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BA Athletics Club News Digest 17th July 2017Events:
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. Updated July 17th. *Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] 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. Club Facebook Page "BARunner" https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ July CIE Club In-house Event - Wednesday 26th July 2017 - "Monopoly" from 18:00We know what the event is, and when, but do we know where?
The Monopoly event works by team members running out and back to different checkpoints each time receiving a random Monopoly property or card. The team that accumulates the greatest wealth is deemed the winning team. The advantage of running this event from Heston is that we can take advantage of the Cranford Lock-up in the High Street (pictured) for anyone who draws the "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go" card. Roderick Hoffman BA Staff Fun Run - Thursday 20th July
The event will still welcome additional participants for the 5k or 10k races (and Little Legs). Sign-up via: ba-fun-run-and-little-legs-for-life-2017 (online entry closes end Tuesday). Roderick Hoffman (roderick@rhoff.org.uk) Ride London 2017Ride London is just two weeks away, and we have a good team assembled, ready to operate a crossing at The Cenotaph on Sunday 30th July. We still need a few more volunteers to complete the team, and to allow us to continue our support for the London Marathon organisation. Are you able to help? Please contact me if you can. Thanks, Final Vets League Match ResultsThe BA team took part in the last match at Perivale last Wednesday. There were some great performances on a warm, sunny evening. Janet Smith started us off with a clear victory in the ladies hammer, while Julie Barclay picked up two second places in two closely contested track races, the 800m and 3000m. Steve Hillier completed the podium finishes with a third place in the men's hammer. Paul Watt continued his improvement with a strong run in a crowded 3000m field, and Tony Barnwell is threatening Harry Wild's MV75 records with his Javelin throws.
Steve Hillier Last Rosenheim Event of the Season - This Wednesday at Ewell CourtThe last event of the season is on Wednesday 19th July (2 days time!!) at Ewell Court again, hosted by Epsom and Ewell. If possible, please let me know if you might turn up. The running order is:
Neil Frediani {neil.frediani@ba.com} Club parkrun results for Saturday 15th July
A slightly cooler weekend brought out 30 of our runners and some of them ran very quickly indeed. Paul Knechtl (17:18, 82.56%) ran for a second week in a row, which is unusual, this time back at Bushy Park where he has done the majority of his occasional parkruns. His time is a parkrun pb and second only to Dave Dixon’s 17:10 at Hackney Marshes as a club parkrun record. Paul changed employer a few months back and initially had concerns about lunchtime training opportunities. Issues have clearly been resolved. His wife Sarah (47:22) who has been to a few WARRs in her time dipped her toe into the parkrun scene for the first time {Ed: Apparently this run by Sarah is for a fundraising effort by herself with a race-for-life event on 30th July. Those who know Sarah might like to show their support and encouragement by sponsoring her: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/sarahs-fundraising-page-6164}. A few miles away at Tilgate, Adrian Haines (18:25) who has had some success (and some atrocious bad luck) at WARR over the years improved his ranking in the MV50 group there from 6th to 5th. Adrian’s best (and only) time at Bushy is 17:44 (82.52%). Not much in it. Chris Kelly (19:42, 76.06%) had his best run at Woodley for three years. The parkrun at Rickmansworth Aquadrome (free car park) started earlier this year and is proving popular with attendances frequently around the 300 mark. Courses have varied a bit but we all thought it had settled down to a nice flat two lapper with a good café by the lake and clean toilets. Comments about the course being more than 5km prompted the event team to walk round with a surveyors wheel and the start line has been moved significantly nearer (184m) to the finish! Our first member to take advantage was Tony Barnwell (31:49) who had been at Rickmansworth four times before. His new pb is in line with his recent best at Fulham Palace (31:53) where a similar scenario was acted out last summer. Only in reverse. A short course was brought up to distance by moving the start line back by three lampposts. Petra Otto (31:27) achieved a pb at March and is now embarking on a trip to Australia where she may be surprised how available parkruns are, even if they start a bit earlier. And so, looking forward to next week at Beckenham Place and Roderick's 200th different parkrun (a "double-cowell"). Roderick was marking time with a second run at Leamington (29:14). Sadly Roderick's tourist friend Gregory Bailey won't be able to make Roderick's 200th and will run his own 200th (in 200 parkruns) a week later at Maldon Prom (Essex, probably). Steve Newell How do different parkruns compare?Every parkrun is different and as well as the conditions on the day you have the running surface to consider, the twists and turns, and the course contours (and the actual length of the course!). This web page https://jegmar.com/fastest-races/parkrun/ lists all UK parkruns and their contours. So for instance it lists Bushy as flat and with a total climb of 34ft. Tilgate on the other hand is anything but flat and has 229 feet of climb. If Paul ran at Tilgate and Adrian at Bushy it would be interesting to see how their times compared with this week's. With contours the toughest two parkruns would appear to be Lanhydrock in Cornwall (run by the Cockrams, 521ft)) and the nearby Mount Edgcumbe (483ft). I've run 4th and 5th on the list - Lyme Park (422ft) and Lullingstone (416ft) and can confirm both to be tough. Note that some of the flatter parkruns have inaccurate heights recorded because of the technology used - Fulham for instance is flat but is given a raise of 262ft! The flattest should be Portrush since each week this runs on the beach parallel to the actual sea level yet it is given a raise of 101ft. If you want to promote a special parkrun then let Steve or I know... There is my 200 tourist parkrun at Beckenham Place on 22nd July and the August 5th Black Park Pacer Day (BA Run-of-the-Month for August). Roderick Hoffman
Middlesex 10k - 1st October in Victoria Park
Couch to 5k ProgrammeThe club has been running a couch to 5k programme to prepare participants for this week's BA Fun Run. This has involved Joe and myself, supported by Clara, Trish, Steve Taylor and Neil. Over the eight week's of the programme we've had good attendance from seven Waterside residents and some attendance from nine others. Two of the attendees have already run parkruns on recent Saturdays, and hopefully we'll see most of them at the Fun Run this Thursday. The committee will review whether and how we'd hold another such programme, or something different, later on in the year - thoughts from members are welcome. Roderick Hoffman {roderick@rhoff.org.uk} 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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We
haven't had the answers yet from the Bedfont sports clubs so instead we'll run
the event from Heston as before. The changing rooms and showers are still
open to us so we'll meet and run from Heston Venue from 18:00. After the
event we'll retire to the Queen's Head (with 30% discount for current BA Clubs
members). We won't be able to have announcements in the Queen's Head so will
hold any over to the August CIE (or the following week's digest).
I've
now got the twenty helpers I need for this event. If you have offered help
but not received an email from me today, then please get in touch. Others
are welcome though I can't guarantee refreshments beyond the twenty.