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BA Athletics Club News Digest 15th February 2016Events:
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. *Club Event Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z31P-sSECWno.kIIgdFzUuZAo&usp=sharing Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. Difficulty viewing this email? Read it off the website instead - http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook "BA Runner" (link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/636199849751546/). Ladies Surrey League Cross Country Richmond Park, 13th February, ResultsI was planning on getting there, at least to support our runners but was so tired from operating my flight I went to bed instead! Monica Alonso and Helen Smith flew the flag in this match, coming in almost together at the finish [55:33 and 55:41 respectively for the 5 mile/8.1 k course]. Unfortunately we haven't had good turnouts this season and our team finished 39 of 39 in the team league. However a huge "Thank You" to Monica, who has been the only constant this season, running all 4 matches. We've had several ladies join the club recently so hopefully we will have more runners coming out in the next season or before that at ASCA. It will be great to see the new faces. ASCA Cross Country reminder - Hamburg 2nd AprilNow that the Surrey League season is over, we look forward to the ASCA Cross Country in Hamburg on 2nd April 2016. Already I have 5 names on the list and hope more will come forward. This is a great opportunity to socialise with colleagues from other airlines, and we have always had loads of fun so please let me know if you would like to come along. It will be really good to have a big ladies team for this one and Hamburg is a beautiful city. I don't have event details as yet, as it's still early; I will forward details as we get them. Men's Cross Country Lloyd Park Saturday 13th February Results
103 finishers
Team result - BA came 6th of 10 teams with 514 points, 40 points ahead and behind 7th and 5th respectively. I think that this means that Neil would have had to have finished ahead of Mark for the team to have finished 5th. Had any team member from Mark upwards not shown up the team would have finished 7th or 8th. The photo shows all of the team members other than Richard who had had to escape from the mud promptly. 35th World Airline Road Race - 21st to 24th September 2016The World Airline Road Race is traditionally the largest inter-airline running event. 5k and 10k races are interspaced with parties and tourist opportunities. We can expect the event to attract 1,000 airline employees from 50 or more airlines and aviation companies with many trophies presented to individuals and teams. There are also awards for non-airline guests. This year the 35th event is being hosted by the United Airlines Running Club in Chicago with race day Saturday 24th September. The 10k and 5k race courses will be on the Lake Michigan shorefront setting off from next to the Columbia Yacht Club. The race headquarters hotel and confirmation of other details are still to be announced but race entry is due to open in early April. More details of the race course: http://worldairlineroadrace.org/the-run/race-details/ On Sunday 25th, the day after WARR but still in Chicago, there will be a 5K on the runway at ORD. We will all be welcome to register for this event as guests of the United Running Club. Non-airline staff - commercial returns will currently set you back £690 but if you ask a BA staff member to order the ticket for you ("Hotline") they should be able to get you £40 or more off that cost. Roderick Hoffman
Heartthrob Hash 10th February 2016 ResultsWe had ten runners split into five relay teams of pairs running round the Aviation Pioneers Estate circuit to the south of Cranford Lane. The (Lord) Brabazon Road area. The pavements used were (Amy, CBE) Johnson Road, Louis Bleriot Road, (Sir Tommy) Sopwith Road, (Sir Alan) Cobham Road and (Sir Frank) Whittle Road. It was remarkably free of traffic and pedestrians. The teams were set the task of completing ten circuits of about 520m with each runner completing half a circuit (clockwise) and then repositioning across the 115m diameter (Sopwith Road). Lapped teams were encouraged to give up at the end of a circuit if they found that the winners had already completed the ten laps. This was to prevent too much hanging round on a chilly evening. Thanks to Paul Brandon for starting and lap counting, Paddy O'Shea and Harry Wild for monitoring the handover zones. Thanks to Harry for driving the officials party to the start point. Chris Kelly and new member Lucy Canham were the first team to complete the course in about 19 minutes. Eddie Giles and Denis Foxley also completed 10 circuits. Roderick Hoffman and Christine Munden completed nine laps. Steve Hillier and Steve Newell completed seven laps ahead of Tony Barnwell and Alan Anderson (also seven laps). There was a suggestion that the session should be repeated again in the summer. The majority then took the long route (another three miles) back round to the Heston venue where a team tea of sausage and egg & bacon baps was served (one or two per person). Steve Newell Round-the-Block Late ResultsIn response to Dave Barnard from last week regarding the Round the Block event, you have a very good memory but are 4 years out {Ed: That was my poor guess}. I’m not sure if it’s the first ever Round the Block run, but the event David was talking about took part in 1979 and here are the results of the 16 finishers that day:
The print out was on old style green and white computer paper, with the holes down the side . They don’t make paper like that anymore! {Ed: The results were probably printed out by Dave himself on the then reasonable new Dec 10 computer}. I only recognise 3 of the names on the list, but I’m sure there will be a few of you out there how recognise a few more. By 1985 the entries had risen to just over a 100 and this was the typical entry for a number of years until the end of the running boom at the start of the 1990’s where the numbers started to dwindle away. For sentimental reasons the event is being kept alive and it’s a shame we don’t have more entries. You never know one day we might just have a large turn out again, but we might just have to arrange something special. The equivalent summer event, Round the Park, has been moved to Waterside to try and encourage a few more participants, so you never know… Paul Knechtl Harrow Hill 10K Results
199 finishers. Stephen and Christine have been joining us on Wednesday nights recently and are considering joining the club. A disappointing result for Steve, who had won this event the previous year, though he had known he wasn't in the same form. Christine and I were just pleased to finish! My Garmin reported 172 m of climb over the 10k distance. Roderick Hoffman Club parkrun results for Saturday 13th February 2016
With temperatures close to the seasonal norm for mid February after a chilly night those who waited until mid day or early afternoon for a cross country league race probably made the sensible choice. The effect of previous deluges and even high tides is still being felt. Linda Dodsworth (29:52) was at Fell Foot in Cumbria (Lake and Mountain District) where the parkrun has been rerouted to avoid some parts of the usual course which are still soggy. It is currently a very undulating five lapper and the overall club record was hard earned. Note that her other half Steve doesn't get the male fastest record because he hasn't yet joined the club. He can take that as a hint. Up near Teddington Lock Steve Newell (35:53) found the Kingston parkrun was rerouted along a muddy puddly towpath for an extra quarter of a mile or so to avoid the flooded Hamlands suffering from the double whammy of rain and spring tides associated with the new Chines New Year new moon. The year of the Monkey (Steve's birth sign) got off to a bad start. Further down river at Southend Roderick Hoffman (26:29) was on firmer and drier ground but had a freezing breeze off the estuary to contend with. That took his total to 143 different parkruns and the club total moved on to 227. Julie Barclay (22:41, 75.75%) was first woman home at Frimley Lodge and Sharon Kassemzadeh (22:57)who is on the fringe of membership put in an excellent performance (84.53%) at Cassiobury Park. Her best time so far this year. The remarkably consistent John Coffey (25:55, 71.9%) at Bushy Park was the best scoring of our men this week. A name from the past making a comeback? Mike Lawrence, a talented performer in the 1980s and triathlon pioneer, has now run three weeks in a row at Gunnersbury but that only takes him to 15 parkruns in over 4 years! He was a contemporary of Bill Byrne who is doing a "Rushmer" and has now been on 99 since some time last year. Alan Anderson (31:09) is now on 398 runs and is scheduled to become the our first member (and only 16th in the world) to complete his 400th run at the end of the month. David Tyas remains just 8 runs behind on 390. Steve Newell Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls Also the club map has been updated with all the latest parkrun achievements. Use this to check which parkruns have yet to be run by club members and what the fastest club member time trial times at each have been. You can also use Google to check transport directions by car, public transport and even Bike.
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