Serpiesphere Virtual 5k Week 15 - 18th to 24th July 2020 (and Club Runs)

Hello Serpies,

Well done to the 63 Serpies who ran in last week’s Serpiesphere Virtual 5k. Here are the results of Week 14, a preview of Week 15, and some details of this week’s Club Runs.

With the Club Championship 3k and the Summer League 5 mile races taking place during the same week, we were spoilt for choices of virtual races this week. But in the Serpiesphere we are also spoilt for choices of places to run. Now that foreign travel is possible again, Sarah Maisey was around the lakes in Austria this week and she was rubbing shoulders with the locals whilst doing her 5k:

We need your race photos!  Thanks to everybody for sending them through every week. Please keep them coming. The link is here:  https://www.dropbox.com/request/DAXAB7cOY3l0rrJEKbKn. Remember – by uploading the photos you have given us and the Club permission to use them.

 

Last week’s Virtual Podium

Congratulations to the following runners for being on the Virtual Podium:

  1. Nat Delfino did a massive PB this week to secure her first win in the competition, with a time of 31:38 (handicapped time of 56:23).
  2. Emily Jenkins ran a great 5k around the track to put herself on the podium, with a time of 25:31 (handicapped time 58:31)
  3. Paul Byrnes broke his 18-month old personal best by a second with a time of 21:28 (handicapped time 58:43).

Also, our fastest performers of Week 14 are:

  • Fastest Male & best age-graded: Hugh Torry was a minute faster than everybody else and won the double with a time of 16:34 (age-graded performance 83.3%).
  • Fastest Female: Victoria Brown defended her top spot with a time of 21:21.

Full results here: https://www.serpentine.org.uk/rdb/showvirtual5k.php?race=13509.

 

This week – How to submit your time

  • Enter your time before 23:59 on Friday 24th July via this link: https://www.serpentine.org.uk/rdb/showvirtual5k.php?race=13510. Click “self-add result”, then scroll to find “Serpiesphere Virtual 5K” and choose “18 July 2020” (which includes all performances from 18th to 24th July).
  • Take a photo or screenshot that shows your time and distance, this can be a screenshot of your Strava / Garmin result page, or a picture of your watch. As long as the distance is a minimum of 5.00km (or 3.11 miles) and it shows a finish time, it will be accepted.
  • Submit the photo or screenshot at this link (also before 23:59 on Friday): https://www.dropbox.com/request/DAXAB7cOY3l0rrJEKbKn (this link can also be found in the same page as the “self-add result” page). Click the “+” sign on the page to ‘Choose Files’. You do not need a Dropbox account. This will just ask for your name (so we can correlate your performance with the time submitted) and email address (so you’ll get a confirmation of upload).

Email me if you are unable to do so. All members who have not done the race yet are welcome to join - you'll be a scratch runner this week so you won't be on the Podium; from next week onwards you will have a chance to win!

 

The Lockdown Championship

With 4 more weeks to go before the Lockdown Championship concludes, here are the Top 10 after Week 14:

1. Hilary Walker                  157

2. Hugh Torry                     142

3. Victoria Brown                135

4. Andrew Reeves               129

5. Stephanie Vaatz              126

6. Martin Carmack               125

7. Grace Sim                       102

    Natalia Delfino                102

9. Keith Evans                      96

10. Maureen Seguin              95

     Valerie Metcalf                95

     Richard Taylor                 95

The full results are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/196w6cohj0fsd9p/Lockdown%20Champs%20after%20Week%2014.pdf?dl=0

 

Serpiesphere Virtual Café – Saturday 25th July – NOTE START TIME & ZOOM LINK

As usual, we will be at the Virtual Café next Saturday.  Everybody will have a chance to do a Saturday morning run (including the club run at Hyde Park, hill sessions in Greenwich or Hampstead, or your own run) before logging in at 11:30am for an hour or so. It has been fun catching up with everyone across the Serpiesphere and doing the usual announcements – we look forward to seeing you there. The Zoom link is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86215892764.

 

Finally – Club Runs

Once again here’s a reminder that our club runs are on every Wednesday evening and Saturday morning, with a new starting point (Hyde Park Bandstand, near Hyde Park Corner) and pre-run group organising. You need to sign up in advance before coming:

  

Once again thanks to my co-organisers of the Virtual 5k – Sarah Maisey, Nic Barberis and Pete Mackintosh. Any queries about the race, please contact me or one of us.

 

Happy running,

Hans Ho

Participation Representative (participation@serpentine.org.uk)

Submitted: 19 July 2020

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