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 1:48:30.
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 three years ago.”
EMAC 2025
Fairlands Valley Spartans women’s team has qualified for the final of the East of England Masters (EMAC) track and field competition. As a result of the fourth and final counting district event and on provisional results they won the local league by an amazing 81 points.
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 we are sure you will wish 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. 33 Spartans ran the 5K in Fairlands Valley Park.
Spartan DAVID HARRIS-CHERGUIT won the event with a new parkrun personal best (PPB) of 17:01. He was the only man to beat a visiting woman who beat the course record with an amazing 17:04. SIMON JACKSON was top ten with 18:14.
There were also new PPBs from ALEXEY ZHERDEV 20:55; LEE PICKERSGILL 22:46 and SAMANTHA SUTTON beating 30 minutes with 29:51. MIKE JEFFS ran his 40th parkrun in 21:29; SALLY PICKLES her 40th in 31:34 and HILARY DAVIES her 70th in 38:56.
The Spartans running parkruns outside Stevenage included NICK GILL 21:29 and GEORGIE HOOPER 22:30 at Somerdale Pavilion (Bristol); PETER SACH 26:03 at Aylesbury; PETER SMITH 27:07 at East Brighton and MIKE REYNOLDS at Panshanger.
