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BA Athletics Club News Digest 27th May 2019Events:
We meet at 18:00 at the Bedfont Club on most Wednesdays throughout the year including this Wednesday. Numbers are light so please let me know in advance to expect you - mail > Roderick Hoffman 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 26th May) / # 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. NOW Richmond - Tuesday lunchtime 4th JuneThe next NOW event is scheduled for TUESDAY 4th June and will be held in Richmond Park. It will consist of a short run, lunch at Pembroke Lodge and a visit to Ham House. All are welcome. We will meet in the car park by Pembroke Lodge entrance at 12:00 noon. Postcode is TW10 5HX. Look forward to seeing you there. Regards Barry Walters Monopoly Event Wednesday 5th June from 18:00 + social with food #We will be repeating last Summer's Monopoly competition on June 5th, at 18:00. This "Club In House Event", based at the Bedfont & Feltham FC ground in Hatton Road, is open to everyone. All ages, from two year olds to ninety-two year olds, are welcome. It's a tortoise and hare team event. It will involve up to 40 minutes of running or strolling, shuttling between the club and friendly marshals to acquire properties from Old Kent Road to Mayfair, then collecting railway stations, houses and hotels. Teams will be brought together on the day to ensure a fun competition. See you there - bring the family if you can. Some volunteer opportunities also available! (we need three people to deal out the cards). Steve and Linda Hillier mailto:stevehillier@msn.com Let Steve know to expect you so that we can get the food order right. Remember that we are happy to feed you, but we would like you to be members of the Bedfont club either directly or via BA Clubs. You can fill in a form on the night. Track & Field Grand Prix, Hillingdon Track, Uxbridge, 20th May 2019 #We gathered at Hillingdon Athletics track on Monday night for the second club Grand Prix of the season. Wellie Wanging was once a popular Olympic event, sadly missing from recent Olympiads. We all used the standard boot (size 11, black), although some chose to use the left boot rather than the more common right waterproof. It was a close contest, with the “propeller”, “helicopter” and “javelin” techniques all employed to good effect. Simon strode to a good time in the rarely-run 1000m. Our former T&F captain, Eddie Giles, was visiting Uxbridge and kept the pressure on Simon. Steve and Roderick battled out third place, which was decided on not much more than the thickness of a vest. We all entered the long jump event, slightly nervous of collecting an unnecessary injury. We all came away unscathed, and with only one no-jump between us in the entire series. Simon again took top honours. The last event, shot, got confusing. At least for me. A few words of advice on technique and rules are often useful, ahead of this rarely competed event. However, I couldn’t sort out my left from my right. Eddie and I were putting with our right hands, Roderick due to injury with his wrong (left) hand, and uninjured Simon with his right (left) hand. As a result, my advice on the right (correct) positioning of feet, left (caused) something to be desired, and it took me a few minutes to get it right (spot-on). In the event, Eddie’s two putts over 8 metres ensured he was the winner.
The next Grand Prix will be held on June 17th. Come and join us to tackle the 800m and Triple Jump. Steve Hillier Ed: At this point I need to tell a story about today's marshalling of the Vitality 10k. In the practice beforehand concern had been expressed by the "volunteered" loud speaker that he couldn't be relied upon to know the difference between left and right. Since the shout out to runners has to be reversed, "Left" if we need them to divert to the right, and v.v., this was a potential problem but the caller was assured that he would be told what to shout. Halfway through the marshalling I was busy watching the runners coming in and admiring the courage of the pair of runners strapped together, running towards the pen. I was about to cry out a word of encouragement to the pair when I heard the caller shout a very loud "RIGHT!". It was fortunate that I was about to call out because I had to change mid-breath to shout "NO! LEFT!" in an even louder voice before the blind runner completed his instinctive movement towards disaster. The problem passed, but it was close. So, I may not be able to run fast, throw or jump (see above) but there is nothing wrong with my reactions!
Club parkrun results for Saturday 25th May 2019If your time on Saturday, or that of someone you think should or could be included, isn't in the following list, please let me know so that I can add them next time.
Volunteers - We can ONLY include specific volunteer efforts each week if we are emailed about them by 17:00 on the Monday after the run.
Paul TIMMS ran his first parkrun of the year and chose to do it in the Goods Shed at Tetbury which takes the club total onto 497. 35 parkrun results are listed above - apart from on New Year's Day that is almost the record. We've once had more, 37 on Christmas Eve (Saturday) 24th December 2016. Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats - NOW UPDATED NEW club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - UP TO DATE - Download and explore. Steve Newell / Roderick Hoffman Up to 497 - push for 500 for 1st June 2019!The club map is up to date showing as red trees the parkruns that we are yet to run. The three nearest to Hatton Cross are:
I'll be doing a new-to-the-club parkrun up in Scotland. Hanworth extra...
I think that that is a great idea and something we should aim to do - perhaps sooner rather than later (to give the new team a break and allow them to run their own course!). As an additional incentive please be aware that this is something that our Qantas rivals have already done - last Saturday they provided all of the marshalling roles at Dolls Point parkrun in Sydney. The idea needs a formal owner, someone prepared to coordinate the appropriate date with the parkrun team and potential participants - ideally someone with Run Director experience. I'll create a Facebook event, initially with a dummy date just to get the ball rolling, so please register for this if you COULD be interested in being involved and let me know by email if you are prepared to be the owner.
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Rather than the half marathon that took place around the Gatwick area, I opted for the 5k race around Crawley. Having raced the 800m on Saturday in 2:06, my favoured distance, I also participated for the longer distance. With 1,000 runners, I ran a decent race, after losing touch with the leader after a kilometer. For a period I was in 4th/5th place, but in the last kilometer pulled back to a creditable 2nd place with a sprint finish in a time of 17:33 . This is a very well organised event with a few celebrities turning up. I had a long chat with Colin Jackson and congratulated Dina Asher Smith after her brilliant 200m in Doha. There was also Helen Skelton, apparently famous for her short skirts in the 2016 swimming summer Olympics. |
"Westminster Mile incorporated with the British Masters mile. A few seconds slower this year and 4th M50 in 00:04:56."
Adrian Haines
Adrian gives the club a headache in the recording of records. The club MV50 record for the mile would appear to be held by John Williams with 5:11 set in June 1993. Adrian doesn't usually count for club records because he has a first claim club of Crawley AC hence in big events enters and runs for them, not us. However, clearly here, he is wearing a BA club vest!
The last run of this year's South London Street Orienteering league was held on Tuesday 14th May around Wimbledon. One of the controls that Simon Turton visited turned out to be {sir} Andy Murray's golden post box! Both of us had reasonable runs but both were scored down by adding up errors by the adjudicators! Simon spotted the mistake on his sheet and had his corrected, I didn't so was 30 points worse off than I should have been. On the night Simon finished in 19th place out of 93 runners with 500 points. The joint winners both got 674 points. I was given 399 points and 50th place, though it should have been 429 points and 41st place.
Overall for the series Simon finished in 14th place (13th man) and I was in 38th. However, although she didn't run the last event, Christine Munden ended the season as 12th women so beat both of us! In total 342 people ran at least one run over the series of nine runs (including Chris Kelly and Jain Reid). Only two people ran all nine - and I got a name mention in the results for being one of them: http://slow.org.uk/category/streeto/
Next season will kick off in September but to prepare us for it Simon will be organising a local trial event around the Bedfont Club on Wednesday 21st August. All will be encouraged to attend and take part.
Roderick Hoffman
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2019 British Airways Run Gatwick Sunday 13th May results - Adrian in the 5k