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BA Athletics Club News Digest 18th April 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. Track-on-Field (by Sunday 8th May, to be reported on in the following digest) [but see below for shared "Track on Field" Thursday 5th May]:
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by late Sunday) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Track is Back- Summer 2022!Yes, it’s true, a new season of Track & Field is almost upon us. We can offer competition for all standards, whether you are a beginner, a star sprinter, a field athlete, or a veteran. Please come along and enjoy something from the T&F menu. The season commences with an in-house competition at Feltham track, on Thursday 5th May [not Wednesday 4th as previously advertised]. You need to run five events: 1500m, 800m, 400m, 200m and 100m, with an opportunity for a breather between each. This will be a season warm-up, and a chance to show your consistency, or your prowess at a favoured distance. We compete in the Southern Veterans League, a chance for everyone from 35 to 95 to compete against their peers in age graded events. These events are all located in the West London area. This year the calendar includes a new category, V70s. These are really fun evenings, so please make an effort to join us. We also compete in the Rosenheim League, a friendly T&F competition spread around tracks south of Heathrow. Again, all standards are welcome, and you will find someone to compete with, whether you plan to run 100 metres, 3000m, or try a field event. There’s always a place available in our legendary relay squads! Here are the planned dates:
One Hour Run at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit - results and findings #The Concorde One-Hour race is being held on Sunday 5th June 2022. We had a practice event at the Hillingdon Cycle Circuit last Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who made an appearance. We learnt a great deal about the venue and its facilities. I don't think that we discovered any problems that would trouble us on race day - other than we need to publish a definitive length for the laps of the course because everyone will come up with different figures from their watches, phones and tracks. Steve Newell walked round the two laps to be used with our measuring wheel and the results of 1005.7m for the short lap and 1499.3m for the long lap are used in the results below. We are yet to have the distances returned by Mark Jefford, the official measurer for the event, so when we do we will adjust our understanding of the lengths run. We know that Mark's figures will be shorter than Steve's. Mark not only measured each three times, using the shortest running route each time, but the counter on his bike will have been calibrated before and after his visit to us to take into account the weather conditions on the day (whereas our wheel was simply take out of Steve's boot and used).
Six runners started on the gun and ran one short lap followed by any number of long laps. Three later arrivals did the number of long laps they could in the time left. Simon Turton recorded everyone's laps and final times (despite having been given a dodgy pen). Steve Hillier provided support and encouragement out on the course, at the point where the two laps diverted (so stopping anyone taking short cuts after their first lap!). Jas Singh-Modaher checked out the kitchen and considered the best location for the drinks station. All the runners discovered that the cycle circuit is not flat. Mike covered the maximum distance in the hour with exactly 13km (using Steve's measurements). Mike could have started another lap but that would have only added about 95m to his one hour distance. Paul also covered the 13km distance but in over the hour. His one-hour distance is calculated from the 11.501km of his first eight laps plus 35.7% of his last lap time (his last lap was from 57:14 to 64:59 hence 35.7% would have taken him to exactly one hour). Fortunately I have Excel to do all of the math's necessary. The fastest short lap was by Mike with 4:44. The fastest long lap was Mike's 6:42 on his 7th lap since he managed to get progressively faster as he went on, though revealed he was human by slowing for the last two. Jakob and Maartin started fast with their first long lap times of 6:43 and 6:44 respectively. Having had the test event we can be confident that we will only need a few marshals. Also Jas is confident that he can provide refreshment crews. Thus could I suggest that any club member who thinks that they can run the event on the 5th June should enter now - taking advantage of the Early Bird rate which is available until the end of April. > Concorde One Hour Race - Concorde 1hr (activetrainingworld.com) Reminder NOW Bluebells from Osterley Park lunchtime 20th April from 12:00See you there! Mile Results for AprilI've had a couple of mile results submitted but only a couple. I'll hold over the April results to next week in the hope of getting some more. Recent Activity AchievementsI picked up on 21 club members and friends reporting recent activity achievements.
Roderick Hoffman parkrun Results for Saturday 16th April 202236 activities are recorded this week. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
Paul Timms (22:32 at Osterley) is well travelled round the global parkrun scene with appearances in Southwest England, Northern Ireland, Australia, USA, Singapore, South Africa and Guernsey but this was his first parkrun in the London area. Osterley has become a popular course for our club, especially since the two-lap format was adopted, and over fifty members have run there at least once over the years. Only Bushy Park and Bedfont Lakes have attracted more of us. John Coffey (33:22) at Brooklands has been involved in parkrun since the early days when the choice was Bushy Park or Bushy Park [Ed "...or stay in bed"]. He had a significant birthday recently and it is good to report that he is now at the top of the MV80-84 rankings at Brooklands. Trish McCabe (29:42) continued her tour of the rarely visited parkruns to the southeast of London with a run at Bexley and established a club female record at Bexley. Erstwhile member Caroline Cockram did run there once in 29:00 around the time of the London Olympics but before she joined us. Trish has now run at 42 out of the 59 parkruns in London. Recent joiner David Cowell (20:14) travels widely and appeared at (Royal) Sandringham to notch up his 41st different park while still 3 runs short of this red 50 vest. That took the club total to 640 and there was more to come. Alice Banks (32:16) wasted no time in setting a club record at Church Mead (Amersham) which only started last week and pushing the total to 641. There is a club featured parkrun scheduled there on 2nd July. John Taylor (20:25) was only a few seconds outside his age group pb at Rickmansworth where he lies 37th out of an astonishing 654. Paul Watt (21:24) and Julie Barclay (28:05) were at Great Salterns (Portsmouth) and set new club records while doing some volunteering as well. They improved their Wilson Indices to 16 and 17 respectively. Steve Newell parkrun VolunteersI've done a further analysis of club parkrun volunteers. You will recall that this isn't easy to do from the publicly available information - one has to make a snapshot of all of each club members volunteers to date and compare that with the previous snapshot made (on 19th December 2021). Things are made complex by:
So, with apologies to anyone I've missed or underrepresented [please let me know]... I notched up my 50th volunteer occasion on Saturday. 19 club members have already exceeded that number. As of last week David Duggan led the way with 481, Emma Moreton had 356 and Alastair Heslop had just achieved his 251st. Denis Foxley has recently earned his 100 volunteer shirt and recent 50 achievers are Steve Newell, Ben Chaytow, Anne Bannister and Piers Keenleyside. Julie Barclay earned her 25 shirt a few week's ago but with Paul Watt's achievement this week they can now order two of them. In total the current members of the club had around 3,300 volunteer occasions between them. Former members such as the Cockrams and Dodsworths also have hundreds to their names. Sum of Credits since December has David Duggan with 91 [but he shouldn't expect to get the club parkrun trophy every year], Mike/Michael Dennison has 42, Emma Moreton 40, Alastair with 20, Paul Watt with 18 and then 16 (one a week) for Julie Barclay, Maria Jovani and Melanie Miller. Looking at credits for specific roles since December: In the 16 weeks between the snapshots we have performed the "Communications Person" role 43 times. That equates to Emma performing the role almost continuously for two parkruns and David for one parkrun [and don't expect the editor of this digest to belittle the communications role!]. Next highest is "Volunteer Co-ordinator" [another thankless task I'll give thanks for] with 32 credits, mostly David but Alastair and Denis Foxley also made contributions, then the traditionally most common volunteer role, "Marshal" also with 32 credits. Then comes the "Report Writer" with 26 credits (nine of us have done this since December - including some who never contribute to this digest!). Next highest are the App users - "Barcode Scanning" with 22 and "Timekeeping" at 20. A current growth area is "Tail Walker" with 17 (again between nine of us). We were only the "Run Director" provider on 16 occasions - down from previous periods. I agree with the parkrun principle that all volunteer efforts are equal and whereas volunteering works for some there are others for whom it is not appropriate - so I won't discredit anyone for not getting volunteer credits - except that I'll mention one example to prove the point; Alan Anderson has 226 credits to his name but none since December, and anyone who has seen him pushing Anne around the course at Osterley fully understands why that is. Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Roderick Hoffman Other Races
Letters to the EditorImpressive! Mariko Yugeta, the 63-year-old limbering up to run a sub-three-hour marathon David Barnard Ed: The club's Men's Marathon record for V60 is held by Ray Hampton at 3:17:20 (London, April 2006). We don't have any ladies records above V45 (let me know if you think that you can claim one). Our ladies' Open record is sub-3 with Any Stiles at 2:50:34 (London, 2000). 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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