BA Athletics Club News Digest 14th August 2017
Events:
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Monday 21st August, Track&Field Grand Prix, Uxbridge/Hillingdon Track -
400m, Hammer, Long Jump from 18:00*
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Wednesday 23rd August, Club-In-house-Event, BBQ on Harmondsworth Moor from
18:00* (see below)
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Tuesday 5th September, Run-of-the-Month, Round-the-Park at Harmondsworth
Moor at 12:30*
New members and potential members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome
at all of these events. The full diary of club featured
events is on the club website at:
http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Updated July 17th.
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Wednesday 23rd August, Club-In-house-Event, BBQ on Harmondsworth Moor from
18:00 - Reminder, tell us to expect you
We are going to repeat our successful BBQ event of last year. This is
on Harmondsworth Moor, but not in the usual place - we'll use an area just north
of Moor Lane - it is shown on the club map (click on the extract here) and has easy parking in Moor Lane
available from 16:30. We'll have a fun relay event which is likely to
involve running, jumping and throwing from 18:00, then the BBQ from about 19:15.
Neil Frediani and Joe Nolan will plan the fun relay, Clara is mastering the BBQ.
Food and drink will be provided for all who tell us to expect them - please
bring "potential members" (however unlikely they are to actually join the club)
but please tell us in advance so that we can better guess numbers.
Roderick Hoffman
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Neil, Joe and
Clara
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Club parkrun results for Saturday 12th August
12th August |
family & friends |
time |
parkrun |
commentary |
grade |
Alice |
Banks |
25:30* |
Aylesbury |
run #92, club record (F) |
76% |
Paul |
Watt |
21:45* |
Banstead Woods |
course pb, club record |
69% |
Julie |
Barclay |
21:50* |
Banstead Woods |
course pb, club record(F) |
81% |
Janice |
Jones |
27:43* |
Banstead Woods |
run #47, 28th at Banstead |
61% |
Chris |
Evans |
24:27* |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #173 |
61% |
Scott |
Davison |
24:39* |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #215 |
58% |
Caroline |
Cockram |
26:45* |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #278 |
61% |
David |
Duggan |
27:14 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #212 |
57% |
Anne |
Bannister |
27:19* |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #144, 119th at Bedfont |
70% |
John |
Lennon |
30:15 |
Bedfont Lakes |
run #259 |
51% |
Joe |
Nolan |
28:19 |
Black Park |
run #286, 268th at Black Park |
58% |
Roderick |
Hoffman |
27:22 |
Corby |
BA park #353 |
57% |
Trish |
McCabe |
26:44* |
Crane Park |
run #196, 19th at Crane |
57% |
Sarah |
Gordon |
35:48 |
Crissy Field |
park #85, first in USA |
53% |
Ian |
Cunningham |
22:38* |
Exeter Riverside |
club course record |
68% |
Monica |
Alonso |
30:55 |
Guildford |
she does (have a barcode) |
54% |
Alan |
Anderson |
33:14 |
Gunnersbury |
run #470 |
67% |
Kathryn |
Keenleyside |
39:45 |
Gunnersbury |
run #39 |
48% |
Richard |
Ruffell |
21:55* |
Heartwood Forest |
BA park #352 |
70% |
Steve |
Newell |
37:46 |
Hoblingwell |
park #86, BA park #354 |
49% |
Tim |
Bellars |
24:18* |
Jersey |
parkrun debut, club record |
61% |
Jeremy |
Short |
26:28* |
Osterley Park |
run #85, 11th at Osterley |
59% |
Denis |
Foxley |
27:50 |
Rickmansworth |
1st in age group |
62% |
Tony |
Barnwell |
33:48 |
Rickmansworth |
run #146, 7th at Rickmanswth |
56% |
Joan |
Foxley |
36:44 |
Rickmansworth |
1st in age group |
59% |
Benita |
Scaife |
28:15* |
Rooty Hill |
run #85, parkrun pb, park #38 |
70% |
John |
Scaife |
28:16 |
Rooty Hill |
run #98, park #44 |
58% |
Adrian |
Haines |
19:14* |
Tilgate |
run #38, 24th at Tilgate |
77% |
Alan |
Friar |
28:17 |
Woodley |
run #239 |
64% |
Neil |
Frediani |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes |
lead bike |
Ian |
Cockram |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes |
run director |
Ben |
Chaytow |
volunteer |
Crane Park |
run director |
Alastair |
Heslop |
volunteer |
Guildford |
barcode scanning |
Piers |
Keenleyside |
volunteer |
Gunnersbury |
marshal |
* Ed: Runners having completed the 5k course faster than Mo
Farah/Laura Muir had completed their TWO 5,000m last week (Mo: 27:03 total and Laura:
29:51 total).
This weekend saw our members appearing at four new parks for the first time
to lay down times for people to beat in the future. Lots of old course
records were beaten elsewhere as well. When it comes to really fast times we
need to remind ourselves that some courses are far more likely than others to
provide the opportunity to achieve anything anywhere near those run by Sir Mo
Farah et al at the London Olympic Stadium. Ankle deep grass is never going
to be as fast as a tartan track.
Benita (28:15) and John Scaife (28:16) continued their tour of the Sydney
area at Rooty Hill in the western suburbs. For Benita it was an all-time
parkrun pb. Richard Ruffell (21:55) visited the recently introduced
Heartwood Forest parkrun near St Albans. That time places him 3rd out of
25 in his age group. Roderick Hoffman (27:22) added Corby to the list, Sarah
Gordon having run there in the past before she joined the club. Later in the day
Sarah (35:48) became the ninth member to run at Crissy Field in San Francisco.
Steve Newell (37:44) travelled to Hoblingwell Woods (near St Mary Cray, beyond
Bromley) and like others before him found it difficult to maintain a good pace.
But it has a free car park, clean toilets and a café right on site and will
provide good practice for cross country aficionados. Steve Newell is on 86
different runs and Sarah Gordon is on 85 but they are not in competition.
Roderick Hoffman is now on 202 but [due to attendance at Black Park last week]
has slipped to 20th in the global league table.
Alice Banks (25:30) established a female club record at Aylesbury. She
has now run at 22 parks and holds the club record at ten of them. Paul
Watt (21:45) and Julie Barclay (21:50) ran at the pretty but hilly Banstead
Woods to set new club records [see Tom's report below]. It was a family
affair as Julie’s two sisters also ran too. Ian Cunningham (22:38) beat
the old club course record at Exeter Riverside. Tim Bellars (24:18), who
has been a member since 2011, made his parkrun debut in Jersey and set a new
club record.
Denis (27:50) and Joan Foxley (36:44) missed out on the Black Park run last
week due to a virus but bounced back at Rickmansworth and were both first in
their respective age/gender categories.
Steve Newell
Updated club parkrun stats
parkrun Growth
Worldwide, 986 parkruns posted results for last Saturday featuring 177,884
participants and 14,364 volunteers. The total number of parkruns is more
than 986 because on any Saturday some will inevitably be cancelled. The
following table show that there are now 1025 parkruns listed as current parkruns
though some of these are yet to hold their first run. There is also a new
country listed - parkrun Norway will start on 26th August 2017 at Tøyenparkrun,
Oslo. The previous newest country, Sweden, had its third parkrun start
last Saturday, Skatus near Gothenburg, attracted 67 runners. The other two
Swedish parkruns had 82 and 43 runners. A fourth Swedish parkrun starts next
Saturday.
Nine parkruns are listed for France although that includes Mandavit which
hasn't posted results since June. The other parkruns are averaging about
20 runners each week.
A couple of Polish parkruns are said to be having problems attracting enough
runners - perhaps this would be a good month to visit Augustow (top ten finish
guaranteed, every week since 18th Feb).
There continues to be slow growth in the USA - but none of the twelve
parkruns had attendances in single figures and two including Crissy Field had
over a hundred. None of the ten Canadian parkruns had single figure attendances.
Within the UK a small number of parkruns don't get many participants - the
lowest ten last weekend being: Larne (40), Rostrevor (39), Limavady (39),
Cheadle Hulme (39), Gainsborough (38), Stonehaven (37), Merthyr (37), Hackworth
(31), Bevendean Down (30) and Millom (21). But I always remember when I
adopted Pymmes as my home parkrun they were frequently getting fewer than ten
participants and as recently as event 130, in October 2013, their average was
under 15. Pymmes no longer features in the lowest attendance stats and the
average this year, so far, has been 65.
I ran at Corby on Saturday, in part because social media had passed on the
idea that it would be nice for them to have at least 200 runners on their 200th
running. Their previous highest attendance had been 182. The message
got through with 376 of us collecting tokens at the finish line (although from
307 onwards they were raffle ticket rather than parkrun tokens! But all
got listed in the results). So I think that it is safe to conclude that
parkrun growth is continuing with hardly an interruption.
|
Country Code |
Total parkruns |
Done by BAAC |
pct |
Australia |
3 |
238 |
25 |
10.50% |
Canada |
14 |
10 |
1 |
10.00% |
Denmark |
23 |
7 |
1 |
14.29% |
France |
31 |
9 |
6 |
66.67% |
Ireland |
42 |
65 |
5 |
7.69% |
Italy |
44 |
5 |
1 |
20.00% |
New Zealand |
65 |
17 |
3 |
17.65% |
Poland |
74 |
46 |
4 |
8.70% |
Russia |
79 |
29 |
2 |
6.90% |
Singapore |
82 |
2 |
1 |
50.00% |
South Africa |
85 |
113 |
4 |
3.54% |
Sweden |
88 |
4 |
0 |
0.00% |
UK |
97 |
467 |
293 |
62.74% |
USA |
98 |
12 |
4 |
33.33% |
Norway |
67 |
1 |
0 |
0.00% |
|
Grand Total |
1025 |
350 |
34.15% |
And the club continues to add to the list of parkruns that we have done.
The 350 in the table above doesn't quite tally with Steve's 354 in part
because of parkruns such as Little Stoke that are no longer listed but
had already been run by club members. We ought to make a better go
of Irish parkruns - 5 out of 65 is not very good! We've over
double that proportion done in New Zealand!
Roderick Hoffman
Memories...
25 years ago
Sarah's visit to Crissy Field set me thinking about my last visit to
San Francisco...
This month in 1992 Malcolm Mowle and I travelled to take part in the
(Escape from) Alcatraz Triathlon on some absolutely free tickets Brian
Forrester managed to spirit out of someone's budget. The swim
course was obvious and the bike ride included crossing the Golden Gate
bridge. Great weekend, I probably did it on flextime leaving
Friday lunchtime and arriving back Monday lunchtime! Long Live
Lord King.
Steve Newell
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Ed: Please send in some of your running memories - inspired by
something happening today...or not. Good memories or bad?
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34th International Airport Race in Hamburg 3rd September 2017 - free entry!
More details
Hi,
On September 3rd we will have our 34th
Int. Airport Race a 10 miles race (16.1km) around HAM airport.
All airlines runners are invited to take part for free! If you or some
of BA runners are interested to take part in this event please contact
me. The Int. Airport Race is one of the most attractive races in
northern Germany with approx. 2,000 participants.
As our homepage is in German, only - here is the translation from
our homepage of the most
important facts:
- The start will be on Sunday, 3rd September at 11.00 hrs,
- The start and finish will be on the 400m track of Lufthansa
Sportverein sport center, Borsteler Chaussee 330, 22453 Hamburg,
Germany,
- You can get there by public
transport by following busses: 23, 34, 114 to busstop Spreenende.
From there it is a short walk (400m),
- The race distance is 10 miles (16.1 km) and the course leads you
surrounding Hamburg Airport (race-course),
- Each kilometer will be clearly marked. The course will be on
closed roads, sidewalks and footpaths,
- Race package pick up will be at the Lufthansa
Sportverein sport center at following dates:
- Friday, 1st September 3pm to 6pm
- Saturday, 2nd September 3pm to 6pm
- Sunday, 3rd September 8am to 10pm
- Timekeeping will be done by BMS-Chip to
be attached at your running shoe. You will be provided with a loan
chip that you have to return to the organizer after you finish,
- Every finisher will receive a medal,
- You will get water at km 6, km 10, km 14 and at the finish-area.
In addition you will get fruits and Krombacher
Alkoholfrei at the finish-area,
- There will be several activities on race day including warm-up,
music, awards-ceremony, food and beer-stands, barbecue and a large
selection of drinks in our clubhouse,
- As the race is free of charge for you we will do the
registration. We will need the following data:
- name, first name, date and year of birth, club/airline,
nationality, address, email and phone number
I hope this facts will help you and I´m looking forward to welcome
you here in Hamburg! If you have further questions don´t hesitate to
ask.
Best regards,
Ralph
Behrens {ralph.behrens@la-lsv.de}
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If anyone is interested then please contact
Clara Halket
or if you know Ralph contact him directly.
Tom's Diary
Three results from the past week,
Thursday 10th Aug. Julie Barclay and Paul Watt entered the
Datchet Dashers 10k relays at Home Park Windsor brilliantly organised by
Joe Nolan’s club. Weather was perfect in the shadow of the castle
and spectators viewing excellent being able to see the runners at all
times around the well-marked course.
This was a pairs relay each running alternate 1k laps until covering
10k. Like Paul and Julie, best if both able to run equal pace that makes
a lot of difference in the recovery period while one member is running:
- Julie ran 1/3/5/7/9 legs in 4:07 / 4:14 / 4:11 / 4:12 /
4:09 totaling 20:52;
- Paul ran 2/4/6/8/10 legs in 4:01 / 4:09 / 4:12 / 4:16 / 4:03
total 20:41;
The event can be used as a repartition training session. A
recommended event with a very inviting free buffet afterwards plus
finish medal. 100 teams took part.
On Saturday 12th Aug. I reached cloud 9 above Banstead Woods now to
be renamed THE EQUINOX being equal distance between heaven and earth.
I am sure many of you that have ran there will agree it is a really
tough course but enjoyable running through the wooded areas. It was a
planned family meeting for Julie and two sisters who live in the area.
All have ran there before including Julie and Paul and three achieved a
PB time. Paul kept 10 places ahead of Julie over the first of the
two hilly laps then eased down to encourage her to close the gap that
she did without labouring with Paul finishing 25th in 21:45 PB and Julie
27th in 21:40 PB and 2nd lady. Sister Vera was 97th in a PB time
of 26:47; Then BA staff club member Janice Jones came sailing down
the hill with 200m to go to finish 114th in 27:43. Today 195
finished.
Sunday 13th Aug., the week of racing nearly over, just 5k more to run
from Wimbledon athletic track then 1 mile climb up past the famous
tennis arena when reaching the summit, left along the only flat
area then left all the way down to the stadium.
No official results yet but again Paul making sure Julie was
alongside him entering the track with 300m to go running nice and
smoothly right to the tape.
Paul ran 21:33, Julie 21:32. Only able to see start/finish but
Phil Wicks lead all the way to be caught and passed over the last 200m.
I spoke to him after and he said “I just could not respond my legs
would not move” The winner ran 15:00.
Still tired from climbing that mountain at Banstead,
Tom Rowley
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Burnham Beeches Half - 13th August - results
Only a half marathon this weekend. A rather undulating course meant that it
was never going to be a fast one for me. Brilliant morning for running it though
- bright sunshine but never too hot (max 21c) and plenty of shade from the beech
trees. Finished in 1:43:31 - was 111th of 573 and came 2nd in my age group
(M60-69). Thought there might be some other BA runners here - found one in the
results and saw him running his last km - Jasvir Singh Modaher also taking a
Sunday off from running marathons finished in 2:24:10.
Piers Keenleyside
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Roderick Hoffman, at
news@barunner.org.uk.
Club website:
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