We are pleased to share with you the notes from the recent club summit. This was an opportunity for clubs to engage with us and start to build a picture of the opportunities and areas for consideration for clubs in the future. We will continue to consult and communicate with clubs as we move into 2022. In the meantime, should any clubs wish to discuss any areas further please contact Geoff Caine geoff.caine@stevenage.gov.uk or myself louise@gallagher-smith.co.uk. 

The presentation and feedback are to be found below.

Yours in sport 

Louise Gallagher-Smith 
Chair - Sport Stevenage

Sunday’s Stevenage Half Marathon was a huge success and Fairlands Valley Spartans took first and second in the 13.1 miles races.

Spartan ANDREW PATTERSON won the event overall in a new personal best (PB) of 1 hour 12 minutes 53 seconds and also took GOLD in the Hertfordshire County Championships.

SIMON JACKSON was second in 1 hour 15 minutes 48 seconds and took SILVER in the county champs. Together with DAVID HARRIS CHERGUIT (PB 1:19:25) and STUART ARCHER (PB 1:26:27) they won GOLD in the County team competition and won the team contest in the race.

The Spartans won GOLD in the county team competition with LIZ SMITH (1:53:59); ALISON SHELLEY (PB 1:57:22) and WENDY THARANI (1:57:50). Three to count in the women’s competition

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Enjoy the show!

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The Remembrance Runs were held at Debden Airfield near Saffron Walden around the perimeter of the airfield. The airfield is in remote rural countryside in Essex and it was a challenging drive to get there. The course was flat, mainly dry and the surface was concrete and tarmac.

Five Spartans joined the run, Jonathan Jones, Paul Shelley, David Pattman, Dzenana Topic and Yuko Gordon.

Yuko Gordon running the 5K finished first in her age category with 22 minutes 25 seconds The other four Spartans ran the 10K. Paul was sixth overall and second man 50 plus in 39 minutes 21 seconds. David came in with 49:27, Jonathan 1:01:16 and Dzenana 1.04.55