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BREEZE ALONG AT DORNEY

Fairlands Valley Spartans enjoyed an outing to Dorney Lake on Sunday.  Alongside the Olympic rowing course so flat but very windy.  In the half marathon PENNY SCHENKEL was fourth woman 50 plus with 2 hours 18 minutes 58 seconds (2:18:58).  That’s a new season’s best and improvement on Watford 2:27:41 and 2:20:54 at Berkhamsted this year.  TERRY SAWYER finished in 2:21:30.

JIM BROWN won the men 70 plus contest with 2:12:51.

CALLIE CHAPMAN ran the 5K in 32:45 and TONY RANDFIELD the 10K in 47:21.

Jim said he knew it was going to be hard before reaching the one kilometre marker.  There was no protection from the westerly breeze in the first half of each of the four laps.  The wind whipped across the water which was immediately on our left hand side.  However if you had the legs the tailwind for the 2.7 kilometres return on a parallel route was wonderful.

Broad Oak 10K

In the Hatfield Broad 10K on holiday Monday SIMON HAIGH was 237th in 47:12 and LORRAINE HILL 617th in 56:19.  There were 1,297 finishers.

Chiltern Half Marathon

On Sunday NICK GILL did the Chiltern Half Marathon in Buckinghamshire.  It’s a two-lap course on the trails with a fair few hills, but beautiful scenery!  He used it as a training run and to practice long run fuelling at a steadyish pace, so very happy to cross the line in 1:45:47 and to finish in fifth place!

Parkrun Highlights – Saturday 24th May – Ninth Birthday at Stevenage

There was a Where’s Wally theme at Stevenage parkrun’s ninth birthday which attracted 563 runners to Saturday morning’s 5K run in Fairlands Valley Park.

The 563 included a massive 37 from Fairlands Valley Spartans running club who had the winner and two others in the top six.

Some Spartan highlights included KIRK NDUGU won the run in 18 minutes 28 seconds.  NICK GILL was fifth with 19:22 and PAUL SHELLEY sixth in 19:45.  KEITH HOOKER ran a new parkrun personal best of 22:03 to come in 46th.

Then there were four deci, mini milestones.  MARTIN DUDLEY ran his 240th parkrun in 24:31; STEVE TINSLEY his 70th in 28:12; ALISON SHELLEY her 160th in 29:05 and PENNY SCHENKEL a volunteer walker this time her 120th in 52:22.

This time CLAIRE EMMERSON was the fastest female from Fairlands with 28:52.

Elsewhere SIMON JACKSON won the Blandford parkrun in 17 minutes 20 seconds.

At the Henlow Bridge Lakes parkrun JAY PAPA was third in a new parkrun personal best (PPB) of 19:57.  SUZY HAWKINS was fourth woman in 24:53 and JESS CLARKE fifth with a new PPB of 25:11.  MEGAN SUTTON ran a new PPB of 27:02.

GRANT RAMSAY was at Wimpole Estate with 20:54.

PositionFVS parkrunnerTime
1Kirk NDUGU18:28
5Nick GILL19:22
6Paul SHELLEY19:45
12Perri GENTRY20:22
40Mike JEFFS21:35
46Keith HOOKER22:03
51Toby ECCLESHALL22:15
111Martin DUDLEY24:31
123Darren EMMERSON25:23
128Pete COOK25:37
140Daniel VILJOEN25:55
162Ryan DUNNING26:37
227Steve TINSLEY28:12
245Kartik SHARMA28:37
251Claire EMMERSON28:52
255Jim BROWN29:03
256Alison SHELLEY29:05
262Peter SACH29:15
271Matt CLARKE29:37
279Sharon CROWLEY29:55
344Steve PLATT31:47
385Paul JENNINGS33:34
403Pamela VILJOEN34:10
422Carole SHELDRICK34:56
423Caroline CROFT34:58
445Hannah MANTON36:00
472Karen PALMER37:40
488David SCOTT39:17
501Jane WADEY41:09
504Nicola HATHERLY41:33
505Niki PLUMB41:34
507Tracy HAYGARTH41:40
550Penny SCHENKEL52:22
553Callie CHAPMAN55:04
562Monica SMITHSON1:04:01
563Stephen SMITHSON1:04:02
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SUB THREE AT FIRST MARATHON FOR DAVID

Spartan DAVID HARRIS-CHERGUIT beat three hours in his first ever marathon.  He ran the Edinburgh Marathon in 2 hours 54 minutes 13 seconds and was seventh in the men 45 plus category.  David’s really pleased and proud of the result. 

Also at Edinburgh was ROB WRIGHT and he ran a new personal best (PB) of 3 hours 31 minutes 6 seconds. 

Round Up of Mid Week League Race 1 

Fairlands Valley Spartans gave their promotion hopes a tremendous boost in the first race in the 2023 Mid Week League series.  The Spartans had 67 finishers, more than any other club. 

FVS were second in the men’s “A” race just behind Watford and second in the women’s “A” race just behind Royston.  That meant that overall they scored ten match points – the same as current league leaders Watford. 

In the veterans competition the Spartans were second just behind Watford but WON the women’s event well clear of Bishop Stortford.  That means they lead the veterans contest. 

The Spartan women in the top ten were SAMANTHA PRETTY-CONNORS third, and first female 35 plus, in 40 minutes 4 seconds (40:04); CHRISTINE LATHWELL fourth, and second FV45, in 40:28 and ASHLEY JOHNSON sixth, and second 35 plus, in 40:59. 

The club’s leading men were SIMON FRASER sixth in 33:37; ANDREW PATTERSON eighth, and first man 40 plus, in 33:47; SIMON JACKSON tenth, and second man 40 plus, in 34:17 and, just out of the top ten but not far behind ADRIAN BUSOLINI eleventh in 34:27. 

Fairlands Valley Spartans had no less than three senior men’s teams, three senior women’s teams, five veteran men’s teams and six veteran women’s teams.  Senior men’s teams consisted of 12 runners.  Senior women teams had eight runners.  The 67 Spartans consisted of 38 men and 29 women. 

Hatfield Broad Oak 10k 

Jim Brown completed the course in 55:43 and Penny Schenkel in 59:05. 

Serpentine 5k 

Once through the first kilometre Spartan Jim Brown enjoyed himself and finished first MV70 in 27 minutes 24 seconds (63.7%). 

Parkrun Highlights Saturday 27th May

Please click the link for the Consolidated Results from last weeks Parkruns