Burnham Beeches Half

Spartan DAVID HARRIS-CHERGUIT was third overall in Sunday’s Burnham Beeches Half Marathon with a superb time of 1 hour 17 minutes 33 seconds (1:17:33).

He said the course was scenic, well marshalled and supported and with a couple of challenging hills at mile 6 and 10. It was great to get racing in the new stripes off to a flying start! Great also to see another Spartan at the race.

WENDY THARANI finished in 2:15:36. She said it was the usual undulating and scenic course which she has enjoyed before, two laps, through the woods. Great organisation and lots of great stalls in the race village.

World Masters Athletics Championships, 3000m Steeplechase

Spartan Grant Ramsay represented Team GB in the 3000 metres steeplechase, at the World Masters Athletics Championships, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ramsay both ran and hurdled well to achieve a season’s best time of 12:30. This also happened to be his best time for well over two years. It was a very strong field and Ramsay had to settle for 18th, which was all in his age category of M50 (men over 50).

Ramsay was pleased with his performance, which involved running at 4:10 per kilometre and to fluently leap hurdles at his age.

Parkrun Highlights 17^th August

Two Fairlands Valley Spartans in the top ten and first woman as 27 Spartans were among the 444 finishers of Saturday’s Stevenage parkrun. GRANT RAMSAY was third in 18:32 and PAUL SHELLEY tenth in 20:19. SUZY HAWKINS was first woman with 21:14.

Also at Stevenage MATT TUTTON ran a new parkrun personal best (PPB) of 23:59; JAY PAPA ran his 40^th parkrun in 27:48; JIM BROWN won his age group with 27:55; MEGAN SUTTON ran her 20^th in a new parkrun personal best (PPB) of 28:29; MATT CLARKE ran his 140^th in 29:16 and LLOYD DIAS his 25^th in 40:05.

Spartans elsewhere included JONATHAN PARR fourth in 17:23 at Teignmouth promenade parkrun; ADRIAN DONNELLY in 21:08 and MATT GIFFORD 28:16 at Henlow Bridge Lakes; JOHN HARRIS 21:19 and JACKIE PERRY 28:41 at Letchworth; DAVID RIDDELL 25:35 and JAYNE RIDDELL 27:27 at Holkham (Norfolk); GRAHAM BLACKBURN 28:40 at Medina, Isle of Wight in 28:40; ANDY JAY 28:57 at Westmill (Ware); CHLOE CHAPMAN 31:43 at Jersey Farm (St Albans); PAUL JENNINGS 31:48 at Watergrove, Rochdale; JANE WADEY 36:16 at Penrose (Cornwall); DARRYL STEVENS at Brockenhurst (New Forest) in 49:32 and TREVOR BROOM 1:06:13 in the Roding Valley.

Position	Gender Position	Name	Time
3	3	Grant RAMSAY	18:32
10	10	Paul SHELLEY	20:19
22	1	Suzy HAWKINS	21:14
29	26	Matthew NEWTON	22:00
56	51	Daniel VILJOEN	23:27
66	61	Matt TUTTON	23:59
101	90	Darren EMMERSON	25:22
105	94	Lee PICKERSGILL	25:30
107	96	Mark BEASLEY	25:41
118	106	Ryan DUNNING	26:16
172	143	Jay PAPA	27:48
176	145	Jim BROWN	27:55
189	154	Steve PLATT	28:25
190	32	Megan SUTTON	28:29
212	43	Fiona CLARKE	29:12
214	167	Matt CLARKE	29:16
256	63	Alison SHELLEY	30:51
273	73	Claire EMMERSON	31:37
296	86	Caroline CROFT	32:45
336	109	Samantha SUTTON	35:05
352	120	Tracy HAYGARTH	36:14
385	144	Pamela VILJOEN	38:55
396	230	Lloyd DIAS	40:05
403	232	Nick KLEANTHOUS	41:49
435	246	Tony RANDFIELD	52:54
443	180	Monica SMITHSON	59:16
444	247	Stephen SMITHSON	59:17

FVS Parkrun Results – 17th August

RESOLUTION 5K, ENGLAND MASTERS, 10K’s, 10 MILES and MORE!

A sunny summer’s evening brought perfect conditions for the Resolution 5K event at Ridlins track in Stevenage and nine Spartans were there to enjoy it.

For those keen to judge their pace there was a timing mat and clock after two hundred metres and then every 400 metres for the 12 full laps.

NICK GILL was first in for the club at third overall and first male senior with 18 minutes 3 seconds (18:03). MIKE JEFFS was second male senior with 18:26.

Nick and Mike in action! – Photo Credit Keith Fenwick

ASHLEY JOHNSON was first woman in the race with 19:31. Not only did YUKO GORDON win her category but she did it in 22 minutes 22 seconds achieving an amazing age graded score of 96.8%.

Ashley and Yuko – Photo Credit Keith Fenwick

JIM BROWN won his category with 27 minutes 13 seconds (27:13).

Spartan times at the Resolution 5K:

Pos	MF	CatPos	Bib	Name	Cat	Time	Age Gd
3.	3	1	286	Nick GILL	MS	18:03	72.3 %
6.	6	2	1299	Mike JEFFS	MS	18:26	72.9 %
14.	1	1	1286	Ashley JOHNSON	FV35	19:31	79.0 %
33.	4	1	5559	Yuko GORDON	FV65	22:22	96.8 %
39.	32	3	5889	Nick KLEANTHOUS	MV60	26:02	61.4 %
43.	33	1	5780	Jim BROWN	MV70+	27:13	64.8 %
49.	16	5	212	Sharon CROWLEY	FV65	29:59	65.6 %
50.	34	4	5943	Paul HOLGATE	MV60	30:38	54.6 %
52.	35	2	5742	Roger BIGGS	MV70+	41:23	45.2 %

England Masters Inter Area Track & Field Challenge

Spartan YUKO GORDON was in Nuneaton to run the 1500 metre at the England Masters Inter Area Track & Field Challenge. Representing the East of England she won the women 70 plus race in 6 minutes 18.26 seconds (6:18.26).

Summer 10K

MATT TUTTON ran the London Summer 10k. The three laps of the outer path of Regents Park. Running conditions were great and the course was flat. Perfect for a PB which he achieved with a new personal best of 54 minutes 25 seconds (54:25).

Stopsley 10 Miles

Fairlands Valley Spartan DANNY SCANLON ran the Stopsley 10 Mile Trail race recently.

He finished with a chip time of 1 hour 14 minutes 11 seconds for an 11^th place finish. The course was a tough two laps with a very steep hill in each lap! 

DAVE PATTMAN and MO WARRILOW ran the Stopsley 5 Mile Trail Run. The chip times were 35:41 for Dave, and 47:00 for Mo.

Burnham Beeches Half Marathon

WENDY THARANI took on the Burnham Beeches Half Marathon and completed it in 2:13:15. She said that the course was rather undulating but lovely through the beechy woodland. There were lots of ridiculously expenses houses including Dorney Wood which is traditionally the Chancellor of the Exchequers country residence. The race was well organised with lots of friendly marshals.

Schierker Sommerlauf Trail Run

JIM BROWN and PENNY SCHENKEL took part in the Schierker Sommerlauf trail run in the Harz area of Germany.

They tackled the hauptlauf which consisted of two 4.2 kilometre laps so giving a total of just over five miles. Each lap started with a 1.2 kilometre tough climb into the countryside, a real lung buster. There were 350 metres of climbing in the race.

Jim and Penny finished together in 56 minutes 36.4 seconds.

Parkrun Saturday 19^th August 2023

KIRK NDUGU won Stevenage Parkrun in a new parkrun personal best of 17 minutes 20 seconds.

For the Consolidate Results please click the link.