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BA Athletics Club News Digest 16th May 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. I have removed the Speedbird Ladies event from this week's listing without putting it in for another date. We still hope to run a Speedbird Ladies race this year, but currently don't know when or where. Monthly Mile (submit before Monday 23th May):Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the Facebook prompt. The mile can somebody else's formal event or even one mile within a longer run. I'll then produce a fancy graph showing your time this month compared to those of other people and previous runs over the last year.
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by late Sunday) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Green Belt Relay ResultWe got round! The team of eleven plus three main support team members plus other support covered the 215 miles of the 22 legs in a combined time of 29 hours 24 minutes and 26 seconds. Full report next week but there are some photos included in this digest.
To hint at what you might hear about next week this photo on the right (or below) is a left over from last year's Virtual Green Belt Relay. As a team we completed the distance of the regular relay and some of us did the actual legs. That included me finishing the last leg at the regular finish line at the Hawker Centre in Kingston (and I remember it well, particularly the heavy rain for the last five miles). Although other teams also did some virtual running we and I were the only ones to finish at the regular finish and therefore I was the first finisher last year! Also, since they have now selected a new finish in Bushy Park, I have become the last ever finisher at that finish. As a reward yesterday I was presented with a stage winner's shirt. Last year's virtual relay took us 32.5 hours and was probably on easier and more familiar courses. So that shows how well we have done this year. More next week, on this year's event and results. Roderick Hoffman obo Chris Kelly Track and Field – May 2022As the digest goes to press, the BAAC team are competing in the Veteran's T&F League at Battersea. Full results will be published next week. There is still time to enter for this Wednesday's Rosenheim event at Kingston. Please join us if you are able. The competitions then take a break for a few weeks, but please let me know if you can take part in the next rounds:
Rosenheim League at Kingston on Wednesday 18th MayKingsmeadow Athletics Centre (KT1 3PB) is a mile from Kingston. Norbiton
station is a fifteen-minute walk from the track. British Airways 5K Handicap event, Weds 25th May
Entries are welcome on the evening, but if you know you are going to come along, please could you let us have your expected 5K time in advance. Thanks, Start in Hatton Road just beyond the junction with Cains Lane. Course: Hatton Road to Bedfont Green, bear left round the church, then along Staines Road (A315) to junction with Faggs Road (A312), turn left and cross Faggs Bridge then immediately take footpath to the left and keep parallel to the Duke of Northumberland's River before turning right along the path between the allotments and the primary school. The finish will be just short of the junction with Hatton Road (very close to the start). The course has been measured with the wheel but feedback from runners with GPS watches etc. will be welcomed in the bar afterwards (the club may provide food - we need to check with the treasurer first). WARR UpdateI have sent out today an email to those I know are booked or are considering joining us. If you haven't received such an email...let me know. Recent Activity AchievementsI picked up on 19 club members and friends reporting recent activity achievements. Others have posted mile results will be reported on next week and of course others took part in the Green Belt Relay or parkruns (on, in Ian's case, both).
Roderick Hoffman parkrun Results for Saturday 14th May 202227 activities are recorded this week. Fewer than normal due to many of our runners being involved in the Green Belt Relay (some for other teams!). Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
The Green Belt Relay, reported elsewhere, was top priority for many of our regular parkrunners this week but it didn’t prevent some from clocking a parkrun first and then heading off to run 10 miles or so later on Saturday and the same again on Sunday. Ian Haylock, Chris Kelly, Mike Dennison, Maria Jovani, Barry Walters, Frankie Hogge and Murray Hogge all concentrated on the GBR and gave parkrun a miss this week. Some of us seem to be at some parkrun or other almost every week. Others like to dip in only very occasionally. Monica Alonso (30:46) ran at Guildford this week, her first parkrun for almost nine months. Welcome back. Alice Banks (25:24, 81.04%) went to Somerdale Pavilion near Bristol for the first time and set a new record for her age group. That takes Alice to 54 parks and the club to 649. Paul Watt (19:45) and Julie Barclay (24:29) were at Blyth Links in Northumberland. They stayed around long enough to submit a run report which is good way for tourists to show appreciation. Check it out, it has been uploaded already. Trish McCabe (28:56) chalked up another run in East London, this time at Mile End. Eddie Giles (28:01) made a rare visit to West London and ran at Gunnersbury where parking charges just have been introduced – 50p per hour with a 90 minute stay possible for just 75p. There is a promise that the money raised will be used to resurface some of the paths on the course which have needed attention for years. A red shirt beckons for Ruth Cadbury (MP for Brentford, Chiswick & Isleworth, Lab) who made one of her occasional appearances at Osterley. It was her 49th parkrun and her time was 33:57. Her parkrun pb is 28:21. Please drop the editor a line if your MP is involved in parkrun in any capacity. Paul Prescott (21:36) tried Osterley for the first time - his 16th different parkrun venue. Steve Newell Club Featured parkrun Wimbledon Common - Saturday 21st MayThe club featured parkrun on 21st May is Wimbledon Common parkrun. Meet at the Windmill car park SW19 5NR, or what3words animal.master.prompting. The route is a two-lap trail run. The long-range weather forecast suggests generally fine weather for the latter part of the week so not too muddy, but trail shoes might still be a good option if you have them. The Windmill Cafe is next to the car park. There is no mandatory charge for parking, but donations are requested. John Scaife After Bushy Park, Wimbledon Common parkrun was the second parkrun (or, as it was then, "Time Trial") established in January 2007. Only eleven club runners have run it. I was the first, back in 2012 and Steve Newell has run it the most, four times. The club records are held by Adam Moquet (19:09, finishing in third place), Anne Bannister (27:43 [Maria Jovani has run it in 21:33, but before she became a club member]) and Gary Rushmer (76.39%). The first female finisher at the first Time Trial at Wimbledon Common was Jane Davies who was already then a former BAAC member - her time and grade would have been records had she stayed a member, and she beat the grade with an 92.99% on a subsequent visit. She has achieved a 96.23% at Osterley this year, though her grade record exceeds 100%. Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Roderick Hoffman Orienteering Street-O Hammersmith and Series ResultsI was very pleased with my route choice and got back with 9 seconds left on the clock which makes it feel like a very good run (I've already forgotten that I ran into Sainsbury's thinking that there might be a back door for a short cut). I covered 8.98km with 17 controls and so scored a net 370 points and finished 25th out of 67. I am not a fast runner, averaging 6:40/km pace, so I try hard to make up by my route choice. Looking at the results from a net-points per km basis I came second with 41.20 points per km run against the leader (actually second on the night) who scored 41.26 points per km. That way of scoring wouldn't be fair on the faster runners because they boost their regular score by running extra distance to visit low value controls...but it does make me feel good! Melanie Miller also took part, running in a pair, and visited 10 controls in 57:59 so scored 220 points and 52nd place of 67 (15th of 22 women). They would have finished 44th if judged on route efficency. The series results were based on the five best results of the up to eight run. My result last week counts as my third best of the series (but was perhaps better than that since the numbers who took part effectively diluted my score on the night). Overall I ended with 381 points and was 21st in the table. 215 took part but if you discount those who had run fewer than four events then I came 21st out of 46. I was only beaten by one runner who had only done four events. As one of only five runners who had competed in all eight of the series races I was presented with a grapefruit and two kiwifruit! Next year's series will probably start in October. More details: Hammersmith Street-O and Overall Results – South London Orienteers (slow.org.uk) Roderick Hoffman Staines 10k resultsThe low turnout at Bedfont Lakes birthday event may in part be due to the
Staines 10k the very next day. I'm aware of two club runners but there may
have been others.
Triathlon NewsAfter a Covid affected couple of years The World Series Triathlon is up and swimming, cycling and running again. The first event of 2022 was held this weekend in Yokohama and Alex Yee (GB) who enjoyed success at the Olympics last year made an excellent start with a victory in the men's race (1500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run). Team GB didn't let up and Georgia Taylor-Brown then proceeded to take the women's race outrunning Olympic champion Flora Duffy of Bermuda. The next races in the series will be in Leeds, hosting an event for the sixth and last time on 11th/12th June. The circus then moves on to Montreal (24-26 June), Hamburg (9/10 July), Cagliari (7/8 Oct), Bermuda (5/6 Nov) with the grand final in Abu Dhabi (23/26 Nov). There are races for "age grouper" amateurs as well as for the elite professionals. London hosted the World Championship finale in Hyde Park in 2013, a year after the 2012 Olympics. Events included Paralympic races which had not been in the Olympic program. Steve Newell Next Digest - Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send them to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. 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 website: www.barunner.org.uk.
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The
photo above is a partial team photo taken at Bushy - and with Sarah Kelly standing in for Chris
since Chris was in the Team Captain's results meeting.
