Tamsin Martin won the first race of the new Sevenoaks AC 2017 handicap series by a minute and a quarter, ahead of Andy Evans with Sophie Lamb in third.
Photographer Liam McAvoy from the Chronicle attended and provided this link.
The next, second, race of the 2017 series is at 9 am on Sunday 26 February.
The full details are here.
Brothers David and Allan Lee ran the fastest time for over five years over the hilly seven mile course of the Sevenoaks AC handicap to win the final race of the 2016 series in a dead heat.
There was no change to the series positions with Grace Manzotti winning the series trophy by one point. The full details are here.
The 2017 series begins on New Year's Day, this Sunday 1st January, at 09:00 from the Sevenoaks School track as usual.
Two Sevenoaks AC runners contested the SCVAC Cross Country championships at the Reigate Priory AC Holly Run on 11th December. M80 Richard Pitcairn-Knowles and M70 Jim Fitzmaurice both came away with gold medals from the six-mile race. The full results are here. Richard's run was all the more impressive as he had contested the SEAA Masters Cross Country Championships 2016 at Oxford on the previous day, Saturday 10th December. Richard was eighth M70 - and 1st M80 - in the 6k event. The full results for that are here.
Sally Shewell missed the bronze medal by just four seconds at the Kent Masters Cross Country Championships at Dartford on Saturday 3rd January. Sally was contesting the W55 category and was the closest SAC runner to a medal on the day. Sally was also our only female representative at the event. All the women's categories, together with the M60 and M70+ men, competed in the same 5k race, with Richard Pitcairn-Knowles joining Jim Fitzmaurice in the M70s. Jim was sixth and Richard eleventh.
In previous years, Sevenoaks AC has picked up medals in the M60 team race, but for various reasons, including injuries and emigration, Simon Hallpike contested the category on his own, finishing twenty-second.
The first race of the day, over 9k, was for the M50s. This was the only section where SAC fielded a full team. In a high-quality race, Chris Desmond was fourteenth, John Stevens thirty-first (seventh M55) and Duncan Cochrane sixty-fifth (twenty-first M55), with the team tenth of sixteen complete teams. The final race, also over 9k, also saw a depleted Sevenoaks team, with Dan Witt our sole runner finishing thirty-fifth.
The full results are here.