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BA Athletics Club News Digest 30th January 2023
Events marked "#" are points scoring for the club's participation trophy - for the 2023 title. 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 by end of Sunday 12th February):Run one mile and send me your time or add the details to the prompt in Facebook. The mile can be 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. There are lots of events on next week...best do that mile this week to get it over with.
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by Sunday evening) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Wednesday's Handicap Run ReportThe fourth (of six) runs of the winter handicap series was held from the Bedfont Club on Wednesday 25th January 2023. The weather was described as hostile, wintry – chilly with showers, some heavy. Congratulations to all who
took part. All gathered in the bar afterwards to warm up! Results:
Stephen Taylor incorporated the run into a program concentrating on longer distances and was the only one not to hurry to the finish ahead of schedule. He retained his place at the top of the points table. Winter 5 mile handicap points table after 4 runs:
The best 4 runs (of a possible 6) will be used to decide the overall winner at the end of March. The next run will be held on Wednesday 22nd February with the finale on Wednesday 29th March. Clocks change to BST on Sunday 26th March 2023. Steve Newell Recent Activity Achievements14 club members and friends' achievements are listed below. Your achievement not listed? It could be because you didn't submit it.
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Roderick Hoffman parkrun Results for Saturday 28th January35 activities are recorded below. Please get in touch if your activity is missing.
parkrun review Saturday 28th January 2023Last week’s Fibonacci series query triggered a quick response from one member, Julie Barclay, who completed the 14 run challenge back in December. Melanie Miller ticked off her last number on Saturday. Quick research shows that John Coffey and Chris Kelly are on 13 while Paul Watt and Steve Newell are down on 12. Julie’s collection was 1-Sandhurst Memorial, 2-Brooklands, 3-Markshall Estate, 5-Sutcliffe, 8-Broadwater, 13-Great Salterns, 21-Crissy Field (California), 34-Henlow Bridge Lakes, 55-California Country (not in the same country as California!), 89-Sunny Hill, 144-Bedfont Lakes, 233-Canons Park, 377-Southwark and 610-Greenwich. John Coffey needs a “377”, Chris a "610".
Paul Watt (19:56) and Julie Barclay (22:43) continue to visit (new to them) London parkruns and set new club records. This week it was at Peckham Rye. Paul Timms also clocked 22:43 on his 19th visit to the Tetbury Goods Shed. The rejuvenated Emma Morton was just one second faster than Julie, finishing in 22:42 at Bedfont Lakes, the third fastest time at any of her 300+ parkruns. Her age grade scores (68% - 70%+) in 2023 are better than ever before in ten years of parkrunning. Melanie Miller (37:41) visited Severn Bridge, her 100th different parkrun venue and joins the Cowell Club [the picture, stolen from Facebook, will be instantly recognisable as from the Severn Bridge parkrun by all those who have been there]. Steve Newell Stats and challenges overloadFor those interested in such things... I've updated my club parkrun database to include or improve on Position Bingo, Wilson, Fibonacci and Prime Number challenges. Highlights from each of these in turn: Position Bingo is noting how many finish positions you've had over your parkrun career, recorded as 0 to 99 and including position 100 as "0", 101 as "1" and so on. The target, of course, is to have finished in all positions. Alan Anderson has achieved this - over his 641 parkruns, though I think he only did so on 23rd April of last year when he finished at '76, 276th at Osterley (immediately behind Ann). Ian Cunningham has suggested that I know more about his parkruns than he knows himself so I will tell him here that in his 492 parkruns he has also achieved the Position Bingo, securing his last position '65 on the last day of last year 31st December at Bushy Park. The number of parkruns undertaken is clearly a factor towards achieving Position Bingo but it isn't the only factor. Chris Kelly, despite his 546 parkruns, is still 9 positions short of the ton - Chris' mistake is clear to see - he keeps finishing 8th! 27 times in fact, 19 times at Reading, 4 times at Woodley and once at Henley-on-Thames plus a 108th and a 308th at Reading and a 308th at Dinton Pastures just last week. It is a problem being fast at a smaller parkrun than Bushy! Many of us are much closer to 100 than Chris. David Duggan is on 98, needs a '74 and an '83. Similarly Joe Nolan, needing a '15 and a '42. I need a '28 and a '93. And then we get to Steve Newell - Steve currently has 99 positions but is in need of a '97. Anticipate at his next finish Steve carefully counting the runners ahead of him to engineer finishing 97th, or 197th, or at Bushy 1097th. The chart shows absolute positions by all club members. This peaks at position 19, occurring 152 times then declines in a relatively smooth curve, halving to about 75 occurrences by position 100. We've had 44 first finishers and the same number of 142nd finishers.
The Wilson Index is to have run at all parkruns with a run number from 1 upwards. The tab on the spreadsheet now covers the first 100 event numbers. The only one of us who exceeds 100 is Steve Newell and he knows he is on 172. The next highest is me on 58 then Julie Barclay on 26. But a quick mention for Chris Kelly - although he is only on 19, from 21 onwards he has a run of 75. So once he finds an event #20 he will jump his Wilson Index to 95. How can one find what events will be at their event #20? As you would expect, there are online resources to help. Such as: Google Docs Spreadsheet [answer: UK 11th March, Leavesden County or Lordship Recreation Ground, assuming no cancellations in the meantime]. The Fibonacci Challenge is to run at event numbers that occur in the Fibonacci series. Since there are fewer of these this is an easier challenge to accomplish once you've run at an event "1". The Fibonacci series is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on (each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two). The challenge does not require you to run twice at inaugural runs. The 14th number in the challenge is 610 which is the highest that can be achieved today. Bushy is due to have the next number in the sequence, 987, next year. Julie Barclay and Melanie Miller are our only members to have done all 14 numbers. Chris Kelly needs 610 and John Coffey 377. The Prime Number Challenge is to have run at event numbers that are prime numbers, starting from 2 then 3, 5, 7, 11 and so on. Currently 156 of these are possible, the highest being 911, although Bushy adds another one every so often. Steve Newell has run at the first 39 prime numbers, up to 167, so may be searching for a 173 next. Chris Kelly has done 24 and then Melanie Miller has done 18. But across the whole range Alan Anderson has done a sequence of all 49 prime numbers from 127 to 401 and in total Chris Kelly has run at 89 of the 156 prime numbers possible. Roderick Hoffman Full club parkrun database - {read access to club parkrun database} - Download or save a copy, and explore at your leisure. Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] 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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A quick look at the parkrun global stats (courtesy of Elliott Line) shows
that Trish McCabe was one of 28 clocking their 400th run (at Stockley Country),
Steve Newell was one of 16 reaching the 450 mark (at Dinton Pastures) and just 8
joined the 500 club. Ian Cunningham (30:20 at Bushy) is just 8 weeks away from
joining that elite group while Dennison (20:11 at Newbury) is only 3 behind him
on 489. Beyond that, the 9 people who have reached 700 all ran again this
week. Early retirement is so last century – sorry.