Ware Ten

TRENT PARK – MIDWEEK LEAGUE

There was a lot on in the world on Thursday 4^th July but 30 Spartans – 19 men and 11 women made it to the final counting event in this summer’s Mid Week League race.

Run in Trent Park, Cockfosters this was a largely off tarmac event with some grinding climbs in the woods. It was dry!

On the night the fastest from Fairlands was KIRK NDUGU with 36:47 for 25^th place out of the 194 male finishers. ADRIAN BUSOLINI 38^th in 37:56; JONATHAN PARR 41^st in 38:02; BRIAN BRACKSTONE 43^rd in 38:14 and third man over 50 were also under 40 minutes on the tough course.

108 women finished. SUZY HAWKINS was the fastest female from Fairlands, 26^th woman in 46:56. YUKO GORDON won her age group with 51:14. She was 47^th woman overall.

The “Mob Match” will be in Welwyn Garden City on Wednesday 10^th July.

Race	Cat	Vet	No.	Time	Name	Surname	Cat.	M/F	Female Pos.
143	10	17	1020	46:56	Suzy	Hawkins	V 45	F	26
193	1	34	1100	51:14	Yuko	Gordon	V 65	F	47
217	18	44	1073	53:19	Jo	Cooksley	V 35	F	59
248			1090	56:55	Sophie	Parsons	S	F	77
259	28	64	1075	58:37	Wendy	Tharani	V 45	F	82
275	32	72	1091	1:02:36	Claire	Emmerson	V 45	F	92
280	16	76	1085	1:03:36	Judy	King	V 55	F	96
293	20	84	1078	1:08:06	Liz	Carvell	V 55	F	104
295	21	86	1099	1:10:32	Monica	Smithson	V 55	F	106
299	24	87	1086	1:13:19	Callie	Chapman	V 35	F	107
301	22	88	1079	1:17:08	Jane	Wadey	V 55	F	108

Race	Cat	Vet	No.	Time	First Name	Last Name	Cat.	M/F	Male Pos
25			1014	36:47	Kirk	Ndugu	S	M	25
38			1028	37:56	Adrian	Busolini	S	M	38
41	16	18	988	38:02	Jonathan	Parr	V 40	M	41
43	3	19	1027	38:14	Brian	Brackstone	V 50	M	43
74			1002	41:16	Jay	Papa	S	M	72
127	22	64	996	45:51	Matt	Gifford	V 50	M	107
131	43	68	997	46:19	Alexey	Zherdev	V 40	M	111
136	46	71	1010	46:41	Robert	Wright	V 40	M	114
145	4	75	987	47:11	Brian	White	V 60	M	119
180	8	94	990	50:25	Charlie	Arnold	V 60	M	140
211	38	110	992	52:42	Simon	Haigh	V 50	M	156
226	63	115	1011	54:31	Matt	Tutton	V 40	M	162
249			1022	56:55	Ryan	Riddell	S	M	172
262	45	130	1016	58:58	Pete	Cook	V 50	M	178
269	6	132	999	1:00:20	Jim	Brown	V 70	M	180
271	46	133	1024	1:01:05	Tim	Robinson	V 50	M	182
274	18	134	1021	1:02:14	Nick	Kleanthous	V 60	M	183
291			1026	1:07:37	Peter	Sach	S	M	188
298	20	142	986	1:11:37	Paul	Holgate	V 60	M	192

A Win For Yuko at the Newport Pagnell Carnival 5K

YUKO GORDON won her age group F70 (and 60 & 65 as well) at Newport Pagnell Carnival 5K, near Milton Keynes in 22:20 on Saturday 6th July. It was a flat fast course over traffic free main road with 500 plus runners. Crowds were surprisingly big along the course.

After Mount Chingford and the Trent Park Woods recently, she felt this was too good to be true. However, a fast course is one thing but she said my legs had a problem adjusting to the speed this time. Still, she was happy with the season’s best.

The Carnival 5K is a uniquely fast and flat 5k road race through the historic market town of Newport Pagnell. On closed roads in front of thousands, it’s run ahead of the annual town Carnival Parade. The race finishes on the carnival meadow in the show arena where there’s a day of entertainment and fun. For the 4th consecutive year, there were two different runs. One to suit all abilities: The ‘Serious’ 5K and the family fun 5K.

Ware 10 + 10 – PB for Paul

GERRY ROSEN took part in the Ware 10 (miles). It was a two lap affair with a nasty uphill first mile. A tough little cookie. Gerry was hoping to beat 2hrs and well and truly did it, his time was 1 hour 52 minutes 10 seconds.

The fastest of the eight Spartans was PAUL SHELLEY 20^th of the 269 finishers with 1:07:25; third in his age group and a new personal best (PB) by eight seconds. ALISON SHELLEY was first female from Fairlands at 190^th with 1:33:06; ANNABELLE WHITE was 198^th with 1:35:09 and FIONA CLARKE 212^th with 37:47.

MATT DUTTON took part in the 10 mile race at the Ware festival of running with a chip time of 1:32:56. His first ever 10 mile race. Matt said he managed to miss the heavy rain showers but large puddles were an obstacle at mile 1 and 6 guaranteeing wet feet!!

CHRIS WATLING was 112^th in 1:21:51 and ROBERT WRIGHT 65^th with 1:15:30.

269 finishers.

JANE WHITROW ran the Ware 10K. She said the event was really well organised with lots of water stations and friendly marshals. Jane finished 239^th in 1:21:17.

Pos	MF	CatPos	Bib	Name	Cat	Gun	Chip
20.	19	3	8901	Paul SHELLEY	MV50	1:07:27	1:07:25
65.	55	23	2178	Robert WRIGHT	MV40	1:15:48	1:15:30
112.	91	36	2127	Chris WATLING	MS	1:22:09	1:21:51
188.	134	45	8942	Matt TUTTON	MV40	1:33:19	1:32:56
190.	55	9	8902	Alison SHELLEY	FV55	1:33:28	1:33:06
198.	60	15	8896	Annabelle WHITE	FS	1:35:30	1:35:09
212.	67	20	8906	Fiona CLARKE	FV45	1:38:09	1:37:47
254.	160	43	8829	Gerry ROSEN	MV50	1:52:32	1:52:10

Race for Life

Some Spartans including JIM BROWN and PENNY SCHENKEL ran the Stevenage Race for Life. Jim’s event was lucky but Penny’s finished in a downpour.

EMAC – Spartans 2 and 3.

Fairlands Valley Spartans were second and third in the latest Eastern Masters track and field league event.

The FVS women including SHARON CROWLEY, CHRISTINE LATHWELL; MARIAN MORLEY; JOYLYN SAUNDERS-MULLINS; TESSA STEPHENSON and ANDREA WESTCOTT were second with 118 points, just 19 behind the winners.

The men were third in their match with 86. Their team included CHARLES ARNOLD; MARK FREEMAN; NICK KLEANTHOUS; STEVE MAYFIELD; TIMOTHY SAUNDERS-MULLINS and DAVID STEPHENSON.

The event included running from 100 metres to one mile (1609 metres); walking 2 kilometres; throwing and jumping. The league is for male and female veteran athletes aged from 35 upwards divided in various age categories.

The next EMAC track and field fixture is in Sandy on Wednesday evening 31^st July.

Parkrun Highlights 6^th July

DANIEL VILJOEN achieved a major parkrun milestone on Saturday morning. His run at Stevenage was his 250^th which he finished in 24 minutes 4 seconds (24:04). There were 19 Spartans among the 363 finishers of the very wet 354^th Stevenage parkrun including SIMON JACKSON second in 17:40 and GRANT RAMSAY sixth in 18:57.

ANNABELLE WHITE ran her 150^th parkrun in 31:32.

19 of the 363 finishers at a very wet Stevenage parkrun were Spartans.

Spartans elsewhere included SUZY HAWKINS 25:03 at Henlow Bridge Lakes; NICK KLEANTHOUS 33:11 at Tamar Lakes near Bude and CHLOE CHAPMAN 34:05 at Lanhydrock, Bodmin.

A huge thunderstorm and tremendous downpour confronted Fairlands Valley Spartans as they made their way to Trent Park, Cockfosters for the fourth Mid Week League event but 29 made it, enjoyed the rainbow and finished the event. This was an evening largely off road 10K event.

The fastest of the 18 men were ADRIAN BUSOLINI 25^th in 37 minutes 59 seconds and SIMON FRASER 30^th in 38:36. PETE SMITH was the fastest 60 plus in the race with 45:53 and ROGER HARDMAN second 70 plus with 63:12.

For the women SUZY HAWKINS was 16^th in 44 minutes 40 seconds. YUKO GORDON was the fastest 65 plus woman with 53:10.

Altogether 306 runners finished the race. The end of series celebration, the mob match, is at Welwyn Garden City on the 6^th July.

Ware Ten

There were two trophies for Fairlands Valley Spartans at Sunday’s testing Ware 10 mile race. JIM BROWN won the male 70 plus award with 1 hour 34 minutes 32 seconds and JAN FRY won the women 65 plus category with 1:54:04.

ROB WRIGHT was the fastest Spartan with 1:19:52. He was 67^th out of the 260 finishers.

STEVEN DOBNER said it was super weather for a scenic run around Ware and Hertford. A few large lumps and some fast downhill sections on an enjoyable but tricky course. A fantastic local event which deserves to be supported as they always put on a great race.

He said he felt strong and happy to finish in 1:24:07 having spent most of the run alongside DAVID PATTMAN who finished a few seconds later in 1:24:11.

The fastest female from Fairlands was MO WARRILOW with 1:35:53. CHRIS SAUNDERS ran his first ten mile race in 1:36:11 and NICOLA PATTMAN came in with 1:52:59.

In the Ware 10K DZENANA TOPIC was 163^rd in 1:11:45 and JONATHAN JONES 165^th in 1:11:54.

Roger on the River Thames Towpath

On Friday ROGER BIGGS ran his longest race since September 21, with an event along the River Thames towpath in Walton-on-Thames.

Eight out-and-back laps represented a total race distance equivalent to a half marathon (13.1 miles). Roger completed the course 3:57:29

Parkrun Highlights Saturday 2^nd July

Stevenage parkrun was back above the 250 runner mark on Saturday.

Stripey Saturday saw 24 Fairlands Valley Spartan members travelled to seven different Parkrun venues across the country.

Jonathan PARR took first place at Exmouth finishing at 16:56, also taking the titles of fastest and the further travelled Spartan.

Debbie BLANTERN was the fastest female Spartan finishing at 29:27 at Stevenage.

Nikki NATION ran a personal best of 31:55, also at Stevenage.

Three runners achieved year’s best times with Sam SIMMONS (20:04) and Hilary DAVIES (33:43) at Stevenage and Chris HOLLAND (24:50) at Rutland Waters.

Unofficial milestones were achieved by Roger BIGGS completing 110th Parkruns, Michael O’KEEFE 140th and Danik BATES 220^th this weekend.

Stevenage celebrates its 250^th parkrun on Saturday 16^th July. Make sure you have your free parkrun barcode and that your parkrun profile includes Fairlands Valley Spartans.

Tables

Spartan Men

Race	Men Pos	Cat	Vet	Time	Name	Surname	Cat.	M/F	Comments
25	25			37:59	Adrian	Busolini	S	M	A team
30	30			38:36	Simon	Fraser	S	M	A team
67	64			41:52	Ross	Gallagher	S	M	A team
78	73	27	32	42:49	Adrian	Donnelly	V 40	M	A team
121	100			45:49	Nick	Gill	S	M	A team
124	102	1	57	45:53	Pete	Smith	V 60	M	1st MV60 and A team
135	108	43	63	46:57	Grant	Ramsay	V 40	M	A team
156	121	23	73	48:17	Craig	Bacon	V 50	M	A team
166	127	26	79	49:13	Martin	Wood	V 50	M	A team
168	129	51	81	49:26	David	Pattman	V 40	M	A team
174	134	5	86	49:46	Mark	Goodwin	V 60	M	A team
200	153	63	102	52:08	Steven	Dobner	V 40	M	A team
249	180	49	127	58:14	Tim	Robinson	V 50	M
267	185	14	132	1:00:43	Jim	Brown	V 60	M
275	188	2	135	1:03:12	Roger	Hardman	V 70	M	2nd MV70
286	191	55	138	1:05:01	Michael	O’Keefe	V 50	M
296	193	57	140	1:07:35	Andy	Jay	V 50	M
306	194	16	141	1:27:31	Paul	Holgate	V 60	M

194 men in the race. 18 Spartans.

Spartan Women

Race	Pos	Cat	Vet	Time	Name	Surname	Cat.	M/F	Comments
103	16	4	12	44:40	Suzy	Hawkins	V 45	F	4th FV45
204	48	13	33	52:29	Tracy	Pez	V 45	F
205	49	1	34	53:10	Yuko	Gordon	V 65	F	1st FV65
231	63	21	45	56:17	Karen	Ellis	V 45	F
250	70	24	51	58:29	Wendy	Tharani	V 45	F
261	77	23	58	59:52	Georgie	Hooper	V 35	F
290	99	38	79	1:06:14	Jenny	Garrett	V 45	F
291	100	39	80	1:06:31	Mo	Warrillow	V 45	F
301	108	20	87	1:11:51	Jane	Wadey	V 55	F
303	110	27	89	1:14:50	Callie	Chapman	V 35	F
305	112	21	91	1:27:30	Sharon	Crowley	V 55	F

11 Spartan women. 112 in race.

Spartan at the Ware Ten

Pos	Name	Chip	Category	Cat Pos	Gender	Age Grade	Pace	Comments
67	Robert WRIGHT	1:19:52	Ages 20 – 39	21	Male	55.98	4:59 min/km
91	Steven DOBNER	1:24:07	Ages 40 – 49	21	Male	57.21	5:14 min/km
93	David PATTMAN	1:24:11	Ages 40 – 49	23	Male	55.28	5:14 min/km
171	Jim BROWN	1:34:32	Ages 70+	1	Male	62.56	5:53 min/km	Winner MV70
182	Mo WARRILLOW	1:35:53	Ages 45 – 54	18	Female	57.05	5:58 min/km
185	Chris SAUNDERS	1:36:11	Ages 20 – 39	42	Male	46.23	5:59 min/km	First 10 mile race
242	Nicola PATTMAN	1:52:59	Ages 35 – 44	33	Female	45.73	7:02 min/km
243	Jan FRY	1:53:04	Ages 65+	1	Female	64.62	7:03 min/km	Winner FV65

There were 260 finishers.

Spartans at Parkruns on Saturday 2^nd July

Position	Gender Position	parkrunner	Run Time
Westmill parkrun
43	34	Nick KLEANTHOUS	29:37
Stevenage parkrun
2	2	Grant RAMSAY	18:31
18	16	Sam SIMMONS	22:04	YB
63	54	James MCSWEENEY	25:20
68	57	Matt CLARKE	25:31
77	66	David PATTMAN	26:13
78	67	Danik BATES	26:21	220th
104	87	Steven DOBNER	27:41
112	90	Jim BROWN	27:58
138	28	Debbie BLANTERN	29:27
167	39	Nikki Katherine NATION	31:55	PB
173	42	Jane WADEY	32:34
184	49	Hilary DAVIES	33:43	YB
201	57	Mo WARRILLOW	35:07
202	58	Erica GRAYSON	35:07
233	79	Sharon CROWLEY	40:02
234	141	Paul HOLGATE	40:03
242	145	Tony RANDFIELD	43:22
243	146	Roger BIGGS	44:16	110th
Rutland Water parkrun
55	47	Chris HOLLAND	24:50	YB
Exmouth parkrun
1	1	Jonathan PARR	16:56
Great Dunmow parkrun
70	47	Darryl STEVENS	38:18
Hunstanton Promenade parkrun
12	1	Nicola KENNEDY	26:45
Henlow Bridge Lakes parkrun
49	41	Michael O’KEEFE	28:52	140th

A Win For Yuko at the Newport Pagnell Carnival 5K

Ware 10 + 10 – PB for Paul

Race for Life

EMAC – Spartans 2 and 3.

Parkrun Highlights 6th July

Ware Ten

Roger on the River Thames Towpath

Parkrun Highlights Saturday 2nd July

Tables

Parkrun Highlights 6^th July

Parkrun Highlights Saturday 2^nd July