Spartan YUKO GORDON won in the British Masters 5K Championships at Battersea Park Sunday morning. She won GOLD in for women 70 plus, just a stride – one second – ahead of the second W70 lady. Yuko’s finish time was 22:45.
Trail 50K PB
MARTIN JACOB did the St Edmund’s Trail 50K ultra marathon on Sunday. The course was slightly more than 50k. He ran just a bit more than 52k and finished in 5:42:18. That’s a huge PB (personal best) improvement of 1:52:20 from last year’s Lea Valley 50k ultra.
Simon Haigh Lanzarotte
SIMON HAIGH ran the 50K Lanzarotte International Running Challenge in 4 hours 27 minutes 10 seconds and was 88th out of the 380 male participants. His time included the Vince Regan Memorial Classic 10K run in 56:04 and La Vuelta de Tinajo 21K in 1:46:29.
Serpentine Last Friday of the Month
JIM BROWN ran his fastest road 5K this year on Friday lunchtime.
Enjoying the sunny, mild with a light breeze, conditions he ran 27:05 at the Serpentine Last Friday of the Month 5K in Hyde Park. That have Jim a pretty good age score which moved him up the series championship table but was only good enough for fifth man 70 plus which demonstrates what an amazing event the “Last Friday” can be. The next event is on Friday 27th December and they have a New Year’s Day 10K on Wednesday 1st January.
Hot in Valencia
Valencia Marathon for ROBERT WRIGHT in a time of 3:41:26. He said it was a busy hot marathon.
Grant Ramsay
GRANT RAMSAY ran the Goodwood Marathon in 3 hours 10 minutes 58 seconds. It was on the Motor Racing circuit.
He finished in 42nd overall out of 150 finishers.
After 25 years, Grant decided to make event his last Marathon and focus on shorter distance events.
Cross Country Coming Up
The next Sunday cross country league race will be in Stevenage on 15th December.
Parkrun Highlights 30th November
It was a misty morning for the 375th Stevenage parkrun. 21 Spartans were there including KIRK NDUGU who was a brilliant second overall in just 17 minutes 55 seconds.
There were 428 runners at Stevenage including 166 women.
Spartans elsewhere included SUZY HAWKINS who ran the Wendover Woods parkrun in 25:26.