KFL 2024-25 - Match 5 - Allhallows · Sevenoaks Athletics Club

The penultimate race of this year’s Kent Fitness League took place in Allhallows Holiday Park near Rochester on Sunday February 2nd, writes Jim Knight.

Allhalows is one of the toughest courses in the 7-race series - nearly 6 miles long with sections on sand and seaweed, in mud, over ditches and with slippery wooden sections in-between. Several runners fell on the slippery surfaces, and everyone found it a really gruelling course.

26 Sevenoaks AC athletes were amongst the 443 runners who took part in cold but bright and sunny conditions.

Once again, Sevenoaks’ Andrea Berquez ran brilliantly to win the women’s race and, after 4 wins confirms her place as women’s series champion. She was closely followed in Allhallows by Nicola glover (6th and 3rd F35), with Jo Rodda (11th and 2nd F45), Cath Linney (18thand 1st F55), and Sophie Day (21st) as the other members of the scoring team.

The women’s team were beaten into second place by a strong team from Canterbury Harriers who have just ousted Sevenoaks from the top of the leaderboard in the series.

In the men’s race Sevenoaks had one of their best races of the season, coming 2nd behind a very strong team from Petts Wood. Jamie Philip had another outstanding run to place 5th (1st M45), with Jake Mears (15th), Ed Saunders (21st), Steven Hough (27th), Michael Lochead (44th), Andrew Hutchinson (46th), Keith Dowson (61st and 1st M60), and Paul Shelley (64th). Jeremy Winter had another good run to place 2nd M70.

The Sevenoaks AC results were:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Bib	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Score	Rtg	#
5	5	894	Jamie Philip	47	35:01	Sevenoaks AC	V40:1	98.62	7
15	15	1140	Jake Mears	20	36:55	Sevenoaks AC	M1	95.17	3
21	21	899	Edmund Saunders	42	37:39	Sevenoaks AC	V40:2	93.10	31
27	27	873	Steven Hough	51	38:29	Sevenoaks AC	V50:1	91.03	5
33	1	1077	Andrea Berquez	39	38:47	Sevenoaks AC	V35	100.00	16
45	44	881	Michael Lochead	44	39:52	Sevenoaks AC	M2	85.17	25
47	46	874	Andrew Hutchinson	45	39:57	Sevenoaks AC	M3	84.48	27
54	52	1161	James Ruckley	31	40:25	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	82.41	Debut
64	61	857	Keith Dowson	61	41:05	Sevenoaks AC	V60	79.31	22
68	64	1141	Paul Shelley	50	41:41	Sevenoaks AC	V50:2	78.28	12
75	6	864	Nicola Glover	37	42:16	Sevenoaks AC	F1	96.73	20
76	70	907	Daniel Witt	50	42:21	Sevenoaks AC	NS	76.21	77
82	74	875	David Killpack	39	42:54	Sevenoaks AC	NS	74.83	15
85	11	896	Joanne Rodda	48	43:11	Sevenoaks AC	V45	93.46	10
102	91	888	Shaun Mullen	48	44:59	Sevenoaks AC	NS	68.97	13
118	18	880	Catherine Linney	55	45:47	Sevenoaks AC	V55	88.89	53
130	21	1078	Sophie Day	36	46:26	Sevenoaks AC	F2	86.93	3
146	121	844	Brian Allen	53	47:31	Sevenoaks AC	NS	58.62	11
150	124	847	Adam Bates	41	47:37	Sevenoaks AC	NS	57.59	11
154	128	878	Leonard Lai King	45	47:50	Sevenoaks AC	NS	56.21	20
176	145	859	Andrew Evans	54	49:44	Sevenoaks AC	NS	50.34	60
184	34	862	Heather Fitzmaurice	55	50:03	Sevenoaks AC	NS	78.43	83
191	156	906	Jeremy Winter	71	50:40	Sevenoaks AC	NS	46.55	14
220	177	883	Simon Mann	44	53:01	Sevenoaks AC	NS	39.31	5
241	49	905	Rosie Williams	56	54:21	Sevenoaks AC	NS	68.63	3
249	52	845	Clare Ambrose	56	54:54	Sevenoaks AC	NS	66.67	4

The full results are here.

Petts Wood’s win ensures that they will win the men’s series, but the women’s series and the combined team positions will be decided following the final race in Rough Common, Canterbury on February 23rd.

In the combined team competition, Sevenoaks are just one point behind Petts Wood and in the women’s competition, Sevenoaks are just one point behind Canterbury Harriers. To win the series, Sevenoaks women need to beat Canterbury in the final race and the combined team needs to finish ahead of Petts Wood. It all depends on fielding a strong fit team for the final show-down.

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