BA Athletics Club News Digest 16th August 2021
For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.
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This Week's Events
Please 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 midnight on Sunday) or use the Facebook
group prompt:
| Participant |
Event |
Distance |
Location |
Day/Start |
Time or Duration |
Details or comment, and other achievements |
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e.g. Running |
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Diary Change
I've made a subtle change to the diary:
- Club events that will be held at the Bedfont Club are now shown in their
own green category. This makes it easy to see when we will be at the club.
The next such event will be the 40th Anniversary Event on 22nd September.
- I've then combined the "Other External Events" and "Colleague Runs" into
one category. This is the category that everyone has access to create new
entries. Thus you can create a solo run for yourself to encourage colleagues
to join you or you can add your favorite external events to the club
calendar. Please do this to encourage us all to join you. Try adding an
event today!
An Apology
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I'm sorry there was a mix up with the facilities at Bedfont on
Wednesday of this week, which clearly caused some anxiety for your
members.
I have spoken with the football section who were playing their first
match of the season on Wednesday and because it's such a long time since
they have played, it slipped their mind to contact you to say they were
playing. I am assured that they don't have a Wednesday game until
the new year but have asked for a copy of the fixtures to make sure.
Keep running!
Alison Hartigan
General Manager
BA Clubs Ltd
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For those who weren't there, the showers were unavailable to us after
Wednesday's mile run and the only changing areas were cupboards and loos. We
managed to make ourselves presentable for the AGM and Awards evening, though we
were thankful it hadn't been raining and there may well have been a bit more
social distancing within the meeting room than would otherwise have occurred!
August Mile Result
In line with established tradition the AGM was preceded by a mile race which
this year (as in 2019) was held at the Feltham Track (TW14 9HX). The track
was once home to Hounslow AC but after the merger with Windsor, Slough & Eton
the club moved to Datchet and the facility was abandoned about 20 years ago.
The track itself has weathered remarkably well and the inside field is obviously
mown from time to time. The nearby football stadium, changing rooms, toilets,
etc. have long since been demolished. A suggestion of the area becoming a
new home for Brentford FC came to nothing. Feltham FC moved in with
Bedfont in Hatton Road. The rest is history.
The run was held in strong
sunshine on a beautiful warm summer evening with only a light breeze. Many
members jogged from the Bedfont Club with others driving and parking in
Shakespeare Avenue.
Steve Newell
Thanks to Steve for timekeeping. Mike Dennison, Eddie Giles and Ben Cooper
also ran solo miles or miles at other events. These are included in the graphic.
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Mike Dennison reports:
My Mile was at the now resumed 'real' Arethusa Mile in Bushy Park,
with a field of 40 runners on Wednesday 11th August, before I headed to
the BA AGM! I apologise for not joining you all at Feltham to run
there, but this was the 10th Anniversary of the start of the Arethua
Mile series, and, as a regular runner there (I think I am fifth on the
list of runners who have run it the most times, with this being my
78th appearance) I wanted to be there for this occasion.
Ed: Mike was ninth on the night, one place (two seconds) ahead of
Ian Haylock. Maria finished as third lady in 6:16 and Bob Bannister in
6:45. Only Mike submitted his result as a club monthly mile result.
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Club AGM and Awards Evening - This Wednesday 11th August at the Bedfont Club
 The AGM was held last Wednesday and a full write-up will appear soon. Our
committee was voted in with only subtle changes which are already reflected on
the website: British
Airways Athletics Club Committee (barunner.org.uk).
The Awards for performances across 2020 were also presented. All those presented on the night are
listed here: baRUNNER
News Trophies page and this and the next two digest issues will list the key
trophies and who won them and why:
Chairman’s Award - To John and Benita Scaife
John and Benita have submitted the joint most number of "Weekend Activity
Achievements" (39, with myself and Andy Rayner) and have provided a write-up in
Facebook for most of them allowing me to supplement the digest reports. They
have also participated in some of the midweek challenges. I would also like to
credit Joe Nolan (the current holder) for his Virtual London Marathon Relay
efforts, and both Jagjit Singh and Clara Halket for their Long Distance running
AND community efforts during this difficult period.
Speedbird Ladies 5K 2021
May 26th, 2021. It felt very good to get the 2021 Speedbird Ladies race
underway after our long lockdown. We still had to have some social distancing
measures in place - the reduced numbers and the ultra-wide start line (1 metre
per runner). We had 27 starters and 25 finishers.
It was close at the front – after one lap, Emma Moreton had a short lead over
Julie Barclay. But by the end of the second lap, our winner had moved up from
third place to take the victory.
The winner of the Ladies 5K trophy is….Maria Jovani
Brian Forrester 10K Trophy
2020 was a quiet year for 10K races, but what it lacked in organised runs, it
made up for in virtual events.
Our winner likes nothing more than a muddy slog along the banks of the
Thames, and he was the winner of our 10K solo event in April. His speed
and endurance gave him the victory in the Sonning 10K, while many virtual
runners in remote locations could not match his pace.
Fast forward to the Remembrance 10K in Hertfordshire, held in December.
Our hero joined 200 runners at Bovingdon to celebrate the fallen and the ability
to run in the same location as others.
This year’s winner is …………. Chris Kelly.
Round The Block Trophy
This trophy rewards club involvement. The more events you devise,
organise, help with or compete in, the more chances you have of winning the
award.
In 2020, there were less opportunities to score points, but there were still
102 members and friends who manage to get their names onto the league table.
Our winner was still involved in twenty events, more than anybody else.
He planned or managed many of them.
Despite a desperate attempt by a trios of Steves to steal his crown, once
again this year’s Round The Block Trophy winner, is……………..
Roderick Hoffman
In relation to the Round-the-Block trophy Roderick, obo the Committee,
announced that the "Round-the-Block" name was overdue for retirement and hence
from next year the trophy presented for club participation would be known as the
"Tom Rowley Participation Trophy".
Thanks to Paul Brandon for taking the photographs.
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Activity Achievements for the week 9th to 15th August 2021
16 activities recorded - and in addition Janet Smith, Joan Foxley,
Michael Ball and John Scaife reported their parkruns as their best
activity of the week.
| Colleague |
Activity |
Distance |
Course |
Start Time |
Duration |
Comments |
| Piers Keenleyside |
Race |
Half-M |
Burnham Beeches |
Sun |
02:02:53 |
Had another go at improving my post-injury half marathon
time today. Not too far off my target time of sub 2. A few too
many hills for my liking although I did make up some ground on
the downs. |
| Jasvir Singh Modaher |
Race |
Half-M |
Burnham Beeches |
Sun |
02:34:56 |
Reported by Piers |
| Emma Moreton |
Race |
Half-M |
Burnham Beeches |
Sun |
01:44:33 |
Half Marathon PB |
| Paul Watt |
Race |
5km |
Dinton Pastures |
Thur |
00:21:04 |
Last race of four race series (see below). |
| Julie Barclay |
Race |
5km |
Dinton Pastures |
Thur |
00:23:03 |
Last race of four race series (see below). |
| Adrian Haines |
Running |
14.89km |
Dordogne, France |
Sun |
01:11:00 |
I’m down in Dordogne, France for a month setting up a
training camp at my house. The weather here is superb and
settled for at least 6 weeks. Please follow me on Strava to see
all my routes and segments. |
| Benita Scaife |
Running |
5km |
Flackwell Heath Park |
Tue |
00:33:12 |
An action replay of last week’s multiple laps of Flackwell
Heath park (2seconds faster). John was relegated to the bench
after my first parkrun post-broken foot, which was a bit sore. |
| Roderick Hoffman |
Running |
11.2km |
Lake Farm Loop |
Sun pm |
01:20:14 |
Uneventful, other than I was thankful that they had just cut
the long grass in the Yeading Brook open spaces. |
| Andy Rayner |
Daily |
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Local |
Tues-Fri |
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4 mile mixture of walking and cycling each day. |
| Amanda Coombs |
Walking |
5miles |
Peebles |
Sun |
02:00:00 |
Final day in Peebles in the Scottish Borders. Warm but very
breezy on the hills. |
| Ben Cooper |
Running |
5.19km |
Penmark |
Thur |
00:27:09 |
I've grown tired of my usual loops around Cardiff Airport,
so ventured out into the nearest village of Penmark. Pretty
houses and a steep hill lie beyond the treacherous carriageway
crossing!! |
| Melanie Miller |
Walking |
20.17km |
Salisbury Plain |
Sat |
00:04:22 |
Hike to Stonehenge from Salisbury ova the plains…lovely hike
& route and saw the stones without having to pay the EH fee. |
| Emma Parkes |
Running |
23.46km |
Stockley Park to Little Venice |
Sat am |
02:35:00 |
Running with a friend cycling the Paddington arm of the
Grand Union canal. Longest run ever, so pretty pleased with it.
The route was nice and flat and in most places the surface was
good. |
| Clara Halket |
Running |
10km |
Surrey Trail |
Sun am |
01:10:00 |
Two short runs this morning; over 7km threshold run followed
by over 3km warm down jog on a mix of hard pack stony trails and
soft woodland trails |
| Stephen Taylor |
Running |
20miles |
To/from Bushy Park |
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03:26:00 |
Another long run, marathon training, this time to Bushy
Park. A tough run, my legs didn't feel like they had much go in
them. 20 miles in 3h26. |
| Neil Frediani |
Running |
9miles |
Up north (probably) |
Thur pm |
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I ran down to join about 10 runners and 8 dogs for a
meandering trail run on a lovely evening. |
Roderick Hoffman
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Dinton
Pastures Summer Series Final Run
On Thursday evening Julie and I ran in the final race of a four race summer
series.
You may have read that last month we were led the wrong way by the lead
cyclist…twice: a distant memory as tonight went according to plan.
Julie was the first W50 to cross the line and in fact she was the first in
all four races which is a great achievement. Julie has a full set of the four
first place trophies and I managed one……she is hogging the mantelpiece with them
now! I was third M50 but it was enough, like Julie, to collect an award as we
both won the overall series winner for the 50+ age category. Julie also received
an award for the third placed female overall.
It is a tough course and a very nice venue and I would thoroughly recommend
this series next summer.
Paul Watt
parkrun results for Saturday 14th August 2021
39 runners and volunteers below - get in touch if your result is missing.
This week we highlight the dogged persistence of Paul Watt (19:39) and Julie
Barclay (22:41) who have been trying to complete the parkrun alphabet for over a
year and a half. After visiting Cape Town in January 2020 to run at
Zandvlei the goal seemed in sight and Yeovil Montacute was lined up with hotel
booked. Bad weather and then the pandemic intervened and more recently the
news that the Yeovil Montacute parkrun wasn't ever going to start up again
caused more frustration. Currently the only parkrun in UK starting with
"Y" is York Racecourse where parkrun is allowed on the tarmac service road but
only on days when no horseracing is taking place (as it is for instance this
coming Saturday - Sky Bet Ebor Festival). The happy ending came eventually with
Paul achieving a parkrun pb and Paul and Julie taking over the club course
records from Steve and Linda Dodsworth. For Julie it was her 50th
different parkrun venue. What and where next ? Stay tuned to this
channel.
Mike Dennison (M2, 20:15) and Maria Jovani (F1, 22:55) had a successful
outing to South Oxhey and set new club records. Mike Dennison is now 2nd
in the M60-64 group there (Barry Walters is 7th) out of 98. Maria Jovani
is 5th/185 in the F45-49 group.
Our long time friend from Lufthansa, Ralph Behrens, headed over the border to
Austria for the inaugural parkrun at Hellbrunn. He has already run at a
parkrun in seven different countries, only needing to fly occasionally.
The parkrun photo of Hellbrunn is an old one from Tring - sadly this is one of
the parkruns that won't be returning...although the team are still hopeful so it
hasn't yet been removed from the map.
Paul Timms (23:24) ran at Tetbury Goods Shed and has reached the 50 parkrun
milestone.
Steve Newell
Full club parkrun database -
{read access to new
club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Interestingly I've done a
quick check and it would appear that club members have run 9,967 UK parkruns
(including former parkruns and restricted access parkruns). Since we had 33
members run this weekend we must be in line to get to 10,000 UK parkruns next
week!
 Alphabet
Completion!
Finally done it!
After three attempts to complete our parkrun alphabet at Yeovil, we
finally achieved the feat at York racecourse.
We thought that it would never be achieved in the U.K. as if you may
have read in the past, the running Gods were against us.
On the evening of Friday 25Oct19 we saw that Yeovil was cancelled due
to a hurricane and so dashed the next morning 53 miles to run at Exeter.
On 15Feb20 it was cancelled due to heavy rain and flooding and then
after we had booked the hotel for a third time for the night of 20Mar20,
the pandemic took control and parkrun was suspended.
On top of this, we were informed by Roderick that Yeovil parkrun had
not and will not be granted permission to resume thus leaving York as
the only option in this country.
Fourth hotel and fourth attempt lucky on a totally flat concrete
surface.
Our goal finally achieved but two weeks after Dave Duggan who
completed his alphabet in Northern Ireland…well done Dave.
Paul Watt
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Another parkrun country was added on Saturday - Austria
At the first event at Hellbrunn near Saltsburg there were 30 runners
including 13 new parkrunners and 2 without barcodes. Our Lufthansa friend Ralph
Behrens was there to add to his tally of parkruns and parkrun countries.
Hellbrunn will prove fairly easy to get to from Munich, if not Saltsburg
directly. Currently UK residents are barred from visiting Austria...not that
that stopped at least two of the attendees on Saturday!
Marshalling Requests
The first is unusual...The British Speedgolf group are hiring the club clock
again for a two day event at Wallingford, Oxfordshire . If anyone would like to
get involved they are looking for someone to help out with timekeeping on either
or both days. Hours are from 7am to 10:30am. I assume that they will cover
reasonable expenses.
Contact me in the first instance and I'll put you in touch.
Roderick Hoffman
The second is more straightforward...The Ealing Half Marathon is looking for
volunteer marshals to help with the race on Sunday 26th September. You will be
rewarded with a FREE place in the 2022 edition of the EHM. Apply via the
their
website www.ealinghalfmarathon.com.
BA Athletics Club Records - the most with the best
The club records are now available for you to browse at your leisure. From
the webpage baRUNNER
News Records page click on the "BA Athletics Club Records" link and a
webpage will open allowing you to explore all of the existing records. Although
this is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet it should work for you - it has also been
tested on Apple and Android devices. Click on the yellow "Records" tab at the
bottom to view the list of records then scroll to what you want to see or,
quicker, click on the arrows next to the "GROUP", "ACTIVITY" or "NAME" headings
and "Filter..." to what you want to find. There are also some summaries in the
Green tabs. One of the summaries shows "By_Person" and shows who in the club
holds the most records, the top twelve are shown below. Anyone can achieve a
club record - 65 different individuals hold records and there is even one held
by me listed towards the bottom. It's worth noting that Fiona Bishop has only
joined us in the last few months yet already holds six club records!
| NAME |
NEW (i.e. recently
updated records) |
Current |
Total Records Held |
| Paul Goldsmith |
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23 |
23 |
| Janet Smith |
13 |
7 |
20 |
| John Coffey |
2 |
18 |
20 |
| Steve Hillier |
5 |
12 |
17 |
| Brian Bennett |
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17 |
17 |
| Caroline Yarnell |
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13 |
13 |
| Eddie Giles |
4 |
8 |
12 |
| Malcolm Field |
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12 |
12 |
| Paul Toms |
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11 |
11 |
| Harry Wild |
5 |
6 |
11 |
| Alan Anderson |
5 |
5 |
10 |
| Julie Barclay |
10 |
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10 |
If you know better, please send us your claim. New records or questions:
Stats@barunner.org.uk.
Roderick Hoffman
Letters to the Editor
Copyright Issues
An interesting letter to the editor this week - from "resolveUK@picrights.com"
relating to whether we had permission to include specific copyright pictures in
the digest - referring to pictures published in 2013. Since I'm unable to prove
that we had permission (and suspect that we didn't) I've promptly removed the
images referenced - trusting that that will end the matter. Anyone who submits
pictures, other than their own, for inclusion in the digest, please ensure that
we have permission to use them.
Roderick
Hoffman
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