Gold, silvers, bronzes and five new personal bests were among the rewards for the 34 Fairlands Valley Spartans who ran Sunday’s Standalone 10K in Letchworth.
Spartan SIMON JACKSON was the fastest from FVS. He was the quickest man 40 plus, won GOLD in the County veteran championships and was 14th overall out of 1294 finishers in 35 minutes 20 seconds. Suzy won silver as SUZY HAWKINS was second woman 45 plus in 43:06 and CLAIRE PULLEN took bronze in the same category with 49:11.
There were two bronze teams – Simon; ADRIAN DONNELLY (40:54); MATT GIFFORD (43:36) and DANNY SCANLON (44:07) for the men (teams of four) and Suzy, Claire and TRACY PEZ (52:25) for the women (teams of three).
SALLY REEVE was first of the brand new personal bests with 51:28, an improvement of 29 seconds. Then came PETE COOK 53:11; ANDREA WESTCOTT 54:22; MEGAN SUTTON 60:24 and ROSE SUTTON 69:49.
Birthday girl PENNY SCHENKEL enjoyed lots of birthday greetings around the course and a good 10K run taking 64:42, her best this year.
| Pos | Name | Cat | 5K time | 10K time* | AG% | Comments |
| 14 | Simon JACKSON | MV40 | 17:21 | 35:20 | 83.5% | GOLD & Bronze Team |
| 16 | Simon FRASER | MS | 18:02 | 35:35 | 76.8% | YB |
| 82 | Adrian DONNELLY | MV40 | 20:21 | 40:54 | 70.8% | Bronze Team. SB |
| 143 | Suzy HAWKINS | FV45 | 21:19 | 43:06 | 77.4% | SILVER Bronze Team. SB |
| 155 | Matt GIFFORD | MV50 | 21:59 | 43:36 | 71.0% | Bronze Team |
| 171 | Danny SCANLON | MV40 | 22:12 | 44:07 | 64.0% | Bronze Team. YB |
| 219 | Brian WHITE | MV60 | 22:47 | 45:50 | 77.9% | |
| 243 | Charles ARNOLD | MV60 | 23:48 | 46:24 | 75.6% | YB |
| 343 | Claire PULLEN | FV55 | 25:18 | 49:11 | 76.1% | BRONZE Bronze Team. YB |
| 356 | John HARRIS | MV60 | 25:13 | 49:30 | 66.9% | |
| 357 | Paul SHELLEY | MV50 | 25:13 | 49:30 | 62.7% | |
| 360 | Nick GILL | MS | 25:18 | 49:31 | 54.1% | |
| 452 | Sally REEVE | FV45 | 26:33 | 51:28 | 68.0% | PB (0:29) |
| 463 | Martin DUDLEY | MV60 | 26:36 | 51:34 | 63.1% | YB |
| 488 | Tracy PEZ | FV45 | 26:23 | 52:25 | 65.4% | Bronze Team |
| 489 | Hazel SMITH | FV45 | 26:23 | 52:26 | 65.4% | SB |
| 521 | Nikki WILBY | FV35 | 26:40 | 52:57 | 58.2% | |
| 531 | Pete COOK | MV50 | 26:51 | 53:11 | 59.4% | PB (0:47) |
| 567 | Jon SYPULA | MV40 | 28:06 | 54:04 | 53.9% | SB |
| 595 | Andrea WESTCOTT | FV45 | 28:26 | 54:22 | 64.3% | PB (0:51) |
| 645 | Ann TRYSSESOONE | FV55 | 28:37 | 55:30 | 67.3% | SB |
| 660 | Marie COLUCCI | FV45 | 28:02 | 56:00 | 58.5% | |
| 871 | Megan SUTTON | FS | 29:12 | 1:00:24 | 49.6% | PB (2:05) |
| 968 | Alison SHELLEY | FV55 | 32:01 | 1:03:11 | 57.1% | |
| 990 | Jo COOKSLEY | FV35 | 33:26 | 1:03:01 | 48.0% | |
| 1050 | Monica SMITHSON | FV55 | 32:00 | 1:05:34 | 57.8% | |
| 1052 | Jim BROWN | MV70+ | 34:51 | 1:04:41 | 55.7% | |
| 1053 | Penny SCHENKEL | FV55 | 34:52 | 1:04:42 | 54.8% | Birthday. YB |
| 1147 | Rose SUTTON | FU20 | 35:04 | 1:09:49 | 43.0% | PB (39:25) |
| 1172 | Callie CHAPMAN | FV35 | 36:35 | 1:10:11 | 43.6% | SB |
| 1186 | Samantha SUTTON | FV45 | 35:07 | 1:12:13 | 46.3% | SB |
| 1225 | Paul HOLGATE | MV60 | 38:14 | 1:14:27 | 45.9% | |
| 1248 | Jan FRY | FV65 | 39:51 | 1:17:21 | 59.8% | SB |
| 1249 | Hannah SYPULA | FV45 | 39:51 | 1:17:22 | 42.5% | SB |
20 Years of Parkrun – Parkrun Highlights 5th October
Parkrun celebrated its 20th birthday on Saturday and 44 Spartans joined in the celebrations.
There were 465 finishers at Stevenage parkrun and 31 of them were Spartans. They included GRANT RAMSAY fourth in 18:55 and KAREN ELLIS fastest from Fairlands in 26:08.
Spartans running other parkruns included GAIL MACKIE 21:37 at Storeys Field; PETE SMITH 22:59 at North Yorkshire Water Park; KELLY McHALE third woman and only missing her PB by five seconds with 23:34 and MIKE REYNOLDS 30:18 at Panshanger; CHLOE CHAPMAN 33:13 and ANNABELLE WHITE 33:14 at Castle Park (Bishops Stortford).
From a start with just 13 runners and five volunteers in Bushy Park on 2 October 2004 there are now more than 10 million parkrunners around the world.
| Position | Gender Position | parkrunner | Time | Comments |
| 4 | 4 | Grant RAMSAY | 18:55 | Top Ten |
| 17 | 16 | Simon JACKSON | 20:40 | |
| 46 | 44 | Martin JACOB | 22:45 | parkrun PB |
| 48 | 46 | Paul SHELLEY | 22:59 | |
| 62 | 59 | Daniel VILJOEN | 23:39 | |
| 84 | 77 | Martin DUDLEY | 24:41 | |
| 86 | 79 | Matt CLARKE | 24:51 | |
| 112 | 99 | Toby ECCLESHALL | 26:01 | |
| 116 | 10 | Karen ELLIS | 26:08 | Fastest FVS female |
| 117 | 103 | Ryan DUNNING | 26:10 | |
| 150 | 17 | Fiona CLARKE | 27:04 | |
| 200 | 160 | Paul JENNINGS | 28:51 | |
| 203 | 163 | Nick KLEANTHOUS | 28:56 | |
| 218 | 169 | Jim BROWN | 29:15 | |
| 224 | 173 | Ryan RIDDELL | 29:28 | |
| 231 | 49 | Sophie PARSONS | 29:41 | |
| 232 | 50 | Pamela VILJOEN | 29:42 | |
| 246 | 183 | Maurice BALLARD | 30:05 | |
| 259 | 60 | Alison SHELLEY | 30:27 | |
| 311 | 85 | Debbie BLANTERN | 32:53 | |
| 318 | 218 | Paul HOLGATE | 33:14 | |
| 329 | 95 | Megan SUTTON | 34:01 | |
| 336 | 101 | Samantha SUTTON | 34:37 | |
| 343 | 106 | Linda GEORGE | 35:02 | |
| 365 | 119 | Tracy HAYGARTH | 36:27 | 140 parkruns |
| 385 | 240 | Lloyd DIAS | 38:10 | |
| 443 | 261 | Roger BIGGS | 48:28 | |
| 454 | 266 | James SOUTH | 53:13 | |
| 455 | 173 | Helen HARRIS | 53:39 | |
| 458 | 268 | Tony RANDFIELD | 56:47 | |
| 460 | 176 | Carolyn LINSELL | 60:48 |