BA Athletics Club News Digest 16th September 2013
Forthcoming Events:
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Monday 23rd September - BAAC T&F Grand Prix events - Hillingdon Track
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Wednesday 25th September - Brian's Relay and Social at the Concorde Centre
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Wednesday 2nd October - 'Equinox' 5k from 18:00 and social at the Concorde
Centre
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome
at all of these events.
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T&F Grand Prix Monday 9th September results
On a very calm and cool evening the 5th Grand Prix of the season took place
at Uxbridge track. 3 athletes up for the 400m ‘sprint’ , Hammer & Discus
challenge were :-
Eddie Giles (returning from injury), Gary Rushmer (returning from the Isle of
Sheppey) and Steve Hillier (returning from Watford)
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400m |
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Hammer |
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Discus |
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Gary Rushmer |
1 |
1:09.6 |
3 |
10.77m (7.26kg) |
3 |
14.29m (1.5kg) |
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Eddie Giles |
3 |
1:33.5 |
2 |
12.80m (6.00kg) |
2 |
20.17m (1kg) |
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Steve Hillier |
2 |
1:27.7 |
1 |
27.86m (7.26kg) |
1 |
20.26m (1.5kg) |
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Well done to Steve with 2 wins in the throws with Gary’s win in the 400m and
his first ever discus throw.
The 6th and final GP of the season is on 23rd September, 6pm start; 100m &
the Long Jump. Contact Eddie
Giles for details - hope to see you there,
Eddie Giles
Round-the-Park Tuesday 10th September - Results
Position |
Name |
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Time |
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Position |
Name |
|
Time |
1 |
Tim Hawkes |
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00:19:44 |
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9= |
Stuart Whipps |
|
00:24:26 |
2 |
Martin Connor |
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00:19:50 |
|
9= |
Jessica Collins |
F2 |
00:24:26 |
3 |
Matt Stratful |
|
00:20:12 |
|
11 |
Roderick Hoffman |
|
00:24:58 |
4 |
Dave Dixon * |
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00:20:33 |
|
12 |
James Ruffell |
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00:27:29 |
5 |
Chris Kelly |
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00:20:44 |
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13 |
Kevin Holland |
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00:28:25 |
6 |
Richard Ruffell |
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00:21:13 |
|
14 |
Sohrab Ghavami |
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00:28:30 |
7 |
Ian Cunningham |
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00:21:25 |
|
15= |
Helen Smith |
F3 |
00:30:47 |
8 |
Sharon Kassemzadeh |
F1 |
00:23:13 |
|
15= |
Neil Frediani |
|
00:30:47 |
After the scotching temperatures of last week and the rain on Monday, we
seemed to have a near perfect day for running the inaugural Round the Park event
at Waterside. The course is somewhat more challenging than the old one in
Cranford Park and an issue with not being able to unlock one of the gates turned
the event into a steeple chase :-) In all 16 runners took part, all finished and
I don't think anyone got lost! Many thanks to Harry Wild who helped with
marshalling the event. {Ed: note that over the previous three years we averaged
only 8 runners at the Cranford Park course so the Waterside switch seems to have
been a good move. The photo above shows how Chris Kelly got round the
Waterside parking issues}.
The men's event was close with the first 3 runners all coming in within 30
seconds. Tim Hawkes finished first in 19:44, closely followed by Martin Connor
(19:50) and Matt Stratful (20:14). * However, the
fastest time of the day and new course record went to Dave Dixon in a time of
17:53, who finished in 4th overall, but started some 2 minutes and 40 seconds
behind everybody else! The ladies event was a little more split, with the winner
Sharon Kassemzadeh finishing in a time of 23:13. Unfortunately we did not have
any teams this year, but hopefully the new course has not put too many of you
off and the teams will be back!
The 'Round the Block' race is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 28th January
2014 (weather permitting), so don't forget to put the date in the dairy. I will
send out some more details nearer the time.
Paul Knechtl
Club family parkrun results and stats for 14th September 2013
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time |
parkrun |
wava |
Chris |
Kelly |
19:58 |
Reading |
73% |
Colin |
Haylock |
20:14 |
Bushy Park |
70% |
Piers |
Keenleyside |
20:42 |
Gunnersbury |
75% |
Ian |
Cunningham |
21:46 |
Sth Manchester |
68% |
Tony |
Hird |
24:04 |
Gunpowder |
61% |
John |
Coffey |
24:44 |
Poole |
72% |
Alan |
Friar |
24:59 |
Reading |
70% |
Scott |
Davison |
25:14 |
Bedfont Lakes |
55% |
Kerstin |
Luksch |
26:11 |
Gunnersbury |
57% |
Alan |
Anderson |
26:54 |
Gunnersbury |
75% |
Joe |
Nolan |
27:43 |
Black Park |
57% |
Neil |
Frediani |
28:46 |
Bedfont Lakes |
54% |
Both Roderick Hoffman and Richard Ruffell were volunteers at Osterley and St
Albans respectively. Richard witnessed a new male record by Ian Kimpton of
14:45 (five minutes faster than the fastest at Osterley). Ian also holds the
record at Hull parkrun - though one second slower.
Running at Poole means that John Coffey has now clocked up the 70th different parkrun
run by club family members - when (and where) will we make the 100?
Meanwhile Ian Cunningham ran at South Manchester - but sadly for him
Chris Kelly had got there previously and with a faster time!
Steve's parkrun stats
Ickenham Five Miles - Results
Pos |
GPos |
Runner |
Age Group |
Time |
1 |
1st |
Mohamed Mohamed-Hassan |
Senior |
0:24:44 |
8 |
1st |
Airan Grover-Jones |
Female 35-44 |
0:29:25 |
48 |
9th |
Natalie Ruffell |
Female Senior |
0:35:26 |
49 |
40th |
Richard Ruffell |
Male 50-59 |
0:35:26 |
84 |
69th |
Roderick Hoffman |
Male 50-59 |
0:40:37 |
173 |
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1:13:56 |
The winner has been mentioned in a previous digest - see "Right place wrong
time" in
http://www.barunner.org.uk/News_Digest_29Jul2013.shtml
Richard and I were able to greet Harry Wild on the way round, marshalling at
one of the critical corners, and the other BAAC participant was our timing clock
- this being one of the several events each year that hire the clock from the
club.
Roderick Hoffman
Men's Surrey League X/C
It's that time of year again when we start getting the spikes out of the shed
ready for our Cross-country season. The first men's match takes place on
Saturday 19th October at 15.00 at Lightwater Country Park. Lets hope this year
we can get a good turnout at all 4 meetings.
New members & non members of all fitness levels are welcome at this event,
even if you've never run a cross-country race before.
As soon as I receive details of the race I'll circulate them.
Many thanks Gary
Rushmer.
Subject: ASCA X-Country 2013, MAD 9 Nov. Info
Note that this event clashes with the second men's Surrey League fixture but
as both Clara and Helen forwarded these details to me perhaps there is a good
chance of us having a ladies team attending.
Dear friends,
Please find attached the info of the ASCA Cross Country Tournament to be
held in MAD next Nov. 9th. We hope you find the package attractive enough to
bring a team of runners and supporters. You won’t regret it!
As you can see in the programme, we’ve changed the traditional Awards
Dinner for the Awards Lunch with the object of allowing the participants
more free time in the evening to enjoy their short visit to Madrid, or even
return back home those who may want to make the visit even shorter. Please
let us know if you are happy with the idea or if you’d rather follow with
the tradition, in which case we’ll try to satisfy the majority preferences.
Please note that the deadline for the inscription of the runners is Oct.
12th, and that you have to book directly the hotel rooms sending an e-mail
to chamartin@husa.es with the reference CLUB IBERIA.
When you enter the runners names in the ASCA webpage, don’t forget to add
the D.O.B. (date of birth) to help us with the categories classifications.
We also would thank you to let us know the T-shirt sizes of the participants
well in advance, otherwise we wouldn’t assure you get the suitable ones.
Keep on running and fit!
See you in Madrid,
Paco Puerta
IB ASCA Delegate |
Attachment with full details {1.8Mb}
And more long distance efforts...
A bit more info on my Dingle Marathon which was run on Saturday 7th
September. My time of 3:27:46 was just over 20 minutes quicker than
when I ran it a year ago. It is quite a tough course with about 600m of
elevation gain round the course. I was 47th out of 340 finishers.
Piers Keenleyside |
And Pier's previous contribution on the Ridgeway Challenge inspired Dave
Barnard to say...
... I was reminded of my attempt at half the distance, Goring to
Ivinghoe 70km, on my 70th birthday. A few days earlier it had been under
snow, so there was plenty of mud. The rendezvous were all at or very close
to road crossings.
Needless to say, I did not do it in half Piers' time!
In order to do it in the day, the plan was to try and run the first 42 km
in 6 or 7 hours, then change into boots and walk until I got there.
Unfortunately I was born on a date such that my 70th birthday fell on a
shortish winter day with a new moon, so that a head-torch was going to be
needed.
At 06:05 at Goring it was still dark so clutching a micro-torch for any
early potholes I set off at an easy trot for an hour along the river -
disturbed ducks, dawn chorus, flooded paths (footbridge 10 cm under water at
one point). A little after 7 o’clock the trail turned away from the Thames,
straight up Grims Ditch onto the hills at Nuffield where {my wife} Joan was
waiting in very chill mist, but surrounded by masses of snowdrops. A 5
minute pause and on I trotted, along undulating paths (I had to walk up one
long hill) till the path dropped down to join the Icknield Way, and along
through the mud to the next rendezvous at the (old) A40, 10:59. Elevenses
here with excellent hot chocolate, etc. for 15 minutes - 2/3rd marathon
distance done, and feeling a bit tired. Warm enough to discard jacket.
Along through more flat mud through Chinnor, up over Wain Hill, where the
horses I met provided a good excuse for a brief walk. I was getting wearier,
and again glad of an excuse to walk going up the steep end of Lodge Hill
whence the trail led gradually down to Brimmers Road at Princes Risborough
(42 km - one marathon - by 12:59) where the support team from Devon plus
Joan were waiting, watching four red kites who were putting on a magnificent
aerial display, using the thermals rising from the town. They greeted me
with assorted refreshment and encouragement, very much needed, as I felt
seriously exhausted. But it is amazing what 25 minutes rest, raisins,
chocolate, apple juice, change of pants, a dry T-shirt, and putting on boots
and a light jacket can do.
Roger and I set off, now at a comfortable walk, up and over behind
Whiteleaf Cross and down to Cadsden to be greeted even before we reached the
pub by more supporters (no, we didn’t stop for a pint). Then across the
front of Chequers, up Coombe Hill from the back, and down to rendezvous in
Wendover by St Mary’s church in Church Lane. We had a very brief swig and
bite here, and were then up and away to the top of the Hale, and across Red
Lane above the Crong (where we were given our head-torches), through Pavis
Wood and along two bits of road, then along the top of Tring Park, to our
7th rendezvous crossing Fox Hill at Wigginton, 18:00, torches on, and down
to Tring station. No time to waste here (supporters complained they’d barely
had time to get their fish and chips from Tring), as we carried on up
through tricky dark woods on Aldbury Nowers, then out to the clear open
ridge of Pitstone Hill. Guided down by waiting headlights on the road, and
off up the penultimate slope towards the road below the beacon. Met the car
again, with just 500 m to the trig point, where we could see a dazzling
plain of lights spread out below. Poor astronomers! 70.6 km, 20:24 o'clock.
Bliss, down to more chocolate & a short car ride home!
David Barnard |
And finally on Sunday Piers and Joe Nolan did a relatively short (for
Piers) twenty mile training run organised by Ealing Eagles. Piers did the
twenty miles in 2:32 and along the way spotted Neil Frediani who was
racing in the Richmond Imperial 10 Miler - he finished in 56th place out of a
field of 105 in a time of 1:29:18.
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