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BA Athletics Club News Digest 18th November 2013Forthcoming Events:
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at all of these events. The full events diary is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. UPDATED 11th November 2013. 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. Do you know someone who might appreciate being on the mailing list? Let us know Quiz Night Extra - the club parkrun round
Thank you to the Hilliers for the annual Quiz last Wednesday - we had five teams of five answering rounds with five questions in each round. But here are another five questions for Steve and anyone - email me with your answers. Now checking on the Internet would be cheating...other ways of cheating would be to look at Steve Newell's parkrun stats file and back issues of this digest. I will provide answers next week. Which parkrun... 1 Runs both east and west? (i.e. crosses the Greenwich Meridian). 2 Runs over a Civil War battlefield? 3 Bushy Park parkrun has had most different BA Club Family members run at it (30) - but which parkrun has the next largest number? 4 Club members have run at 77 different parkruns. Just one of those starts with the letter "U". Which one? 5 I recently pointed out Paul Knechtl's consistency - so name either of the two BA parkrun family members who, according to the parkrun computer, have the largest variation between their fastest and slowest results? Club family parkrun results and stats for 16th November 2013
* Still in "Chase the Place" week 4. ** Chase the Place with PB bonus point! A weekend of headlines!Neil Frediani smashes his pb at Bushy {see below}. Two very long standing members (since the 1980's) ran their first ever parkruns - Roger Wiltshire (Bushy Park - 26:31) and 100 marathoner Ray Hampton (Woodbank Park, Stockport - 27:24). At some time around 9.25 a.m. the club total parkruns run passed the 2013 mark (in 2013) and has now moved on to 2021. Richard Ruffell broke new ground by running at Brockwell Park and those who remember cross-country league races there won't be surprised to hear there is a hill and you have to go up it twice! As a club we have now appeared at 77 different parkruns. Chris Kelly has dropped out of the running for "Chase the Place" but Steve Newell got a bonus point with a pb at Fulham Palace. There are now 7,089 runners left in "Chase the Place" so the odds of one of us being offered a London Marathon place are improving. Steve's pb was achieved on his 110th parkrun, hope springs eternal! The wisdom to choose the right course comes with age. The Fulham Palace course is about to be changed slightly (before next week). It will remain flat and fast and so far it is not too crowded. Gary Rushmer had the best run this week with 19:30 at Bedfont Lakes, where as a club we have now appeared 300 times. Gary is just four short of his red "50" vest. Steve Newell Roderick adds: Neil's pb was due to his personal effort but also because I pushed him all the way in our head-to-head challenge. How come then I was over three minutes behind at the finish? Well, I hadn't let on to Neil that I had a strained hamstring so he thought that I was breathing down his neck all the way and threatening to sprint past him at the finish. With 883 runners at Bushy it is difficult to see if someone is or isn't just behind you - so also Ian, myself and Roger all finished within 30 seconds of each other but we also hadn't seen how close we were. Note that had I been fit I don't believe I'd have come within thirty seconds of Neil's time so I'm very happy to concede defeat. Perivale Five Sunday 1st December 2013 detailsSunday 1st December 2013, start 10:00am from the Perivale Park track, Stockdove Way, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 8TJ. A fast, flat & accurately - measured race over 5 miles, under UKA rules (licence #TBA). Goody bag for all completing the 5 mile race. Wide range of prizes, for seniors & veterans. Entry forms on www.esm.org.uk or enter online: www.activetrainingworld.co.uk Remember to book soon - registering on Sunday the booking site said "81 places left".
Roderick Hoffman International Airline EventsThe ASCA Cross Country races were held in Madrid on Saturday 9th November. Due to clashes with our other events BA was not represented. but five airlines were involved with 22 finishers in the men's 8.4k event and 12 in the ladies 4.8k. The next inter-airline event is the KLM Championships / Beach Run previously advertised here. These are on Saturday 14th December with 6k and 10k options with afternoon start times to enable us to fly in and out on the day - and with the KLM Road Runners providing lifts from Schiphol. Currently we have three in the BA team - let me know if you are also interested. http://www.klmrri.nl/index.php?pagina=CK13Guest Also - is anyone interested in expressing their views on how future World Airline Road Races should be organised or even prepared to take a role helping with future events? Discussions are taking place so let me know your interest. Annual AwardsWe're getting close to the time of year where annual awards are decided. One important trophy is the Brian Forrester 10K shield. To help us make the decision, please could you send me your 10K performances for the past twelve months. Don't be shy, we like to hear how our members have been doing! Thanks, Mailbox...
News for the next BAAC News Digest? I also need a club running related photograph every week so help me out here.Please let us have your ideas for how club communications can be improved and please send us items for inclusion in the next Digest. Results, news, feedback, jokes, stories - send it to us at news@barunner.org,uk. You can copy Paul Brandon and Roderick Hoffman in BUT the news@ address is the one that we use when the digest is compiled. Club website:
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