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TRENT PARK CROSS COUNTRY 

Sunday saw the third Cross Country event at Trent Park which was a five mile race. JONATHAN PARR came in in eighth place in a time of 27:53 and ADRIAN BUSOLINI was 25th in 29:38. They were the first two finishers from Fairlands Valley Spartans while TRACEY JACKSON 273rd overall in 41 minutes exactly; GEORGIE HOOPER 308th in 42:31 and ZOE JACKSON 359th in 45:07 were the club’s first three women. 

From left to right – Jonathan, Adrian, Tracey, Georgie and Zoe – Photo Credit, Keith Fenwick and Richard Underwood

Altogether there were 24 Spartans.  17 men and 7 women and a total of 467 finishers in the race.  Male “A” teams consist of eight runners.  Female “A” teams have five runners.   

Photo Credits – Keith Fenwick and Richard Underwood
Position Name Time Official Comments 
8 JONATHAN PARR 27:54 27:53 SM.  Team “A” 
25 ADRIAN BUSOLINI 29:39 29:38 SM.  Team “A” 
50 NICK GILL 31:12 31:13 SM.  Team “A” 
114 STUART ARCHER 34:39 34:42 SM.  Team “A” 
132 ALEX ZHERDEV 36:02 35:26 M40.  Team “A” 
147 ROSS GALLAGHER 36:08 36:12 M40.  Team “A” 
171 MATT GIFFORD 36:59 37:01 M50.  Team “A” 
177 FRANCOIS SWANEPOEL 37:00 37:10 M50.  Team “A” 
190 BRIAN WHITE 37:43 37:45 M60 
273 TRACEY JACKSON 40:40 41:00 W45.  Women Team 
304 MIKE JEFFS 42:23 42:31 SM 
308 GEORGIE HOOPER 42:22 42:31 W35.  Women Team 
359 ZOE JACKSON 45:00 45:07 W35.  Women Team 
367 NICK KLEANTHOUS 45:27 45:31 M60 
379 ANNABELLE WHITE 46:16 46:24 SW.  Women Team 
380 TIM ROBINSON 46:23 46:25 M50 
381 DAVID ACKERY 46:24 46:33 SM 
395 MARK MacDONALD 47:11 47:47 M50 
400 MICHAEL O’KEEFE 47:53 48:00 M50 
402 MARK FREEMAN 48:10 48:11 M60 
422 ANDY JAY 49:36 49:55 M50 
432 LIZ CROWLEY 51:13 51:14 W35. Women Team 
449 SHARON CROWLEY 57:10 57:26 W65 
457 CALLIE CHAPMAN 60:05 60:20 W35 
Photo Credits – Keith Fenwick and Richard Underwood

Hertfordshire Half and 10K 

Happy Spartan LINDA GEORGE ran a new personal best (PB) at Sunday’s Hertfordshire Half Marathon based at Knebworth House.  She finished in 2 hours 2 minutes 45 seconds (2:02:45) an improvement of 3 minutes 48 seconds on her previous best which she ran on 22nd October. MARTIN JACOB paced her finishing 780th out of the 1400 finishers in 2:02:46.  They said they had a wonderful run.  Linda was jumping for joy at the finish. 

Linda was super happy with her new PB!

JIM BROWN was third man 70 plus in 2:09:54. 

In the 10K, new Spartan SOPHIE PARSONS ran her race in 1:00:10 which was a new personal best beating her previous time of 1:04 set in September. She was joined and supported by PENNY SCHENKEL who finished in 1:00:18 and CLAIRE EMMERSON in 1:00:24. 

Sophie and Claire with their wonderful medals!

Parkrun Saturday 4th November 

For the Consolidated Results click the link