Sally Shewell was second W55 as seventeen Sevenoaks AC runners braved storm Dennis and contested the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon on 16th February. Guillaume Ninevan led them home.
The SAC results were as follows:
| Pos | Gun | Chip | Name | Club | Gen | Cat | Bib | PGen | PCat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 01:23:13 | 01:23:10 | Guillaume Nineven | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 910 | 17 | |
| 27 | 01:25:56 | 01:25:51 | Michael Lochead | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 761 | 26 | |
| 29 | 01:26:02 | 01:25:57 | Keith Brown | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 144 | 28 | 10 |
| 31 | 01:26:11 | 01:26:07 | Andrew Milne | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 867 | 30 | |
| 51 | 01:28:38 | 01:28:22 | Nick Humphrey-Taylor | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 621 | 50 | 15 |
| 59 | 01:29:26 | 01:29:22 | Edmund Saunders | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 1084 | 58 | |
| 115 | 01:34:35 | 01:34:29 | Daniel Witt | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 1330 | 108 | 38 |
| 117 | 01:34:46 | 01:34:41 | George Heyworth | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 571 | 110 | |
| 142 | 01:37:50 | 01:37:43 | Graham Dwyer | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 354 | 132 | 46 |
| 151 | 01:38:28 | 01:38:23 | Catherine Linney | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female 45 - 54 | 758 | 11 | 4 |
| 170 | 01:39:21 | 01:39:13 | John Stevens | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 50 - 59 | 1163 | 158 | 19 |
| 303 | 01:46:27 | 01:46:20 | Christopher Desmond | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 50 - 59 | 327 | 271 | 37 |
| 445 | 01:52:40 | 01:51:30 | Sarah Fisher | Sevenoaks Ac | F | - | 407 | 56 | |
| 539 | 01:56:25 | 01:56:00 | Sarah Shewell | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female 55 - 64 | 1120 | 79 | 2 |
| 598 | 01:58:22 | 01:57:26 | Ian King | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 701 | 505 | |
| 680 | 02:03:20 | 02:02:54 | Hugh Shewell | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 1119 | 561 | |
| 690 | 02:04:08 | 02:02:48 | Anna Humphrey-Taylor | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female 45 - 54 | 620 | 121 | 38 |
The full results are here.
In the final Kent League Cross Country fixture of the season on 8th February at Norman Park, Bromley, Sevenoaks AC had just three runners. Suzy Claridge finished in 35th place in the senior women's race, her best position of the series. Andrew Mead was 105th in the senior men's race, where Chris Desmond also competed, finishing 162nd.
Suzy and Andrew thus completed all four races in the elite county competition with both achieving impressive 10th places in their respective categories, W45 and M50, over the season.
The full results are here.
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Congratulations to our winning women's team, runner-up combined team and individual medalists James Mason, Jeremy Winter and Pauline Dalton, and to all the SAC runners in the five races this season. The honours list is here.
John Witton was ninth overall and just pipped by one second for first M40 as twelve SAC runners tackled the Canterbury 10 on 26th January. This was the first Kent GP race of 2020 and some of Sevenoaks AC's most successful runners in past GPs were among the competing dozen, including Lionel Stielow who was fourth M70.
The SAC results were: John Witton 9th in 1:00:00, Ed Saunders 45th in 1:04:11, Nick Humphrey-Taylor 47th in 1:04:01, Dan Witt 125th in 1:08:56, Chris Desmond 179th in 1:11:40, Graham Dwyer 192nd in 1:12:02, Jat Soomal 227th in 1:13:04, Marion Van Lille 407th in 1:19:12, Sally Shewell 602nd in 1:26:18, Anna Humphrey-Taylor 713th in 1:29:25, Hugh Shewell 730th in 1:29:23 and Lionel Stielow 924th in 1:36:22.
The full results are here.