 Thursday evening saw 432 runners gather at Marriotts School in Stevenage to take part in the 31st annual FVS 3K relays. It’s always a fun event, with teams of 4 competing against runners from Herts and Beds running clubs and hosted by Stevenage's biggest running club, Fairlands Valley Spartans. Each runner must complete a gently undulating 3km course round the sailing lake in Fairlands Valley Park which was glistening in the late evening sunshine. There were awards for the top three teams in both the open and Herts Senior and Herts Veterans Mixed, Womens and Mens categories. North Herts Road Runners enjoyed great success on the night with 13 teams competing and county medal winning performances from Katie Harbon taking top spot in the women’s race and the only female to dip under 11 minutes. Rhia Botha took 3rd place in the veteran 35 category while Linda Aird and Pete Sibbett both stormed to top spot in their respective veteran 65 and 60 categories. The teams were also successful with Katie Harbon, Rhia Botha and Tracy Pitcairn taking the county female senior silver team medal, while the club’s male veteran also took team silver: Shahab Ahmad; Matt Sayers; Daren Matussa and Vince Wright. In the mixed open event, NHRR team Ground Squirrel comprising Shaun Allin, Hannah Ridley, Natalie Phillips and Richard Springall came 3rd. Men’s team captain John Auld commented, ‘It’s such a fun race, unusual in it’s format and distance and brilliant to be able to run as well as watch and cheer fellow team mates. It was a fantastic atmosphere and great end to the summer club racing.’ On Sunday the trio of Sue Foot, Miranda Morgan and Andrew Cook fancied a longer distance and they were in luck as Spartans held their second event in 3 days which included a a self-navigating route of 26.5 miles starting and finishing at Marriotts School and mainly on trails and across farmland. Sue reported, ‘We had to battle our way through some very tall sweetcorn fields with no clear path to follow. We had perfect weather and finished in 6 hours and 50 minutes.’
Parkrun roundup 20th July Philip shared a lovely report from Didcot: I spent this weekend visiting my daughter and family and joined them (first time for me) at their local parkrun at Didcot. It's a lovely course with the runners nicely spread out at the start. When they asked for any tourists, I got a few funny looks when I said Letchworth Garden City, North Herts but I wore my club shirt with pride. Over half of the fairly flat route was on grass and the rest on tarmac. You could hear the sound of the steam trains tooting their whistles at the famous railway centre behind the trees bordering the route. I shunted my way round to come 100th out of 227, 2nd out of 3 in my age group. I was very pleased to record my best parkrun time for this year 28:33. As usual, the marshalls and spectators were excellent. I would recommend this parkrun should you find yourself in this part of Oxfordshire.
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