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BA Athletics Club News Digest 14th November 2022
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2022 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. This Week's EventsPlease 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 Sunday evening) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Surrey League Cross Country Match 2 results #Men
Although we only had 4 of the 10 scoring runners, we still finished 13th of 14 teams - the 14th team having six runners but no one as fast as Adam (4th overall) nor Paul (4th V50). Ladies
Amanda Coombs / Paul Knechtl Green Belt Relay 13th / 14th May 2023 #The 25th Green Belt Relay is planned for the weekend of 13/14 May next year, and we need to decide if we have enough runners for a team. So if anyone is interested in a weekend of running, marshalling, cheering, driving, eating, drinking, and prize-givings (even some takings!) please let me know ASAP. The organisers are also interested in hearing from clubs if we have people interested in helping organise the race – course markers, marshals and timekeepers - they provide transport, accommodation and dinner paid for and they say that it’s even more fun than running! I say - only if we have enough runners - but seriously, it's all good fun. November Mile Results
Recent Activity Achievements16 club members and friends achievements are listed below. Your achievement not listed? It could be because you didn't submit it.
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| Club parkrunner | parkrun | Run# | Pos | Time | Age Grade | Comment |
| Denis FOXLEY | Aldenham | 314 | 36 | 0:30:51 | 59.48% | First run at Aldenham (see below) |
| Joan FOXLEY | Aldenham | 314 | 63 | 0:40:18 | 58.11% | First run at Aldenham |
| Bob BANNISTER | Bedfont Lakes | 617 | 32 | 0:25:38 | 66.06% | |
| Barry WALTERS | Broadwater | 59 | 111 | 0:30:12 | 56.57% | 2nd run at Broadwater, P-index remains 6 |
| Ian Haylock | Bushy Park | 902 | 80 | 0:20:45 | 71.65% | 350th parkrun, 241st at Bushy |
| Ian CUNNINGHAM | Bushy Park | 902 | 672 | 0:29:11 | 54.94% | 479th parkrun, 378th at Bushy |
| John COFFEY | Bushy Park | 902 | 1016 | 0:38:28 | 54.64% | 420th parkrun, 247th at Bushy |
| Diana Smith | Bushy Park | 902 | 1108 | 0:48:59 | 47.81% | 23rd parkrun, all at Bushy |
| Paul TIMMS | Cirencester | 170 | 27 | 0:23:34 | 67.47% | |
| David Cowell | Colwick | 513 | 5 | 0:19:21 | 72.70% | PB by 18seconds. |
| Alice BANKS | Cranbrook Country Park | 59 | 40 | 0:26:03 | 80.23% | run #209, park #60, New BA event #689 |
| Ben CHAYTOW | Crane Park | 479 | 23 | 0:23:53 | 59.80% | |
| Scott DAVISON | Crane Park | 479 | 58 | 0:26:59 | 55.10% | |
| Janet SMITH | Eden Project | 160 | 166 | 0:34:05 | 54.57% | first run at Eden Project, park #50 |
| David DUGGAN | Hanworth | 110 | 40 | 0:33:33 | 48.63% | |
| Mike DENNISON | Hazelwood | 163 | 7 | 0:21:34 | 77.05% | 8th run at Hazelwood, P-Index up to 8 |
| Steve NEWELL | Hazelwood | 163 | 107 | 0:57:41 | 34.82% | tailwalker (v) |
| Keith Johnson | Houghton Hall | 183 | 28 | 0:23:18 | 64.31% | 2second PB (on 44th run at Houghton). 99th parkrun. |
| Adrian HAINES | Ifield Mill Pond | 90 | 1 | 0:19:11 | 80.10% | 1st finisher |
| Melanie Miller | Markshall Estate | 51 | 198 | 0:39:27 | 45.29% | Coggeshall, Colchester. park #88 |
| Harjit Jhooti | Markshall Estate | 51 | 199 | 0:39:28 | 45.27% | park #61 |
| Murray Hogge | Mile End | 489 | 36 | 0:20:33 | 79.40% | run #328, 8th at Mile End |
| Frankie HOGGE | Mile End | 489 | 69 | 0:22:28 | 65.88% | run #86, 12th at Mile End |
| Paul WATT | Orpington | 459 | 18 | 0:22:43 | 68.82% | BA fastest male |
| Julie BARCLAY | Orpington | 459 | 65 | 0:26:58 | 69.96% | BA fastest female and best age grade |
| Maria JOVANI | Osterley | 397 | 46 | 0:23:38 | 67.84% | |
| Stephen K TAYLOR | Osterley | 397 | 93 | 0:26:05 | 60.96% | In the middle of a long run from and back to Ealing. |
| Benita SCAIFE | Osterley | 397 | 168 | 0:30:53 | 68.70% | |
| John SCAIFE | Osterley | 397 | 169 | 0:30:54 | 55.83% | |
| Kathryn Keenleyside | Osterley | 397 | 268 | 0:48:33 | 43.05% | [Non-member] |
| Alan ANDERSON | Osterley | 397 | 272 | 0:50:01 | 52.28% | run #631, 92nd at Osterley |
| Roderick HOFFMAN | Osterley | 397 | 274 | 0:50:08 | 30.96% | Slowest ever parkrun - in "parkwalker" bib. |
| Trish MCCABE | Oxford | 489 | 109 | 0:26:43 | 59.45% | First run at Oxford, park #111 |
| Neil FREDIANI | Prudhoe Riverside | 236 | 69 | 0:29:08 | 57.55% | |
| Ben Kelly | Reading | 575 | 93 | 0:26:14 | 49.17% | |
| Christopher T KELLY | University Parks | 38 | 95 | 0:23:44 | 65.87% | PB by 3 minutes |
| Tony BARNWELL | Wycombe Rye | 460 | 344 | 0:49:29 | 42.47% | best time at Wycombe Rye this year (8th run) |
Alice Banks (26:03, 80.23%) is in the limelight this week with an 80+% age grade, her 60th different parkrun and notching the 689th for the club at Cranbrook Country Park in Devon (w3w///snuggle.spinners.shack) which has been up and running for just over a year. Exeter Airport is within earshot and the A30 from Hounslow is even closer. A rail station boasting of trains on the line from Waterloo is a one minute walk from the start – what have we all been waiting for?
Adrian Haines (19:11, 80.10%) sped round the Ifield Mill Pond course to be first finisher there for the third time. There were also eye-catching runs from David Cowell (19:21, pb) at Colwick (Nottingham), Ian Haylock (20:45) completing his 350th parkrun at Bushy, Keith Johnson (23:18, pb) on his 99th parkrun at Houghton Hall (Herts) [will he earn his black "100" shirt next Saturday?], Murray Hogge (22:33, 79.4%) on his 8th run at Mile End and Chris Kelly (23:45) who improved on his previous best time at University Parks by three minutes.
Mike Dennison (21:34) ran at Hazelwood for the 8th time which took his P-Index to 8; meaning he has run at least 8 times at eight different parkruns – the others being Bushy (293), Crane Park (37), Bedfont Lakes (18), Hanworth (13), Osterley (11), Kingston (10) and Old Deer Park (8). The going is getting a bit soft at Hazelwood and a shorter firmer lap run more times could be introduced soon. The excellent club house and vast free car park will remain attractive.
Paul Watt (22:43) and Julie Barclay (26:58), who harbour “Londone” aspirations but who also have a long way to go, made a trip to the far east and set club records at Orpington.
Runner and thrower Janet Smith (34:05) reached her half-ton of parks at Eden Project.
Steve Newell
Matters Arising -
OsterleyObviously the reason that several of us turned up at Osterley was due to the news of Anne Anderson. This was Alan's 92nd run at Osterley (to be added to his 308 at Gunnersbury, 211 at Bushy and 20 at other events) and at 66 of those he had pushed Anne around the course in her wheelchair (and seven times elsewhere). It was an emotional occasion since lots of people at Osterley knew Alan and Anne, and expressed their feelings. Arlene Gallagher was also there and engineered to start late so that she would overtake Alan on the run. Since she was pushing a double buggy she could have asked Alan to take over! I curbed my competitive spirit by taking on the "parkwalker" bib and walking the whole way and finishing just behind Alan who had rallied for a final run (pictured).
parkrun had its eight millionth registration last week, and amongst the newly registered parkrunners was Joe Wicks, who was one of 708 finishers at Camperdown (doubling their previous record). Joe Wicks had been an "Unknown" finisher at Maidenhead the previous week.
Roderick Hoffman
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Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps]
Why did Denis and Joan venture to Aldenham? Joan explains...
"Needed to get Den to 199 somewhere other than Harrow so we can do his 200th
and my Harrow 200th at the end of the month.
Advertised as trail, but with a
hefty chunk of concrete/tarmac at the start of each lap. And some of the trail
paths were a tad to close to the busy road for my taste."
Joan Foxley
Melanie Miller reports that she'll be celebrating her 10th parkrun anniversary at Old Deer Park on Dec 3rd. For those knowing the jargon Old Deer Park happens to be Melanie's "Nendy" and will be having event "Nelson" number 555, so the more the merrier!
The next club featured parkrun on 19th November is at Gladstone Park in Dollis Hill, north west London. This is a two lap course on good paths and there is a significant climb on each lap, rewarded with views over Wembley Stadium and, on days when there is good visibility, the City of London in the distance.
The start/finish area is in the south east corner of the park on Kendal Road NW10 1JH, where there is free parking on Saturdays. There is also a Gladstone Park car park on Dollis Hill Lane in the opposite i.e. north west corner of the park which is also free but which would entail a 15 minute walk/jog to get to the start. Nearest tube station is Dollis Hill on the Jubilee line which is about 500 metres from the start area.
Post-event coffee is available at the Stables Cafe on the north east side of the park which is 10 minutes walk from the parkrun finish. Google Maps still shows the Pavilion Cafe adjacent to the start but this is defunct, and the toilets in the pavilion are not usually accessible on Saturday mornings. There is a public toilet next to the Stables Cafe.
This was the second in this year's "SLOW" Street-O series after last month's opener at Kew. The start pub was just south of London Bridge station. Fortunately one was able to undertake the run without having to find one's way through the station itself - though there were several areas of the map where local building works did add a complication to the navigation required. For those who don't know you are given the map at the start of a one-hour timed period. Your objective is to visit as many of the numbered controls on the map as you can, in any order, and prove that you have been there by writing down the answer to a clue - for instance clue 11 was "How many Green Metal Bike Stores?". For the last couple of years the series has been simpler, using a smartphone APP to determine from GPS that you had visited each location, but this year they have reverted to the "write down your answer" method.
I'm
not a fast runner, I can only cover 7km to 9km in the hour, but I score well
because I can plan a good route. On the map the course I ran is shown in blue,
starting and finishing at the triangle marking the pub and going anti-clockwise.
You can see that I quickly made my way to the NW corner in which there was a
high scoring "40" control and a "50" control. I then found my way back to the
pub via a different route. That makes it sound easy - navigation on the ground
(in the dark and watching out for traffic) is much harder - and for instance the
roads just to the left of control 26 is the notorious Elephant and Castle
roundabout. I got back to the pub with 3 minutes to spare, but I didn't risk
trying for the extra control 20 because I feared getting lost trying to cross
the station concourse. In retrospect I should have anticipated that I was
ahead of time and taken in controls 43 and 24 instead of 13 and 14. That would
have given me forty extra points. As it was I finished with 420 points and no
time penalties and in 34th place of 96 runners. I was the highest M60...though
there was an M70 with 530 points.
The next event in the series is on Tuesday 6th December in Ealing from the Wheatsheaf Pub in Haven Lane near Ealing Broadway. Let me know if you are interested in giving this a go and I'll tell you how to enter (all are welcome, the cost is £5...plus whatever you spend in the pub afterwards).
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Match 2, Oxshott Woods, hosted by Elmbridge Road Runners. A narrow start for
the 256 runners meant that it took us a while to get into our strides, but once
the field had thinned out we were treated to an excellent cross-country course,
fairly dry with plenty of ups and downs, wooded trails and tree roots, almost
entirely through the woods under the shade of trees (very welcome, considering
the November heat!). It was great to welcome back Jo Wells after many years, and
to enjoy Monica’s tea and bread pudding after the race. We placed 39th out of 51
teams. The next match is on 14th January, scheduled for 1pm; venue to be
confirmed soon. New and former runners always welcome!
Three
of us ran miles in November - but no results worth boasting about. Perhaps you
can do better next month. Next report on Monday 12th December.
Chip Timing Issues