There has been lots of wins for our members over the last week as lots of medals and prizes have been won.
All these Spartans won gold, silver, bronze county medals or other prizes – JIM BROWN, CATHY CRAIG, PAULA DUNNE, JOHN HARRIS, DAVID HARRIS-CHERGUIT, GEORGIE HOOPER, SAM PRETTY, GRANT RAMSAY, TONY RANDFIELD and JANE WADEY.
The medal haul started at the Hatfield 5K on Wednesday evening which included the county championships for veterans and continued into the Stevenage 10K on Sunday.
Stevenage 10K
Fourteen Spartans tackled the undulating Stevenage 10K and they won lots of medals. The event included the Hertfordshire 10K championship for veterans and the team of David Harris-Cherguit (36:48); Grant Ramsay (39:42); John Harris (41:56) and Tony Randfield (42:17) won the team event and GOLD medals.
Helped by Jane Wadey improving her personal best (PB) by two minutes to 64:41 the Spartan women BRONZE medals with Georgie Hooper (49:27) and Paula Dunne (50:21) also in the team.
Jim Brown won the 70 plus trophy in the open event and the County GOLD medal with 58 minutes exactly.
SIMON FRASER was the fastest Spartan in the open race. He was fourth overall and second senior with 35:06.
Hatfield 5K
Spartan participation in the second race of the Hatfield 5K series was high and members managed to bring home some medals!
The fastest Spartan was SIMON JACKSON who came seventh overall in 16 minutes 38 seconds and the fastest female was PAULA DUNNE in 23:15.
The race included the Hertfordshire County Championships for veterans in which JIM BROWN won the GOLD medal for men 70 plus with 27 minutes 17 seconds and CATHY CRAIG the BRONZE medal for women 65 plus with 28:29.
NIKKI NATION ran a new season’s best of 28:11, a minute quicker than the previous week.
New Forest Half Marathon
DARRYL STEVENS went for a run in the New Forest the New Forest Half Marathon, and finished in 2 hours 48 minutes 39 seconds.
Parkrun Highlights Saturday 17th September
Congratulations to Nigel Strongitharm running a new PB of 24:59 at Bolberry Down parkun in Devon.
Yuko Gordon ran a new PB of 24:01 coming 21st on her 21st parkrun at Henlow.
For the full Parkrun results please go to their website by clicking the following link – Parkrun Results 17th September
Tables
Hatfield 5K (race 2 in a series of 3).
| Pos | Name | Ca | M/F | Cat Pos | Time | Chip | Age Gd | Comments |
| 7. | Simon JACKSON | MV40 | 7 | 5 | 16:38 | 16:38 | 85.1% | |
| 62. | Grant RAMSAY | MV50 | 54 | 19 | 19:47 | 19:44 | 73.8 % | |
| 67. | Danny SCANLON | MV40 | 58 | 19 | 19:54 | 19:49 | 68.4 % | |
| 71. | Tony RANDFIELD | MV60 | 62 | 5 | 20:02 | 19:55 | 82.0 % | |
| 98. | Peter SMITH | MV60 | 82 | 8 | 21:26 | 21:20 | 74.0 % | |
| 107. | Brian WHITE | MV60 | 86 | 10 | 22:10 | 22:08 | 76.2 % | |
| 121. | Mark GOODWIN | MV60 | 96 | 12 | 22:43 | 22:35 | 72.3 % | |
| 126. | Marcus RIDLEY | MS | 98 | 23 | 23:02 | 22:51 | 56.1 % | |
| 134. | Paula DUNNE | FV35 | 32 | 9 | 23:24 | 23:15 | 63.5 % | |
| 146. | Susan MCANENY | FV45 | 39 | 15 | 23:46 | 23:37 | 65.9 % | |
| 154. | Nick KLEANTHOUS | MV60 | 110 | 16 | 24:17 | 24:05 | 65.3 % | |
| 190. | Andrea WESTCOTT | FV45 | 68 | 22 | 26:51 | 26:33 | 62.0 % | |
| 198. | Jim BROWN | MV70 | 125 | 3 | 27:29 | 27:17 | 63.4 % | Gold |
| 205. | Nikki NATION | FV55 | 79 | 18 | 28:17 | 28:11 | 63.0 % | SB |
| 209. | Cathy CRAIG | FV65 | 81 | 4 | 28:51 | 28:29 | 72.0 % | Bronze |
| 221. | Sharon CROWLEY | FV55 | 90 | 22 | 30:00 | 29:39 | 64.8 % | |
| 227. | Jane WADEY | FV55 | 94 | 24 | 32:12 | 31:51 | 54.7 % | |
| 232. | Paul HOLGATE | MV60 | 135 | 27 | 35:01 | 34:39 | 47.3 % | |
| 237. | Roger BIGGS | MV70 | 136 | 8 | 43:30 | 43:07 | 42.3 % |
Stevenage 10K
| Pos | Name | Cat | 5K | Time | Age Gd | Comments |
| 4. | Simon FRASER | MS | 17:23 | 35:06 | 76.2 % | 2nd senior |
| 9. | David HARRIS-CHERGUIT | MV40 | 18:06 | 36:48 | 76.8 % | Team |
| 18. | Grant RAMSAY | MV50 | 19:18 | 39:42 | 74.8 % | Team + 4th MV50 |
| 26. | John HARRIS | MV60 | 20:25 | 41:56 | 77.3 % | Silver + Team |
| 29. | Tony RANDFIELD | MV60 | 20:16 | 42:17 | 79.6 % | Bronze + Team |
| 50. | Brian WHITE | MV60 | 22:25 | 45:38 | 75.9 % | |
| 75. | Mark GOODWIN | MV60 | 22:56 | 47:37 | 70.6 % | |
| 82. | Nick GILL | MS | 24:47 | 48:34 | 54.5 % | |
| 84. | Marcus RIDLEY | MS | 23:07 | 48:48 | 54.2 % | |
| 89. | Georgie HOOPER | FV35 | 24:09 | 49:27 | 61.0 % | Team + 4th FV35 |
| 94. | Paula DUNNE | FV35 | 24:23 | 50:21 | 60.0 % | Team + 5th FV35 |
| 175. | Jim BROWN | MV70+ | 28:13 | 58:00 | 61.4 % | Gold |
| 195 | Michael O’KEEFE | MV50 | 27:55 | 1:00:16 | ||
| 235 | Jane WADEY | FV55 | 31:10 | 1:04:41 | 55.7% | Team & PB (2 min) |