Serpiesphere Virtual 5K – Autumn series Race 6 results and Race 7 instructions

Well done to all those who took part in race 6 of the Serpiesphere Virtual 5K Autumn series (14^th to 27^th November). Here is a quick review of Race 6 and instructions for Race 7.

Race 6 Virtual Podium

Congratulations to these runners for their Virtual Podium performances in the handicap race.

1st Place: Camilla Allwood has been working really hard to improve her times and it shows! Well done Camilla for her handicapped time of 57:03.

2nd Place: Ana Penalver is back on the podium with a handicapped time of 57:32, shaving off over 2 minutes from the previous race.

3rd Place: Congratulations to junior member, Pip Jones, who came into 3rd place with a handicapped at 58:13

We should also mention Liz Ayres who almost got a 5^th podium place in a row! She came 4^th in this race (knocked just off the podium at the very last minute by Camilla’s winning performance) with a handicapped time of 58:20. Well done Liz!

Also, the fastest performers of Race 5 are:

Fastest Male: Matthew Vokes retains fastest male title with a time of 17:25

Fastest Female: Mariah McConnaughey takes this one with a time of 20:17.

Best age-graded performance: Andrew Reeves has the best age graded performance with a time of 17:58 making an age grading of 82.1%

Full results can be found here

Thanks to everyone who posted their photos in our Dropbox account. We have a great selection posted to us this past fortnight! Since we haven’t had much sun in London of late the winner this time around goes to a photo taken in sunny Buenos Aires by Nat Delfino, showing the enormous Floralis Generica statue (a giant aluminium flower that blooms daily).

You can see more of Nat’s Buenos Aires pictures as well as lots of others on the Serpie facebook page so please keep sending them in! You can submit them here. (Note: by uploading the photos you have given us and the Club permission to use them.)

Well done to everyone!

You have until 10pm on Friday 11^th December to submit your time for race 7 and you can do that here: https://www.serpentine.org.uk/rdb/showvirtual5k.php?race=13541

Race 7 – How to submit your time

• Enter your time before 10pm on Friday 11^th December here. Click “self-add result”, then scroll to find “Serpiesphere Virtual 5K” and choose “28November 2020” (which includes all performances from 28^th November to 11^th December).

• 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 here (also before 23:59 on Friday. This link can also be found in the same page as the “self-add result” page). Click “Choose Files” or “Choose from Computer”. 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 Sarah if you are unable to do so. All members who haven't 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!

Autumn series championship points

With just 2 more races to go below is the top 10 of the Autumn series so far:

	Score Race 1	Score Race 2	Score Race 3	Score Race 4	Score Race 5	Score Race 6	Total Score	Position
Ana Penalver	1	20	20	18	17	19	95	1
Elizabeth Ayres	DNR	19	19	20	19	17	94	2
Nicola Barberis Negra	20	11	19	10	13	11	84	3
Matthew Vokes	12	14	12	13	13	14	78	4
Pip Jones	19	6	7	11	15	18	76	5
Andrew Reeves	12	9	10	14	12	12	69	6
Benjamin Griffiths	1	15	11	21	16	DNR	64	7
Sophie Taylor	20	10	8	10	7	8	63	8
Victoria Brown	12	10	12	10	10	9	63	8
William Simpson	9	8	13	DNR	20	12	62	10

You can see the full list of championship points here

Happy running!

The Serpieshere virtual 5k team (Sarah, Baiju and Pete)

Submitted: 6 December 2020

Back