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BA Athletics Club News Digest 18th December 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 5Dec17). *Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] 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 Facebook Page "BARunner" https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Reminder of our Christmas Do on Wednesday 20th DecemberVenue - the Five Bells in Hamondsworth, UB7 0AQ - using the function room above the bar.
All welcome - and bring family and friends. Roderick Hoffman (roderick@rhoff.org.uk) Pre-Xmas do running event...If you intend to run in the inaugural Longford Christmas Mile Relay please send Steve Newell a message with your expected time. The course is an out-and-back, all on pavement and VERY FLAT. The start and finish point for everyone will be the same as the Dream Mile (finish), i.e. opposite the Premier Inn in Bath Road (not the A4) in Longford. Plan to be ready to run by 18.15 - we will walk/jog from outside the pub at 18:00. Also note that it is possible to park in Bath Road alongside the start point, without charge FROM 17:00. The Hatch Lane T-junction/traffic lights/Chinese Restaurant is roughly the half way, 1/4 mile, point on the way out and the way back. The turnround point will be alongside the Atlas statue outside the Compass Centre. Last minute text messages to Steve Newell: 07880 905535 Steve Newell (steve-newell@blueyonder.co.uk) Winter Handicap Wednesday 13th December resultsIt was a fairly horrible week weatherwise and illness and injury restricted the field to just three runners. London Marathon entrants Chris Kelly (38:34) and Trish McCabe (47:02) both improved while a recovering Steve Hillier (53:36) was a little slower but got round ok. Gary Rushmer still holds the course record with 34:58. Changing facilities were available at the Cranford Community College as they will be next time (24nd January 2018). Look out for an update on the showers in the Digest nearer the time. Remember - only the best four results count so there is still plenty to play for.
Steve Newell (steve-newell@blueyonder.co.uk) Storming the Beaches - BA success at KLM Roadrunners championshipI {Adrian Haines} was easily talked into this trip by Tim Bellars at a works Xmas drinks, curry night on Thursday.
The shorter 6k race started ten minutes before us on the 10k. So off we went, both wrapped up with hats and gloves. I went off quite quickly and soon I’d created a gap to have a solid comfortable strong run. The run weaved up and down with twists and turns through the sand dunes and a final climb which then dropped swiftly down to the beach. We did a big loop and then a smaller loop to complete this challenging 10k. I did win the race which was naturally satisfying in 42:22. Tim came in at 6th place and to his delight of cracking the 50 minute target time that had been set because of the terrain we had to deal with. Afterward there were drinks and awards. Very generous awards I might add. It was a day trip as Tim had work the next day. So we could have stayed for a BBQ dinner, but I had a party to make in the UK which I managed to make by 10pm. Quite a full on day, but very rewarding and pleasant company with Tim and extremely welcoming crew of the KLM runners club, plus other airlines of Lufthansa [incl. Ralph Behrens (6k)], United [Ron Maxwell, WARR host 2016] and Singapore Airlines [incl. Ghana Segaran, WARR host 2017 (6k)]. Highly recommended for the future. Adrian Haines Tim Bellars adds "It was a great day out and the KLM guys were fantastic and most hospitable. I would definitely do it again next year and hopefully we can get some more BA runners along." Selected results (10k)...
Round the Airport 2017This 13 or 15 mile run will take place at 12:00 on the 28th December and will circumnavigate Heathrow starting in Moor Lane behind Waterside and will take in Stanwell Moor, Stanwell, Hatton Cross, Cranford, Sipson and finishing in Harmondsworth for a quick pint. Most of the run is on trails and minor roads and the aim is to be round in 2 to 2.5 hours. Take your Oyster card or cash card and you can hop on a bus/tube to make it a shorter run. Let me know if interested at: neil.frediani@ba.com maps: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/1381830652 (15 miles) http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/1381805632 (13 miles) Club parkrun results for Saturday 16th December
The big winner as far as parkrun UK was concerned this week was the weather with a record 150 events being cancelled many because of ice. Where it was safe enough to run, many runners were bogged down/well wrapped up with some in Santa Suits and bobble hats. Ho Ho Ho. Not a single pb, club record or new park to report. Ian (23:41) and Caroline Cockram (24:49) made one of their occasional visits to Kingston parkrun and met stiff opposition in the form of four-time Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington (19:16) who probably wished she was back in Hawaii. There will be opportunities to get in an extra run on Christmas Day at the following venues (selected from the ones historically the most popular with our members). Bushy Park, Crane Park, Frimley Lodge), Fulham Palace (9.30 am), Guildford, Homewood, Northala Fields, Old Deer Park, Richmond, Rickmansworth and Woodley. For at least the first two Saturdays in January, Steve Newell will be away in a parkrunfree part of the world where at times Wi-Fi will be either unavailable or unaffordable. Those members who have not registered a club affiliation of “British Airways AC” with parkrun may get overlooked in The Digest unless individual parkrun results are forwarded to the editor. Steve Newell The 150 cancellations, 30% of the total, included many large parkruns and this resulted in Gunnersbury being the tenth largest parkrun in the country, albeit with over 600 fewer runners than the biggest, Bushy (as ever). The worst hit area was the West Midlands with four out of five parkruns cancelled and Scotland with three out of four cancelled. Our area got off lightly - only one London parkrun wasn't held (Southwick) and the seven cancellations in the South East region were all in or north of Oxford. A safe bet for the winter months? Both Channel Islands parkruns went ahead as normal! Roderick Hoffman Correspondence
A while back a request for lottery funding was made on behalf of Cranford Park. The proposal would include improved parking, permanent toilets and a cafe. An update...
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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It was an early start
on Saturday, 05:30, meeting Tim for check in at 06:45. Ready for a
day trip to Amsterdam Schiphol/Langevelderslag beach sand dunes. We were welcomed
by a free bus to the beach, provided by KLM Road Runners for all the
international runners. On arrival at the beach there was a freezing, forecasted
north westerly gale force 6 wind. I don’t think it was that strong, but
certainly a biting wind. On our warm-up along the beach I realised it was
going to be a very challenging 10k and suggested that we would be a minute per
kilometre slower than a normal road race.