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BA Athletics Club News Digest 28th June 2021For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.
For Coronavirus related restrictions and advice see News_Coronavirus_Guidance_May_2021.shtml. Our intention is to hold our AGM and Awards Evening at the Bedfont Club on 14th July but only if permitted by active legislation. Please leave that date in your diary for now. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] This Week's and Future Solo 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, such as the weekend achievement, 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. Track-on-Field (by 5pm on Friday 2nd July, to be reported on in the following digest):
Weekend Achievement (by 5pm on the Monday) or use the Facebook prompt that will be added on Friday:
Vets League Track & Field – Battersea, June 21st - a complicated eveningOur second night of the summer was great fun to take part in, while it enjoyed some interesting moments. The day started very wet, and we feared a repeat of our experience at Uxbridge two years ago, when everyone was drenched to the skin. Fortunately, the rain clouds started to scud away, leaving a mostly pleasant if humid evening. Paul Giles and Janet Smith were unable to join us, while we learnt that most of London’s throwing cages are not up to hammer safety standards, meaning that the hammer event had become a javelin competition. Officiating is a voluntary occupation, engaged in by a small group of dedicated people. On this occasion, they were really stretched, with some incorrect timings, and a field event evening which overran by an hour. As a club we can provide physical help to make sure that events run smoothly, but we are short of qualified judges. If any club member feels moved to become trained in the art of officiating, let me know and the club will be happy to support you. We had a great night in the sprints, with Jacqui picking up a
PB, Michael producing more excellent times and Fiona setting a new BA club
record time. Julie ran both the 100m and 400m races against a younger age
group and may also have achieved a PB (to be ratified!) We closed the track evening with our first opportunity of the season to run a 4 x 400m relay. As we move towards the first Rosenheim League match of the season on Wednesday
of this week, team places are still available. The final (!) Vets League
match of the season will take place at Perivale on July 7th. Please let me know if
you are interested in taking part in either event.
Pictured: Steve Hillier launching himself at the start of the 100m / Jacqui
not quite pipping first place in the 400m but achieving the club record / One
lady short of a 4x400m team so time for a photograph instead.
* Ed: This is the first club record I have ever held, so you can expect next week's digest to focus solely on the club's 2000m walk records. I've worked out the contents already: Interviews with the holders of the current club records, a technical discussion on the judging involved in walking races including details of the latest "Hawkeye" developments for automated judging, an article by J. Cleese on the development of walking styles in the 20th Century, a colour supplement featuring multiple photographs of someone walking, a item from our special Olympic correspondent in Japan on the competition for the 10k and 20k Olympic titles. But I may substitute for these with the analysis of the feedback from the club questionnaire, provided enough of you contribute. You have been warned! PS - Another eventThe Middlesex County Track and Field Championships are taking place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Saturday 24th July (for U13 and U15) and Monday 30th August (Seniors, U20 and U17). Let Steve Hillier know if you are interested in attending.
BA Athletics Club Records - 200mThe 200m features on Wednesday at the Rosenheim meeting at Battersea. These are the club records.
* John Coe's 200m Open record, set at ASCA in the first 12 months following the club's founding is, not surprisingly, the oldest record in the books. I don't think that it will be challenged on Wednesday - even if our runner finds a short cut from start to finish across the throwing area. But our age band records may be under more of a threat. ** Anne Hurn set our ladies best in Dublin in early September 1999. Her time of 26.5 was then also an ASCA European Airlines Record and Anne repeated that achievement in the 100m with 12.5. That ASCA was a good competition for our ladies with Sarah Bond getting the 800m record (BA and ASCA) with 2:21.3 and Caroline Yarnell and Colette O'Neill making up the 4x100m team to finish second in 60.6. To qualify as a record the event has to be competitive and accurately measured and the participant has to be a paid-up member of the club and wearing a club vest (or in an in-house organised event). Members for whom BA is a second claim club may need permission from their first claim club for them to compete in a BA vest and claim the record (so the same performance cannot be claimed by two different clubs). If you know better, please send us your claim - we want to get these in the best shape possible. New records or questions: Stats@barunner.org.uk . Roderick Hoffman obo Paul Brandon Meet the Committee - Chris Kelly
parkrun UK returnparkrun returned to the UK on Saturday with 29 events held in Northern Ireland including one inaugural event. Worldwide there were 667 events held (so more than a third of the number being held in early 2020) and more countries are expected to resume parkrun shortly. England's parkrun return is still planned for 24th July. 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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After my initial membership of the club ended in the early nineties, despite
highlights such as losing sensation in my tongue due to not breathing enough
during an 800m Swim and embarrassing my colleagues in the annual Round-the-Block race, I let my athletic aspirations flounder until 2005, when I finally
manned-up and entered the London Marathon. After improving by 30 minutes in 2006
I was hooked and looked forward to continuing that trend yearly! It didn't quite
work out like that and actually took 7 more years to crack the sub-3, but I was
very glad to tick that off.