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BA Athletics Club News Digest 15th January 2018Events:
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: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Not for you, no longer interested? remove me please. / Difficulty viewing this? Read it from the website:- http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Club Facebook Page "BARunner" https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Wednesday Club Night event and socialMeet in the car park of Cranford Community College anytime after 17:30. Use the college changing rooms to get changed (and the showers should be working this week - though this has not been confirmed), we'll depart from the car park at 18:00 to the Brabazon Estate for our regular "Pioneers Relay" winter workout. The course we'll be using is shown on the club map. Afterwards we'll recover in the Queen's Head, from 20:00 - remember your light blue BA Clubs cards for your 15% discount. Any questions - ask me... Roderick Hoffman (roderick@rhoff.org.uk) Ladies Surrey League Cross Country Saturday 13th January results
Injuries and circumstances led to us having as many runners on the sidelines as taking part in the run but still a creditable result for the team. Indeed currently it is a very good result for the team but that is because the provisional results include two runners who didn't - no doubt that will be corrected in time. The Club's Concorde Road Race?Your views still welcome... Should we have a Concorde race this year? If you have got views on the matter, including if you'd like to get more involved in the set up and running of this year's event, then please pass them on to a committee member or to me at roderick@rhoff.org.uk and/or arrange to join us for the next Committee Meeting at the Cranford Community College on Wednesday February 7th - advise the secretary Steve Hillier {stevehillier@msn.com} of your intentions. Roderick Hoffman obo BAAC Committee London Marathon volunteer updateCome the New Year, thoughts turn to the London Marathon (Sunday 22nd April) and I start the process of building the list of 150 volunteers required for the 5 crossing points that BAAC supports. For 2018 the London Marathon will be issuing INDIVIDUALLY NAMED course passes and also require a contact number in case of emergency. This means I need to get names agreed for each crossing point by MID MARCH so if you can help please supply the following:
Note: The organisers no longer require addresses. Please send details to Simon.Turton@ba.com The Big Half - March 4thThe London Marathon organisation have asked us to help with an additional event, and we've committed ourselves to manning a crossing in Greenwich on the day. Thank you to those of you who have already volunteered to help. If anyone else is interested, please can you contact me soon. Steve Hiller (stevehillier@msn.com) Information from the organisers:
Club parkrun results for Saturday 13th January 20183Steve Newell is away so apologies if any results or volunteer efforts have been missed. Please email additions or corrections to me and also advise me of next Saturday's planned or actual performances - Roderick Hoffman.
So, lots of members ran lots of different parkruns. Richard Ruffell needed to be in the Clifton area and realised there was to be an inaugural run there. I advised him not to go - they had asked for a quiet launch and I suggested that hundreds might turn up and crowd the circuit and risk problems with the results. He went anyway, and just 140 others did so also, so he probably had a good run. Park #379 for the club (to be confirmed when Steve gets back). The general advice from parkrun HQ is to consider not going to inaugurals but anyone who wants to go to this Saturday's only UK inaugural run will be made very welcome - it is in Bressay in the Shetlands. Some uber-tourists will be there, calm seas permitting! Trish was told by her physio. not to run this weekend, due to suspected shin splints, so she had to miss the Cross Country but he said nothing about walking (perhaps she didn't ask) so she managed to get round Bedfont Lakes and get a volunteer credit to her name as well. Colin Russell had his first go as Run Director at Oak Hill and all appears to have gone well. Club Featured parkrun Saturday 20th January Northala Fields
For those who don't know Northala Fields the course is a single circuit on good solid surfaces. Mostly flat - don't worry about the mounds, you run around them on the out and back. There is enough parking in the two free car parks and adjacent streets and the cafe is a good one - very parkrun friendly. Loos as well for those who need them before the start. They have been attracting a field of 300 over the last few weeks but the first 500m of the course is wide (right to left in the picture) so plenty of time to sort out the runners by their pace. Please try to get to the park before 08:45 so that we can have a team photo - imagine the attached photograph but with a dozen of us in the foreground. The parkrun course page is www.parkrun.org.uk/northalafields/course/. Any questions - drop me a line. Roderick Hoffman (roderick@rhoff.org.uk) parkrun GrowthRecord numbers of UK parkrunners AND parkrunners worldwide. Of the two other UK inaugural parkruns on Saturday Whinlatter Forest in the Lake District also had a manageable 139 participants and Heslington near York had a less so 532 (though they were geared up for this and coped without issue). Last week I reported on Crichton filling a gap in Southern Scotland. For their second run they had slightly fewer numbers with only 335 but only seven of those runners had more than ten parkruns to their name. Meanwhile in Germany Ralph Behrens did another German inaugural run at Rubbenbruchss and on his eighth run he was the second most experienced in the field - Jacob from Poland was there with his 93 parkruns but none of the other 69 parkrunners had done more than two parkruns. Many parkruns broke their previous records including Tooting Common with 817 on their 100th run so just beating last week's new record. Southampton added another 60 odd to make a new record of 1134 but in worldwide terms that is only the 23rd largest parkrun venue. Bushy is 6th in the list but the other 21 above Southampton are all South Africa parkruns including, with a new world record on Saturday, North Beach with 2451. Roderick Hoffman club parkrun stats {not updated this week}
Ed: The WARR race day is Saturday September 29th so these could be good opportunities to check out the opposition and one's own fitness before heading to Victoria later in the month. For those there for the weekend there may also be parkruns available on the Saturday (be)fore each event. Street-O Richmond ResultsChristine Munden and I took part in the latest Street-O Orienteering event at Richmond last Tuesday. Previously Christine hasn't been covering enough ground in the hour so scoring low and I have been over-ambitious and hitting time penalties. As an experiment therefore we set off together and stayed so for the first half of the time period. My error meant that we failed to get the first 30point control we went for [well, when the control is "...sign...bridge number..." and it is dark and you get to where the dot is on the map and there is a sign there with a bridge number in the correct format for the answer sheet then why should you spend additional time checking that there isn't another sign five feet away with a different bridge number on it and then work out which of the two the clue refers to? The answer is we should have done this.] but after that we did alright. After we parted I managed to get an extra 30 point control, and then catch up with Christine as she finished, so our final scores were:
In the overall placings Roderick moved up to just one place behind Simon Turton who hadn't run at Kingston. The next Street-O event is on Tuesday 13th February in Bloomsbury, nearest tube Russell Square - see http://londonorienteering.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/streeto_feb2018.pdf. There is also an Orienteering event in Richmond Park this Sunday (21st) with some interesting "mass start" runs. These are called "Very Nearly an Armful" (10k+), "Half Blood" (16k+) and "Full Blood" (21k+). There are also short colour coded runs. All runs are open to non-orienteering club members. Details: http://slow.org.uk/events/richmond-park-21jan18-final-details/ Roderick Hoffman Next Digest?Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send it to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. Club website:
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Join us on Saturday at Northala Fields parkrun. If you can't run at the moment
then there are spaces on the volunteer's roster (see