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BA Athletics Club News Digest 30th December 2019Events:
Our next Bedfont Club meeting will be on Wednesday 8th January for ad hoc runs and 22nd (Handicap). All members are welcome. New members and potential members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at most of our events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Last updated: 1st November. * Club Event Map: [Clickable link to Google Maps] (parkrun details updated 18th November 2019) / # Club Points event. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BARunnerUK/ (formal "front window" club page), BA Runner Facebook Group (informal "back office" - ask to join). Inclusions, with photos, please to Roderick Hoffman at news@barunner.org.uk. Tuesday 28th January - Round-the-Block at Cranford/Heston from 12:30 #
Over the years the course has been the same other than we've slightly varied the start and finish location and consequently the distance run between them. We'll do the full lap this year, which I've GPS measured at 3.4miles/5.5k, and with the start and finish at one of the grass areas opposite the Community College. Street parking should be straightforward. The course is shown on the club map or more clearly here (it is the same as last year). Note that we have no access to either the Heston Venue or Cranford Community College so participants will need to arrive ready to run, and return whence they came to shower and change afterwards (perhaps via the Queen's Head first for a post race drink and meal). Please attend and encourage your friends and colleagues to join us also. Traditionally we charge £1 for participation in this event and this is donated to White Lodge. Non-runners also welcome. Let us know to expect you by emailing us or responding to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1196283790762498/ Roderick Hoffman / Neil Frediani # 2019 Club Round-the-Block Points FinalEach year the club nominates a number of key events over the year and records participation in those events in the Round-the-Block table. The events consist of those we run ourselves such as the CIE "Club In-house Events", recommended external events such as the ROM "Run-of-the-Month", events in leagues in which we compete and events that the club is invited to provide marshals for. Points are awarded for each participant with 4pts for the organiser of an internal event, 2 points for marshalling (without running) and 1pt for runners. We celebrate everyone who over the course of the year accumulates ten or more points and there is a trophy for the highest scoring participant. This year, 2019, there have been 51 points scoring events. These ranged from the ladies cross-country match 4 in Lloyd Park last March that attracted only two club runners (so 2 points awarded) to the London Marathon which, with runners and marshals, attracted 167 club participants (including non-members) and 313 points awarded. In total 1089 points have been awarded to 275 individuals. By comparison last year there were 49 events and 1067 points awarded to 252 individuals. The London Marathon can be considered a unique event attracting participants for various reasons as well as club support. For that reason I note those that contribute to two or more events over the year. This year there were 100 such individuals (last year 101). I also consider the 10 point total as being where individuals deserve specific recognition for their efforts. This year 24 individuals achieved at least ten points (last year 20 individuals) so well done and thank you again to:
The full final table can be viewed here (Excel file shared via OneDrive): https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ao4wOv9pbDU1ht56l7iMQxt-8Rq1ug?e=F4GLXk Most of the top ten in the final table are either club committee members, or could be considered as such since they are so well established at the club. Two newer members with impressive totals are Christine Munden with 21 points from 19 events and Maartin Stenham with 16 from 16. The top three contributors are the same as last year, albeit in a different order. Jointly with 44 points is last year's winner Steve Newell and also Steve Hillier. Steve Hillier's points have been gathered from contributions to 35 different events out of the 51 available. Given that some of the 51 events are only open to ladies (and clash with the men's events on the same day) Steve could only contribute to more events if he took up Club Featured parkruns - but then Linda might never see him. The winner this year could be disqualified for also being the judge and jury of the points table, myself on 48 points. 2020 Club Round-the-Block pointsThe two Steve's and I will be delighted if someone new crashes into the top three in next year's table so please look out for, and offer to set-up and host, those events marked with a "#" in the diary. In short these include:
Roderick Hoffman obo the whole club and its operating committee SPOTY associations
Club parkrun results for Christmas Day and Saturday 28th December 2019
parkrun review Christmas Day 2019About one third of the UK 5km parkruns (and none of the 2km junior ones!) were operating on Christmas Day. There were some huge attendances with slower runners reaching the funnel to find all the finish tokens had already been given out. In some cases the results had to wait until Boxing Day as page after page of pencilled scribbles had to be keyed in to the computer the hard way. At Bushy Park the parkrun world record of 2527 set at North Beach in Durban, which had seemed way out of reach since it was set early in the year, was surpassed. The new figure is 2545. Ian Cunningham (35:41) completed a decade of Christmas Day parkrun at Bushy, his streak stretching right back to 2010. Paul Knechtl (17:38, 82.33%) produced what may well turn out to be the best time by a member this year – two seconds slower than last year but with an improved age grade score. Andrew Jordan (40:08) was running at Walsall Arboretum for the seventh Christmas Day in a row. That was another parkrun attracting a record attendance (739). Other members finding themselves part of record attendances included John Scaife (27:36) at Norwich (1358), Janet Smith (41:08) at Poole (1345), Benita Scaife (33:34) at Maidenhead (623), Denis Foxley (28:44) and Piers Keenleyside (30:00) at Northala Fields where Roderick Hoffman was kept extra busy on stopwatch duty [* Ed: I promised everyone a good time, by "good" I meant "accurate" hence the correction applied to some of the results!] and a group of refugees from Bedfont Lakes at Homewood (210). Sarah Gordon (33:52) chose her home run at Braunstone to complete her 250th. The attendance there was healthy (576) but there was room to breathe. New Year’s Day has attracted significantly bigger numbers.
parkrun review 28th December 2019The last Saturday of the year, the decade even, and early morning daylight was at a premium {Ed: Not in Oz!}. Some areas were still waterlogged {Ed: Not in OZ! So dry the lush grass start/finish stretch was bare soft sand} but in the coming weeks it may be long established cross-country fixtures (e.g. county championships) which will have a superior claim at some venues.
Maria Jovani (21:51) went to Maidenhead for the first time and improved the female club record there by a good margin. Paul Timms (24:11) improved the club record at Tetbury Goods Shed by 46 seconds. Nobody else has run there yet. Many will have plans for a New Year’s Day double and we can expect some new combinations this year because not all timings are the same as in the past. I’ve had it on good authority that Osterley (1030) is expecting a big crowd and is borrowing an extra couple of hundred of finish tokens for the occasion. Denis Foxley plans to run at Canons Park (0900) and then be at Harrow to be run director well before the start at 1030. Crane Park has switched to an early slot, perhaps due to overcrowding of the finish area but also following a switch of ED to someone who can get up on New Year's Day morning! Next week's digest is likely to feature the New Year's Day bumper results. Results from next Saturday's parkruns (4th Jan) are likely to be featured in the following week's digest along with those for the 11th. Steve Newell / Roderick Hoffman Steve's parkrun stats - club parkrun stats Full club parkrun database - {read access to new club parkrun database} - Download and explore. Steve Newell Marathon News
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club has had a "Round-the-Block" race around the streets of Cranford and Heston
since the early 1980s. Neil and I expect this to be the last time we run around
the traditional course at Cranford/Heston. The annual race once attracted
200 runners, it would be good to have 20 this time. So hopefully you will be
able to join us, as a generous lunchtime break from your work locations, or from
your retirement cottages. 
The wanderlust of the members shows no sign of abating with two
new parkruns added to the collection . Neil Frediani (30:57) was at Jesmond Dene
on Tyneside while Trish McCabe was at Deerpark Forest in Virginia. No, Trish
hasn't flown to the USA -