BA Athletics Club News Digest 27th October 2014
Forthcoming Events:
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Wednesday 29th October - The nights are drawing in - first 5 mile winter
handicap of the season
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Reminder - Thursday 30th October members forum at the Concorde/Heston
clubhouse from 18:30.
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Thursday 6th November - Magic Mile Bath Road 12:45
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Wednesday 19th November - Advanced notice that it will be the annual
athletics club winter quiz with no running required!
New members and non-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 [updated last week].
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Milocarian Cross-country 25th October Results
Hi all, on a glorious Saturday afternoon British Airways A/C were well
represented at the tough Milocarian cross-country course on Saturday 25th
October with a good turnout of 5 ladies & 7 men.
On the day BAAC finished 6th with Mark Taylor leading the team home with a
fine run to finish in 17th place and Barry Walters being 2nd BA man home in 19th
place. Nice to see Bernard Sexton run his first cross-country for the BAAC and
for Mark Turner for turning up all the way from Chichester.
Well done also to our ladies for turning up in numbers (I wonder why?, maybe
we should ask Debbie) who do not normally run 6 miles cross-country, specially
on a course like this. Lissa was our First Lady home finishing 10th Lady in 45th
place. Running this race for a second year in a row (glutton for
punishment) was Alice Banks finishing in 49th place. A special mention to Helen,
who was only going to do one lap, as she's not run six miles for a while, then
realized the whole course was one lap about 5 minutes before the start, but
still finished.
Then the runners & their supporters then tucked into the post race tea & food
which was as good if not better than last year.
Full results attached below.
Thank you all, Gary Rushmer
The Ladies team in good spirits [composite photo].
Milocarian Athletic Club - The Terry Lewins Trophy / RMA Sandhurst - 25th
October 2014
Position |
Name |
Team |
Time |
1 |
P Tedd |
Thames Hare & Hounds |
30:55 |
17 |
M Taylor |
British Airways |
38:37 |
18 |
D Cockerell (F) |
Thames Hare & Hounds |
39:33 |
19 |
B Walters |
British Airways |
40:12 |
23 |
B Sexton |
British Airways |
41:08 |
31 |
G Rushmer |
British Airways |
43:44 |
40 |
G Taylor |
British Airways |
45:20 |
45 |
L Pritchard (F) |
British Airways |
47:57 |
49 |
A Banks (F) |
British Airways |
49:44 |
53 |
G Rushmer |
British Airways |
51:25 |
54 |
M Turner |
British Airways |
51:35 |
58 |
C Halket (F) |
British Airways |
56:51 |
59 |
H Smith (F) |
British Airways |
59:47 |
Position |
Team |
To Score (6) |
Total |
1 |
Milocarian AC 'A' |
3,5,6,8,12,28 |
62 |
2 |
Thames Hare & Hounds |
1,2,10,16,18,20 |
67 |
3 |
Kingston & Poly |
4,7,13,14,15,43 |
96 |
4 |
Sandhurst AC |
9,21,24,26,32,35 |
147 |
5 |
Runnymede Runners 'A' |
11,25,27,30,33,34 |
160 |
6 |
British Airways |
17,19,23,31,40,45 |
175 |
7 |
Runnymede Runners 'B' |
39,41,42,44,48,50 |
264 |
5M Handicap - Wednesday 29th October from 18:00
It's Autumn, oops the moderate climate almost had me confused, WINTER 5 mile
handicap time again. A series of six, 5 mile runs with one per month from
October through March, on the last Wednesday of the month (except December),
based at the Concorde Centre Imperial College
London Heston sport ground. Each run earning points and adjusting
handicaps leading to a winter series champion, and it has been known for prizes
to be awarded. A few tweaks to the ‘rules’ this year,
- 1) Timing/measuring devices shall not be worn, the starter will request
all timing devices and will keep them in a safe place until the end of the
run when they will be returned, unless they are really valuable in which
case they may be available on eBay shortly after.
- 2) For each competitor the best FIVE month's points will count to the
overall score - not all six.
- 3) Handicap points will be 25 for nearest to handicap, then 22, then 20,
19, 18 down to 1. If there are more than 22 runners then 1 point will
be awarded to runners 23rd and after.
- 4) Handicaps. For those who have run before then their best time from
the previous season will be used. For new runners and those with a request
prior to the start to adjust their handicap due to injury, illness etc. the
organisers decision will be final, and will be based upon recent 5k, 5M or
10k times where available.
- 5) Handicap adjustments. Start times and handicap times will revert to
30 second boundaries as used prior to last year, adjustments to the handicap
time will be made if the run time is greater than 20 seconds faster than the
handicap time then the handicap time will be reduced by 30 seconds, if the
run time is slower than the handicap time by 20 seconds then the handicap
time will be increased by 30 seconds.
- 6) Results will be made available for the following week's News Digest.
Paul Brandon
WARR Results Correction
"Confirmed that Dave Dixon tied for fourth in the results. The issue
was caused by the lack of no hundredths being reported. The Awards
spreadsheet was looking for a 5th place finisher but there isn’t one because
they tied for fourth. Once I added a hundredth of a second to his time (as
they believe he was a step behind the fourth place guy {Paul Knechtl}) his name
pops up in 5th.
Please let Dave know we have installed a fix for 2015
Thanks,"
Ron Maxwell
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Club parkrun results for Saturday 25th October
25th Oct |
parkrunner |
time |
parkrun |
comment |
Grading |
Piers |
Keenleyside |
21:47 |
Gunnersbury |
run #79 |
72% |
Kerstin |
Luksch |
23:17 |
Gunnersbury |
pb |
64% |
Steve |
Taylor |
24:11 |
Gunnersbury |
3rd anniversary run |
61% |
Steve |
Newell |
29:36 |
Gunnersbury |
3rd anniversary run |
60% |
Alan |
Anderson |
30:10 |
Gunnersbury |
|
68% |
Joe |
Nolan |
27:34 |
Black Park |
voluntary 27:30 pacer |
58% |
Janet |
Smith |
34:55 |
Black Park |
run #24 |
48% |
Ian |
Cunningham |
24:06 |
Bushy Park |
|
62% |
Roger |
Wiltshire |
26:52 |
Bushy Park |
run #4 |
64% |
Roderick |
Hoffman |
25:55 |
Harcourt Hill |
park #93, BA park #136 |
59% |
Chris |
Kelly |
20:36 |
Reading |
|
71% |
Richard |
Ruffell |
21:16 |
St Albans |
|
71% |
Sreeram |
Sethuraman |
26:50 |
Upton Court |
pb |
49% |
Alan |
Friar |
26:42 |
Woodley |
run #145 |
66% |
Tony |
Barnwell |
29:52 |
Wycombe Rye |
128th/186 |
61% |
Linda |
Winning |
33:49 |
Llyn Llech Owain |
run #49 |
64% |
Bob |
Winning |
35:49 |
Llyn Llech Owain |
run #50 |
55% |
Alastair |
Heslop |
volunteer |
Guildford |
timekeeper |
The most popular venue for BA runners this weekend was Gunnersbury which was
celebrating its third anniversary. Among the pioneers in 2011 were Steve
Taylor and Steve Newell and both ran minutes faster this time than on that first
run three years ago. Before the run Kerstin Luksch was presented with the
female points trophy for the second successive year and then stormed round for a
new PB. Alan Anderson was presented with a red sash for his support over
the year (course build and clear-up almost every week) but it slowed him down!
Meanwhile Piers Keenleyside put in his last parkrun before heading for the
streets of New York where he will join Ian Cunningham who had an easier run than
normal at Bushy Park. Roger Wiltshire made one of his occasional
appearances at Bushy Park where his times have been remarkably consistent.
Sreeram Sethuraman continues to improve and set a new PB at Upton Court.
Our OLD friend Bob Winning notched his 50th run at Llyn Llech Owain (Linda is
one behind on 49!). Roderick Hoffman broke new ground yet again, this time
at (the fairly flat) Harcourt Hill in Oxford. Over at Guildford Alastair
Heslop switched his volunteering role to timekeeper.
Possible venues for
club featured parkruns in November are Brockwell Park on 15th and Reigate Priory
on 22nd (Simon Turton please note).
Steve Newell
Updated parkrun stats:
www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls
Updated BA parkrun map:
http://www.barunner.org.uk/attachments/BA Parkruns 2014.jpg
New British Records for Club Member!
Not often we can report a BAAC member (albeit second claim club) breaking British
Records - Janet Smith has recently moved into the W50 category and on Sunday
19th October she set new British Records for the Weight Throw and the Weight
Pentathlon. This puts her second in the World rankings! She reports
that she is very happy with that as a starting point and that the Shot Put of
9.19 was her first time ever over 9m!
Competition: |
SECTA WEIGHT PENTATHLON - WOMEN |
Venue: |
EWELL COURT |
Date: |
SUNDAY 19th OCTOBER 2014 |
Age Group |
Position |
Name |
Club |
Hammer Throw |
Shot Putt |
Discus Throw |
Javelin Throw |
Weight Throw |
Total |
|
|
|
|
Actual |
Points |
Actual |
Points |
Actual |
Points |
Actual |
Points |
Actual |
Points |
Points |
W50 |
1 |
Janet Smith |
WSE&H |
43.50 |
1063 |
9.19 |
633 |
29.30 |
624 |
18.97 |
381 |
15.79 |
1031 |
3732 |
|
2 |
JulieWilson |
Reading |
32.52 |
749 |
9.78 |
682 |
29.65 |
633 |
21.42 |
442 |
11.10 |
684 |
3190 |
Janet has wisely decided to focus on consolidating on that achievement this
year rather than her previous resolution for the year of getting under 30
minutes for a parkrun - though there is always next year for that!
Roderick
Hoffman
Running Shorts
Julie Barclay decided to run her first long run in 5 months. She ran
the Croydon 10k on 19th Oct. plus being born in Croydon knew the course
quite well including where the hills were. Although below par Julie
finished happily with 48.52 and was 1st 50+.
Tom Rowley
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Come and run the RuggedRadnage on the 16th November. A challenging
mixed terrain 10K race, taking place in the Chiltern Hills around the
village of Radnage, 5 minutes from junction 5 on the M40.
The course involves sections on road, trails and footpaths; through
woods and fields and includes off-road descents and ascents.
http://www.ruggedradnage10k.co.uk/
Harvey Tate
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Hey runners,
In the event of injury / sickness leading up to
Berlin, I had also signed up for Abingdon (3 weeks later), and
although Berlin went well I still decided to do the Abingdon marathon on
Sunday (19th). An extremely well organised and marshalled event
with some slight course inclines, but nothing to be concerned about.
A windy and rather warm day, along with Berlin legs, prevented a PB but
still happy with a 3:35, you know me, not one for moaning :-).
Doing
two marathons three weeks apart tells me ‘Hat’s off to Piers’, as this
something he regularly does (usually well within 3 weeks) while
constantly achieving respectable times.
Rgds, Colin Haylock
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