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SPARTANS AT 400M RELAYS AND 5K HANDICAP

Fairlands Valley Spartans were busy on Wednesday.

Shorter, much shorter for some Spartans, at the 4 x 400 metre relay event in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday evening.  Two FVS teams came out winners and 28 club members in seven teams were running.

MIKE JEFFS, MICHAEL FISHER, JAY PAPA and NICK GILL won senior male and overall with 4 minutes 6 seconds.  Michael Fisher was third of the 104 runners with 58 seconds; Mike Jeffs and Nick Gill were fourth and fifth with 1 minute exactly.

Spartan women WON the veteran race with 6:11.  Their team consisted of LIZ CROWLEY 1:24; SAM SUTTON 1:57; SHARON CROWLEY 1:36 and JO COOKSLEY 1:23.

It was second place in the senior race for TRACY JACKSON 1:35; GEORGIE HOOPER 1:17; MARIE COLUCCI 1:23 and GABRIELLE O’BRIEN 1:18.  Georgie was tenth and Gabrielle eleventh out of all the women running.

RankBibNameCatTeamM/FTime
3.5/BMichael FISHERMSMagic Mike and FriendsM00:58
4.5/AMike JEFFSMV40Magic Mike and FriendsM01:00
5.5/DNick GILLMSMagic Mike and FriendsM01:00
15.7/BKeith HOOKERMV40Sonic Boom BoysM01:05
22.5/CJay PAPAMSMagic Mike and FriendsM01:07
30.10/ADave STEPHENSONMV60Mixed Relay TeamM01:09
48.10/DChris WAITLINGMSMixed Relay TeamM01:15
49.9/BGeorgie HOOPERFV35Spartans Ladies Team 3F01:17
51.9/DGabrielle O’BRIENFSSpartans Ladies Team 3F01:18
53.4/ASusan MCANANYFV45Female Relay Team 2F01:19
57.7/CCharlie ARNOLDMV60Sonic Boom BoysM01:21
58.4/DAnnabelle WHITEFSFemale Relay Team 2F01:21
62.3/DJo COOKSLEYFV35Spartan Ladies 1F01:23
64.10/CMegan SUTTONFSMixed Relay TeamF01:23
66.9/CMarie COLUCCIFV45Spartans Ladies Team 3F01:23
68.3/ALiz CROWLEYFV35Spartan Ladies 1F01:24
69.7/DBrian WHITEMV70Sonic Boom BoysM01:25
76.4/BVicky ARCHERFV35Female Relay Team 2F01:29
82.7/APete COOKMV50Sonic Boom BoysM01:32
83.4/CHazel SMITHFV45Female Relay Team 2F01:35
86.9/ATracy JACKSONFV45Spartans Ladies Team 3F01:35
88.3/CSharon CROWLEYFV65Spartan Ladies 1F01:36
90.11/DJudy KINGFV55360 + 1F01:37
91.10/BTessa STEPHENSONFV55Mixed Relay TeamF01:40
96.11/CSally PICKLESFV55360 + 1F01:51
99.11/ALiz CARVELFV65360 + 1F01:55
100.3/BSam SUTTONFV45Spartan Ladies 1F01:57
101.11/BRebecca RAYNERFV35360 + 1F02:00

Amanda Wins Handicap

AMANDA VICKERS won the Spartans handicap 5K in Stevenage on Thursday evening.

She smashed her PB (personal best) by 1:26 to finish in 32:46, with Alice Welch second woman (3rd overall) in a debut 5k time of 34:51 and Sam Gentry third woman (9th overall) in a new PB of 29:03.

The first man was new member Nic Cashman in 23:53, with Karl Shreeve second man with 29:05 and Kartik Sharma the third man in a SB (season’s best) time of 28:04.

Nathan Kirley was fastest man on the night, 26 seconds quicker than his previous best time in 18:56, with Kris Westcott 2nd quickest with 20:18 and Perri Gentry 3rd fastest in 20:28.

Oli Lacigova was quickest lady in 22:57, with Sally Reeve second fastest in 25:04 and Jackie Perry third in 25:43.

Time difference between 1st and last position was just 3:42.

In handicap races the slowest runners, on recent form start first, and the others follow at intervals appropriate to the performances.  In theory if no-one improves or slows down everyone will finish together.

Very well done the 19 Spartans who took part in this month’s Handicap 5k and a big thank you to Mark Freeman for his much appreciated assistance.

The next handicap 5K will be on Thursday 19th June.

POSNAMESURNAMETIMEH’cap
1AMANDAVICKERS32:463:29
2NICCASHMAN23:533:07
3ALICEWELCH34:512:54
4KARLSHREEVE29:052:40
5KARTIKSHARMA28:042:11
6NICKKLEANTHOUS29:502:10
7NATHANKIRLEY18:562:04
8PERRIGENTRY20:282:02
9SAMGENTRY29:031:42
10OLILACIGOVA22:571:48
11JOCOOK36:201:25
12JACKIEPERRY25:431:17
13KRISWESTCOTT20:181:12
14TIMROBINSON27:230:52
15MIKEREYNOLDS28:150:30
16MARTINDUDLEY25:46(0:01)
17SALLYREEVE25:04(0:19)
18CRAIGBACON22:49(0:04)
19SAMANTHATOPHILL26:43(0:13)

Stort Five

CHARLIE ARNOLD ran the Stort 5 mile race at Cammas Farm, Hatfield Broad Oak

He was eighth in 37:25.

Colchester Zoo Duo

Jess Clarke and Jay Papa ran the Colchester Zoo Stampede 10K together.

They both finished in 55 minutes 24 seconds.  There were 1,857 finishers. 

Hackney Half

PETER SACH completed the Hackney Half marathon in 2:27:35 (2 hours 27 minutes 35 seconds).  He said the atmosphere as always was brilliant with people lining the streets in support, and thankfully the weather this year was much milder than last year.  There were 20,901 finishers!

Parkrun Highlights – Saturday 17th May

High numbers again at Stevenage parkrun with 572 finishers.

KIRK NDUGU was second in 17 minutes 15 seconds (17:15) and SIMON JACKSON fifth in 19:43.  SHARON CROWLEY enjoyed herself continuing her recent improvement at 228th with 28:35.  JIM BROWN and PENNY SCHENKEL enjoyed the last time they could wear their Mayor and Mayoress T shirts with 29 minutes 11 seconds.  Jim broke the unofficial world mayor chain record the previous week.

ANNABELLE WHITE was the fastest female from Fairlands with 27:57.

55 Spartans ran parkruns on Saturday.  Spartans elsewhere included JOHN HARRIS at the Rothay Park parkrun, Ambleside.  He finished 13th in 21:18.

Stevenage parkrun will celebrate its ninth birthday on Saturday 24th May.  There’s a celebration and a Where’s Wally? theme.

PositionGender PositionFVS parkrunnerTime
22Kirk NDUGU17:15
55Simon JACKSON19:43
2321Tony RANDFIELD21:33
7063Lee PICKERSGILL23:33
9685Martin DUDLEY24:15
10089Daniel VILJOEN24:41
153130Ryan DUNNING26:43
20437Annabelle WHITE27:57
22849Sharon CROWLEY28:35
238178Matt CLARKE28:51
252186Jim BROWN29:11
25160Penny SCHENKEL29:11
26864Fiona Clarke29:31
295212Steve PLATT30:15
32692Debbie BLANTERN31:04
32893Ada JANUSIENE31:05
33396Monica SMITHSON31:13
398133Caroline CROFT33:56
433154Hilary DAVIES35:09
447268Nick KLEANTHOUS35:58
453170Hannah MANTON36:08
470276Lloyd DIAS37:37
475184Tracy HAYGARTH38:01
483189Jane WADEY38:35
523217Nichola DURENT45:06
530285Roger BIGGS46:16
533224Emma CHAPMAN47:22
553238Nikki Katherine NATION53:02
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Club News Race Results

THE START OF MID WEEK LEAGUE!

Fairlands Valley Spartans gave their promotion hopes a tremendous boost in the first race of this year’s evening Mid Week League.  They were second overall with 67 finishers, 38 men and 29 women.   

Photo credit Keith Fenwick

FVS were second with 545 points, just 24 ahead of Royston.  Watford appear to have a strong lead of 59 points but they could easily be caught in the coming weeks.  The top two clubs will be promoted at the end of the season so the Spartans will be maximising their efforts to maintain that second place, or better. 

Photo credit Keith Fenwick

Altogether there were 538 runners from 15 clubs in the race.  The 67 from FVS compares with 65 from Royston; 53 from Barnet and 51 from Watford.  In addition to the 67 many other Spartans were volunteers helping to make the event a success. 

Photo Credit Keith Fenwick
On the finish line! – Photo credit Keith Fenwick

Stort Five 

Fairlands Valley Spartans WON the team prize at Sunday’s Stort Five trail race. 

Pre race photo call.

STEVE DOBNER reports: Sunny skies greeted us as we made the short hop over to the Stort5.  The event was a sell out with 500 runners entered into the 5 or 10 mile race with 209 runners finishing the 5 mile run.  Having run both the 5 & 10 race previously it is now a must in my race diary, it is a friendly and extremely well run event. 

A slight delay greeted us at the start line as a local bee keeper decided to open their hives 10 minutes before the scheduled start, a quick route change was arranged (unfortunately leaving the races short of 5 or 10 miles) and we were called back and set off. 

The route snakes round Cammas Farm before taking in some lovely trails with two short road sections. 

Dave Pattman was first Spartan home, fourth overall in 31:53, Steve Dobner came home in 8th in 33:53 followed by Suzy Hawkins 35:11, Mo Warrillow in 39:24, Nicola Anderson 42:21 and Sue Harmer in 45:53. 

With Dave finishing fourth, Steve in 8th and Suzy in 13th Fairlands Valley Spartans won the mixed team event and received their lovely wooden trophies as they watched the 10 mile runners come home. 

Spartan smiles with their trophies!

Parkrun  

Please click the link for the Consolidated Club Results for the 20th May 2023