reduce my
fall, since my November and January results are well capable of being improved
upon. Looking at average scores of those who have done three events I'm down in
27th place out of 41 runners.
The next event will be on 8th March in the
Brixton/Clapham area. Then it'll be over to Kings Cross on 12th of April and the
final event will be TBC on 10th May. Now, if it really was "Technical Block C"
on 10th May Simon Turton would be in with a chance of a good result, but they
probably mean "To Be Confirmed".
Roderick Hoffman
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