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BA Athletics Club News Digest 31st August 2015Events:
New members and non-members of all fitness levels and abilities are welcome at all of these events. The full diary of club featured events is on the club website at: http://www.barunner.org.uk/Event Diary.shtml. Running related gossip and chat: Facebook "BA Runner" (link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/636199849751546/). No longer interested? To be removed from the BA Athletics Club mailing
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news@barunner.org.uk. Reminder: Sunday 6th September BAAC Track & Field Championships & Fun Day at Eton from 12noon till around 5pm.Thames Valley Athletics Centre. Pococks Lane, Eton, SL4 6HN (map: http://www.deleisure.com/find-us)
^Superstars event – an open competition for anyone who wishes to participate in a variety of both track & field events, to parade their athletic prowess!! All 6 events must be covered to be Superstar Champion. Participation is more important than achievement and instruction will be given before any event. Sunshine has been ordered for the day (but cannot be guaranteed). Participation is free for both members and non-members though is at your own risk. Hope to see you there, Eddie Giles Any questions? mailto:EddieGiles@et-enterprises.com Round-the-Park Tuesday 8th September Harmondsworth Moor start 12:30The event starts near the wooden bridge behind the main car park. It is a 2 lap course and is approximately 3 miles in length, so just a bit shorter than 5 Km. This is a fun event and ALL levels of runners/joggers are welcomed.
Those not at Waterside wishing to take part will not be able to park in the parkland car parks. You should either use the bus to get to Waterside or consider parking in the eastern side of Moor Lane, assessable only from Harmondsworth village. There is a single yellow line here with parking permitted between 10:30 and 15:30 and spaces are freely available. The entry fee is £1 per person and all proceeds goes to the White Lodge Charity. You can either enter the race as an individual or as part of a team. Teams are to be made up of 4 mixed runners, including at least one male and one female. In an attempt to avoid too much of a rush on the day and inform the wardens of expected numbers, please could you let know if you are going to take part. If you are entering as part of a team, can you please complete the attached form and email it to me. We will hand out numbers and collect your entry fees on the day at the start so please arrive a few minutes early. Entries will still be taken on the day. If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to ask. Regards, Paul Knechtl mailto:paul.a.knechtl@ba.com WARR - What is it good for?This year's World Airline Road Race is in Dubai with the 10k and 5k races being early on Friday 23rd October so most will aim to be there on or before Wednesday 21st to allow a little time to acclimatize to the heat of the outdoors not to mention the cool of the air conditioning in the hotels and reception rooms. There are already over 600 international airline participants booked including 16 to 23 with the BA group. I'm communicating other details with the team members I know of so if you haven't received an email from me over the weekend please correct me on your plans. If you are not sure what to expect then a few pointers for you...
Let me know if you are interested or need more information - Roderick Hoffman (Team Captain) Monopoly Challenge - Wednesday 26th AugustWorld markets crashed, torrential rain fell in Middlesex, chaos on the M4 - and the title deeds of streets and stations in London changed hands - all in one day! Aspiring property speculator Alan Friar was beaten by the M4 ("free parking" for over an hour), but two teams of traders fought it out on the streets of Cranford. They completed shuttle runs from the Concorde Centre to three marshaling points (round trips of approximately 0.85k, 1.4k and 2.1k) to collect Monopoly title deeds. Reaching two of the marshaling points involved a tricky bit of hill work, unusual in this part of the world. The runners were under pressure to make good use of their forty minutes, and each marshal was visited several times. Team Boot (Chris Kelly and Alan Anderson) put in a valiant effort, but their £1,900 worth of properties was defeated by the £2,270 worth collected by the larger Team Top Hat (Roderick Hoffman, Steve Newell and power walker Harry Wild). Thank you to officials Brian, Paddy, Paul and Linda for their help. Steve Hillier Club parkrun results for Saturday 29th August 2015After the party atmosphere at Reading last week to celebrate Chris Kelly's 250th run it was time to look elsewhere for achievement. As usual we didn't have to look very far although some little stories were unearthed more by instinct than thorough investigation. The slightly cooler weather and maybe the recent Wednesday night training sessions triggered some notable performances:
Roderick Hoffman decided a bank holiday weekend for the ideal moment to clear up one of the anomalies in the attendance table and headed to Ashton Court in Bristol to take the club different parkruns total to 194 and his personal tally to 121. Daniela Mayerova has also run there once, before she joined our club. The club provided three volunteers at Maidenhead with Alice Banks feeding finish tokens to the finish token giver-outer and John and Benita Scaife scanning them a minute or two later. I stumbled cross an astonishing series of performances by one runner at Northala Fields. Tony Merritt from Burnham Joggers, a member of the Cowell Club (more than 100 different parkruns) keeps returning to Northala Fields. He was naturally at the inaugural along with some of us in midsummer 2014. Since then he has been back eleven times and come away with a pb every time. Echoes of pole vaulter of an earlier era. {Ed: The One That Got Away was also at Northala on Saturday. The other year Mohamed Mohamed was spotted by a club other than ours running solo round Hillingdon track. He was doing a fast pace so they signed him up on the spot. It turns out that he was a Somali Olympic Athlete who had not managed to catch the boat home after the 1500m in London 2012. He ran his first ever parkrun at Northala on Saturday and knocked a minute off the course record (to 14:43). Northala can now boast that it has one of the top twenty fastest UK parkrun times.} Northala Fields might attract a good crowd this coming week as the runs at Gunnersbury (London Mela) and Osterley (wedding) have been cancelled. Spare a thought for Steve Newell's nephew, David Palmer, who lives in Yorkshire and often takes his son to the parkrun at Fountains Abbey. For a man in the prime of life his pb is nothing to write home about but he is now forever saddled with a pw on the parkrun computer of 59:59 along with 224 others who were at Fountains Abbey (Ripon) this week. Something must have gone horribly wrong. The timekeeper was the most dedicated volunteer at Fountain's Abbey but I fear she may be relegated to trail runner on a permanent basis after this! [Ed: It shouldn't matter, this is not the first such occurrence, one of the club's faster parkrunners can also "boast" a parkrun time of 59:59 after a similar event at St Albans the other year]. Updated club parkrun stats: www.barunner.org.uk/results/ba_parkrun_park_totals.xls Steve Newell
parkrun PSI note that Sharon Kassemzadeh did her best ever graded performance at flat Cassiobury on Saturday with 87.45% (compared with the club record of 86% held by Dave Dixon). I suspect that that was despite her having done the tough hill training session with PK and others on Harmondsworth Moor on Friday - not because she had. Roderick Hoffman Running Shorts
Subject: Autumn Marathon Preparation Workshop with Mara Yamauchi - 30th September 2015Following the successful workshop we held earlier this year, we have another opportunity for athletes and coaches to attend Mara's Marathon Preparation Workshop, primarily aimed at those preparing for an Autumn marathon. The time and location are as follows:
Costs £10 to attend. Further details are contained in the following link: http://www.londonathletics.org/marathons-with-mara. In order to reserve a place at this workshop, could you please contact myself. Many thanks, Regards, Guy Spencer
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