BA Athletics Club News Digest 27th September 2021
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Events marked "*" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy.
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This Week's Events
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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 end of Sunday 3rd October, to be reported on in the
following digest):
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1500m time |
800m time |
400m time |
200m time |
100m time |
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e.g. Location |
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by late Sunday) or use the Facebook
group prompt:
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Event |
Distance |
Location |
Day/Start |
Time or Duration |
Details or comment, and other achievements |
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2021 Equinox 5k Result and Report
The event was held at Bedfont Lakes Country Park as a curtain raiser for the
club's fortieth anniversary celebrations at Bedfont & Feltham FC clubhouse later
in the evening.
Most members used the Bedfont Road carpark as recommended and for future
reference it was due to close at 1930 - 30 minutes after sunset. Other members
ran from and back to the clubhouse/changing rooms in Hatton Road.
 The
course chosen was the same as in 2019 but not all members are yet familiar with
the new surroundings. Those who missed critical left turns still got round
to the finish but ran extra metres. Those following the map faithfully
agreed the course was an accurate 5km.
In the early years of the club there was so much concentration on the London
and New York City Marathons that whatever appetite there might have been for
shorter races went unsatisfied. WARR 5k runs were seen as the junior partner to
the 10k and parkruns were still decades away. The club was about ten years old
when the first Equinox 5km was staged on busy roads near M4 junction 3. Although
always labelled the Equinox 5k it has only rarely been held run on the correct
date - astronomically speaking. Even when the calendar was helpful the
third or fourth Wednesday in September would sometimes clash with WARR week or
Brian Forrester's birthday which was usually marked with a lung bursting relay
round the Concorde Centre field. Today however could be an exception with the
Equinox 5k being run on date of the autumn equinox.
Runners were started from
"The Motte" in small groups designed to bring everyone to the finish (after two
laps) about 5-10 minutes before sunset (prediction - 18:59 BST). [Sunset photo -
Janet Smith]
| Results Equinox 5k |
Wed. 22nd Sept. 2021 |
| 5km run |
(2 laps) |
| Adrian Haines |
20:34 |
| Paul Watt |
21:26 |
| Mike Dennison |
23:00 |
| Emma Moreton |
23:03 |
| Julie Barclay |
23:04 |
| Maarten Stenham |
23:22 |
| Steve Taylor |
25:35 |
| Michael Ball |
27:52 |
| Denis Foxley |
29:24 |
| Roderick Hoffman |
30:55 |
| Alan Friar |
33:21 |
| Benita Scaife |
33:25 |
| John Scaife |
33:25 |
| Harjit Jhooti |
37:19 |
| Janet Smith |
38:14 |
| Steve Hillier |
38:22 |
| Melanie Miller |
38:49 |
| Fiona Bishop |
dnf |
| Amanda Coombs |
dnf |
| Graham Taylor |
dns |
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| 2.5km walk |
(1 lap) |
| John Wright |
31:42 |
| Mike Coombs |
31:42 |
Thanks to Alice and John Banks for their marshalling (part time) and to
Amanda Coombs and Steve Hillier for their first-aid administration.
Steve Newell
All those involved scored points in the club's participation table and both
Denis Foxley and Amanda Coombs have now achieved the ten points deserving of
recognition. Nine members have scored such so far this year and another four,
including three in the picture, are within one event of doing so. There are six
points scoring events in October - marked with a "*" in the diary.
40th Anniversary Event - 22nd September 2021
We had a fine evening. Janet Smith has published photographs taken at the event
on Facebook (BA
Runner | Facebook). Checking the photographs and cross-checking with those
at the Equinox race I've counted that there were forty attendees of our 40th
anniversary celebration - a very nice number. The club provided food (thanks for
the order and set-up Steve Hillier) and thanks to the generosity of a member who
was unable to attend (Jeremy Short) we were able to provide a free bar. The
maturity of our members, and the approaching half and full marathons, meant that
the attendees stopped ordering drinks before the bar ran dry.
We'll do the same again one day...but it may not be for another five or ten
years. But in the meantime we do have a Christmas event to look forward to
(though we haven't yet put this in the diary).
Roderick Hoffman
London
Marathon kit distribution reminder (Wednesday 29th Sept for Sunday 3rd October 2021)
There is a kit distribution event on 29th September at the Bedfont
Club from 6pm. If you are a volunteer then please attend this if you can. Any
collected kit will reduce the load of extra kit your team leader has to carry on
the morning of the marathon.
Activity Achievements for the week 20th September to 26th September 2021
20 individuals recorded activities and a few additional ones are
referenced.
| Colleague |
Activity |
Distance |
Course |
Start Time |
Duration |
Comments |
| Adrian Haines |
Race |
3.71km |
Sussex Goodwood relays |
Sat pm |
00:14:45 |
A double whammy. Pacing Jacqui Musselwhite to SB at Woking parkrun
then down to Goodwood racecourse for the Sussex x/c relays earning age
group silver. |
| Andy Rayner |
Running |
4miles |
XC |
Sun |
00:51:50 |
10 seconds slower than last week…but ten seconds faster than the
week before! |
| Ben Cooper |
Running |
6.46km |
Vale of Glamorgan |
Tue lunch |
00:31:08 |
Furthest ever BAMC lunchtime run. |
| Benita Scaife |
Running |
4miles |
Little Marlow to Wycombe Rye |
Fri |
01:00:58 |
Up over Wycombe Hill and down to Wycombe Rye via Abbey Barn and Dean
Garden Wood. A perfect early Autumn day… |
| Denis Foxley |
Running |
5.5miles |
Ruislip Woods |
Sun am |
01:00:00 |
Round the woods and lido. |
| Jacqui Musselwhite |
Running |
10.14km |
Parcoul-Chenaud, France |
Wed am |
00:50:35 |
10k near Adrian’s French house. Great conditions, sunny but fresh.
Excellent running on rural roads with very few (if any) cars.
Training for Great South 10 mile soon. |
| Jain Reid |
Running |
6km |
Home from Richmond |
Sat am |
00:36:54 |
Still getting back into it and sticking to run-walk and
flat/downhill running. Feeling easier. Hope to try a parkrun soon |
| Janet Smith |
Throwing |
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Battersea Park |
Sun |
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Final throws competition of the season. In my most hated [throwing]
event, the javelin, I managed my best throw since 2018 . Average in the
shot, discus and Hammer. |
| Joan Foxley |
Running |
4.5miles |
Ruislip Woods |
Sun am |
01:00:00 |
Round the woods and lido. |
| John Scaife |
Running |
4miles |
Little Marlow to Wycombe Rye |
Fri |
01:00:58 |
A perfect early Autumn day marred only by some intermittent knee
pain necessitating a bit of walking. Foot OK though. |
| Julie Barclay |
Running |
8.2km |
Trafalgar Sq to Tottenham |
Sun |
00:01:17 |
On the weekend of the Tottenham / Arsenal Derby match. |
| Kelly Davis |
parkrun |
5km |
Bedfont Lakes |
Sat am |
00:47:19 |
I did parkrun with my girl as its my time to rest up for London.
Chloe did amazing with sub 47 min! Almost a pb! Maybe next week. [No
photo - proving that what you have done on Facebook has worked] |
| Melanie Miller |
Walking |
24.41km |
Borough Green to Tonbridge |
Sat |
04:58:50 |
Following meandering river, crossing orchards, poly tunnels full of
strawberries and a field where a horse tried to snuff out my apple. All
'n' all a good day out. |
| Michael Ball |
Race |
5.07km |
Equinox 5km |
Wed pm |
00:27:54 |
40th anniversary run [GPS track shows that Michael ran the slightly
longer distance]. |
| Mike Dennison |
parkrun |
5km |
Ifield Mill Pond |
Sat am |
00:19:46 |
With Maria Jovani. See below. |
| Neil Frediani |
Weight Lifting |
Ashford |
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All week |
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This week's effort has been 3 days of packing and moving furniture
and boxes from a 2nd floor flat in Ashford into storage and up north. |
| Paul Watt |
Running |
8.2km |
Trafalgar Sq to Tottenham |
Sun |
00:01:17 |
Second of our Trafalgar Sq. to football ground runs. Tottenham
today and will run to Arsenal on Monday. |
| Piers Keenleyside |
Race |
Half-M |
Ealing |
Sun am |
02:05:02 |
Another half marathon - couldn't get under 2 hours like I did last
Sunday at Hampton Court due to the hills in North Ealing and the Hanwell
Cuckoo estate. Official chip time 2:04:59 |
| Roderick Hoffman |
parkrun |
5km |
Woking |
Sat am |
00:28:41 |
This was my time - the official time was 6s fast. Both were still
faster than I ran the course in January 2017, so my best achievement of
the week. |
| Simon Turton |
Cycling |
11.5km |
To Wokingham |
Fri |
00:38:00 |
Cycled to pick my car up after a service. Pretty boring really but
the weather was nice . |
| Stephen Taylor |
Race |
Half-M |
Ealing |
Sun am |
02:13:00 |
A regular for me as it goes past my front door. Not ideal timing,
one week before VLM, so treated as a training run, walking the hills to
keep the running distance down. Great to bump into Trish at the finish. |
Roderick Hoffman
Mike Dennison writes...
"A visit to Ifield Mill Pond parkrun for Maria
Jovani and I this Saturday, where we both ran our 50th different parkrun,
and also getting the 'I' for the parkrun alphabet challenge. Maria is now on 320
parkruns, and I am on 420. My wife, Sue, was also there, doing her 20th
different parkrun (93 parkruns overall).
Maria was also first lady home, and 12th overall. I was 2nd overall in 19:46
- which was also a VM60-64 course record!
It was a nice, friendly parkrun, with a smallish number of runners (74),
which made things easier on the course, with its many out and back sections, and
five U-turns on quite narrow paths. All tarmac, and pretty level, though.
Apologies for the photo - we forgot to take a better one of the two of us!"
Other Half Marathon Results
Not submitted for the digest but each of the following represented British
Airways AC...
- Trish McCabe did the Ealing Half in 2:24:10 and posted the included
picture of her with Stephen,
- Jasvir Singh Modaher did yet another half marathon, The Windsor Half,
and finished in 2:32:49.
parkrun results for Saturday 25th September 2021
42 runners and volunteers listed below - get in touch if your activity is missing.
| Club parkrunner |
parkrun |
Pos |
Time |
Age Grade |
PB? |
Comment |
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Vera Simms |
Banstead Woods |
80 |
00:28:27 |
67.25% |
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Janice Jones |
Banstead Woods |
88 |
00:29:36 |
60.36% |
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Maarten Stenham |
Bedfont Lakes |
13 |
00:22:39 |
62.10% |
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Harjit Jhooti |
Bedfont Lakes |
81 |
00:32:15 |
54.01% |
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Kelly Davis |
Bedfont Lakes |
134 |
00:47:19 |
31.98% |
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With Chloe |
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Paul PRESCOTT |
Bedfont Lakes |
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Barcode Scanning at Bedfont Lakes |
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Natalia Prescott/Mikhaylina |
Bedfont Lakes |
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Barcode Scanning at Bedfont Lakes |
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Sarah GORDON |
Braunstone |
261 |
00:34:49 |
58.21% |
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Ian CUNNINGHAM |
Bushy Park |
178 |
00:22:26 |
70.88% |
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Best time/grade for nearly two years. |
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Andrew William Jordan |
Bushy Park |
199 |
00:22:40 |
67.79% |
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133rd run at Bushy, best this year |
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Di Smith |
Bushy Park |
1042 |
00:50:28 |
45.61% |
PB |
Another 1:45 off from the PB |
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Paul TIMMS |
Cirencester |
18 |
00:24:16 |
64.97% |
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Scott DAVISON |
Crane Park |
37 |
00:25:31 |
57.81% |
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Murray HOGGE |
Dinton Pastures |
26 |
00:22:26 |
71.47% |
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Frankie HOGGE |
Dinton Pastures |
25 |
00:22:26 |
65.97% |
PB |
PB by 35 seconds |
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Christopher T KELLY |
Dinton Pastures |
232 |
00:38:04 |
40.72% |
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Pacing Sarah Kelly to another new PB |
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Julie BARCLAY |
Grovelands |
26 |
00:22:58 |
80.99% |
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1s faster than Jacqui (different course), Best BA ladies time and BA
grade. |
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Paul WATT |
Grovelands |
7 |
00:20:37 |
75.18% |
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Best BA time |
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Alastair Heslop |
Guildford |
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Finish Tokens at Guildford |
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Denis Foxley |
Harrow |
92 |
00:28:03 |
64.47% |
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140th run at Harrow, best since lockdown |
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Joan FOXLEY |
Harrow |
192 |
00:36:58 |
62.26% |
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John COFFEY |
Hazelwood |
81 |
00:33:28 |
61.35% |
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run #371, 83rd at Hazelwood |
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Mike Dennison |
Ifield Mill Pond |
2 |
00:19:46 |
83.31% |
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2nd finisher. Best BA grade. 1s faster than last week (different
course), 50th different parkrun |
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Maria Jovani |
Ifield Mill Pond |
12 |
00:22:31 |
70.54% |
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1st lady, 50th different parkrun |
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David DUGGAN |
Ifield Mill Pond |
44 |
00:32:33 |
49.72% |
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first run at I.M.P., park #89 |
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Benita Scaife |
Maidenhead |
207 |
00:33:18 |
62.76% |
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John Scaife |
Maidenhead |
208 |
00:33:19 |
51.28% |
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Petra OTTO |
March |
127 |
00:40:27 |
54.14% |
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Stephen K TAYLOR |
Northala Fields |
230 |
00:41:13 |
38.25% |
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Saving for Ealing half marathon the next day |
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Anne ANDERSON |
Osterley |
291 |
00:46:42 |
61.71% |
(Assisted) |
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Piers KEENLEYSIDE |
Osterley |
154 |
00:29:00 |
57.30% |
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Should of been saving himself for Ealing half the next day |
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Alan ANDERSON |
Osterley |
292 |
00:46:43 |
53.91% |
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Assisting Anne |
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Anne Bannister |
Poole |
204 |
00:24:57 |
81.23% |
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Best BA ladies time and best grade, first run at Poole, park #31 |
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Bob Bannister |
Poole |
187 |
00:24:13 |
69.24% |
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first run at Poole, park #35 |
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Jain Reid |
Richmond Park |
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Barcode Scanning at Richmond Park |
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John TAYLOR |
Rickmansworth |
23 |
00:20:59 |
73.87% |
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Trish MCCABE |
Sandhurst Memorial |
69 |
00:29:16 |
53.76% |
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Ealing half marathon the next day |
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Steve NEWELL |
Sutcliffe |
230 |
00:45:51 |
42.89% |
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New London parkrun (week 3). BA Park #590. Londone again (for one week
only) |
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Barry WALTERS |
Upton Court |
73 |
00:28:53 |
58.63% |
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Jacqueline MUSSELWHITE |
Woking |
35 |
00:22:59 |
75.78% |
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100th parkrun / best time for two years / 3rd best grade ever |
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Adrian Haines |
Woking |
36 |
00:23:01 |
66.18% |
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Pacing Jacqui on her 100th. |
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Roderick HOFFMAN |
Woking |
135 |
00:28:35 |
56.62% |
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Watching Jacqui and Adrian from back down the course. 399 runs (400th will be on Oct 9th but I don't know where) |
Steve Newell (45:51) made his way to Sutcliffe Park in Eltham (Greenwich
Borough) adhering to his own criteria and using only his bike and public
transport to visit his 57th London different parkrun. At the moment
he is part of a select group of only 34 (out of 7 million barcode holders) who
have completed all 57 London parkruns but this glory will be short-lived as yet
another new parkrun will start at Charlton Park, less than two miles away from
Sutcliffe, on 2nd October, so group membership will be reduced to only those who
attend the inaugural (normally discouraged). This area is very close to the
start of the London Marathon.
Mike Dennison (19:46), Maria Jovani (22:31) and David Duggan (32:33) all
visited Ifield Mill Pond for the first time. Mike and Maria both reached
50 different parkruns and Mike has finished in under 20 minutes at a different
park for six consecutive weeks.
Benita Scaife (33:18) ran at Maidenhead for the 100th time. There will
be a club featured parkrun at Maidenhead (Braywick Park) on 23rd October.
25 of us have run there at least once in the past so surely somebody will come
away with a pb! An opportunity to wear your club vest.
Steve Newell & Roderick Hoffman
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Triathlon News
The 2021 World Championship race planned for October in Hawaii (Kona, Big
Island) has been postponed yet again due to ongoing Covid infections. For the
first time in its 40 year history the "2021" final will now be held away from
Hawaii in St George, Utah and not until 5th Feb 2022. Alistair Brownlee is
still on the start list of 51 for the men's race along with fellow Brits David
MacNamee and Joe Skipper who came 6th in 2019. The women's race which will
start 5 minutes after the men will include as many as ten women from UK in a
line up just 45. Lucy Charles-Barclay was runner up in 2019 and will be
trying to go one better.
It is hoped that the 2022 Ironman will return to Hawaii and revert to
October. There are plans to hold the women's and men's elite races on
separate days.
Steve Newell
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