BA Athletics Club News Digest 27th January 2014
Forthcoming Events:
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THIS TUESDAY LUNCHTIME 28th January - Round-the-Block - Concorde Centre
start 12:30 (reminder below)
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Wednesday 29th January - 5 Mile Handicap - Concorde Centre from
18:00
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Saturday 8th February - Surrey Cross-Countries - Ladies Lloyd Park,
Croydon 12:00 (details)
/ Men Newlands Corner, Guildford 15:00.
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome
at all of these events.
Big Events in 2014
- 26th Feb BAAC Awards Evening - An opportunity for a pat
on the back for everyone who did their best last year
- 22nd March ASCA X-Country - Our own cross-country
championships combined with the European Airline's annual cross-country
event
- 13th April London Marathon - over twenty runners and
over 100 volunteers makes this our biggest participation event each year
- 14th May Speedbird Ladies 5k - One just for the ladies
and a chance for the male members of the club to help and encourage
- 15th June Concorde Five Mile Road Race - annually the
biggest event we host entirely ourselves
- 25th June BAAC AGM - Your chance to influence the
running of your running club
- 24th July BA Fun Run - British Airway's biggest charity
earning running event - only possible with our help
- 4th October World Airline Road Race 2014 Dublin - The
biggest annual inter-airline running event. This year to be hosted by Aer
Lingus.
This isn't a definitive list of big events and even the smallest run can be
the biggest event for one of our members - the full diary of club featured
events is on the club website at:
http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml.
Running related gossip and chat: Facebook "BA Runner" (link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/636199849751546/).
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Tuesday 28th January - The Traditional Round-the-Block race from the
Concorde Centre
Anybody
and everybody, members and non-members, friends and colleagues and strangers are
all welcome to take part including mixed teams of four (timesaving
team declaration sheet). This is a
fun event and ALL levels of runners/joggers are welcomed. Please pass this
information on to anyone else who might be interested.
As in past years the race is a single lap course of around 5k, around the
Heston area. The start will be at around 12:30 and is a short walk from the
Concorde Centre, so please leave enough time. There is ample parking at
the Concorde Club and the Concorde Club changing facilities are available for
your use. Lifts can be
offered from and back to Waterside and other locations. There is a £1 per
person
entry fee which will be donated to the White Lodge Centre charity.
Paul Knechtl
Club family parkrun results 25th January - Gunpowder
| Pos |
parkrunner |
Time |
Cat |
Grade |
Gender |
GPos |
Club |
Note |
Runs |
| 1 |
### |
19:23 |
SM30-34 |
67.33% |
M |
1 |
|
|
|
| 43 |
Mike HIRD |
24:56 |
JM14 |
58.16% |
M |
37 |
|
New PB! |
42 |
| 45 |
Roderick HOFFMAN |
25:20 |
VM50-54 |
59.67% |
M |
39 |
British Airways AC |
Record 4th run at a parkrun venue |
92 |
| 84 |
Tracy HIRD |
30:25 |
VW45-49 |
53.81% |
F |
22 |
|
New PB! |
35 |
| 85 |
Tony HIRD |
30:26 |
VM45-49 |
48.08% |
M |
63 |
British Airways AC |
PB stays at 00:23:49 |
53 |
| 93 |
Daniela MAYEROVA |
31:49 |
SW25-29 |
46.52% |
F |
28 |
British Airways AC |
First Timer! |
1 |
| 107 |
### |
44:15 |
VW40-44 |
35.03% |
F |
39 |
|
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A low turnout but we made up for this with records - Tony having damaged his
knee during the week risked further injury by pacing his wife Tracy to a new PB
whilst Roderick, for the first time running at the same parkrun venue for the
fourth time, acted as a chaser for Tony's son Mike to knock a whole minute off
his PB. Meanwhile Daniela completed her first parkrun.
The next club featured parkrun will be on 8th March at Stoke Park, Guildford.
Club Long Distance Relays
Richard Ruffell reports that this week the race organisers of the Round
Norfolk Relay 2014 put a message on their web site that read... "Please be
advised that following the recent resignation of the Race Director, Secretary
and Facilities Coordinator and the earlier resignation of the Safety Officer,
there is a strong possibility the event will NOT go ahead this year."
If he hears anything more he will let us know, but clearly this is
looking unlikely for 2014.
These relay events are great fun so it is a pity to miss one - so with that
in mind please remember to notify
christkelly@yahoo.com if
you are able to make the team for the Green Belt Relay over the weekend of
17th/18th May. Also there is the Endure24 on June 28/29 2014 at Reading - a 24hr
team/individual relay trail race -
http://www.endure24.co.uk/.
Again let Chris know your interest.
Sunday 2nd March Berkhamsted Half and 5 miler.
Sunday 2nd March sees the usual running of the Berkhamsted half and the 5
mile run. As usual there is an open house invite to any runners or supporters to
come back to The Ruffell's for a shower and lunch afterwards.
We are just 5
mins away from the start/finish, so an ideal point to drop off your bags before
hand and then come back afterwards to recover. All I ask is anyone who intends
to join us lets us know before hand so we know how many to cater for.
Enter:
https://sites.google.com/site/berkhamstedhalfmarathon1/
Richard Ruffell
London Marathon 2014 Training Update Details
held on the website including:
- Piers planning to run {only} 50 miles a week and
cutting down on the Ultras in an effort to get under 3:26 {but see next
item}.
- Ian planning to do 3-4 fairly good session each week.
- Joe needing a lie down after having read what Piers and
Ian are planning.
2014 Resolution Update
Neil Frediani reports that he has achieved one of his
running resolutions set at the start of the year - "90 miles done in January
with a week to go. Normally I would get to this point by mid March. Next on the
list is to try and get below 2hrs at the Wokingham half."
And Piers Keenleyside adds that he has just completed his
running resolution by finishing the Marrakech Marathon in 3:15:59 ("my watch
time - hope the official time is similar but bound to be sub 3:20!").
And from
Richard Ruffell:
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I can declare that during 2014 I hope to get to 50 park runs with 20
different venues, so far I am on track.
About a month ago Steve N with his amazing Parkrun stats alerted me
to my run of consecutive different venues since the start of November,
not something I had consciously planned, but just happened as I found
myself in different places on a Saturday morning. Anyway, the run has
continued and this morning I ran, or should I say plodded my way round a
very wet Wycombe course. Probably a good course in the summer when the
fields are dry but it was tough going through the mud and round the very
slippery corners this morning and when I went past the first km marker
in just under 5 mins I knew this was going to be a slow one.
This run has continued my tourist run to 13 consecutive different
venues and has helped me towards my target of 20 different runs by the
end of 2014. Now 13 would be a bad number to end the streak, so the
question is where will I be next week? Anyone who cares and wants to
guess let
Roderick or me know and all will be revealed in Steve's write up
next week. Not sure there will be a prize, but think of it is a Sherlock
type challenge. A few clues, it is one not yet run by BA, but if you
see Roderick's map last week that does not narrow it down too much as
there are over 154 of these. So to help a little further, I am going to
Goodison Park that afternoon for a 3pm kick off. So where would be a
good point to be at 9am? It would make sense to find a run that is close
to the motorway I'll be on to avoid a large detour and far enough North
to get me to the pub in time for a drink before the game.
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Just in from our rowley reporter...
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I travelled with Julie Barclay to Bedfont Park on Sat 25th as the
Stoke Park saturated surface was not what we were looking for.
Although Bedfont was full of unavoidable puddles it was semi-firm.
I did give all 141 runners a cheer on both laps and as Scott Davidson,
Robert Fleming and Ian White were among them they must have heard me.
Julie planned to go from the start and determined to ignore the puddles.
She succeeded from the off and held the 1st lady position the whole race
to finish in 1st lady. Like most the conditions affected
their times:
Their PBs are in brackets: Julie 19th in 22.24 (21.17);
Scott was 37th in 24.12 (21.22); Robert 52nd in 25.56 (21.35): Ian
was 64th in 27.10 (25.18).
Nice one lads.
After the race I caught the next flight to Hampsted Heath for the
S.of.E Champ's and of cause to watch Gary Rushmer and 986 other lads
battle 9 miles of 2/3 inches thick MUD uphill. The most beautiful
view in the world and looking down onto London from the top of the Heath
I saw Gary on the first lap from close up and was quite relaxed then on
the second lap still holding his safety pace because it was so slippery
and he finished the 9 miles in 74.48 with over 300 runners chasing him.
Well done Gary.
Tom Rowley
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Shorts
Ian Haylock has generously donated four Ring Cyba-lite Sprints to the club.
These head torches are useful for night running. Graham Taylor is busy road
testing the first example. If you would like to try one out, they can be
borrowed from the athletics store at the Concorde Club. If you want more details
about what they do, you can see details under
Ring RT5107. Steve Hillier
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