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BA Athletics Club News Digest 21st June 2021

For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.

For Coronavirus related restrictions and advice see News_Coronavirus_Guidance_May_2021.shtml.

Our intention is to hold our AGM and Awards Evening at the Bedfont Club on 14th July but only if permitted by active legislation. Please leave that date in your diary for now.  

Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps]

This Week's and Future Solo Events

Please help me by sending in your results, for instance by filling in the tables below and forwarding to News@barunner.org.uk. Some events, such as the weekend achievement, 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 5pm on Friday 2nd July, to be reported on in the following digest):

Weekend Achievement (by 5pm on the Monday) or use the Facebook prompt that will be added on Friday:

Maidenhead Thicket NOW 16th June 2021 Report

The observant amongst you may spot that the early leader in the first photo was the tail runner by the time of the second...but someone had to take the photos!

As well as the eight runners, John Banks also led a walking group round on a shorter loop and got back in time to reserve enough tables in the sheltered part of the cafe. John Taylor had tried to join us but having cycled the 25 miles from Harefield he arrived late and missed us at the start. At least he got to cycle home without having done a 5k run in the heat.

Simon Turton is planning the next NOW event...and it may prove to be much nearer John Taylor's! This is pencilled in for the lunchtime of Wednesday 28th July.

Roderick Hoffman

Club Questionnaire - Digest Content, Communication Channels and Meet-ups

There is a new club questionnaire for you to fill in. Your responses will enable us to finetune the digest content and other communication tools, and better plan for future Bedfont and non-Bedfont activities. The company "SurveyMonkey" has tightened up on what can be achieved from a free survey without costing a monkey (a "monkey" is slang for £100 - a month's extra features would cost us £99 so leaving us with £1 change). However there are still more than enough questions to occupy you for ten minutes or so. If you want to help us by expressing an opinion click on:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/M6RL8FZ .

Answers will be treated in confidence, but we cannot guarantee anonymity.

Track and Field Matches at Battersea Park

Our team are competing this evening (June 21st) in the Veterans' League.  Full results will be published next week.  Our next match will also be at Battersea, on Weds 30th June, in the Rosenheim League.  It will feature a large range of Men's and Ladies' events:

• 100m/200m/800m/3000m/400mH,
• Long jumps and high jumps,
• Throwing events including Men's and Women's Shot.

Please let me know if you would like to enter as soon as possible, as we will need to declare our team prior to competition.

I hope to see you there!

> Steve Hillier

Ed: This digest is going out late because I made an appearance at Battersea in the Veterans' League this evening. Results, achievements and photos next week.

Volunteers Needed (reply ASAP)

1: Standard Chartered Great City Race (5km) on 20th July from 18:15 to 20:15 via Moorgate tube station.

Thank you to Jain, John & Benita, Steve H, Jas, Neelam & TJ, Roderick, Mike O, Jacqui, Chris & Becca and Amanda for offering to help. I need just another 5 helpers as we’re now focussing our efforts on the x2 shuttle crossings. Race start is 19:15 with road closures going in at 18:30. We’ll meet outside MOORGATE tube at 18:15. They'll be a T-shirt for everyone (face masks and hand-gel will also be available) but, not surprisingly, no post race hospitality this year. The Club will however get a donation, which helps keep membership costs down.

Registration will be through ‘Rosterfy’ but don't worry if you're not familiar with this as so for now I just need an email if you’re able to help.

Thanks in advance:  Simon Turton > SimonT@barunner.org.uk

2. Vitality 10km, Hatfield Park, 11th July 2021

London Marathon Events (LME) are organising this event and looking for volunteers. We're not organising a BAAC marshalling team given the event location (Hatfield, Herts) but you're more than welcome to contact LME direct if interested; here's the details:

• Location: Hatfield Park - Great North Rd, Hatfield AL9 5HX, 25 minutes on the train from Kings Cross, car parking will be available too.
• Role: Course Marshal/Drinks station, up to 20 volunteers required, age restriction will be 16+
• Time: 7.30am - about 5pm

Volunteers will receive a volunteer t-shirt and jacket they can keep after the event, a lunch bag and water throughout the day. We will also provide PPE – hand sanitiser and a face mask. Everyone will please need to wear own mask until they arrive at the volunteer check in.

Other roles at the event include Course Marshals, Drinks station, Finish T-Shirts, Medals and Finisher Water, Baggage and Wayfinders.

 Contact: volunteers@londonmarathonevents.co.uk

Simon

If you'd rather run than marshal then these are the details of the events taking place that day (edited from a parkrun communication):

BA Athletics Club Records - High Jump

Amongst the events underway this evening at the Veterans Track & Field match and also at the first Rosenheim event next week, also at Battersea, is the High Jump. These are the club records, I wonder if any will be heading for the high jump themselves?...

To qualify as a record the event has to be competitive and accurately measured and the participant has to be a paid-up member of the club and wearing a club vest (or in an in-house organised event). Members for whom BA is a second claim club may need permission from their first claim club for them to compete in a BA vest and claim the record (so the same performance cannot be claimed by two different clubs). If you know better please send us your claim - we want to get these in the best shape possible. New records or questions: Stats@barunner.org.uk . 

Roderick Hoffman obo Paul Brandon

To the editor

The following achievement caught Dave's eye...

One of our favoured charities is the British Heart Foundation and we've heard from them this week:

Triathlon News

The Olympic Triathlon Events this year will be on Monday 26th July (men) and Tuesday 27th (women) with a mixed team relay (two men, two women) on Saturday 31st July.  Early morning starts in Japanese times so late the previous evening in the UK.

The Team GB women's team will be Georgia Taylor-Brown (current World Champion), Vicky Holland (bronze medal in Rio 2016) and Jess Learmonth (double commonwealth Games silver medallist).

Alastair Brownlee (gold medal in London 2012 and Rio 2016) has lost his battle with a persistent ankle injury and won't be able to attempt a hat-trick.  Jonny Brownlee (bronze in 2016 and Silver in 2016) will be going to his third Olympics and will be joined by Alex Yee who some may have met through cross-country running.  He has won the national 10,000m on the track, has a parkrun pb of 13:57 at Dulwich and as a teenager in 2014 once came home first at Hilly Fields parkrun in 15:44, over four minutes ahead of the next runner!  He twice won his age group in the London mini marathon.  At age 20 he was already running faster than Mo Farah at the same age so if he can keep up with the peloton on the bike ride he must be in with a chance.

Steve Newell

 parkrun Why

There is an inevitable turnover amongst the locations providing parkrun and amongst those that are not expected to resume after the long break is Yeovil Montacute, where the National Trust has decided that the number of people regularly running the course has had "an increasing impact on the Trust’s ability to care for the Grade I listed parkland" and has withdrawn permission. The parkrun could yet return in a nearby location but certainly not in July.

Paul Watt and Julie Barclay had been planning on running at Yeovil as part of their parkrun "alphabet". Paul Watt has reacted to the news of the cancellation...

Paul and Julie are currently checking train times to travel to York - resisting the temptation to start planning for Yakutsk Dokhsum in Russia, Yodogawa kasenkoen Hirakata chiku in Japan, Yzerfontein in South Africa or You Yangs in Australia.

Roderick Hoffman

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