BA Athletics Club News Digest 20th February 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. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook Page "BARunner" https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ Five Mile Handicap and Awards Evening, Heston Venue, Wednesday 22nd
If you bring a note from a loved one, you're excused item 1. The second and third items are compulsory, though may occur in any or all orders. See you Wednesday, Steve Hillier
The next Digest or threeFrom this Saturday I'm away in the States for two weeks. I expect to publish the next three digests more or less to schedule BUT I will struggle to have the time or Wi-Fi capability to do much research for them. SO please send me your results and stories in as complete a state as possible - by 9pm UK time each Monday. If next Tuesday morning your in-tray has a blank email in it then don't blame other people. Roderick Hoffman (news@barunner.org.uk) Heartthrob Hash CIE 15th February 2017 ResultsIn the past the Heartthrob Hash fixture has usually been followed by some food at the club to attract the ever hungry membership but with the February feast having been arranged for the following week this year the numbers were disappointingly low [Ed: it was also half term for many with children and young adults]. Joe Nolan's planned coaching session was postponed as he was suffering from very sore feet and we hope he is more comfortable soon [Ed: Joe expects to be with us on Wednesday]. Pairs of runners were set the task of completing a continuous relay round a 520m circuit at the heart of the Brabazon Road estate, for the most part each participant running half a circuit and repositioning by jogging/walking across the 115m diameter. The format works best with teams of similar ability and so Roderick Hoffman and Christine Munden formed Team 1 with Steve Hillier and Alan Anderson forming team 2. Odd numbers left Trish McCabe in a team of one and she set herself the challenge of keeping ahead for as long as possible! Trish McCabe completed the first two circuits (rather more than 1km) in 4:38 with gaps then opening up to team 1 on 5:00 (2:30 per circuit) and team 2 on 5:23 (2:42 per circuit). Team 1 slowed only slightly finishing ten circuits in 26:04 (so average 2:36 or approx. 5 min per km). Team 2 fell further behind probably because by the latter stages Alan Anderson had switched to the slightly longer part of the circuit and after a 25 mile bike ride in the middle of the day began to tire. Team 2 was lapped but continued to complete all ten circuits in 29:15 (so average 2:56 per circuit). Participants Trish McCabe, Roderick Hoffman, Christine Munden, Alan Anderson, Steve Hillier. Timekeeper Steve Newell Steve Newell Coaching Tips - Taking Stiches in your StrideFew things are worse than getting a side stitch during a run. When running, there is increased abdominal pressure pushing up on the diaphragm. At the same time, rapid breathing causes the lungs to expand and this presses down on the diaphragm, a muscle that if “pinched” from above and below, gets less blood flow and spasms, resulting in painful side stitches. Here are three ways to prevent the problem occurring:
One strategy for stopping a stitch in its tracks:
What other remedies do you have ? Let us know ! Roderick responds: "I was told that when you were hit with a stitch then what was important was to change your pace - and speeding up could be as successful as slowing down." Club parkrun results for Saturday 18th February
Gary Rushmer (20:02) made his first visit to the nearest parkrun to the old
Speedbird Club and established a new club course record. Adrian Haines is facing the prospect of a significant birthday very positively and some new age category records will become a possibility in just a few weeks time. Meanwhile he put in a good performance at Horsham parkrun (18:55). His main target is a sub 2 minute 800m, so good luck to him. Lesley Chamberlin (23:31, pb) had yet another good run at Bushy Park. Ian Cunningham (24:00) was a very disciplined 24 minute pacer. Andrew Jordan (20:59) and John Coffey (26:33) and former member Jane Davies (22:25) were also there - Jane getting the very impressive age grade of 96%, the next highest from the other 1162 runners being 84.5%. Janet Smith (37:26) tried out the new Homewood course at Ottershaw. The original course ran foul of restrictive covenants governing the frequency of events on the land. Every week turned out to be way too often. Shame. [Ed: On Facebook Janet describes the new course "It was a tough one...with mud and hills 3 times! I liked it though". Janet has now run at 17 different parkruns - another three and she'll be able to call herself a parkrun Tourist. Gunnersbury regular Kerstin Luksch was also a first timer at Homewood and managed 23:46, two to three minutes slower than her recent Gunnersbury times. That was only Kerstin's fifth non-Gunnersbury run in 213 runs and follows a sequence of 59.] Roderick Hoffman (26:41) was our only tourist breaking new ground for the club this week. He chose Victoria Park in Belfast. Even closure to George Best airport than Bedfont Lakes is to LHR T4 {see below}. Steve Newell
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Hi, I hope you are well; I trained for the London Marathon last week, as I completed my challenge to complete 7 marathons, in 7 days, on all 7 continents in 6 days, 23 hours, 38 minutes and 6 seconds. The details are below.
It was a really hard challenge, but I did it; I feel proud as a British Airways running club member, and I'd like to thank the BA running club to give me with the opportunity to run London marathon. With this, I've completed 247 full marathons. Kind regards, Jagjit Singh. |
If your weekly challenge is a parkrun and your annual challenge is to do 50 parkruns over the year then just imagine doing a year's worth of parkruns over six days and then running a marathon the next day - and doing that marathon in Antarctica (and that is not to mention the travelling over those same seven days). And Jagjit hopes that WE are well!
I think that the event Jagjit took part in was organised under the name "Triple 7 Quest". There is also a "World Marathon Challenge" that also does this. Personally I'm sticking to parkrun.
Oh and nobody mention "Zealandia" to Jagjit or anyone else who did this challenge.
Roderick
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Ed: We may not see much of Adrian because of his Gatwick and France location, and because he devotes much of his running to his first claim club and to England BUT he knows that he'll score extra points with Brian Forrester for wearing this particular shirt in the photograph!
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