BA Athletics Club News Digest 22nd April 2019
Events:
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Wednesday 24th April - Pre London Marathon Meeting from 18:00 at the
Bedfont Club * [non-participants may go
running from 18:00]
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Sunday 28th April - 26 miles through the streets of London or a long marshalling stint! #
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Thursday 2nd May - Dream Mile - Bath Road 12:45 *
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Wednesday 8th May - Speedbird Ladies (see below)
*#
We meet at 18:00 at the
Bedfont Club
on most
Wednesdays throughout the year.
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.
Last updated: 4th April.
* Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps]
(parkrun details updated 20th March) /
# Club Points event.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal
"front window" club page), BA Runner Facebook Group (informal
"back office" - ask to join).
Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.
Speedbird Ladies - 8th May - Entries and Marshals Request #
The Speedbird Ladies event is coming up fast - it is on the evening of
Wednesday 8th May on Harmondsworth Moor.
We've already got 47 runners signed up (and Steve Taylor will know of
some others). Then there are an additional six names on Facebook saying they will
run the event (and 64 "Interested"). Last year we had a recent record of 60
participants so there is a good chance that we'll exceed that this year.
BA Ladies - don't forget to enter the event - we haven't got a team's worth of
entries yet! There are team's worth from Datchet Dashers, Ealing
Southall & Middx. AC, Runneymead Runners, Shepperton Running Group and The
Stragglers. You can enter on the day, but we'd prefer to get your running
number and finishers medal planned for you in advance.
BA Gents - please reserve that Wednesday for marshalling duties AND
confirm your availability to me at
Roderick
Hoffman .
The planned schedule has the Ladies race starting at 19:00. The
single lap 5k course will be set by 18:00 and anyone who wants to check the
course at that time is welcome to do so - before taking up marshalling
positions.
Everyone - please forward these details to any ladies who could be
interesting in entering...
2019 Entry Form including event details and details of postal entry process:
Entry Form
Enter online:
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/671041019979394/ (info only).
Roderick
Hoffman
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 Wednesday 17th April NOW run at Headstone Manor, Harrow
Attendees were those pictured (Joan
Foxley, Steve Newell, Denis Foxley, Roderick Hoffman, Barry
Walters and Steve Hillier) plus Piers Keenleyside (who started
his long run home before the photograph was taken).
We all met in the carpark and then
ran various laps round the various fields and spaces around the
site before settling down in the cafe for a chat, drink and
bite. Afterwards some of us went round the Manor House which
also included a museum of Harrow. The guide, John Stratford,
turned out to be a Concorde 10k/5mile regular who knew Denis and
some other club members.
We had enjoyed this and previous NOW events so much that we
decided to set up some more such events for the summer months.
The next one will be organised by Barry Walters at Richmond Park
for TUESDAY 4th June (we chose a Tuesday so as to keep
Wednesdays free for the many Track&Field events over the summer
months).
Roderick Hoffman
 Prudential Ride London - August 4th - Entry
Opportunity
The marathon hasn't happened yet and we're already talking
about Ride London! As you probably know, London Marathon
Events provide support for Ride London, and ask us to help by
providing a pedestrian crossing in Whitehall. We need to
provide around twenty marshals, and in return we receive two
guaranteed entries for the event.
We're going to restrict ourselves to the Sunday only once
more, so if you're available to marshal on August 4th, I would
love to see you there. Please keep the event in mind, and
I'll badger you again in May for help.
More urgently, we have been offered two spaces to ride in the
event this year. If you'd like a place, let me know by the end
of May 10th and I'll put your name into the ballot. As
usual, those of you with a history of supporting BAAC in
marshalling LM events will take priority.
Steve
Hillier
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MOVEBA
The companies that became British Airways started operating 100 years ago
this year and in celebration of that there are a number of initiatives underway.
One such is MOVEBA with the idea of getting BA colleagues to undertake a number
of 5k runs, formally or informally, with the idea of completing sets of 100k.
Matt Foden is setting this up with BA Wellbeing.
BA employees can join the Yammer group "moveba" and there is also a Strava
group "Move BA".
More information as this develops - including how those of us who are not
active employees may be able to take part or assist others.
Roderick
Hoffman
Club parkrun results for Saturday 20th April 2019
| 20th April | Runner |
Time |
parkrun |
Comment |
Age Grade |
| Kay |
Trinder |
20:07 |
Rushmoor #242 |
F-2, 4th run at Rushmoor, course pb |
87% |
| Julie |
Barclay |
22:31 |
Rushmoor #242 |
F-7, run #159, 45th at Rushmoor, 2018 sb |
79% |
| Alice |
Banks |
27:53 |
Hampstead Heath #413 |
1st run at Hampstead, park #40, club rec(F) |
71% |
| Maarten |
Stenham |
27:00 |
Lymington Woodside #134 |
run #163, 1st at Lymington Woodside,cr(M) |
51% |
| Chris |
Kelly |
23:25 |
Lyme Park #264 |
run #430, 1st at Lyme Park, park #46, club rec |
65% |
| Denis |
Foxley |
34:55 |
Harrow #206 |
run #127, 1st run with new knee |
51% |
| Benita |
Scaife |
31:06 |
Ellenbrook Fields#155 |
1st run at Ellenbrook, club rec(F), park#58 |
64% |
| John |
Scaife |
31:06 |
Ellenbrook Fields#155 |
1st run at Ellenbrook, park #65 |
54% |
| Roderick |
Hoffman |
28:09 |
Jamaica Pond #58 |
11th country in 11 weeks (World Parkrun Record) |
56% |
| Eddie |
Giles |
26:21 |
Salisbury #205 |
run #116, 38th at Salisbury, 2018 sb |
67% |
| Caroline |
Cockram |
26:18 |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
run #355 + carpark marshalling |
64% |
| Ian |
Cockram |
24:39 |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
run #476 + carpark marshalling |
60% |
| David |
Duggan |
28:34 |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
run #304, 200th at Bedfont Lakes |
56% |
| Chris |
Evans |
23:29 |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
run #237, 230th at Bedfont Lakes |
64% |
| James |
Shoulder |
19:44 |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
run #41, M-5, 28th at Bedfont Lakes |
65% |
| Ian |
Cunningham |
25:51 |
Bushy Park #785 |
run #375, 302nd at Bushy Park |
60% |
| Ben |
Chaytow |
32:32 |
Crane Park #367 |
run #228 |
43% |
| Megan(JW10) |
Chaytow |
32:32 |
Crane Park #367 |
(nm) run #3, pb |
56% |
| Jeremy |
Short |
22:42 |
Crane Park #367 |
run #111, 68th at Crane Park |
69% |
| Steve |
Newell |
38:08 |
Foots Cray Meadows#36 |
course pb, Wilson Index advances to 39 |
50% |
| Piers |
Keenleyside |
25:33 |
Gunnersbury #383 |
run #229, 154th at Gunnersbury |
64% |
| Oliver |
Mathai |
24:54 |
Gunnersbury #383 |
run #62, 38th at Gunnersbury |
67% |
| Joan |
Foxley |
40:45 |
Harrow #206 |
(nm) run #134, 113th at Harrow |
55% |
| John |
Coffey |
29:03 |
Hazelwood #58 |
run #326, 46th at Hazelwood, drying out |
68% |
| Trish |
McCabe |
30:16 |
Homewood #133 |
run #282, 4th at Homewood |
51% |
| Joe |
Nolan |
32:15 |
Homewood #133 |
run #321, 2nd at Homewood |
52% |
| Zoe |
Ostley |
38:24 |
Homewood #133 |
run #226, 5th at Homewood |
48% |
| Jacob(JM10) |
Stenham |
27:00 |
Lymington Woodside #134 |
(nm) run #23, 1st at Lymington Woodside |
63% |
| Paul |
Davis |
23:58 |
Mole Valley #60 |
run #136, 1st at Mole Valley, park #26 |
57% |
| Alan |
Anderson |
40:41 |
Osterley Park #289 |
run #549, 19th at Osterley Park |
56% |
| Scott |
Davison |
24:46 |
Osterley Park #289 |
run #298, 3rd at Osterley Park |
58% |
| Petra |
Otto |
34:36 |
Whittlesey #34 |
run #84, 10th at Manor Field, Whittlesey |
60% |
| Michael |
Ball |
25:43 |
Woking #233 |
run #149, 136th at Woking |
61% |
| Alan |
Friar |
33:26 |
Woodley #276 |
run #272, 88th at Woodley |
56% |
| Tony |
Barnwell |
46:30 |
Wycombe Rye #346 |
run #188, 88th at Wycombe |
41% |
| Maria |
Jovani |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
run director |
|
| Anne |
Bannister |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
marshal |
|
| Bob |
Bannister |
volunteer |
Bedfont Lakes #506 |
marshal |
|
| Alastair |
Heslop |
volunteer |
Guildford |
run director |
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This probably isn’t the last ever weekly report from Steve Newell because he
has promised to keep going until the club reaches the goal of 500 different
parkruns. This week we only moved up one to 492 as Roderick Hoffman (28:09)
completed (perhaps) an odyssey of 11 different countries in 11 weeks at Boston’s Jamaica
Pond. Roderick himself will be collecting the data over the next three
weeks as Steve will be cruising round Japan on a ship with unaffordable maritime
Wi-Fi charges and consequently maintaining radio silence. It will make life much easier
if everyone makes sure that “British Airways AC” appears as the club in their
parkrun profile. This can only be edited by the runners themselves, not
club membership secretaries. If you have been getting a regular mention in
this column but have decided not to continue membership into the new year
(started 1st April) then please let Alan Friar know, now. Indeed, if you
have never really been a member at all then please let Roderick know as well.
Arrangements can be made for second claim members and remember that membership
can work out as cheap as £9 a year (which you could get back in the form of free
food at the Bedfont Club if you are there on the right week).
This week’s outstanding run came from Kay Trinder (20:07, 86.58%) at Rushmoor.
That is a new age category record, a club record and quicker than any of our men
have managed there. Julie Barclay (22:31, 79.35%) had her best run of the
year there and topped her age group this week too.
Alice Banks (27:53, 70.59%) ran at Hampstead Heath for the first time and set
a new female club record. To be fair, Caroline Cockram (27:17, 58.22%) did
run there a bit faster when she was much younger but before she joined us.
 Denis Foxley (34:55) gingerly put his new (replacement) knee to the test at
Harrow and found himself quicker than he’d dare hope. Chris Kelly (23:25)
ran at the far-from-flat Lyme Park in Cheshire and set a new club record {Ed:
And would perhaps have had to have run faster if they hadn't managed to put out
the grouse fire (picture from Saturday's run)}.
Maarten Stenham (27:00) ran at Lymington Woodside for the first time (and with
his son Jacob who was also at Brooklands last week). Maria Jovani is our
record holder there with 21:27. Benita and John Scaife (31:06) ran at Ellenbrook
Fields (Hatfield), their first time there and indeed their first ever parkrun
venture into Hertfordshire. Eddie Giles (26:21) continues to improve at
Salisbury as he powers his way into his eighth decade. Steve Newell
(38:08) edged his Wilson Index up a few notches at Foots Cray Meadows.
This might never get mentioned again!
Steve Newell
Updated parkrun Stats -
club parkrun stats
500
Steve Newell is away for the next three weekends and I'll be collating the
parkrun report. The text side of it may be brief so please write in and tell us
all about your parkrun exploits - particularly new and interesting courses.
I anticipate doing one more different country next Saturday BUT it might be a
parkrun we have already ticked off the list. After that I'll be running much
closer to home, and I'll probably resist the temptation to do a parkrun "in a
galaxy far, far away" on May 4th. Also I won't be doing a parkrun on Green Belt
Relay weekend. So perhaps the weekend that we achieve "500 parkruns" will be
that of 25th May? Perhaps on that date we can leap across the 500 barrier by
several of us doing new parkruns? I'll update the club map nearer to that
weekend to show which parkruns we have and haven't run.
Roderick Hoffman
Last Week's photo from the Club Featured parkrun at Brooklands
 [Barry,
Helen and Guilaine missed off]
Photos from Facebook
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  Last
week Petra celebrated 30 years of running by participating in the Westpark
parkrun (36:10) AND, on the same day, finished the 25th Lohhofer Osterlauf 10k
in 1:08:49 as second over 65 year old lady (and with several younger women well
behind her).
But even she didn't get to high-five the Prime Minister! Jasvir Singh
in the Maidenhead Easter 10 (finished the 10 miles in 1:45:39).
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Tom's Diary
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I think Kay Trinder is this month's star and well deserved. On 6th of
April Kay with others ran the Osterley Park Run and with Maria who
set a great pace. Kay came away having broken the 0/50 course rec.
(running 20.00).
On 16th April ran the VAC 5 mile on the inside road of Battersea Park
finished 2nd lady (14th o/a) in 32.54 a life time best performance.
Peirs Keenleyside also ran finished 25th in 41.02.
Kay feeling so good said to me “I am going to Rushmoor on Saturday
and going for the ladies 0/50 course record of 20.35”.
We arrived early as Kay wanted a long easy warm-up. Meeting Julie
Barclay running the opposite way around. Kay’s target time was slightly
up on first lap and instead of slowing the second lap was faster and
passing me at 450m to the finish was going to do it although taking
dislike to the stony path. Her finish time was 20:07 and nearly 30
seconds inside the previous course record for her age. Kay well pleased and admitted
saying “I have had lots of help with my results - not having a single
injury in 9/10 months that is a great help”
Julie having arrived back from Argentina on Wed. after a week just
touring (no running) but still looking to run sub 22:00 and is now
preparing to focus on 3000m track races as the 800/1500 are out of her
reach to compete properly.
Today Julie ran 22:31 as 1st 0/55 with 79%. Kay’s 86.58% was the highest out of the 617 running.
Next step, Speedbird 5k, BA girls have been chatting and they can
put out a very strong team [Ed - they'll
have to enter it first (see above)].
Tom Rowley
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