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SPARTANS WIN SUPER TIGHT RACE THREE

Every single race position counted in the third race in the Mid Week League on Thursday evening. 

Fairlands Valley Spartans improved to win the men’s and women’s races but in an amazingly tight result only by a single point, that’s one race position, in each.  The Spartans won the men’s race by 345 points to 346 and the women’s race by 152 to 153.  In each case just ahead of Royston.  So overall they won the fixture by 497 to 499. 

The Spartans won every category on the night.  Open men, open women, veteran men (by 11 points), veteran women (by 6 points).   

FVS were helped by having a fantastic 57 runners – 26 women and 31 men.  That was more than enough for three women’s teams of eight and two men’s teams of twelve. 

The club’s big improvement compared with race two was down to having a lot more runners, more depth, and some outstanding performances. 

The Spartans had four in the top twenty women and six in the top twenty men. 

The four women were SAMANTHA PRETTY-CONNORS, second and first in her category (FV35) with 41 minutes 9 seconds for the approximately 10K of mixed terrain near Sandon and Buckland (not far from Royston); ASHLEY JOHNSON, fourth and second in her category (FV35); CHRISTINE LATHWELL, ninth and second in her category (FV45) with 42:59 and GABRIELLE O’BRIEN 19th in 47:01. 

YUKO GORDON won the women aged 65 plus category with 48:29 and was 26th women in the race. 

The six men were ANDREW PATTERSON, fifth and first man 40 plus in 34:12; SIMON FRASER, sixth in 34:15; SIMON JACKSON eighth and third man 40 plus in 35:04; JONATHAN PARR, 12th in 36:13; RICHARD BATE 19th in 37:33 and DANNY HUKIN 20th in 38:10. 

The other “A” team women were SUZY HAWKINS 27th in 48:32; GEORGIE HOOPER 28th in 48:34 and MARIE COLUCCI 37th in 50:50.  HARRIET SMITH and KELLY McHALE led in the “B” team at 38th and 39th with 51 minutes 5 seconds. 

Altogether there were 472 runners in the race which included all the second and third division clubs, a total of 15 clubs.  The promotion race is very tight.  Two will get promoted and the Spartans are second on score with 29 compared with Watford’s 30 and tied with Royston but a little bit behind second on points (race positions) with 1,755 against 1,529.  There are six clubs in the second division.  It will all depend on the fourth and final race which will be in Trent Park on Thursday evening 29th June. 

Tables 

FVS Women (26) 

Pos Women Cat Vet Time First Name Last Name Cat Div Comments 
72 41:09 Samantha Pretty-Connors V 35 1st FV35.  Team A 
94 42:33 Ashley Johnson V 35 2nd FV35.  Team A 
105 42:59 Christine Lathwell* V 45 2nd FV45.  Team A 
174 19   47:01 Gabrielle O’Brien Team A. 
208 26 19 48:29 Yuko Gordon V 65 1st FV65.  Team A 
209 27 20 48:32 Suzy Hawkins V 45 Team A 
211 28 10 21 48:34 Georgie Hooper V 35 Team A 
251 37 26 50:50 Marie Colucci V 45 Team A 
253 38   51:05 Harriet Smith  
254 39 12 27 51:05 Kelly McHale V 35  
260 42 12 30 51:26 Tracey Jackson V 45  
279 48   52:10 Abbie Pez  
306 55 18 41 53:59 Tracy Pez V 45  
340 67 21 50 56:18 Wendy Tharani V 45  
349 71 22 52 56:57 Mo Warrillow V 45  
355 75 23 56 57:40 Fiona Clarke V 45  
362 77 24 58 58:03 Nicola Andersson V 45  
367 80 21 60 58:20 Anna Swanepoel V 35  
389 88 28 66 59:55 Claire Emmerson V 45  
390 89   59:56 Chloe Chapman  
392 90 23 67 1:00:13 Ada Janusiene V 35  
393 91 29 68 1:00:14 Hazel Smith V 45  
436 112 21 86 1:05:33 Sharon Crowley V 55  
445 117 23 91 1:06:55 Jane Wadey V 55  
447 118 24 92 1:07:36 Monica Smithson V 55  
461 124 41 97 1:13:46 Tracy Haygarth V 45  

FVS Men (31) 

Pos Men Cat Vet Time First Name Last Name Cat Div  
34:12 Andrew Patterson V 40 1st MV40.  Team A 
  34:15 Simon Fraser Team A 
10 35:04 Simon Jackson V 40 3rd MV40.  Team A 
15 12   36:13 Jonathan Parr Team A 
27 19 37:33 Richard Bate V 40 Team A 
32 20 38:10 Danny Hukin V 40 Team A 
50 31   39:26 Mike Jeffs Team A 
54 33   40:02 Nick Gill Team A 
76 47 22 41:36 David Riddell V 50 Team A 
83 51   42:05 Stuart Archer Team A 
87 54 18 27 42:16 Adrian Donnelly V 40 Team A 
92 59 21 31 42:29 Danny Scanlon V 40 Team A 
136 75 15 44 44:34 Paul Shelley V 50  
141 78 46 44:55 John Harris V 60 4th MV60 
144 79 27 47 45:23 David Pattman V 40  
145 80 28 48 45:24 Alexey Zherdev V 40  
153 82 17 50 45:44 Matt Gifford V 50  
154 83 30 51 45:45 Francois Swanepoel V 40  
170 91 56 46:53 Charlie Arnold V 60 5th MV60 
180 93 19 58 47:20 Craig Bacon V 50  
225 106 36 68 49:02 Robert Wright V 40  
248 112   50:34 Adrian Busolini  
252 113 27 73 51:01 John Nelms V 50  
278 120 32 80 52:10 Matt Clarke V 50  
351 140   57:04 Matt Tutton  
356 141 41 97 57:43 Andy Jay V 50  
382 148 43 102 59:37 Tim Robinson V 50  
403 152 43 105 1:01:04 Paul Jennings V 40  
405 153 44 106 1:01:30 Michael O’Keefe V 50  
446 158 17 110 1:07:08 Paul Holgate V 60  
452 159 45 111 1:08:45 Karl Shreeve V 50  

Parkrun Saturday 17th June 2023 

Congratulation to GAIL MACKIE who ran her 100th parkrun and did it in 27:21. 

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