BA Athletics Club News Digest 14th October 2019Events:
We will be meeting at 18:00 at the Bedfont Club this Wednesday for ad hoc run and drink. All members are welcome. New members and potential members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at most of our events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Last updated: 29th July. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 23rd Sept 2019) / # Club Points event. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "front window" club page), BA Runner Facebook Group (informal "back office" - ask to join). Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Last call for ROM # Milocarian AC Home Match at RMA Sandhurst on Sat 26th Oct 2019This is the last call for runners / spectators for the Milocarian XC. So far I have Christine, Alice & John, Barry, Jacqui & Tom, Mike D & Maria (running for RR) on the list. If you’d like to attend please email simon.turton@ba.com by Wed. 16 Oct. with the following details:
Simon Turton London Marathon OpportunitiesLondon Marathon 2020 - unsuccessful applicants: Many of you will be thinking of pounding the streets of London next Spring. Should your application turn out to be unsuccessful, there might be a second chance...... The British Airways Athletic Club provides the London Marathon with over one hundred marshals. In return LM provide us with some additional places that we can allocate to our members. We will have a limited number of places to hand out this winter. The BA Athletics Club committee will review applications from people unsuccessful in the main ballot during December, with priority based on the following criteria:
If you receive a rejection from London Marathon, and you want to be considered for a place, think about which of these categories apply to you! Then contact me on stevehillier@msn.com. Anyone offered and accepting a club place will be needed to pay the normal entry fee for the Marathon, to provide a minimum of two marshals to the BAAC to assist with the 2020 London Marathon and to contribute to this digest with their aims and experiences of training and running the Marathon. PS And then there is always 2021. You can improve your long-term chances of running in 2021 by volunteering for 2020. In the New Year we will be looking to fill our marshalling slots for the 2020 race. Five-mile winter handicap 2019/20 – starts Wednesday 23rd October 2019 #The club has held a Wednesday evening five-mile handicap series for many years with a shorter walking course for those who want it. The aim of the series has always been to encourage modest improvement month on month. The normal format is for slower runners to start earliest (e.g. 6 p.m.) and for faster runners to be given a start time so that the majority of runners will finish within a minute or two either side of 7 p.m. On the first evening when the sun will set after 6 p.m. but before 7 p.m. all runners can choose to start earlier than usual in order to enjoy as much daylight as possible. Runners are ranked after each run and points awarded. “Handicaps” are adjusted and a league table maintained. Only the best four results out of six (monthly) runs will be used to determine the final winner. Food will often (but maybe not always) be provided at the Bedfont club after the run – see the weekly digest for confirmation. The first three runs (and walks) will be on Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November and 11th December. The 20th November run will be followed by the ever-popular Hillier Quiz evening. On every “5-mile” evening, when possible, the club clock will be ticking down in the football club carpark from shortly before 6 p.m. If a volunteer timekeeper is not present when runners start or return then runners should time themselves either by reference to the club clock or their own stopwatch. There will also be a “brisk walking route” of about two and a quarter miles (3.5km) for those who want some exercise/”fresh” air but not a run. No points for style, one foot (or the other) should be touching the ground at all times. From the club turn left and walk down Hatton Road to Bedfont Green. Follow the path round to the left by the graveyard and join Staines Road towards Hounslow. After the shops and junction (traffic lights) with Bedfont Lane turn left up Richmond Avenue, cross the footbridge over the Duke of Northumberland’s River and follow the footpath/cycle track between the allotments and the school back to Hatton Road. Turn right and walk the last 400 yards back to the club car park. All runners should make themselves as visible as possible by wearing light coloured clothing or a reflective vest if possible. Start times for the new winter season: Those runners who ran last season will have their suggested start time carried forward. Others can select a time based on a recent five mile run or extrapolated from a parkrun time. On a normal week the hope is that most people will finish close to 7 p.m. Search parties will be sent out if anyone is more than ten minutes overdue. All those intending to run/walk on 23rd October are asked to register with Steve Newell in advance. Ladies Cross-Country result #
At Priory Park XC today with Julie, Jan, Vera and Christine Munden. It had been raining all night and drizzled on and off during the morning and into the last of 4 ladies' races, our race. The course was pretty muddy and slippery in some places resulting in some runners losing their footings. Clara In the team table we are currently 36th of 43 teams. It is a tough league including all age groups - had we had five of Julie we'd have only just finished in the top 10! Had we had a fifth team member, of the ability of our slowest, we'd have finished in 33rd place. Photo - left to right: Jan Jones, Christine Munden, Julie Barclay, Vera Simms. Men's Cross-Country result #A great start to the new cross-country season today. In the Surrey League men's division 4 we had 15 runners, more than double last season's first fixture. New member's Mike Dennison and Micheal Ball made their debuts. Paul Knechtl led the way for us with a top 10 finish and the team ended the day in 7th place. Thank you all for turning out on a very wet day. Neil Frediani
In the team table we are currently 7th of 12 teams. Because we had more than the minimum number of runners we also register in the B team results - 2nd of 6 teams, this is perhaps something we can dream of getting a top three finish in by the end of the season! Club parkrun results for Saturday 12th October 2019
* 14:10 was undercut at an actual parkrun on Saturday,13:29 at Mallards Pike, though this also isn't a record since Rowan (JM15) was dragged (or perhaps "flown") around the course by his dog (and the fastest Canicross time I'm aware of is faster, at 12:24). Volunteers include...[remember, we can only guarantee to include your volunteer efforts if you email us about them]
Parkrun numbers were down a little this week with several runners involved in cross-country league matches (some starting as early as 11 a.m.) on Saturday and/or the popular Cabbage Patch 10 starting and finishing in Twickenham on Sunday morning. Study the results to see who fitted in all three. The star performer this week was Dave Dixon (18:04) who returned to Groe in mid Wales and was first home, improving by over a minute, opening up a gap of almost two minutes on the next best in his age group and recording the second best age group percentage (85.06%) by anyone ever at Groe. Janet Smith (37:05) ran her first parkrun in Scandinavia with a visit to Toyen in Oslo. It is one of the places where the weather can cause cancellations even in an average winter. Denis Foxley (28:18) recorded his best time for a couple of years at Harrow. Trish McCabe (28:03) visited her 48th park at Catford (setting a new female club record) and has now done 300 parkruns. Piers Keenleyside (28:22) squeezed in a run at Jamaica Pond during a visit to Boston and he will be eligible for his 250 vest with just one more run. Gunnersbury next week is a strong favourite*. Scott Davison (25:28) has now done 250 runs, just at Bedfont Lakes. Steve Newell planned to celebrate ten years in parkrun by jogging round Osterley with Alan Anderson who nagged him for over two years before he finally got started (at Richmond Park). A pleasant surprise was to be joined by long lost club members from the 1980’s Bill Byrne (22:59) and Mike Lawrence (23:16), both still running well. A persistent sore knee spoiled the show and Steve announced his retirement over a cup of coffee afterwards. Don’t expect to see him mentioned in this column again anytime soon. Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats - UPDATED Full club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - UP TO DATE - Download and explore. Steve Newell / Roderick Hoffman * Piers adds... As you will have seen my 249th parkrun was done at Jamaica Pond parkrun in Boston MA - but not at Jamaica Pond itself. Due to park maintenance work the course has been moved to the Harvard University Arboretum - made for a very scenic run through the well maintained woodland on a single lap course. The downside was that it poured with rain the whole way round! Rubbish time of over 28 minutes mainly due to trying to get my watch to pick up a GPS signal - was 1/2 a mile into the run before it did! {Ed: "Rubbish time", just 13 seconds slower than mine at the same parkrun} I'll be doing #250 at Gunnersbury next Saturday.
Piers Keenleyside 303 Run - Hanworth on Saturday 19th October - help neededThe club has been asked by the Polish British Social Integration Club Wawel to help with the 303 Squadron Memorial 5k Run this coming Saturday. The event is from 11:00 to 16:30 at the Springwest Academy in Feltham (TW13 7EF) and at 13:00 features a 5k run that will incorporate one lap of the Hanworth parkrun circuit. For more details and entry: www.303run.co.uk . They need assistance setting up the course, marshalling and finish management. I'll be there from 11:00, with all of the kit, but hopefully others can join me. Please let me know. I'll be running at Hazelwood parkrun earlier if you want to meet up beforehand. The event is to celebrate the 79th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the contribution made by Polish airman. There will be exhibitions and entertainments, and generous amounts of hot chocolate have been promised for participations and helpers alike. The local Mayor, MPs and representatives from the Polish Embassy are expected so hopefully the run goes smoothly meaning that next year's 80th anniversary event can be even better. Cabbage Patch 10 results...
A good turnout for the Autumn Classic 10. Thanks to Joe Nolan for his support too. Apols if any missed. Chris Kelly Ian Cunningham adds: A good number of runners also represented the club at the XC on Saturday. Noticeably our leading performer, Colin, wisely chose to marshal at the XC to save his legs. Fortunately the rain held off for (most of) the race unlike the XC where it rained throughout! Marathon ResultsAnother couple of marathon results...
Hawaii Ironman World Championship 2019
Tom's Diary
Running shorts
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