Weekly Serpie round-up
Serpies sure had a spring in their steps last weekend, with two new county champions in our ranks and a multitude of medals, PBs and record performances. Well done all!
Wokingham Half Marathon
Marta Bagnati sure is on a roll. Having won the Fred Hughes 10 last month, she finished the Wokingham Half Marathon 3rd woman in 1:19:35. This performance puts her second on the all-time Serpentine women's list at that distance, and is faster than the club record of 1:20:09 which stood from March 2008 until May last year. Congrats Marta!
Peter Wooldridge led the Serpie men home in 1:15:50, finishing in 44th place. A notable mention also goes to Lee Wilkinson who ran a PB in 1:17:19. Serpentine results.
Surrey County Indoor Championships
Serpentine has two new county champions in its ranks. Ricardo Sutherland (U13) and Jennifer Eduwu (U15) each won 60m golds at the Surrey indoors on Saturday. Ricardo ran 7.86 to qualify and 7.83 in the final (U13B) and Jennifer ran 8.00 to qualify and 7.92 (a PB) in the final. That translates into age-graded performances of 92.2% for the two of them. Jennifer's time places her second on the all-time Serpentine women's list over 60m.
Last Friday of the Month 5k
The February race took place one week early on Friday 16th in glorious sunshine. The 219-strong field were led home by Serpentine trio Andy Greenleaf (15:15), Chris Oddy (15:17, a PB) and Rick Weston (15:21), with Jonathan Poole in 7th (15:41). In all, 9 runners finished inside 16 minutes.
Special mention to Jim Ashworth-Beaumont who ran 17:14, breaking the 5k men's V50 club record. Other Serpies who ran (non-parkrun) PBs included Angus Beaumont (16:51), Zoe Birchenough (21:54) and Winston Lord (23:10). Full results.
Hampton Court Half Marathon
Some 35 Serpies lined up in the sunshine for this popular spring half marathon. The men were led home by Nick Todd, who finished 14th in a PB of 1:15:30. Max Harrison-Tosatto was not far behind in 1:16:11 (18th). Richard Giles (1:19:03), Eddie Ware (1:19:58) and Sam Tomlinson (1:21:43) all finished in the top 60. Tanya Usher (1:34:32), Anne Eden (1:34:52) and Natalia Ubysz (1:37:56) were fastest Serpettes. Serpentine results.
(Photo credit: Eddie Ware)
Sri Chinmoy (Valentine's) 10k
Big beautiful Battersea and the cold of dawn relented to rays of brilliant sunshine last Saturday.
And down in the park the start of the 2018 series of Sri Chinmoy racing with 131 runners, raring to go.
Plenty of Serpentine's gathered at a new start for this traditionally well organised 10k and yes, you guessed it where other than, the band stand, where our Serpentine races also start.
So no surprise to see a fabulous PB (34:21) by third male placing James (in form) Gillanders take the accolades.
With special mentions also going to Jean-Luc Hoez (48:36) and Phil Kelvin (50:27), Men's and Women's Vet 60 category winners.
Editor's note: Big up also to David Sharman for his PB (35:57) and Lloyd Bevan (42:17), returning to racing from injury and providing the race report. Serpentine results.
Multi-sport
Massive congratulations to Clare Freshwater who can proudly call herself an Ironman after completing Challenge Wanaka in New Zealand in 16:35:30. As Clare herself stated in her recent Serpentimes article - anything is possible!
Debbie Clarke meanwhile posted a great performance at the Windsor Duathlon, finishing second woman over the sprint distance in 1:17:59.
Parkrun results for 17 February 2018 (76 runners)
Top 5 by time and age-grade
| Name | Event | Time | Gender # | Name | Event | Time | Gender # | Name | Age-graded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Poole | Gunnersbury | 16:08 | 1 | Gemma Carter | Fulham Palace | 19:41 | 4 | Jonathan Poole | 81.71% | ||||
| Jonathan Bradford | Hackney Marshes | 16:38 | 2 | Tash Sheel | Ormskirk | 20:03 | 1 | Sarah Newton | 80.22% | ||||
| Simon Craddock | Dulwich | 17:39 | 4 | Victoria Basquill | Orpington | 20:16 | 1 | Victoria Basquill | 79.11% | ||||
| Adrian Burke | Hackney Marshes | 17:57 | 14 | Ahlem Ben Gueblia | Fulham Palace | 20:27 | 8 | Karsten Buecker | 77.70% | ||||
| Ben Greene | Thurrock, Orsett Heath | 18:38 | 1 | Lavinia Singer | Hampstead Heath | 20:51 | 1 | Jonathan Bradford | 77.56% |
Podium finishers
2nd: Joanne Marshall (Margate) - 25:21
3rd: Zoe Birchenough (Black Park) - 21:19, Kelly Page (Kingston) - 22:12
PBs
10 Serpies achieved event PBs last Saturday.
Busiest parkruns (3+ Serpies)
Fulham Palace (7), Gunnersbury (5), Hackney Marshes (5), Hampstead Heath (5), Bushy (4), Finsbury (4)
Full consolidated Serpentine results. Can't see your result? Updating your parkrun profile with Serpentine RC as your club should do the trick.
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With thanks to: Lloyd Bevan, Peter Clarke, Alex Jeffreys, Tom Poynton, Eddie Ware
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Submitted: 20 February 2018