Fairlands Valley Spartans ALEX SCOFIELD and JOE WASNOCK smashed their first marathons on Sunday at Brighton and both finished in 4:53, with Joe around 40 seconds behind Alex. They ran together for 23 miles. Their official times were Alex 4:53:00 and Joe 4:53:31.
TRICIA HOPPER ran the Brighton Marathon in 4 hours 59 minutes 39 seconds.
Berlin
SUE HAMER did Berlin half marathon on Sunday, the second of her super-half marathons, and got a personal best (PB) of 1:58:08, shaving 1 minute 50 seconds off her last PB at Bedford…
A great race, perfect conditions and a very enjoyable race
London Landmarks
Unfortunately the London Landmarks half marathon was about 700 metres short due to an incident that delayed the start. The 15-minute delay in the start time was due to a military wreath-laying ceremony near the traditional finish line exit, requiring a course reconfiguration and a 700-metre reduction in length.
Spartan times for the approximately 20.4 kilometre race included: Danielle Ally: 1:58:55, Harry Newberry: 2:07:22 and Olivia Nation 2:08:09.
Parkrun Highlights – Saturday 5th April
Over 500 parkrunners again at Stevenage parkrun on Saturday morning and the fastest runner was from Fairlands Valley Spartans. This was the Spartans stripey Saturday and 36 from the club were running the 5K. A great number considering how many Spartans were at other events over the weekend.
JESSICA CLARKE was the red caped crusader as she completed her major milestone of 50 parkruns. She finished in 29 minutes 55 seconds.
Spartan SIMON JACKSON was first of the 511 parkrunners at Saturday’s 395th parkrun in Stevenage.
Eight Spartans had an outing to the Great Denham parkrun which CHARLIE WHITE won in 17 minutes 16 seconds. NICK GILL was six out of the 280 runners in 18:44 and ANNABELLE WHITE sixth woman in 23:23.
NICK KLEANTHOUS enjoyed some parkrun tourism with a 31:32 at Penistone. ALISON WOOD ran the Clapham Common parkrun in 21:43. PAUL SHELLEY 27:20 and ALISON SHELLEY 29:02 both ran at Bedford and PAUL JENNINGS had a good run at Barclay (Hoddesdon) with 27:39.
ALAN GOODWIN volunteered at Stevenage for the 100th time.
| Position | Gender Position | FVS parkrunner | Time |
| 1 | 1 | Simon JACKSON | 17:13 |
| 4 | 4 | David Harris-Cherguit | 18:26 |
| 12 | 12 | Grant RAMSAY | 19:11 |
| 31 | 28 | Tony RANDFIELD | 21:22 |
| 40 | 37 | Matthew COOKE | 22:14 |
| 64 | 58 | Toby ECCLESHALL | 23:13 |
| 86 | 77 | Daniel VILJOEN | 24:10 |
| 89 | 80 | Martin DUDLEY | 24:17 |
| 123 | 109 | Pete COOK | 25:14 |
| 124 | 110 | Martin JACOB | 25:15 |
| 148 | 123 | Darren EMMERSON | 25:57 |
| 149 | 124 | Ryan DUNNING | 26:00 |
| 173 | 147 | Lee PICKERSGILL | 26:44 |
| 175 | 20 | Lorraine HILL | 26:49 |
| 204 | 172 | Mark BEASLEY | 27:30 |
| 207 | 27 | Tracy PEZ | 27:37 |
| 210 | 175 | Andy JAY | 27:43 |
| 231 | 40 | Claire EMMERSON | 28:10 |
| 263 | 204 | Kartik SHARMA | 28:58 |
| 293 | 221 | Steve PLATT | 29:50 |
| 296 | 66 | Jessica CLARKE | 29:55 |
| 297 | 222 | Jay PAPA | 29:58 |
| 311 | 75 | Sharon CROWLEY | 30:25 |
| 321 | 79 | Penny SCHENKEL | 30:43 |
| 322 | 233 | Jim BROWN | 30:45 |
| 336 | 88 | Monica SMITHSON | 31:37 |
| 349 | 96 | Debbie BLANTERN | 32:11 |
| 375 | 109 | Pamela VILJOEN | 33:27 |
| 390 | 259 | Peter SACH | 33:58 |
| 411 | 132 | Jo MANSFIELD | 35:20 |
| 419 | 138 | Caroline CROFT | 35:59 |
| 445 | 156 | Tracy HAYGARTH | 38:47 |
| 447 | 157 | Jane WADEY | 39:05 |
| 477 | 278 | Roger BIGGS | 45:07 |
| 484 | 179 | Nichola DURENT | 46:27 |
| 501 | 190 | Chloe CHAPMAN | 52:14 |