Happy Birthday from this Thursday 27 January to Onochie Achike, Gerald Alterman, Ernest Barnes, Amelia Daley, Russell Devitt, Emmanuel Duruiheoma, Emilia Economu, Micah Forbes-Agyepong, Sophie Forbes-Laird, Bethan Hale, Cathering Higgins, Milika Hislop-Ellis, Giles Kerry-Roger, Adina Kut, Kyle Langford, Nicholas Nieland, Gary Wilson and Benjamin Zeffertt

SHAFTESBURY BARNET HARRIERS SUBSCRIPTIONS – SBH Treasurer GEOFF MORPHITIS has sent me the following regarding subscriptions.
Our new year started on 1 October 2021. The SBH annual subscriptions is £50 and the current England Athletics annual registration is £15 – but increase to £16 if your EA renewal date is after 1 April 2022. The total is £65 – but increase to £66 if your EA renewal date is after 1 April 2022, and should now be paid NOW to; ACCOUNT NAME: SHAFTESBURY BARNET HARRIERS, BANK: 41308378, SORT CODE: 400426 – Please let me know when payment is made. I will still be collecting subscriptions for the year to 30 September 2021 from those members who did not pay. Thanks GEOFF

REQUEST FROM GABBY KYRIACOU – GABBY is currently studying at Sussex University, doing mechanical engineering with an integrated masters and will be finishing her degree in 2023. GABBY joined Shaftesbury in 2012 aged 13, and has almost ever present for the club, on the track, cross country and road up to 2019, with many successes. GABBY is not the only talented KYRIACOU in Shaftesbury, there is her sister LIDIA, but unfortunately due to a hip injury has not competed since 2018.

Hi fellow SBH members and I hope you’re all well. I am taking part in a Jog Jan for Pan Can to raise funds and awareness for Pancreatic Cancer Action by running 200km over the month of January in memory of my Dad who died last year from this disease. Can you please follow the link below to my fund-raising page. If possible, please donate to this very worthwhile cause and help me to exceed my target. It would be great if you could share the link with friends and family in case they too want to donate. Thanks very much GABBY

https://pancreaticcanceraction.enthuse.com/pf/gabriella-kyriacou/post/1259383

REQUEST FROM JESSICA HURLEY – JESSICA is currently at Stirling University, studying Sports Business Management and will be graduating in June this year. She is also the President of the Women’s Hockey Club and play in the 1st XI, competing in the Scottish Hockey National League.

I was wondering whether it would be possible at all if you could forward on my dissertation research survey to athletes at Shaftesbury to complete? You must be over 18 and had previously taken part in a mass-participant sporting event.

This is the link: https://stirling.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sustainable-development-in-mass-participant-sporting-events

SOUTHERN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place this Saturday 29 January at Beckenham Place Park, Beckenham (SatNav BR£ 1SY).
Start Times – 11.00am U15 Boys (4.5k), 11.20am U13 Girls (3k), 11.35am U13 Boys (3k), 11.50am U15 Girls (4.5k), 12.10pm U17 Men (6k), 12.40pm U20 Women (6k), 13.05pm U17 Women (5k), 13.30pm U20 Men (8k), 14.05pm Senior Women (8k), 14.50pm Senior Men (15k). In the Senior Men’s any athlete has not started his 3rd lap by 60 minutes they are advised they will be unlikely to complete the course in 90 minutes when times will stop being recorded.

The Southern is the Club Cross Country Championship race for the Under 13 and 15 Boys, 9 Mile Senior Men and all Women’s age-groups excluding Under 11 Girls.
The Southern is also the Winter Cross Country Points race for all age-groups Men and Women, excluding Under 11 Boys and Girls. This is the 5th of 7 race in the series.

FEBRUARY CLOSING DATES FOR INDOOR FIXTURES – Entry details are shown in Upcoming Fixtures below.
Lee Valley Middles Distance Meeting on Wednesday 9 February (CD Monday 7 February)
Lee Valley Ayo Falola Dream Mile on Wednesday 16 February (No Closing Date Given)
Newham 60m Sprint Series on Wednesday 16 February (CD Saturday 12 February)
Lee Valley Sprint Hurdles Open Meeting on Saturday 19 February (No Closing Date Given)

RESULTS
SOUTHERN U13/U15/U17 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Took place at Lee Valley on 15-16 January.
Apologies but the results from the SEAA are incomplete, those results outstanding are in Red. Apperently the results have gone missing.
300m – U15B no results available as yet
300m – U15G H1 MACIE SUTHERLAND 5th (SB 45.35) no other results available as yet
400m – U17W no results available as yet
800m – U13G no results available as yet
800m – U15G no results available as yet
800m – U17W no results available as yet

LONDON U20/SENIOR INDOOR GAMES – Took place at Lee Valley on 22-23 January.
60m – U20W 1.2 MARLI JESSOP U20 2nd (PB 7.82) taking .09 of a second off her 2020 time, 1.6 ELYSE DUNCAN-BROWN U20 4th (SB 8.67) equalling her9 January time, 2.1 MARLI finished 7th (PB 7.79) taking .03 of a second off her 1.2 time, 2.6 ELYSE finished 3rd (8.68)
60m – SM A1.5 ALEX BEECHEY (2nd Claim) 2nd (PB 8.39) taking .02 of a second off his 2020 time, A2.3 ALEX finished 4th (8.39), C1.4 EUGENE RIZA 6th (PB 8.39), C1.6 KENAN STEPHENS U23 1st (PB 7.17), C2.1 KENAN finished 1st (PB 7.17) equalling his 1.6 time, C2.5 EUGENE finished 2nd (8.40)
60m – SW 1.1 ALANNAH FASHANU U23 3rd (PB 7.49) taking .12 of a second off her 9 January time, EVE WRIGHT U23 4th (7.54), 1.2 SHEREEN CHARLES V35 7th (SB 7.95), REBECCA JEGGO U23 (HCA) 3rd (PB 7.65) taking .07 of her 2020 time, 1.3 HANNAH FOSTER U23 2nd (PB 7.77) taking .03 of a second off her 2021 time, 1.7 LYDIA ROGERS 2nd (SB 8.49), 1.10 ROSALIND ZEFFERTT V60 6th (SB 10.27), 2.1 EVE finished 2nd (PB 7.43) taking .01 of a second off her 22 January time, and is ranked UK No.3 U23 in 2022, ALANNAH finished 4th (PB 7.47) taking .02 of a second off her 1.1 time, and is ranked UK No.4 U23 in 2022, 2.2 REBECCA finished 1st (PB 7.59) taking .06 of her 1.2 time,HANNAH finished 3rd (PB 7.73) taking .04 of a second off her 1.3 time, 2.3 SHEREEN finished 4th (SB 7.89) taking .06 of a second off her 1.2 time, and is ranked UK No.1 V35 in 2022, 2.7 LYDIA finished 2nd (SB 8.42) taking .07 of a second off her 1.7 time, 2.10 ROSALIND finished 4th (SB 10.17) taking .10 of a second off her 1.10 time, and is ranked UK No.7 V60 in 2022
High Jump – SM B AKIN COWARD 2nd (SB 2.09m) and is ranked UK No.5 in 2022
High Jump – SW B EVELYNE FONTEYNE U20 3rd Equal (SB 1.68m) and is ranked UK No.2 U20 in 2022
Pole Vault – SW A ROSALIND ZEFFERTT V60 12th (SB 1.90m) and is ranked UK No.2 V60 in 2022, OLIMPIA CORBO U20 13th (PB 1.90m), B TRINITY O’CONNOR U23 5th (SB 3.21m) adding 10cm to her 16 January height, and is ranked UK No.6 U23 in 2022
Long Jump – SW A ROSALIND ZEFFERTT V60 9th (SB 3.36m) and is ranked UK No.1 V60 in 2022
Triple Jump – SM A JOSH WOODS U23 2nd (SB 14.82m) and is ranked UK No.3 U23 in 2022
Triple Jump – SW A KACEY WALTERS U20 1st (PB 11.81m) adding 34cm to her 16 January jump, and is ranked UK No.4 U20 in 2022, ROSALIND ZEFFERTT V60 13th (SB 7.39m) and is ranked UK No.1 V60 in 2022, B JAZZ SEARS U23 5th (SB 11.45m) and is ranked UK No.2 U23 in 2022, ARAN YAVUZ U20 (2nd Claim) 8th (SB 8.39)

BOXX UNITED MANCHESTER INDOOR TOUR – Took place at Sportcity on 22 January.
60m – SM CONFIDENCE LAWSON 4th (SB 6.79), SM H2 CONFIDENCE finished 7th (SB 6.77) taking .02 of a second off his first race
60m – SW EVE WRIGHT U23 2nd (PB 7.44) taking .04 of a second off her 9 January race, and is ranked UK No.3 U23 in 2022
3000m – SM HENRY MCLUCKIE U23 7th (PB 8:00.85) taking 15.06 seconds off his 2020 race, and is ranked UK No.1 U23 in 2022
High Jump – SM DAVID SMITH 2nd (SB 2.21m) and is ranked UK No.1 in 2022
Pole Vault – SW EMMA ANDERSSON 4th (4.00m)
Shot 7.26kg – SM SCOTT LINCOLN (HCA) 1st (SB 20.73m) and is ranked UK No.1 in 2022 

RUN JUMP THROW INDOOR SERIES – Took place at Sheffield on 22 January.
60m – SM JORDAN WATSON-BROWN 1st (PB 6.78) taking .09 of a second off his 2020 time
200m – SX 1 JORDAN WATSON-BROWN 1st (SB 21.42) and is ranked UK No.4 in 2022

SALLY PEARSON MEETING – Took place at Nathan, Australia on 22 January.
Discus 1kg – SW B JADE LALLY 1st (58.41m)

SD SU D2 INDOOR OPEN MEETING – Took place at Brookings, South Dakota, USA on 21 January.
Pole Vault – SM GLEN QUAYLE U23 (Northern State University) 1st (PB 4.90m) adding 8cm to his 2020 height, and is ranked UK No.3 U23 in 2022

CAROLINA CHALLENGE INDOOR MEETING – Took place at Columbia, South Carolina, USA on 21-22 January.
400m – SM MITCHEL COX (Queens University North Carolina) 3rd (PB 53.99) taking .41 of a second off his 2017 time
Mile – SM MITCHEL COX (Queens University North Carolina) 1st (PB 4:12.58) taking .41 of a second off his 2017 time, and is ranked UK No.6 in 2022 

SCOTTISH ATHLETICS INDOOR LEAGUE AFTERNOON MATCH – Took place at Emirates Arena on 16 January.
60m – U20W 1 SELINA HENDERSON 2nd (SB 7.95)
200m – U20W 2 SELINA HENDERSON 1st (SB 25.85)

PARKRUN – Can you make sure that you are registered as ‘Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers’, as the link I use to select all results only shows SBH athletes. If anyone is also officiating can you please contact me and advise me where and when. 

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Gladstone on 22 January.
JULIAN LAMY 3rd (18.13) this was his 30th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Gunnersbury on 22 January.
DANIEL NICHOLLS V35 13th (18.32) this was his 24th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Hackney Marshes on 22 January.
BARRY CHISHOLM V60 206th (26.54) this was his 230th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Jersey Farm on 22 January.
VICTORIA PRITCHARD V35 7th (20.11) this was her 35th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at March on 22 January.
GLEN WATTS V35 1st (17.03) this was his 10th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Oak Hill on 22 January.
BRADLEY SINGER 35th (22.18) this was his 163rd Parkrun, STUART SINGER V60 41st (22.36) this was his 316th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Panshanger on 22 January.
RUSSELL DEVITT V70 145th (34.25) this was his 210th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at Pieschener Allee on 22 January.
AMY FRY V35 23rd (51.56) this was her 13th Parkrun

PARKRUN 5K – Took place at St Albans on 22 January.
CLAIRE HOBSON 56th (25.11) this was her 146th Parkrun

UPCOMING FIXTURES FOR THE NEXT 4 WEEKS, FOR THE PERIOD THURSDAY  27 JANUARY DECEMBER UNTIL WEDNESDAY 23 FEBRUARY – The current 2021 Summer Fixture Card can be found on the SBH website – http://sbharriers.co.uk/fixtures-results/fixture-cards/ – also the contact details for all Team Managers can be found on the SBH website – http://sbharriers.co.uk/athletics/track-field/team-managers/
There are certain fixtures, that you will have to enter yourselves and pay the appropriate fee.

LEE VALLEY LONDON U13, U15 & U17 INDOOR GAMES – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Saturday 29 January and Sunday 30 January.
Timetable: The timetable is provisional and based on 2019 entries. Field event pools will be displayed 1 week before the event. Track will be seeded on the day. Timetable for the U13/U15/U17 can be downloaded here
To enter please use this link – https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2022/GBR/ligu13u15u17/
No Closing Date Given
Note: You will have to enter yourself and pay the appropriate entry fee

NEWHAM 60m SPRINT SERIES – Takes place at the Terence McMillan Stadium, 281 Prince Regent Street, London (Satnav E13 8SD) on Wednesday 2 February.
Entries Closed

NORTH WEST LONDON LEAGUE – The fourth fixture of five which takes place on Saturday 5 February at Bannister Stadium, Uxbridge Road, Harrow (Satnav HA3 6SW). Age-Groups U11 to U17.
Awaiting final details.
Note: You do not have to be pre-entered, just turn up and run. Will any of our Female athletes please see JEREMY SOTHCOTT who will give you a race number

LEE VALLEY INDOOR MIDDLE DISTANCE EVENING – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Wednesday 9 February.
Age-group U15s and above. To enter please use this link – https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2022/GBR/lvacmiddledistance/
Entries Close Monday 7 February

ENGLAND U15, U17 & U20 INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place at the English Institute of Sport, Coleridge Road, Sheffield (Satnav S9 5DA) on Saturday 12 February and Sunday 13 February.
Entries Closed

LEE VALLEY ESSEX AND EASTERN COUNTIES INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Saturday 12 February and Sunday 13 February. Age-group U13 up to Senior.
Entries Closed

LEE VALLEY INDOOR AYO FALOLA DREAM MILE – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Wednesday 16 February.
Age-group U15s and above. To enter please use this link – https://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/event-listings/ayo-falola-dream-mile
No Closing Date Given

NEWHAM 60m SPRINT SERIES – Takes place at the Terence McMillan Stadium, 281 Prince Regent Street, London (Satnav E13 8SD) on Wednesday 16 February.
Please use this link for entry information – https://entry4sports.co.uk/#/
Closing date for entries is Saturday 12 February

START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE – The fifth fixture of five takes place on Saturday 19 February at Trent Park, Cockfosters Road, Middlesex (SatNav EN4 0PS). The start is close to the car park which is accessible from the western gate of Trent Park, found on the left-side before reaching Cockfosters underground station (Piccadilly line).
Awaiting final details, the start times are from the 2020 race.
Start Times 12.25pm U11 (Over 9) Boys (up to 2km), 12.30pm U11 (Over 9) Girls (up to 2km), 12.40pm U13 Boys (3km), 12.45pm U13 Girls (3km), not before 1.00pm U17 Men and U15 Boys (4km), not before 1.05pm U17 Women and U15 Girls (4km), not before 1.30pm U20, Senior and Veteran Women (7-8km), not before 2.35pm U20, Senior and Veteran Men (7-8km).
Note: You do not have to be pre-entered, just turn up and run.
Please collect your race numbers from the respective team managers – SIMON KEENE, JEREMY SOTHCOTT and JO KENT
Please go to Start Fitness Metropolitan League web site www.metleague.co.uk for course maps, and any other final information.

START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE RACE NUMBERS – I have been asked to remind you that your race number must be kept by yourselves, and is to be used for all 5 fixtures.

LEE VALLEY INDOOR SPRINT HURDLES OPEN MEETING – Takes place at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, 61 Meridian Way, Edmonton (Satnav N9 0AR) on Saturday 19 February.
Age-group U13s and above. To enter please use this link – https://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/event-listings/blcf-indoor-sprint-hurdles-open
No Closing Date Given

SBH TRACK AND FIELD FIXTURES – Next week we’re will be in the month of February, and it will only be 2 months before the 2022 season starts. This year there are 2 major championships, firstly the World Championships takes place in Eugene, USA from 15-25 July, then the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham from 30 July to 7 August.

These are the fixtures for the London Inter Club Challenge which is promoted by Shaftesbury, plus the 4 league that Shaftesbury compete in.

The London Inter Club Challenge fixtures are Saturday 16 April at Lee Valley, Saturday 25 June at StoneX Stadium, Sunday 24 July at StoneX Stadium and Sunday 28 August at StoneX Stadium. (All age-groups Men and Women).

The National Athletic League fixtures are Saturday 7 May at Sportcity, Saturday 4 June at Eton, Saturday 2 July at StoneX Stadium and Saturday 20 August at Bedford. (Under 20 and Senior Men and Women).

The Youth Development League Upper Age Group fixtures are Saturday 24 April at Eton, Saturday 28 May at StoneX Stadium, Sunday 26 June at Woking and Sunday 7 August at StoneX Stadium. The league final is scheduled for Sunday 4 September. (Under 17 and 20 Men and Women).

The Eastern Young Athletes League fixtures are Sunday 1 May at Watford, Sunday 5 June at St Albans, Sunday 10 July at StoneX Stadium and Sunday 14 August at StoneX Stadium. The league final is scheduled for Sunday 18 September. (Under 13, 15 and 17 Men and Women).

The Middlesex Young Athletes League fixtures are Sunday 8 May at Parliament Hill, Saturday 21 May at Finsbury Park, Sunday 3 July at Perivale and Saturday 30 July at StoneX Stadium. (Under 13, 15 and 17 Men and Women).

SPORTS COUNCIL MOVES TO REDUCE INFLUENCE OF CLUBS – The following article was published on the Athletics Weekly website recently. 

MIKE HEATH and TONY SHIRET from the Athletics Research Group say an EGM later this month could result in clubs losing their power to vote at UKA meetings.
Following discussion between us and the UKA Chair, IAN BEATTIE, and following letters to Mr BEATTIE and UK Sport’s Chair, UKA has published details of the proposals it plans to make at an Extraordinary General Meeting on January 28. While this is a welcome step forward, we believe it was unlikely to have happened without our intervention.
Read More: Statement on UKA Members EGM
Readers can see for themselves that the proposals will reduce their clubs’ influence on decisions that directly affect them and reduce any meaningful oversight over UKA following a period when its Executive Management and Board have clearly failed to improve UKA performance. Under the proposed changes the three current club representatives will have their votes removed and their status reduced to non-voting members. The Home Country Athletics Federations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have half of the voting rights instead of one third previously.
We believe that these changes have been proposed because UK Sport has written to the Chair of UKA requiring changes to the UKA constitution (its Articles) by the end of the month. We also believe that these changes have been linked to funding decisions.

Currently UKA has a new Chair, IAN BEATTIE, an Acting CEO and a new Senior Independent Director. So, it appears that the UK Sport is trying to force through changes with a new UKA Management Team. Additionally, there has been no public information until today (Jan 21), seven days before the decision, on these proceedings. Fundamental issues concerning the governance of the sport are being decided effectively in secret. The Members of UKA – the 12 people who effectively “own” UKA on behalf of various interests – HCAFs, coaches, clubs, officials etc – are restricted by confidentiality agreements set out in their Code of Conduct from discussing these matters outside UKA meetings. Without our intervention we think it unlikely that there would have been any public discussion before the decisions had been made.
Under existing arrangements, the 12 Members of UKA include elected representatives of the clubs, coaches, officials, road runners as well as the HCAFs and some other appointees. The elected reps can currently block changes to the constitution under UK Company Law. They function as the “conscience of the sport” through their meetings (formerly known as the UK Members’ Council or UKA Members) and review the UKA Board’s actions and in recent times have become effective at doing so – for example identifying that the loss of the UK’s second Diamond League Meeting (and its associated revenue) was not as described in the UKA Accounts and carried out without the UKA Board’s prior agreement.
Clubs may be surprised that control of UKA is effectively being handed to the HCAFs. After a consultation in 2021 the English clubs voted decisively against this option. So, the current proposals appear to be the opposite of what the sport more widely voted for.

The proposed action by UKA and UK Sport follows the Street Review and the resulting Change Plan endorsed by UKA and UK Sport in 2020. To date proposed changes to the ownership and governance of UKA have ignored probably the most important requirement of the Street Review and the Change Plan for a review of the purpose and effectiveness of the UKMC and have largely been driven to produce the result that UK Sport appears to be trying to achieve again. UKA has again declined to carry out that review (despite us specifically asking its Chair to do so) and the statement that “approval will allow us to meet the final outstanding requirement of the UK Athletics Change Plan which followed the Dame Sue Street report” is just not true in our opinion.
Why does this matter to clubs?
Club representatives will not hold voting rights on the revised UK Members effectively being relegated to second-class citizens on that body. It holds clubs powerless to resist changes UKA might wish to make in conjunction with HCAFs for example to raise more revenue directly from the membership.
In a sport that requires the support of huge amount of voluntary time with clubs at its centre, the funding bodies are saying ‘we matter but you don’t’.
Given the whole Plan was supposed to be ushering in a new collaborative culture in athletics, marginalising its stakeholders through a process surrounded until now in secrecy enforced by confidentiality agreements hardly seems the brave new world envisaged.
The idea that clubs are better placed with direct relationships with HCAFs is questionable when UKA controls rules, licensing, welfare, safeguarding, health and safety, competition, coaching and officiating.

We invite you to use your voices to let UK Sport and UKA know that with three major championships on the horizon why does the UK body ostensibly promoting sport seem so keen on diverting the new UKA management team away from delivering the performances that will get athletics back on the front foot in performance and attractiveness and may well help deliver the necessary commercial investment the sport so badly needs? Why cannot both of them just do the necessary options appraisal and consultation envisaged (properly this time, with all options being considered including no change) so that decisions are reached with the openness and transparency promised?
Please let UKA and the members of UKMC know that they have your support in pushing back against UK Sport on this matter.
Time for your input is short and this is your last chance to have meaningful involvement.
UKA can be reached at: mdraisey@uka.org.uk
UK Sport can be reached at: info@uksport.gov.uk
The UKA website lists the current Members on this link here.
In particular you might like to ask UKA and UK Sport:
Where is the rationale for such changes?
Why has UK Sport been so keen to implement them in the absence of the processes the Plan set out?
What will happen if UKA Members reject any such proposals?
Will anyone see the letter UK Sport has sent to UKA?
How does UK Sport rationalise its “do this or else approach” compared to the required changes in culture that were supposed to be delivered by their review and plan?
Read More: Statement on UKA Members EGM

BIRMINGHAM 2022 COMMONWEALTH GAMES – You may wish to sign up to receive their Newsletter. Link – https://www.birmingham2022.com/register-your-interest/. This is the link to the current schedule for the 25 events – https://images.birmingham2022.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/11441664_CWGs_Daily_Competition_Schedule_FINAL.pdf.