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BA Athletics Club News Digest 21st November 2022
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2022 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Note the addition of a NOW event next week at Syon Park - more details below. Also that we do have a Christmas event in the calendar for Wednesday 21st December - this will probably have the traditional one mile event beforehand and the £5 Secret Santa and food provided by the club. This Week's EventsPlease help me by sending in your results, for instance by filling in the tables below and forwarding to News@barunner.org.uk. Some events 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. Weekly Athletic Achievement (by Sunday evening) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Note that for Wednesday's handicap run there is a BA football match on that evening. The Bedfont Club and car park may be a little busy. Although we do not have use of the Home, Away or Referees' changing rooms the Bedfont Club have finished refurbishing the Lady Referees Changing Room and this will be available for us to use on the evening - albeit potentially only one at a time. I want to see how practical this arrangement is so I'll be keen to see members wanting to use the facility.
NOW Syon Park 30th November 2022The next midday midweek run/jog/walk for "Non Office Workers" will be based on Syon Park, Brentford on Wednesday 30th November. The vehicle entrance to the park is from Park Road to the south. There is a large free car park and a garden centre which has toilets and a cafe. The historic Syon House is currently closed for the winter. The post code is TW8 8JF and what/three/words is "fend.trips.dare". Those attending should aim to meet at the garden centre entrance at 12 noon. There will be a group jogging together and perhaps some walking also. Those who don't want to do either could just meet us in the cafe from 13:00. Recent Activity Achievements18 club members and friends achievements are listed below. Your achievement not listed? It could be because you didn't submit it.
Roderick Hoffman
parkrun Results for Saturday 19th November 202234 activities are recorded this week. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
parkrun Review Saturday 19th November 2022
David Cowell (19:13) ran at his 48th and the clubs 690th different parkrun this week at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea on the Northumberland coast. A club record that might last for a while! Frankie Hogge (19:47) visited the fast Victoria Dock parkrun and set a new club record (female). The cable car from O2 is an extra attraction [Ed: Incase you don't like flying on Middle Eastern Airlines, this is now the IFS Cloud Cable Car. It should be free on Saturday mornings for parkrunners - but you probably have to insist.] Keith Johnson (23:30) has reached the black vest qualifying target of 100 parkruns with his 45th run at Houghton Hall in Hertfordshire. He has also run 27 times at St Albans and volunteered a total of 25 times including writing 17 run reports. Jain Reid (27:35) endured a long spell out injured but ran her best time of the year at Richmond Park this week. Where are they now? (an irregular glimpse of former members still parkrunning) Sreeram Sethuraman (34:02), who used to run at Upton Court (123 runs), grabbed a PB at the challenging Sunny Hill parkrun in Hendon on his 23rd run there. Onetime club treasurer Bill Byrne (25.30, 63.99%) was at Old Deer Park this week. His contemporary Mike Lawrence who ran 21:57 at the Gunnersbury parkrun inaugural in 2011 was back recently for the 11th anniversary (23:50) as a VM65. Steve Newell Matters Arising - Gladstone #I wrote the parkrun run report for last Saturday's run: news | Gladstone parkrun, though there are more Stats and Dolly Parton lyrics than club mentions. Roderick Hoffman Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Stockley Country Park parkrunWe are getting closer to launching Stockley Country Park parkrun (and the addition of "Country" in the name is evidence of the involvement of parkrun HQ). We will be having a full dress rehearsal on a Sunday morning in December. Obviously we need volunteers and runners to join in the test - please let me know if you are interested in helping. I'm aware that there are several club members who are regular parkrunners and frequent tourists who have never run at an inaugural parkrun, perhaps because they are waiting for a local one to start up. I will not be broadcasting the start date for the Stockley Country Park parkrun, because it is parkrun policy not to do so for fear of attracting large numbers to the inaugural. However, I can say that those helping, including running, at the test event will be in a much better position to hear about the inaugural in the period leading up to it. Also, let me know if you have a different reason to want to attend the inaugural, and I'll see what I can do. Ann Anderson: 4th July 1938 to 17th October 2022Several club members attended the funeral of Ann Anderson held last week, accompanying Alan.
In the service Alan's son wrote and read the tribute which contained the following: Ann Purdy was born in Putney in 1938. She continued to live there throughout the war even though other children were evacuated. She had memories of those war years. After schooling her initial job was hand-painting cups and plates but, although enjoyable, this didn’t pay well and needed to change careers to earn more money to support her ailing parents. Her first “proper” job was at Chester Beatty Research in Fulham, where she met Alan Anderson who she married in April 1960 when she was 21 years old. Her longest job was with Thames Water, a job she loved, though she often remarked how she had wished she could of continued as a painter. Her parents died in 1971 and 1976. As well as her two children, Ann loved her cats – especially a big bear of a cat, a Siamese called Ming. She liked to travel to places as diverse as Russia and South Africa. “She liked to laugh despite all of the difficulties she faced in life and that is how I will always remember her; she set an example for us all”.
The photos are from the funeral booklet, apart from the one on the right which is a stock photo used by the parkrun organisation. It is commonly used to show that there are no barriers to taking part in parkrun. Because of that it is selected by many parkrun events to represent "The spirit of parkrun" on their home pages. Thus Alan and Ann can be seen the world over - including, for instance, on the home page of Ara Harakeke parkrun on North Island New Zealand - an event that won't go live until the 10th December (home | Ara Harakeke parkrun | Ara Harakeke parkrun). I also know to get hold of the photo to load it from the parkrun home page of Walton Prison in Liverpool - there really is no escaping Alan and Ann's influence! Next Digest - Results, news, pictures, feedback, jokes, stories - send them to the editor, Roderick Hoffman, at news@barunner.org.uk. 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 website: www.barunner.org.uk.
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club featured parkrun at Gladstone Park, NW10 (Brent Borough) attracted a small
club attendance supplemented by Steve Newell’s son, Sandy, whose last skirmish
with BAAC was probably the Kempton Park half marathon in the mid 1980’s.
Fears of traffic jams and difficulties finding free parking nearby were
misplaced although mile after mile of trundling along suburban roads at 20 mph
in the ultra-low emission zone may have put some off. The course itself is
hillier than the average parkrun but on a good surface with only the last 100m
on grass. The next “CFp” will be at Osterley Park on 17th December.
The Christmas Day/ New Year's Day UK parkrun declared intentions are still far
from complete but we do know that Osterley (5km version) will not be happening
on 25/12 or 1/1. [Ed: Northala Fields will be running on Christmas Day (but not
on New Year's Day) and I'll be the timekeeper as usual. The carparks can cost you
a miserly £80 parking fine, but much less if you pay on the day].