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BA Athletics Club News Digest 30th August 2021For future weeks: inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk.
Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] This Week's Events - please by 7pm on SATURDAY*Please 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. Track-on-Field (by 5pm on Saturday 4th September, to be reported on in the following digest):
Weekly Athletic Achievement (by 7pm on Saturday*) or use the Facebook group prompt:
Early Digest next week - on Saturday evening* This time next week I'll be on a boat and even though I may only be moored just off Southampton WiFi may be lacking and expensive. For that reason the digest will be issued on Saturday evening, with gaps. Please therefore submit any content including your run reports by 7pm on the Saturday. I'll be back on dry land by the end of the week.
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As part of our 40th Anniversary Year celebrations we would like to give members and friends the opportunity to acquire some club branded clothing. This would be well-subsidised by the club - but note that you would still be able to get cheaper unbranded equivalents from high-street chains. Our products should be good quality and sourced locally (we use the company Shawscreen, based in Hayes/High Wycombe) . The branding would probably be our registered "Speedmarque" colours (i.e. The "British Airways" text in blue with the red and blue "speedmarque", as modelled by Maarten in the photo above). We would also have a small "BAAC 40" logo (not yet designed), for instance on the sleeve of tops. Clothing colours are likely to be white or light shades. Sizing should be 'any'. I put up a poll on Facebook (BA Runner | Facebook) and so far this has indicated popularity as follows, but please don't let this overly-influence you. Please let me know your own ideas, non-committal, on whether you'd be interested and in what item - including items not listed.
This Wednesday, 1st September, we will be competing in our final T&F of the summer. The Rosenheim meetings have become "Open" this year, meaning that everyone is welcome to take part, but pre-booking is necessary. BAAC is subsidising the entry fee, so if you want to enter, please let me know on Tuesday.
The evening starts at 18:30, and includes 100m, 400m, 800m and 3000m on the track, with Discus, High Jump, Triple Jump and Shot on the infield. The final event will be the 3000m at 20:15.
I hope to see you there!
19 activities recorded including those who ranked their parkrun as their best activity of the week.
| Colleague | Activity | Distance | Course | Start Time | Duration | Comments |
| Adrian Haines | parkrun | 5km | Des Dougnes | Sat am | 00:19:41 | Seasons best and a Des Dougness improvement of 8 minutes. My daughter decided to do 2 of the 3 laps. Good to see Piers and his wife. |
| Andy Rayner | mixed Run/Walk | 4miles | XC | Thur | 00:54:00 | Also Tues 24 Aug; 3M cycle=16m 25s plus 1M walk= 8m 29S & Wed 25 Aug= Fast walk=25m 27s. |
| Ben Cooper | Running | 4.57km | BAMC to Penmark | Sun | 00:23:53 | After looking at the map I elected to try a circular route on some single track roads which were pleasant and less steep than the previous visit! Pace was intentionally 'slow' |
| Benita Scaife | mixed Run/Walk | 6miles | Hurley to Marlow and back | Fri | Our weekday activity was a run along the Thames Path from Hurley to Marlow and walk back to Hurley. | |
| Clara Halket | mixed Run/Walk | 12.11km | The ridge | Sat | 01:44:00 | Saturday's workout was 2.5km pole walk, 2.5km run x 2, on the hilly stretch of the ridge, with couple minutes walk recovery in between. |
| Denis Foxley | Running | Ruislip Woods | Sun am | 01:03:00 | Different routes | |
| Jacqui Musselwhite | Intervals | 2km | St Aigulin track, Dordogne, France | Sun | At Adrian's in France. We cycled 5 miles to a track for warm up 4 laps, 100x4 strides and then 200m x 5 and then the bike ride back to base in Parcoul in the evening sun. [photo includes a repeat of Adrian] | |
| Joan Foxley | Running | Ruislip Woods | Sun am | 01:03:00 | Different routes | |
| John Scaife | mixed Run/Walk | 6miles | Hurley to Marlow and back | Fri | Still being cautious with my foot, but felt OK after Wednesday’s NOW run. 3 mile run segment 00:30:31. | |
| Julie Barclay | Race | 5km | Cosham | Wed | 00:22:26 | Race - second of three race series at Portsmouth Lakeside |
| Melanie Miller | Walking | 12.81km | Ilfracombe to Woolacombe | Sun | 03:56:16 | A stunning hike along the headland of Torrs Park from Ilfracombe to Woolacombe on a blisteringly hot day felt like doing the 7 sisters…lol |
| Michael Ball | parkrun | 5km | Woking | Sat am | 00:28:55 | Rather slow |
| Mike Dennison | Running | 32km | Thames to Kingston | Thur am | 02:39:01 | First 20 mile run of marathon training, surprised that it went quite well - 16k 'easy', 13k 'marathon', and then 3k 'easy'. Forgot to charge the watch beforehand and got home with 1% charge remaining! |
| Paul Watt | Race | 5km | Cosham | Wed | 00:19:54 | Race - second of three race series at Portsmouth Lakeside |
| Piers Keenleyside | parkrun | 5km | Des Dougnes | Sat am | 00:27:11 | Fastest parkrun since 2019 |
| Roderick Hoffman | Running | 9.08km | Hillingdon Cycle Circuit | Thur | 01:00:00 | On the paths around the circuit. Mo Farrah's one hour world record is 21.33km and Sifan Hassan's is 18.93km - but they ran theirs on a track. This relates to a cunning plan I'm putting together! [photo is from Saturday's parkrun] |
| Simon Turton | Orienteering | 11.12km | Crown Woods, Bracknell | Wed | 00:59:02 | The beauty of GPS-O events is that if you make a complete hash of it, you can repeat it; so I did and going by my smiley face, had a much better run. Nice area to run round with plenty of route choice. |
| Stephen Taylor | Running | 20.07miles | Richmond and Bushy | Sat | 03:29:44 | Another long run in preparation for London. I ran with a friend from BA days and caught up on all the news. It made the run feel easier, solo long runs can be tough. |
| Steve Hillier | Walking | 4miles | Aston, Birmingham | Sat pm | With Linda. Through some hilly industrial estates. Plus 6miles cycling through Newton Farm ecology park and West Harrow. |
37 runners and volunteers below - get in touch if your result is missing.
| Club parkrunner | parkrun | Pos | Time | Age Grade | PB? | Comment |
| David DUGGAN | Bedfont Lakes | 92 | 00:32:18 | 50.10% | 365th run, One for every day of most years. | |
| Emma Moreton | Bedfont Lakes | 24 | 00:23:59 | 64.14% | ||
| Maarten Stenham | Bedfont Lakes | 15 | 00:22:43 | 61.92% | Over 15min improvement on last week's time! | |
| Paul PRESCOTT | Bedfont Lakes | 9 | 00:21:22 | 60.69% | ||
| Janet Smith | Black Park | 361 | 00:37:13 | 48.63% | parkrun 1,2,3 | |
| John COFFEY | Brooklands | 193 | 00:32:31 | 63.15% | ||
| Maria Jovani | Brooklands | 224 | 00:34:46 | 45.69% | Running with a youngster (JM10) on their first parkrun. | |
| Mike Dennison | Brooklands | 9 | 00:19:41 | 83.66% | PB | Running as a youngster (VM60-64). PB by 51s. |
| Richard RUFFELL | Buckingham | Non-member, retired, over 60…soon to be completely forgotten (21:23 at Buckingham) | ||||
| Ian CUNNINGHAM | Bushy Park | 711 | 00:29:35 | 53.75% | First run as an ex BA employee. | |
| Julie BARCLAY | Crystal Palace | 59 | 00:23:23 | 79.54% | We are sailing… | |
| Paul WATT | Crystal Palace | 18 | 00:20:31 | 75.55% | …the seven Cs. | |
| Vera Simms | Crystal Palace | 167 | 00:29:05 | 65.79% | ||
| Roderick HOFFMAN | Edgbaston Reservoir | 121 | 00:29:04 | 55.68% | New BA park. Old home parkrun (but you do need to go back to the '60s). | |
| Sarah GORDON | Edgbaston Reservoir | 159 | 00:36:19 | 55.81% | ||
| Paul KNECHTL | Frimley Lodge | 19 | 00:19:00 | 77.63% | Club record | |
| Benita Scaife | Grove Fields | 116 | 00:32:23 | 64.54% | New BA parkrun | |
| John Scaife | Grove Fields | 117 | 00:32:24 | 52.73% | Managed to keep up with Benita this week. | |
| Alastair Heslop | Week off? No event at Guildford this week. | |||||
| Denis Foxley | Harrow | Run Director at Harrow | ||||
| Joan FOXLEY | Harrow | Finish tokens at Harrow | ||||
| Trish MCCABE | Henley-on-Thames | 31 | 00:30:38 | 51.36% | ||
| Keith Johnson | Houghton Hall | 32 | 00:23:49 | 62.42% | ||
| Melanie Miller | Land’s End | 115 | 00:38:20 | 45.43% | Taking English tourism to an extreme. New BA park. | |
| Adrian Haines | Les Dougnes | 1 | 00:19:41 | 77.39% | PB | 2nd run at his other home parkrun and smashes his PB and Roderick's club record by seven minutes. |
| Piers KEENLEYSIDE | Les Dougnes | 5 | 00:27:11 | 61.13% | 10th parkrun country - and Pier's average parkrun is now the Bois de Boulogne in Paris! | |
| Frankie HOGGE | Mile End | 37 | 00:20:59 | 70.53% | 10,000 club UK finish (see below**) | |
| Alan ANDERSON | Osterley | 253 | 00:47:09 | 53.41% | Assisting Anne. Running at Osterley on its 8th birthday - Alan was one of several BAAC members who ran in the very first event on 31st August 2013 - hasn't time flown! | |
| Anne ANDERSON | Osterley | 252 | 00:47:08 | 61.14% | (Assisted) | |
| Anne Bannister | Osterley | 87 | 00:25:45 | 78.71% | PB | Third Osterley PB in 4 runs there, and 86s improvement. Lifetime parkrun PB. |
| Bob Bannister | Osterley | 36 | 00:23:07 | 72.53% | ||
| Scott DAVISON | Osterley | 45 | 00:23:37 | 62.46% | ||
| Alan FRIAR | Reading | 292 | 00:36:05 | 53.44% | ||
| Christopher T KELLY | Reading | 54 | 00:22:11 | 69.87% | ||
| Monica ALONSO | Reading | 196 | 00:28:46 | 60.54% | Electrifying - second parkrun since June 2019 | |
| Eddie GILES | Salisbury | 212 | 00:26:56 | 67.14% | ||
| Barry WALTERS | Upton Court | 98 | 00:28:06 | 59.67% | Quickest run since the restart. | |
| Steve NEWELL | Westmill | 112 | 00:48:08 | 40.86% | Compass completion | |
| Micheal BALL | Woking | 196 | 00:28:55 | 54.99% |
The cross-country season is only just round the corner and by way of a fitness test Paul Knechtl (19:00) made a rare appearance at a parkrun this week and broke the club record at Frimley Lodge which Barry Walters had held for eleven years!
Anne Bannister (25:45) bagged a parkrun pb at Osterley. Mike Dennison (19:41) achieved a course pb at Brooklands putting him 4th/164 in his age group there. Brexit defying Adrian Haines (19.41) returned to Les Dougnes (not far from Bordeaux) and as well as being first man home also went to the top of the rankings in his age group. Piers Keenleyside (27:11) was there too and has now completed a parkrun in 10 different countries. Julie Barclay (23:23) lowered the female club record at Crystal Palace.
Three new parks were added to the club collection this week. In finishing time order – Roderick Hoffman (29:04) and Sarah Gordon (36:14) ran at the recently launched Edgbaston Reservoir near their childhood home. Benita (32:23) and John Scaife (32:24) went to Grove Fields (Wantage, Oxon) which started only last week. Melanie Miller (38:20) went South and West as far as possible to the parkrun at Land’s End which started a few weeks before the Covid interruption.
Steve Newell (48:08) ran/walked at Westmill Farm (Herts) for the first time and found the course charming. Very pretty and plenty of undulations to keep it interesting. He is now the sixth club member to complete the compass challenge having already completed parkruns at Southwark (12Oct13), Northala Fields (21Jun14) and East Grinstead (30Sep17). With a bit of planning It could now be done in a single month rather than eight years!
With our 40th anniversary event coming next month it is good to see two members who were young in our first decade are still keeping up a good pace. Bill Byrne (23:59) and Mike Lawrence (25:04) now both in the VM60-64 group were running on the all grass course at Old Deer Park in Richmond. Bill’s son Theo (pb 19:41) was third there this week in 19:52. Bill’s pb on that course is 19:51 (he did once clock 18:57 at Richmond Park).
Those who have been waiting for the California Country parkrun (Wokingham) to resume need wait no longer. The contractors on site have completed their task and the first run back was this last Saturday.
Steve Newell
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** My estimate is that, assuming that all parkruns started at exactly 09:00, and ignoring those undertaken in France this week, when Frankie finished her Mile End parkrun she became the club's 10,000 UK 5k parkrun finisher. Obviously a few errors may have crept in and some parkruns might have started late so the accolade might actually have been earned by any club finisher on Saturday - including perhaps and appropriately, Melanie at Lands End or Steve completing the Compass Challenge. However, since there is no £10,000 reward for this achievement, no reward at all in fact, I'm sure we'll all be happy to cheer Frankie through the finish at Mile End aka "BAAC UK 10,000x5km End".
Note that the UK parkruns run includes restricted entry parkruns (Feltham and Downview) and also ten UK parkruns that no longer operate. The most recent of these to join the list is Inverness parkrun (run by Jain in 2019). This was replaced on a one-for-one basis by Torvean parkrun the week before last with the same team and a great deal of commonality though a new course and starting from event #1. The same week Llanelli Coast was similarly replaced by Sandy Water in Wales though Llanelli was a parkrun no member had yet done. Tring and Yeovil Montacute parkruns are still on the parkrun map although it is well known that the locations have been denied to parkrun, but it is still hoped that new courses will be found and the events re-launched - though again they may have new names and be launched from event #1.
Club Featured parkrunsMonthly Club Featured parkruns have been added to the club diary with the first one being planned for Maidenhead for 23rd October (the date we would have been running at WARR in Hawaii...not that some of us have quite given up on that yet). John Scaife is in charge of the series and later ones have been pencilled in for Bushy, Nonsuch, Sandhurst Memorial, Gunnersbury and Homewood. Whilst we don't need hosts at these events please feel free to offer useful information such as parking hints if you are a regular at the next one of these. Also email John to suggest other parkruns worth adding to the list. |
Along
with the start of the new football season, a new running goal has been set by
and for ourselves. From the acknowledged centre of London - the statue of George
I at Trafalgar Square - we plan to run to all the football league grounds that
are located within a London Borough during this current season.
This weekend was our first endeavour. We ran the Crystal Palace parkrun on Saturday and then drove to and left our car near Selhurst Park at Crystal Palace F.C. We then caught a train to Balham which is where our hotel was. Sunday morning saw us take the Underground Northern Line from nearby Balham station to Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square. Our 9.2 mile run started at 08:10 and took us over the river at Hungerford Bridge, along the Thames and through Vauxhall, Stockwell, Brixton, Brockwell, Norwood, Gipsy Hill and on to Selhurst Park. We were back at the car in 1:35.
At the planning stage it seemed logistically too much but we were not to be beaten. We had to find parking at the football ground and what to leave in the car such as water, snacks and jackets. We needed to find a hotel outside of the congestion zone which we could get to easily from the ground and which was also an easy trip away from TrafaagarrSquare. We did not want to carry anything including jackets during the run and therefore the morning temperature needed to be considered. However we did need our Oyster cards, face masks and of course, a copy of the route.Square. We did not want to carry anything including jackets during the run and therefore the morning temperature needed to be considered. However we did need our Oyster cards, face masks and of course, a copy of the route.
A very successful weekend despite the planning and we look forward very much to the next runs…..Tottenham on 26th Sep and Arsenal on the 27th which appropriately is North London derby weekend.
Paul Watt and Julie Barclay
Ed: The map is from London football geography | Hidden London (hidden-london.com) . This includes the National League grounds which are probably excluded from Paul's target list. Watford is also excluded since Vicarage Road is just north of the area covered by Greater London, though it is inside the M25.
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