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BA Athletics Club News Digest 28th February 2022
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2022 title. Note the recent addition of two Rosenheim Track&Field League dates on 18th May and 15th June. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. This Week's EventsPlease 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 (submit before Monday 14th March):Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the Facebook prompt. The mile can 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.
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by late Sunday) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Bumper Week - Two digests expectedThere will be a second digest towards the end of this week. This will focus on the three big events that the Club is hosting over the next few months - the Cross Country in Tom's name on Sunday 20th March, the Speedbird Ladies race on Wednesday 11th May and the Concorde One Hour Race on Sunday 5th June. I had hoped to get some of that information ready for this digest but since I'm starting to type this in the departure lounge of Frankfurt Airport, and a further one hour delay has just been announced, time has gone against me. Roderick Hoffman Five Mile Winter Handicap - Run 5 #A dry evening with a chilly breeze attracted six runners to Bedfont for the fifth leg of this winter’s 5 mile handicap series. Denis Foxley took a bit of a tumble with about half a mile to go when the field was beginning to close up and runners prepared themselves for the final push to the finish. Roderick Hoffman, Amanda Coombs and Michael Dennison all stopped to pick him up and make sure he was able to continue so thanks to them for their timely and thoughtful intervention for which they were all awarded a 30 second correction (the table below shows the adjusted* times). Denis himself is still becoming familiar with the course and in spite of his fall still finished close to his target (before adjustment) gathering speed on the second lap. Roderick Hoffman (46:58) was nearest to target and took maximum points again. With only one run still to come (on 30th March) he has an unassailable lead but the other podium spots are still there to be fought over. The best four runs out of six count towards the final points table.
Points Table after five runs:
Steve Newell Roderick adds: "On 30th March I'll be trying my best to be spot on so that I'll score another 25 points for a maximum of 100! See if you can stop me, before I get too big headed. To be fair, I have run well at the Handicap this season - my five performances have been 47:58, 47:23, 47:32, 47:17, 46:58 so fairly consistent and getting faster." Recent Activity AchievementsI picked up on 18 club members and friends reporting recent activity achievements.
I had flown to Frankfurt to run a different parkrun and what would be my 7th in Germany, but on the morning of the run it proved to be too icy to be safe - though the promised doughnuts and coffee were not only delivered but were brought forward to 9am. I walked round the course from 9:30 and, as the photo shows, it was still treacherous in a couple of places - but was fine for an afternoon "Freedom Run".That's twice now I've flown to a European City and had the only run within reach cancelled due to ice. Perhaps I'll fly to Florida next week. Roderick Hoffman parkrun Results for Saturday 26th February 202227 activities are recorded this week. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
We don’t get to celebrate a double first very often so hats off this week to Michael Dennison (20:51) first male and Maria Jovani (22:34) first female at Sandhurst Memorial. Neither can claim a club record as Paul Prescott has run there in 19:33 and Julie Barclay 22:25. [In 40 runs the club has had 16 different club runners at Sandhurst but only Chris Kelly and Barry Walters have run a second time - I hope the team doesn't take it personally!] David Duggan hasn’t always been a dedicated parkrun tourist. He has logged 228 at Bedfont Lakes but he has turned up all over the place more recently and this week appears in the results (34:30) at South Woodham Ferrers in Essex (half an hour outside the M25) where runners get a view of the tidal River Crouch and the aptly named Marsh Farm. David is now on 99 different parks, the same number as former member Caroline Cockram who has also run more than 200 times at Bedfont. Guess where they probably won’t be next week! Paul Watt (20:47) and Julie Barclay (24:13) visited Great Denham in Bedfordshire where a fairly new parish and housing estate has been established and has its own parkrun. Those times are the new club records. We had five runners among the 1213 finishers at Bushy this week including Ian Haylock who received the coveted “100” finisher’s token. He has been 100th once before, in January 2007, when the course was slightly different and he was 25 seconds slower and there were fewer than 300 finishers in total. John Coffey (34:04) visited Bushy for the first time in over two years and the first since he joined the MV80 age-group. Diana Smith (56:37) was the tailwalker this week and has now reached double figures. Ian Cunningham (31:05, pacing Janet) is now on 449 runs, 358 of those have been at Bushy. [John Coffey was our first runner at Bushy back on 24th December 2005. In total we've had 59 club runners run at Bushy and between them have run it 1,386 times (so that is 6,930km round Bushy Park)] Trish McCabe (28:43) became the tenth member of the club to run at London’s newest parkrun – Southall. The baby is now 8 weeks old and is attracting 150-200 runners each week. The next club featured parkrun will be at Homewood (near Chertsey) on 19th March. After that, the next one will now be at Guildford on 9th April and will be an opportunity to celebrate Alastair Heslop’s 250 volunteer shifts. This means that the “cfp” at Wimbledon will now be on 21st May when there is a better chance of a dry course! Suggestions for further into the future should be forwarded to John Scaife. Steve Newell Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] Alastair Heslop reports that he is approaching his 250th volunteering occasion. "Barring cancellations either on my part or by Guildford parkrun, 2nd April will be my 250th volunteering day overall, with 9th April being my 250th at Guildford. I am RD on April 2nd and have decided to mark my 250th at Guildford by tail walking and so getting a "run" credit as well as a volunteer credit." Alastair Members of the club will be joining him at the 9th April run/walk - but individuals are welcome to also join him there on the 2nd. Roderick Hoffman Letters to the editorWhen I decided which parkrun to (try to) do near Frankfurt I aimed for the one that our Lufthansa friend Ralph Behrens hadn't done (he has run at 33 of the currently 42 German parkruns). He replied to my mail:
Ralph is now in the system as having run all nine of the Danish parkruns, one of 12 parkrun tourists to have done so. His first experience with parkrun was watching us do the Root44 parkrun before the 2013 WARR. 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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