Sevenoaks AC team at Swanley

Having won the previous race in Knole Park, Sevenoaks AC athlete James Mason was second in the Kent Fitness League race in New Barn Park, Swanley on Sunday 8 November.

In a field of over 500 runners from 18 Kent running clubs, Mason led a 31-strong Sevenoaks AC team home over a 3 lap, 5.25 mile, muddy course.

Mason was once again involved tight finish with Noel Sutton of Thanet Road Runners, only this time the 32-year-old Otford resident allowed his rival to get a few too many metres ahead before the final sprint and was just unable to close the gap before the finish line.

Race Finish

In a field of over 500 runners, Mason led home a 31-strong Sevenoaks AC team over the muddy 3 lap, 5.25 mile course.

Other fine Sevenoaks AC men's scoring performances came from brothers Allan Lee (4th over-40) and David Lee in 15th and 16th, Andrew Mead 44th, Edmund Saunders 59th, Stephen Searby (over-50) 65th, and Chris Desmond (over-50) in 96th.

The return of Katie Wills, who missed the Knole Park race, gave a boost to Sevenoaks AC's women's team which was once again led by Cath Linney. Linney (2nd over-45) was 134th overall, with Wills 185th and Sally Mortleman (over-45) making up the scoring trio in 215th.

Also running well in their age groups were James Graham, (1st over-60) in 106th overall, and  Sally Shewell (2nd over-55 - 253rd).

Sevenoaks AC led the league after the first race with the men's and combined teams first and the women's team 4th. After the excellent team performance at Swanley, where the men and women were both 4th and the combined team 3rd, the club is still well in contention with the men 2nd in the standings, the women 3rd and the combined team 2nd.

The Kent Fitness League is a series of cross-country races between 18 registered Athletics Clubs in Kent. Any number of club members can compete, but 10 are needed to score in the team competition – 7 men (of whom two must be over 50 and one over 40) and 3 women (of whom one must be over 45 and one over 35). The next race in the series will be in Fowlmead near Deal on Sunday November 22nd, starting at 11.00.

The SAC results were as follows:

Ov PosLg PosRunnerAgeTimeClubRating
2 2 James Mason 32 29:23 Sevenoaks AC 99.70
15 14 Allan Lee 42 31:03 Sevenoaks AC 96.14
16 15 David Lee 37 31:04 Sevenoaks AC 95.85
44 43 Andrew Mead 46 33:42 Sevenoaks AC 87.54
59 57 Edmund Saunders 33 34:14 Sevenoaks AC 83.38
64 61 Andrew Milne 33 34:31 Sevenoaks AC 82.20
65 62 Stephen Searby 52 34:36 Sevenoaks AC 81.90
71 66 Lee Lintern 35 34:45 Sevenoaks AC 80.71
95 88 John O'Callaghan 31 35:45 Sevenoaks AC 74.18
96 89 Chris Desmond 52 35:46 Sevenoaks AC 73.89
106 99 James Graham 62 36:02 Sevenoaks AC 70.92
116 108 James Baker 50 36:35 Sevenoaks AC 68.25
124 114 Sharn Mullen 39 36:53 Sevenoaks AC 66.47
126 116 Alan Macpherson 59 36:56 Sevenoaks AC 65.88
134 10 Cath Linney 46 37:15 Sevenoaks AC 94.51
145 131 Alan Lewis 49 37:37 Sevenoaks AC 61.42
185 21 Katie Wills 27 38:51 Sevenoaks AC 87.80
190 167 Andy Evans 45 38:58 Sevenoaks AC 50.74
197 173 John Denyer 67 39:16 Sevenoaks AC 48.96
215 27 Sally Mortleman 50 40:08 Sevenoaks AC 84.15
232 200 Duncan Cochrane 58 40:42 Sevenoaks AC 40.95
238 204 Geoff Vine 68 40:51 Sevenoaks AC 39.76
253 37 Sarah Shewell 56 41:15 Sevenoaks AC 78.05
263 223 Simon Hallpike 62 41:39 Sevenoaks AC 34.12
272 40 Nicki Thompson 39 41:54 Sevenoaks AC 76.22
312 54 Sophie Lamb 24 43:43 Sevenoaks AC 67.68
369 84 Clair Thornton 40 46:28 Sevenoaks AC 49.39
379 289 Lionel Stielow 66 46:51 Sevenoaks AC 14.54
416 107 Becca Smithers 54 49:28 Sevenoaks AC 35.37
423 112 Jenny Austin 38 49:46 Sevenoaks AC 32.32
457 320 Peter Nuttall 43 53:17 Sevenoaks AC 5.34

The full results are here.

Three Sevenoaks runners contested the previous day's Kent League XC race at Sparrows Den: Dan Witt was 83rd in 39:07, Chris Desmond was 86th in 39:20 and James Graham was 101st in 40:05 (1st M60). The full results are here.