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DOUG IN FOR A FAST TIME

Doug Anderson

Six Spartans made a Wednesday evening trip to Bedford for the Doug Anderson 5K.  This took place in the beautiful grounds of Bedford Park.  The race was on a measured two and a half lap course on wide asphalt paths, with redwoods, a lake, bandstand and vintage cafe.

MIKE JEFFS was first Spartan at 19th with 17 minutes 54 seconds.  He was third man 40 plus with an age score of 77.6%.  JAY PAPA was 21st with 18:07.

ALICE WELCH was the fastest female from Fairlands in 23:07 and CHARLES ARNOLD second man 70 plus in 23:36.  An impressive 73.7% for Charlie.

MATT TUTTON came in with 27:25 and CALLIE FINDLAY in 30:56

The race was won in 15:36.  There were 392 finishers.

Sprint and Middle Distance Opens – Ridlins 1500

Three Spartans enjoyed SNHAC’s sprint and middle distance opens at Ridlins Track in Stevenage on Tuesday.

ANDREW PATTERSON won the 1500 metres with 4:23.04 (4 minutes 23.04 seconds); CHARLES WHITE ran a personal best 4:40.50 and MONICA SMITHSON a season’s best 8:03.87.

There were 228 entrants across the whole programme of events.

There will be other opportunities for Spartans to run 1500 metres at Ridlins on Saturday mornings 15th August and 5th December.

Fairlands Valley Challenge – The Times Are Out

Fairlands Valley Challenge, organised by Fairlands Valley Spartans was held on Sunday July 19th.  The self navigated multi terrain course had multiple distances for runners and walkers to choose from.  It has been a mainstay for the club for nearly 30 years.  Checkpoints were manned by Spartans at Watton-at-Stone, Chapmore End, Stapleford, Tewin, and Datchworth where the runners could get water and juice and a whole host of snacks to fuel them.  This year 173 runners took on the challenge.

Sam Paul from Fairlands Valley Spartans was the first 50k runner just a shade over four hours in a time of 4:00:13.  The fastest Spartan in the half marathon off road event was Susan McAneny with 2:17:06.  Martin Jacob was first Spartan back in the 18 miles with 3:33:50; Callie Findlay and Mike Jeffs were the quickest round the 10K in 1:35:54 and Samantha Tophill was the fastest in the marathon in 5:33:38.  All on classic trail routes.

In total there were 38 Spartans running.  Times for all the Spartans can be found in the table later in this release.

DistanceBibFirst NameLast NameTime
10 km90CallieFindlay01:35:54
10 km96MikeJeffs01:35:54
10 km173JaneWadey01:44:26
10 km170LizCarvell01:45:45
10 km171SallyPhillips01:45:45
10 km155MonicaSmithson01:45:45
10 km172NikkiNation01:45:45
10 km126JennyGarrett01:54:13
10 km125JulieShadbolt01:54:13
10 km122NicholaDurent01:59:56
10 km143ZoeNewell02:15:16
10 km154EmmaChapman02:15:47
10 km144JayneDymoke02:15:47
13 mile151SusanMcaneny02:17:06
13 mile132TonyRandfield02:28:26
13 mile51VickyArcher02:34:13
13 mile50KerstinPrior02:34:13
13 mile109RebeccaRayner03:28:07
13 mile130AhaanSharma03:36:30
13 mile131KartikSharma03:36:30
13 mile165JonSypula03:42:35
13 mile166HannahSypula03:42:35
18 mile119MartinJacob03:33:50
18 mile112SueHamer04:27:30
18 mile89AdamHill04:27:30
18 mile123LindaNolan04:27:30
18 mile113SamanthaSutton04:27:30
18 mile38AliceWelch04:27:30
26 mile53SamanthaTophill05:33:38
26 mile27SharonCrowley07:05:23
26 mile20PaulHolgate07:55:10
26 mile31MikeNewbit08:56:38
26 mile4ClairePullen09:00:46
26 mile1BarryKing09:00:46
26 mile2TriciaHopper09:00:46
26 mile3KarenLiddle09:00:46
50 km5SamuelPaul04:00:13
50 km36JayPapa05:40:10

Seven Races In Seven Days – the Guernsey All Terrain Challenge

JUDY KING completed the All Terrain Challenge in Guernsey – seven races in seven days!

The races were:

  • 5k cliff path with 100s of steps
  • 3k hilly road race
  • 3k park race on path and gravel
  • Track event
  • 8k cliff path and a bit of road and 100s of steps
  • 700m Hill Climb
  • 3k race round Herm Island followed by award ceremony, meal and party which continued on the boat back to Guernsey.

Judy says it’s an awesome event.  After the first two races everyone is put into six divisions. There were some amazing runners and such camaraderie.  She would thoroughly recommend it.

Club Championships

Many Spartans have already completely full sets of qualifying races in the short or long or both series of club championship races.  Now some will be trying to improve on the distances where they have the lowest percentage so far.

The long series consists of the best three out of 10 miles; half marathon; 20 miles and full marathon.  The short series the best three out of 1500 metres; 5 kilometres; five miles and 10 kilometres.  All to be done by 31st December.  There will be “absolute” winners and age related winners.

Parkrun Highlights – A Win For Samuel

Spartan SAMUEL PAUL was in Brigg, Lincolnshire and WON the Ancholme Valley parkrun in 16 minutes 38 seconds.

More than 40 Spartans ran in Stevenage.

SIMON JACKSON was in the top three with his 18:29 and GAIL MACKIE in the top ten women with her 25 minutes exactly.  SOPHIE PARSONS was second fastest female from Fairlands with 26:55 and BRONYA BROWN third with 27:12.

BRIAN WHITE ran his 30th parkrun in 25:43 and MICHAEL O’KEEFE completed his 240th in 37:26.

JIM BROWN finished his 242nd Stevenage parkrun in 242nd position with 29 minutes 59 seconds and KARL SHREEVE volunteered for the 100th time.

There were 67 Spartans at various parkruns on Saturday.  Some others included DARREN and CLAIRE EMMERSON at the Pocket parkrun with 26:21 and 28:26; LLOYD DIAS at the Eden Project in 29:22; MARTIN JACOB at Letchworth in 28:47 and ADAM HILL ran Jersey Farm in 24:09 and MARTYN DOWLING at St Albans park run with 24:47.

PositionGender PositionFVS parkrunnerTime
33Simon JACKSON18:29
1111Steve WELLS19:49
2727Ralph DADSWELL21:49
3333Tony RANDFIELD22:00
6863Lee PICKERSGILL23:59
7065Keith HOOKER24:02
7467David RIDDELL24:12
7870Charlie WHITE24:24
8576Richard MOORE24:43
9310Gail MACKIE25:00
9483Paul SHELLEY25:01
10291Daniel VILJOEN25:07
10594Martin DUDLEY25:09
118106Brian WHITE25:43
120108Matt CLARKE25:46
137120Matthew COOKE26:15
15920Sophie PARSONS26:55
16724Bronya BROWN27:12
18230Jayne RIDDELL27:50
219177Ryan DUNNING29:14
22744Samantha SUTTON29:25
242190Jim BROWN29:59
246192Jay PAPA30:08
24853Alice WELCH30:09
24954Sarah ILLINGWORTH30:18
26257Alison SHELLEY30:48
281212Nick KLEANTHOUS31:24
303225Steve PLATT31:56
33490Debbie BLANTERN32:50
34193Linda GEORGE33:10
34595Caroline CROFT33:28
364104Hayley PEACH34:10
385116Pamela VILJOEN35:35
403124Zoe NEWELL36:27
409127Jayne DYMOKE36:43
412269Luke SILVER37:00
420132Penny SCHENKEL37:26
421273Michael O’KEEFE37:26
438138Tracey TOMLIN39:03
456287James SOUTH41:27
460289Tim ROBINSON41:48
497174Emma WELCH52:44
503301David SCOTT56:03