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BA Athletics Club News Digest 19th June 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. *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/ Concorde Five 11th June Results Highlights
111 Finishers. Full results: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event_Concorde.shtml Roderick Hoffman Club AGM at Wraysbury "Silver Wing" Sailing Base on Wednesday 28th JuneCan I remind you of this year's AGM, to be held at the BA Sailing Club, Wraysbury, on June 28th. Please make all efforts to attend this important meeting. Last Year's minutes:www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/BAAC AGM2016 minutes.doc This Year's Agenda:
Voting at the AGM:Please note that because we are still operating as a section within BA Clubs only those members who are paid up members of both BA Clubs and the Athletics Club, can vote for the new committee (or vote on other critical motions) and that the key posts of Chairman, Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer must be held by BA Clubs members. But don't get worked up about that - we haven't had more applicants for committee roles than we have roles so I don't think there will be any contentious votes. Moreover the new committee will be very keen to hear the views or concerns of all members on any topics of interest, during the Open Forum. You can pay your Athletics Clubs subscription on the night. For BA Clubs membership you need to contact BA Clubs directly at Membership BAClubs <membership@ba.com>. We recommend subscribing to BA Clubs membership, though on a monthly basis. Refreshments:Refreshments will be provided with M&S sandwiches and there will be a pay bar operated for us by a member of the Sailing Club. Please tell us to expect you so that we can get the food order right. Sale of goods:I'll provide another opportunity for people to help us empty our store cupboard. We generated £50 the other week which the club committee have decided to donate to the club charity White Lodge. Where is the Sailing Base?It's on the club map, directions were in last week's digest and I'll repeat those details next week also. Let us know
Steve Hillier {stevehillier@msn.com} Rosenheim League, 31st May, Epsom & Ewell - Results
Let me know if you are interested in turning out (no experience necessary). I
may also run the Arethusa Mile afterwards Neil Frediani {neil.frediani@ba.com} [BA] Fun Run 20th July 2017My turn to ask for volunteers for the Harmondsworth Moor Fun Run which this year is on 20th July. This event is no longer sponsored by BA but I am confident that we'll again have sandwiches and a beer for all volunteers able to help out either on the course or with the finish. The timetable is likely to be the same as last year with the Little Legs 1k run at 16:30 and the main run starting at 17:30. Again there will be a 10k option though most will run 5k and we will divert slower 10k runners to finish after 8k - that worked well last year. This remains a Cancer Research UK event. Please let me know that you will be available or, if you are a regular and you know that you can't make it, that you won't. Roderick Hoffman (roderick@rhoff.org.uk) Club parkrun results for Saturday 17th June
Extremely warm weather in the southern part of UK appeared to slow runners down this weekend with some affected more than others.
Julie Barclay (22:41,77.74%) was at Rushmoor after some days of warm weather training in Spain. Slower than last week but comfortably the fastest in her age category. Barry Walters (24:17) was in a group visiting former Track & Field captain Eddie Giles (26:01) at his new home in Salisbury. Runners included Roderick Hoffman (26:18) and a former colleague Andrew Egerton (29:04) whose daughter Polly Egerton (25:00) completed her 10th 5km parkrun and qualified for her white “10” T-shirt. Scott Davison (23:58), for so long totally loyal to Bedfont Lakes, continues to explore the local runs and this week visited Northala Fields along with Steve Taylor (25:52) who has adopted it as his favourite. Northala Fields parkrun is now three years old. The club record (20:27) was set by Richard Ruffell on the day of the inaugural run in June 2014. Ian (28:41) and Caroline Cockram (31:20) ran at Tring for the first time on an occasion which attracted a record attendance of 386 including the prime movers and shakers of parkrun including movement founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt (21:50), Chief Operating Officer Tom Williams(23:22), Event Support Manager Joanne Sinton-Hewitt (28:42), Gunnersbury event director Arlene Gallagher (31:06), Press and Media Manager Glen Turner (17:32, M-1) and Head of Participation Chrissie Wellington (also phenomenal Ironman triathlete) (22:16, F-2). Perhaps someone better informed than me can tell us what it was all about. [Roderick adds - I suspect the parkrun annual conference had something to do with it] An official welcome to the stats this week for Petra Otto, an old friend of the club and now our newest member. She claims to like the warm weather and gets up at dawn for a refreshing run. This week she was at March (33:17). Steve Newell If you want to promote a special parkrun then let Steve or I know... There is the older runners event at Bushy on 1st July, my 200 tourist parkrun at Beckenham on 22nd July and the club committee has decided to make the August 5th Black Park Pacer Day the Run-of-the-Month for August. Roderick Hoffman
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Tom's Diary - Richmond 10 (18th June)18th June: This morning we popped along to the Richmond 10k.
With no shaded areas Phil Wicks won easy but below par in 31.??. Julie having spent 4 days in Spain in the week and had a couple of small training runs in a higher temperature, although the humidity wasn't as bad, today ran a sensible pace to finish without a struggle. Her time was down a bit but to be expected and finished 284th in 47.08. Paul Watt now using his parkruns to help his 10ks and track events that he is interested and enjoying. He was just a minute adrift of Julie in 48.16 and finished 312th. We also met up with Scott Davison who seems a regular here. Saw
Scott starting 2nd loop Today 557 finished. Tom Rowley |
Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send it to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk.
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The second Rosenheim meeting of the season took place at Epsom and Ewell on
31st May and we had a good turnout.
The best performance came from Dave Dixon (18:31, 80.92%) at Hackney Marshes
and even that is slow by his standards. For years he has been comfortably
qualified for club 18-30 but I suppose we are all growing older.
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