Following her personal best in the Stevenage parkrun on Sunday SAMMIE SUTTON ran her second fastest parkrun ever. She ran the Run Through Foundation 10K on Sunday in 64 minutes 25 seconds. That’s only 14 seconds slower than her 10K PB which she set in 2018.
JAY PAPA was in the Olympic Park, Stratford for the same event and was 101st out of the 3,025 finishers with 39:16.
Yuko Wins On The Autodrome
Spartan YUKO GORDON was the first woman 70 plus in Sunday’s Half Marathon on the Bedford Autodrome. Her time was 1:48:39.
Yuko said “the wind was much stronger than I hoped and it was strong head wind for two thirds of the course. I was so sluggish for first 5 miles today and almost wanted to stop and go home.
After that, I felt suddenly more settled and my legs and breathing started working.
Still, the final mile was tough, tough and tough with the head wind. And wasn’t it quite warm too? I was 9 minutes slower than my last race here 3 years ago.”
EMAC 2025
Fairlands Valleys Spartans women’s team has qualified for the final of the East of England Masters (EMAC). As a result of the fourth and final counting district event and on provisional results winning the League by an amazing 81 points (this could change very slightly but will not affect their qualification).
The last district event was held in Milton Keynes on Wednesday 30th July.
The final is being held at Thurrock on Saturday 6th September and I am sure you will all join me in wishing them the best of luck.
The Spartan Men finished a very credible third.
Parkrun Highlights, Saturday 2nd August
More than 53 Spartans ran parkruns on Saturday.There were 560 parkrunners at Stevenage event 412 up 100 on the previous week and up 215 on the week before that. 32 Spartans ran the 5K in Fairlands Valley Park.
| Position | Gender Position | FVS parkrunner | Time |
| 1 | 1 | David HARRIS-CHERGUIT | 17:01 |
| 6 | 5 | Simon JACKSON | 18:14 |
| 36 | 33 | Alexey ZHERDEV | 20:55 |
| 44 | 40 | Mike JEFFS | 21:29 |
| 56 | 51 | Craig BACON | 22:10 |
| 69 | 61 | Lee PICKERSGILL | 22:46 |
| 106 | 92 | Martin DUDLEY | 24:27 |
| 117 | 101 | Stuart ARCHER | 24:57 |
| 132 | 112 | Darren EMMERSON | 25:23 |
| 157 | 128 | Jay PAPA | 26:03 |
| 172 | 138 | Ryan DUNNING | 26:28 |
| 183 | 147 | Toby ECCLESHALL | 26:52 |
| 184 | 29 | Gail MACKIE | 26:52 |
| 267 | 61 | Claire EMMERSON | 29:00 |
| 288 | 68 | Sophie PARSONS | 29:28 |
| 290 | 207 | Ryan RIDDELL | 29:30 |
| 310 | 82 | Samantha SUTTON | 29:51 |
| 311 | 214 | Jim BROWN | 29:51 |
| 322 | 89 | Annabelle WHITE | 30:17 |
| 347 | 232 | Steve TINSLEY | 30:57 |
| 360 | 241 | Steve PLATT | 31:32 |
| 362 | 106 | Sally PICKLES | 31:34 |
| 393 | 256 | Paul JENNINGS | 33:17 |
| 405 | 130 | Carole SHELDRICK | 33:41 |
| 406 | 131 | Caroline CROFT | 33:42 |
| 435 | 148 | Chloe CHAPMAN | 35:37 |
| 492 | 186 | Hilary DAVIES | 38:56 |
| 495 | 189 | Tracy HAYGARTH | 39:26 |
| 518 | 207 | Melody BROWN | 42:23 |
| 528 | 215 | Nichola DURENT | 44:27 |
| 531 | 218 | Carolyn LINSELL | 45:33 |
| 534 | 219 | Emma CHAPMAN | 46:07 |