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.
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.
| 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 |
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.
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.
Parkrun Saturday 4th November
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