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BA Athletics Club News Digest 17th November 2014Forthcoming Events:
New members and non-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 17th November. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook "BA Runner" (link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/636199849751546/). This news digest is being sent to you because you are on the BA Athletics Club email list. To be removed please email us at news@barunner.org.uk. Difficulty viewing this email? Read it off the website instead - http://www.barunner.org.uk/News Latest.shtml. Club Winter Quiz - This Wednesday from 20:00What are your plans for Wednesday evening? If they don't currently include coming down to the Concorde Centre in Heston for the annual athletics club quiz then perhaps you should make a change. All are welcome to just turn up - either as individuals or as complete teams. The questions range from dead easy to dead impossible so everyone's unique knowledge is bound to help. See you on Wednesday (optional free run beforehand) Roderick OBO Steve Hillier Surrey League Matches - Results of Men's events on 8th NovemberHi all, we now have the individual results from our last cross country race at Epsom downs, on what turned out to be a well-attended cross country, with BAAC finishing 9th on the day in what is a very tough league. BAAC had 14, yes!!! 14 runners, running the downs on a cold & windy day. As Chris says spectacular venue - great downhill start, and finish (Just don't mention the middle). Good to see two of our new members running the cross country for the first time, (Robbie Stewart & Gary Rushmer jnr) also good to see Scott Davison running his first cross country for the club as well. Anyway I would like to say thank you to all those who turned up on the day and to Paul Knechtl for the coffee, cakes & biscuits at the end, very much appreciated.
Our next fixture is at Oxshott on the 10th Jan 2015 at a start time of 2.30pm. Hope to see most of you there, if not more? Gary Rushmer
ASCA Cross Country Iceland, 28th February 2015Hi all, the ASCA cross country is being held next year in Iceland, Reykjavik, on the 28th February 2015. Only just got this information, so more details to follow, e.g. price, hotel, flights. If anybody is interested in going to this event can they please let me know. Thanks, Gary Rushmer E- mail: gary.rushmer@btinternet.com Club parkrun results for Saturday 15th November
Possibly as many as 20 of our members were involved at a parkrun this weekend at one or other of over a dozen different locations. After pausing for a couple of months John Coffey was back in action at Bushy Park (25:15). Piers Keenleyside refused to give his aching body any sort of a rest and was in action again at Gunnersbury (27:12) only six days after his worst ever half marathon. Scott Davison is closing in on his century. He ran his 96th at Bedfont Lakes (22:49) where he had run 90 times previously. Meanwhile, over at Brockwell Park, Roderick Hoffman notched up his 96th different parkrun (25:16) finishing ahead of Steve Newell (30:02) for whom the run provided a closure to a New Year's Resolution to have run in every London borough which host's parkrun before the end of the year. He is just hoping a new event doesn't suddenly pop up in Harrow or Hillingdon in the next six weeks! Joe Nolan continued to provide pacing guidance at Black Park - this time proving expert at 30 minutes. Gary Rushmer mentioned last Wednesday that he would be visiting Hull for a family event at the weekend and hoped to take in a parkrun (for only the second time this year). "Unknown Runner" featured in both the Hull and Humber Bridge results in the kind of time we would expect from Gary. Could he have driven all the way to Yorkshire and forgotten his barcode? I fear the worst! Hash tag #DFYB. The coordinated visit to Reigate Priory, penciled in for 22nd November, has been postponed to 2015. Late Results - A notable run missed from the results last week was Linda Winning's 50th at Llyn Llech Owain where she ran a pb (30:34) with a WAVA score of 70.5%. She also beat her cradle snatching husband by 6 minutes. Updated parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls Steve Newell No new parks this week (Richard Ruffell had previously made it to Brockwell and Gary...#DFYB). However expect new parks to be added over the next two weeks - with perhaps parkruns run on the soil of two new countries! Roderick Hoffman Updated BA parkrun map: http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/BA-Parkruns-2014.jpg {some parkruns may have been missed}.
"Running" Shorts
New Year Resolutions: Please send me any updates on this year's new year resolutions and/or information on the resolutions that you SHOULD have set. Roderick Hoffman News for the next BAAC News Digest? PHOTOGRAPHS ANYONE? I shouldn't always be posting my holiday snaps.Please send items for inclusion in the next Digest. Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send it to us at news@barunner.org.uk. Club website:
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Roderick,
Sarah and Daniela at the East Coast parkrun, 1st Nov.