Sevenoaks AC Handicap 9 April 2018

Andrew wins

Andrew Mead won the fourth race of the Sevenoaks AC 2018 handicap series by twenty-five seconds. In cool conditions, Andrew Mead had a fine run as he overtook Julie Lobley in the closing stages to register his first handicap win for ten years, and first ever over the longer seven mile course. With a time of 48:06, Mead beat his handicap by thirty-four seconds.

Comfortably holding on to second place, Julie Lobley repeated her position from the previous race as she was the only other runner to beat her handicap, by nine seconds, with 65:11. Andy Ashlee finished another seventeen seconds back in third in the day's fastest time of 46:38. Ashlee was more than a minute clear of Chris Desmond's 47:53 for fourth. Albeit back in tenth place, Grace Manzotti was the fastest woman in the race with 62:59.

Andrew Mead's win and some good placings in earlier races puts him top of the series table after four races, with a big fifteen point lead over Chris Desmond, the only other runner to have completed all four races so far in 2018. Although the series is only a third of the way through, Mead's excellent score of just 11 points will take some catching as the competition progresses.

With eight more races to go in this year-long competition, the series moves to Tuesday evenings for four months to take advantage of the later daylight. The next race, the fifth of the 2018 series, is over the alternate five mile course. It starts from the Sevenoaks School track at 7 pm on Tuesday 8 May. Newcomers are very welcome to come and run.

April Result
NameJanFebMarHcapPosTimeNet
Andrew Mead30:35:4030:48:3840:35:3821:2011:09:260:48:06
Julie Lobley  01:06:5720:47:1104:4021:09:511:05:11
Andy Ashlee60:36:13    23:3031:10:080:46:38
Chris Desmond70:37:4790:50:1060:35:3022:3041:10:230:47:53
David Lobley00:41:4520:56:0430:39:4714:5051:11:430:56:53
Tony Horlock      18:0061:11:470:53:47
Simon Rowe  50:54:1670:39:5217:0071:12:010:55:01
Neil Haggertay      04:0081:12:041:08:04
Daniel Witt      24:1091:13:090:48:59
Grace Manzotti90:45:43  90:43:3513:20101:16:191:02:59
Jim Fitzmaurice130:52:31    05:40111:22:501:17:10
Steve Murfet      04:0001:12:041:08:04
James Baker      18:0001:05:520:47:52
Martin Knight    00:39:59    
Peter Knight    00:40:17    
Jim Knight    00:53:15    
Chris Newton    00:53:25    
Andrew Milne  130:49:59      
Alex Hofmann  120:52:20      
Ted Scott  80:51:28110:43:45    
Rob Carr  01:10:07      
Graham Dwyer  40:53:27      
Sophie Lamb50:42:28        
Rob Johnson120:46:10  100:45:00    
Simon Hallpike100:43:05100:55:3050:40:10    
Andy Evans40:37:22        
Darius Sarshar20:34:15        
Jacqui O'Reilly80:37:13        
Keith Dowson110:37:3870:45:26      
Jonathan Copping00:46:1811:01:0110:40:55    
Jean-Pierre Darque00:46:18        
Rob Peers00:48:15        
Pauline Dalton  110:56:26      
Sylvia Lewis  61:11:5080:53:15    
Lyndon Collins10:46:43        
Series Table
PositionNameScoreTiebreak
1Andrew Mead1148
2Chris Desmond2648

Andrew
Winner: Andrew Mead
Julie
Second: Julie Lobley


Remaining series dates:

Tuesday 7 pm: 8 May (5M), 26 June (7M), 10 July (5M), 7 August (7M).

Sunday 9 am: 30 September (5M), 14 October (7M), 4 November (5M).

Wednesday 9 am: 26 December (7M).

Last Updated on 1-04-18
By Hallpike