Spartan YUKO GORDON is a British Champion!
Four Spartans entered the British Masters Athletic Federation ten mile championships which were held in Hertfordshire on 30th December as part of the Buntingford end of the year race. Yuko won GOLD in the women 70 plus race with 1 hour 18 minutes exactly.
DAVID HARRIS-CHERGUIT was the first of 18 Spartans. He beat one hour finishing in 59 minutes 38 seconds to be 34th out of the 487 finishers. He said it was great to see so many Spartans. He was followed by our first Spartan championship runner JOHN HARRIS with 1:12:02.
A great race but shouldn’t have worn white trainers said STUART ARCHER who finished with a new personal best (PB) of 1:05:08.
JIM BROWN ran a satisfying negative split with his second five miles almost two minutes quicker than the first. He came in with 1 hour 31 minutes 43 seconds. Jim said it was a fantastic club organised event.
WENDY THARANI said it was a great race. Her time was 1:31:58.
In the women’s veteran 65 category SHARON CROWLEY finished in 1:46:30.
NICHOLA DURENT was delighted to beat the cut off by nearly eight minutes with her 2 hours 22 minutes 19 seconds.
| Position. | Bib | Name | 10YR Rank | 10YR Category | Net Time |
| 34 | 1283 | David Harris-Cherguit | 16/86 | MV40 | 59:38 |
| 58 | 1236 | Nick Gill | 20/75 | MSEN | 1:03:59 |
| 69 | 1015 | Stuart Archer | 28/86 | MV40 | 1:05:08 |
| 125 | 1496 | Abbie Pez | 7/50 | FSEN | 1:11:45 |
| 126 | 1231 | Ross Gallagher | 36/86 | MV40 | 1:11:45 |
| 132 | 1281 | John Harris | 11/28 | MV60 | 1:12:02 |
| 191 | 1246 | Yuko Gordon | 1/7 | FV70 | 1:18:00 |
| 213 | 1562 | Danny Scanlon | 52/86 | MV40 | 1:19:38 |
| 214 | 1338 | Mike Jeffs | 43/75 | MSEN | 1:19:38 |
| 256 | 1497 | Tracy Pez | 19/72 | FV50 | 1:23:26 |
| 337 | 1087 | Jim Brown | 7/12 | MV70 | 1:31:43 |
| 341 | 1620 | Wendy Tharani | 30/72 | FV50 | 1:31:58 |
| 346 | 1642 | Ann Tryssesoone | 31/72 | FV50 | 1:32:41 |
| 369 | 1110 | Chloe Chapman | 35/50 | FSEN | 1:35:40 |
| 398 | 1337 | Andrew Jay | 64/70 | MV50 | 1:39:13 |
| 400 | 1384 | Karen Liddle | 22/30 | FV60 | 1:39:50 |
| 432 | 1154 | Sharon Crowley | 26/30 | FV60 | 1:46:30 |
| 487 | 1190 | Nichola Durent | 59/59 | FV40 | 2:22:19 |
St Albans 10K
Getting back into racing after injury ALISON SHELLEY ran the New Year’s Eve 10K at St Albans in one hour and 58 seconds (1:00:58). There were 535 finishers.
Ely 10k
PAUL HOLGATE and ROGER BIGGS ran the Ely 10k which they said was a flat course with one climb between 8-9k but they had their heads down between 5 and 9k with the usual courses headwind! Paul finished in 1:13:21 and Roger in 1:32:10
Hyde Park 10k
JIM BROWN was up early enough on New Year’s Day to catch the train to London and run the Hyde Park 10K event.
He finished in 55 minutes 20 seconds (55:20) which considering he hasn’t managed to finish a 5K recently in under 28 minutes 40 seconds was pretty satisfying.
Parkrun Saturday 23rd December
SHARON CROWLEY ran her 50th parkrun. Running and celebrating with a group of friends.
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Parkrun Christmas Day, Monday 25th December
ADRIAN BUSOLINI won with a new parkrun personal best of 16 minutes 55 seconds. WILLIAM MORLEY was 15th out of the 499 on Christmas Day with a new parkrun PB of 19 minutes 44 seconds and in the same race PAUL JENNINGS ran a new parkrun PB of 26 minutes 42 seconds.
Parkrun Saturday 30th December
ASHLEY JOHNSON was first woman at Green Denham in a new parkrun personal best (PPB) of 19 minutes 18 seconds.
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Parkrun New Year’s Day Monday 1st January
LINDA GEORGE ran a new parkrun personal best of 28:23.