Sevenoaks AC fielded a full team of four runners in the men's race at the first match of the new Kent League cross-country season at New Barn Park, Swanley on 12th October. SAC's all-veteran team of Andrew Mead (134th in 40:07), Zachary Ramsden (145th in 40:39), Dan Witt (165th in 41:33) and Chris Desmond (213th in 43:33) finished 18th of 22 complete teams on the day. Andrew Mead was also 13th M50 and Chris Desmond 14th M55.
SAC also had a representative in the women's race with Suzy Claridge flying the flag in 50th place (12th W45 in 21:20).
Sevenoaks AC was also represented in four of the junior races, with full teams in both the U13 boys and girls events. The U13 boys team of Ryan Alford-Smith (34th in 11:27), Andrew Simmons (38th in 11:34), James Beecroft (41st in 11:39), Frederick Naughton (49th in 12:13), William Hurst (56th in 13:19) and Harry Mitchell (57th in 13:20) finished 8th team, while the girls team of Alexia Scotiniadis (43rd in 12:52), Lucy Edwards (46th in 13:00) and Heidi Wilding (61st in 15:20) were 9th. And in the U15 girls race, Rhianna Munn was 42nd in 18:22 and Tamzin Moore 48th in 18:42, with Thomas Mitchell 45th in 16:09 and Alex Holden 66th in 19:33 in the boys race.
The full results are here.
Match 2 in the series is at Somerhill School, Tonbridge on 26th October at 12:00. Contact
David Ives was fourth overall and first M40, Bridgit Weekes first W60 and Sylvia Lewis first W65 at the Tonbridge Half on 6th October. And the Sevenoaks AC women's team of Bridgit, Marion van Lille and Laura Andrade won second team. Also Laura was second W40, Simon Hallpike third M65 and Sally Shewell fourth W60 as fifteen SAC runners tackled the hilly course in unexpectedly sunny and breezy conditions. The Sevenoaks AC results were as follows:
| Pos | Gun | Time | Name | Club | Gen | Cat | Bib | GPos | CPos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 01:20:04 | 01:20:03 | David Ives | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male Vet 40 | 300 | 4 | 1 |
| 54 | 01:34:22 | 01:34:19 | Daniel Witt | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male Vet 40 | 943 | 49 | 12 |
| 158 | 01:43:50 | 01:43:32 | Marion Van Lille | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Senior Female | 350 | 17 | 6 |
| 207 | 01:47:16 | 01:47:04 | Simon Hallpike | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male Vet 65 | 429 | 186 | 3 |
| 248 | 01:49:28 | 01:49:10 | Laura Andrade | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 40 | 555 | 29 | 2 |
| 273 | 01:51:03 | 01:50:42 | Bridgit Weekes | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 60 | 417 | 36 | 1 |
| 352 | 01:56:00 | 01:55:02 | Leonard Lai King | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male Vet 40 | 851 | 294 | 53 |
| 384 | 01:57:35 | 01:56:52 | Jane Morgan | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 40 | 59 | 67 | 12 |
| 403 | 01:58:43 | 01:57:55 | Anna Humphrey-Taylor | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 45 | 540 | 73 | 9 |
| 418 | 01:59:32 | 01:59:13 | Sarah Shewell | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 60 | 400 | 79 | 4 |
| 496 | 02:04:48 | 02:04:15 | Robert Peers | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male Vet 50 | 112 | 385 | 44 |
| 618 | 02:13:29 | 02:12:39 | Jenny Austin | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 40 | 374 | 165 | 30 |
| 681 | 02:22:38 | 02:21:47 | Courtney Harris | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Senior Female | 392 | 194 | 51 |
| 745 | 02:30:28 | 02:29:33 | Sylvia Lewis | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 65 | 706 | 227 | 1 |
| 781 | 02:44:45 | 02:43:41 | Tulay Sefer | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female Vet 35 | 586 | 249 | 44 |
The full results are here.
The M80 events at the KCAA Masters Championships at the Erith Stadium on 14th-15th September 2019 were exclusively contested by Sevenoaks AC athletes. Richard Pitcairn-Knowles rushed back from the European Masters Athletics Championships in Venice to challenge young would-be usurper Ron Denney at two of the events.
Fresh from third place at both the 1500m and 4k cross-country in Venice, Richard, who is the UK M85 record-holder over 3,000m indoors, would surely be favoured for the Kent 1500m title? But in a race where Richard ran some 24 seconds faster than in the Italian event, Ron outdipped him by less than 0.4 seconds in 9:38.93 to 9:39.30.
However, Richard prevailed as they both contested the 400m, winning, again by a small margin, in 2:05.45 to 2:07.53.
In other events, Ron won the 800m, Discus and Shot and Richard the 100m, with David Simpson taking gold in the javelin with a magnificent throw of 18.22 in the fourth round. The Kent Masters results are here, and the results from Venice here.
Heather Fitzmaurice won the Highway 10k in Orpington on Sunday 22nd September and was sixteenth overall. 
The only other Sevenoaks AC runner in the field was Lionel Steilow who was eighty-fifth - and first M70 - in 57:48.
The full results can be found here.
This result comes two weeks after Heather was third woman, fourteenth overall and second W45 in the Rye Ancient Trails 15k, where Hugh Brennan won the accompanying 30k race with Marion van Lille third in the women's race and Jake Fricker, Nick and Anna Taylor and Russell Crane also well placed.
The full Rye results can be found here.