Heather Fitzmaurice led from gun to tape to win the October Handicap by over two minutes from Simon Hallpike and Sam Znetyniak.
Heather was the fastest woman and James Baker the fastest overall.
Dan Witt stays in the lead in the series with Andrew Mead second, but Simon's result elevates him to third.
The next race, the penultimate event of the series, starts from the track at 08:30 on Sunday 3rd November and all are welcome.
The details are here.
Nine Sevenoaks AC runners contested the Larkfield 10k on 21st September with some excellent results. As last year, the event doubled as the KCAA Short-Course Road Race Championships, so county titles were on offer.
First home for Sevenoaks was our new county champion, Nicolene Hanekom, in sixteenth place overall and first woman and first W45.
Nicolene was followed about three minutes later by our new M60 silver-medallist Keith Dowson.
SAC's other county medallist was third-placed W65 Sally Shewell, while fourth-placed W35 Nicola Glover and fifth place W45 Caroline Fenwick were close to the podium.
The full SAC results were as follows:
Pos | Race No | Name | Gun Time | Chip Time | Category | Cat Pos | Gender | Gen Pos | Club | Pace |
16 | 141 | Nicolene Hanekom | 00:36:42 | 00:36:40 | FV45 | 1 | Female | 1 | Sevenoaks AC | 5:54 min/m |
43 | 86 | Keith Dowson | 00:39:41 | 00:39:35 | MV60 | 2 | Male | 38 | Sevenoaks AC | 6:23 min/m |
49 | 327 | Harvey Taylor | 00:39:56 | 00:39:50 | MS | 26 | Male | 43 | Sevenoaks AC | 6:25 min/m |
84 | 76 | Chris Desmond | 00:43:15 | 00:43:06 | MV60 | 8 | Male | 68 | Sevenoaks AC | 6:57 min/m |
87 | 121 | Nicola Glover | 00:43:23 | 00:43:15 | FV35 | 4 | Female | 18 | Sevenoaks AC | 6:58 min/m |
95 | 101 | Caroline Fenwick | 00:43:58 | 00:43:48 | FV45 | 5 | Female | 19 | Sevenoaks AC | 7:03 min/m |
129 | 23 | Adam Bates | 00:47:05 | 00:46:57 | MV40 | 28 | Male | 101 | Sevenoaks AC | 7:34 min/m |
209 | 305 | Sarah Shewell | 00:55:09 | 00:54:52 | FV65+ | 3 | Female | 50 | Sevenoaks AC | 8:51 min/m |
288 | 321 | Lionel Stielow | 01:06:10 | 01:05:41 | M70+ | 7 | Male | 197 | Sevenoaks AC | 10:35 min/m |
The full results are here.
Dan Witt won the September handicap ahead of Andrew Mead and Chris Desmond.
Nicola Glover was the fastest runner overall and Andrew was the fastest man.
Dan's fourth scoring run takes him straight to the top of the series table, two points ahead of Andrew.
The next race, over 7 miles, is on Sunday 13th October at 08:30 from the track and all are invited.
The details are here.
Seven SAC runners attended the East Peckham 10k on 28th July and despite searing heat and late course changes adding an extra half kilometre to the distance, there were some excellent results.
Ed Saunders led the Sevenoaks runners home in under forty minutes in 19th place, while Anton Mauve was second M55, Sarah Philpott fourth W45, Sally Shewell second W65, Simon Hallpike second M70 and Lionel Stielow 3rd M75.
The SAC results were:
The full results are here.