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BA Athletics Club News Digest 25th September 2023
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2023 title. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Results for Next WeekPlease 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. Monthly Mile (please submit your September Mile performance by the end of the month):Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the prompt in Facebook. The mile can be somebody else's formal event or even one mile within a longer run. I'll then produce a fancy graph showing your time this month compared to those of other people and previous runs over the last year: [no need to submit if your best mile is one of the Arethusa miles, I'll check the tables].
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by Sunday evening) or use the Facebook group prompt:
WARR Results # (+ the Club Featured parkrun)
Both Tim Bellars and Stephen Taylor ran the 10k and then the 5k and managed a faster pace in the 5k. Between us we were, or at least should have been, given four Division awards - Paul for 5k 1st, Phil for 5k 2nd and Julie a double first. As ever the results presentations didn't go as smoothly as they could have done. One problem was that due to the organiser's mistake Julie was placed in the younger Division F5059. However, that didn't make much difference during the 10k presentations since she had outrun all of the ladies in that Division as well as her own. The conditions were good - cool but sunny and with little wind. The course was mostly flat and alongside the river with no road crossings (though there was the occasional abandoned hire bike). The awards were given out over the morning but there was an evening do involving a trip around Calgary Zoo followed by a meal - with additional funding from WestJet. Did the BA runners take the WARR races seriously enough? Eight of us did the Nose Hill parkrun on the Saturday and some of those eight took it more seriously than as an acclimatization warm-up run. However, without exception, we still managed to run the 10k at a faster pace than the parkrun the previous day. And, except for me taking photographs from the back of the WARR 5k, we also ran the 5k faster than the parkrun - albeit by 1 second in Julie's case.
Next Year's WARR has already been pencilled in for Sunday 6th October 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. The host Chair is David Gall who is well aware of our need (some of us, anyway) to fit in an international parkrun as well and Western Springs parkrun is lined up for the Saturday. Alamo ContenderSomeone put in a strong bid to win the Alamo trophy at this year's WARR (given for the most extreme achievement over the event week - and usually a negative achievement). A very experienced BA parkrunner finished the Nose Hill parkrun, walked up the finish funnel and collected their finish token. Then, having recovered their breath during which they took a photograph of the token, they went to chat to the Token Sorter, Julie Barclay. After a short chat the finish token was handed over to be sorted into the rest. Only a few minutes later did it occur to the individual that they hadn't actually had their token scanned! Fortunately, because the position was known (from the photograph), the token was able to be retrieved and taken to the scanners for scanning! Now, I wonder who the experienced parkrunner was? Roderick Hoffman Harry Wild
Harry's daughter Lesley has been coordinating details of his funeral. If you would like to attend, please text Lesley on 07534 969862. Here are the details: Harry's family would like to invite you to the funeral service, which will take place at Breakspear Crematorium, Wednesday 11th October at 12.45. The reception held afterwards at Hillingdon Athletic Club, which you are warmly invited to. We would like to request any condolences be in the form of donations to Shelter which was so dear to Harry's heart. It will no doubt be an emotional day, but we would like to ask everyone to come with a smile as Harry would have wanted. Steve Hillier Recent Activity Achievements14 members' achievements were communicated to me.
No pictures because I'm without my picture editor. There are plenty on Facebook and more from WARR to be added. With reference to Simon's Street-O, note that the SLOW Street-O series has its first event on 10th October in Acton which may be convenient for some of us - though Sadly I'll be unable to attend. See: Acton Street-O Tuesday 10 October 2023 – South London Orienteers (slow.org.uk) Berlin Marathon Results (Women)
You've got to be in it to win it...or to even finish in 8448th place. As it happens Tigst and Charlotte could have done a two marathon relay and finished ahead of Jain - but they weren't in a relay, they were in the same race. parkrun Results for Saturday 23rd September36 activities are recorded below. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
I flag Petra's 59:59 as 'genuine' because typically if something goes wrong with the timings within a parkrun event then all finishers are given the finish time of "59:59". This dates back to before when walking at parkrun became common - for some people today 59:59 would represent a PB. parkrun Review 23rd September 2023Steve Newell is still on a boat so no parkrun review this week.
Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download or save a copy, and explore at your leisure. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Roderick Hoffman 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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217 finishers in the 10k and 293 in the 5k.
As well as the eight of us running Nose Hill parkrun as a Club Featured
parkrun, 22 of the WARRiors from other airlines joined in as well, and provided a couple
of marshals. Nose Hill almost had an attendance record - the 129 finishers had
only been beaten once, with 131 finishers at their recent seven-year anniversary
run. The conditions were sunny at 08:30 but by 09:00 it had totally misted
over and it got colder throughout the run. However, all appeared to have enjoyed
the event and the warm-up drinks at the "Friend's" Cafe afterwards. And at least
six of the thirty total made it back into central Calgary for the 12:00 Team
Captain's meeting. I found the time (somehow) to write the parkrun run report:
It is with great sadness that I have to let you know that Harry Wild passed
away last week. He was a long serving member, a kind and popular man, and
an amazingly good runner throughout his long career starting in the 1950's.
Harry held fourteen club records that we are aware of, and probably more, that
he was too modest to draw our attention to. Most special of all, he was
the crucial marshal who made the Parkway Mile a success for many years.