Keith Dowson secured the Kent Grand Prix M50 title with third place (2nd in Kent clubs) in the category at the Ashford 10k on 8 October. Keith was in second place going into this final race of the series and needed a minimum of third M50 from Kent clubs to ensure victory in the Grand Prix. In a tight race, three eligible M50s were within 15 seconds of Keith at the finish, with his nearest challenger from Orpington RR, who led going into the final race, securing six points to Keith's nine.
Andrew Milne was first SAC runner home, finishing just ahead of Dowson, and reversing their positions from the previous GP race, the Sittingbourne 10, seven days earlier. In the Sittingbourne event, Milne and Dowson were the only Sevenoaks AC runners. Keith Dowson reports: "I was 11th in 1:03:57 and 1st Vet 50 (nice tankard!), Andrew was 20th in 1:05:15 which was especially impressive as he ran the mob-match the day before, which I whimped out of". The Sittingbourne results are here.
Nick Humphrey-Taylor and Dan Witt also ran well at Ashford to complete a strong men's team, while Jacqui O'Reilly was fifth and third senior in the women's race.
Keith Dowson is joined as a GP champion by James Graham who had already secured the M60 title by winning six of the first seven races. The GP positions prior to the final race at Ashford are here. The SAC results from Ashford are:
Pos | Num | Name | Club | Sx | Cat | Chip | Gun | CPos |
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27. | 669 | Andrew MILNE | Sevenoaks AC | M | SM | 37:52 | 00:37:53 | 20 |
32. | 250 | Keith DOWSON | Sevenoaks AC | M | M50 | 38:06 | 00:38:07 | 3 |
41. | 470 | Nick HUMPHREY-TAYLOR | Sevenoaks AC | M | M40 | 38:28 | 00:38:34 | 8 |
65. | 1071 | Daniel WITT | Sevenoaks AC | M | M40 | 39:58 | 00:40:00 | 15 |
5. | 736 | Jacqueline O'REILLY | F | SW | 40:34 | 00:40:40 | 3 |
The full results are here.
Sally Shewell was second W55 as twenty Sevenoaks runners, including several of the previous days mobsters, contested the Tonbridge Half in damp windy conditions on 1st October. Nick Humphrey-Taylor was our first runner home, narrowly edging out fellow M40 Matthew Walker.
Sevenoaks AC were sixth in the mob match organised in conjunction with the Malling Parkrun on 30th September. SAC had the smallest team of the seven participating clubs, but there were high-quality performances at both ends of the field. The SAC results were as follows:
The parkrun results are here. The "fiendishly complicated" mob match scores are here.
At the Hospice in the weald 10k at Tunbridge Wells on 24th September, Nick Humphrey-Taylor was 6th overall and Andrew Mead supplemented his artistic endeavours for the hospice with 21st place in the 2017 race. Anna Humphrey Taylor and Lionel Steilow also ran the tough hilly race in warm sunny conditions. The SAC results were:
Pos | Num | Name | Time | Gender | GenPos |
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208 | 270 | Anna Humphrey Taylor | 00:55:56 | Female | 46 |
6 | 271 | Nick Humphrey Taylor | 00:40:37 | Male | 6 |
21 | 367 | Andrew Mead | 00:43:20 | Male | 20 |
376 | 552 | Lionel Steilow | 01:02:00 | Male | 253 |
The full results are here.
And James Graham ran the Robin Hood Half Marathon in Nottingham which he said was "rather hilly". James was 156th overall and second M60 in a large field in a chip time of 1:30:03. The full results are here.
Finally, Jim Fitzmaurice was 81st and first M70 in the Highway 10k in Chelsfield in a chip time of 56:54. Full results here.