Members collected four bronze medals as twenty Sevenoaks AC runners contested the Paddock Wood half on 7th April, led home by Andrew Milne and Mary Bridges. Mary (W35), Sally Shewell (W55), Sylvia Lewis (W65) and Lionel Stielow (M70) all won Kent County AA Long-Course bronzes at the event. Conditions were good for distance running with no sun and little wind. The SAC results were:
Pos
Gun
Name
Club
Cat
Num
Chip
Grade
96
1:20:48
Andrew Milne
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Men
173
1:20:40
73.82
120
1:22:34
Michael Lochead
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Men
2047
1:22:23
73.07
128
1:22:53
Nick Humphrey-Taylor
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
1398
1:22:42
77.12
144
1:24:06
Keith Brown
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
2394
1:23:55
76.58
213
1:28:00
Andrew Hutchinson
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Men
1151
1:27:49
69.03
338
1:33:51
Alex Newby
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
1260
1:33:41
66.12
349
1:34:03
Graham Dwyer
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
1432
1:33:52
68.47
368
1:34:51
Mary Bridges
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Ladies 35-44
2023
1:34:33
71.83
375
1:35:00
Vanessa Gilmartin
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Ladies 35-44
575
1:34:47
73.53
385
1:35:23
Andrew Evans
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
1467
1:35:06
68.04
484
1:39:10
Marion Van Lille
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Ladies
1034
1:38:38
66.35
568
1:41:42
Sean Leith
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
1441
1:41:10
63.32
621
1:43:12
Michael Allen
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 40-49
1239
1:42:43
60.12
628
1:43:22
Ian King
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Men
1928
1:42:35
57.70
895
1:50:44
Sarah Shewell
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Ladies 55-64
114
1:50:08
73.28
915
1:51:24
Hugh Shewell
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Men
1933
1:50:48
53.55
958
1:52:41
Rhea Malkin
Sevenoaks AC
Senior Ladies
1029
1:51:47
58.39
1167
1:59:12
Lionel Stielow
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 70+
357
1:58:42
67.00
1571
2:11:57
Richard Thomas
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Men 60-69
1772
2:10:47
54.97
1839
2:25:29
Sylvia Lewis
Sevenoaks AC
Vet Ladies 65+
120
2:23:30
60.50
(NB. Sports Systems grades as above are not the 2015 WMA grades used for the SAC GP.)
The full results are here. The KCAA awards are here.
Richard Pitcairn-Knowles added to his extraordinary list of masters achievements indoors and out during March with a new UK record 18:55.69 in the M85 indoor 3000m as he won both the 3000m and 800m (4:57.18) at the British Masters Indoor Championships over 9/10 March.
Not content with mere UK titles, Richard went on to contest the World Masters Championships at Torun, Poland on 24/25 March where he won silver in the M80 3000m (18:57.99) on day one and followed that with gold in the M85 Cross Country on the following day (6k/50:41).
The picture of Richard in his UK record run is from Athletics Weekly. Many congratulations to Sevenoaks AC's reigning World Champion and UK record holder!
Andrew Mead was first M50 and Ed Saunders and Andrew Hutchinson second and third overall as fourteen SAC runners contested the Rotary 10k on 17th March. The SAC results were:
Spring marathon preparations were in evidence among SAC runners on Sunday 10th March as they competed in the Lydd 20, where John Witton was 18th, Lydd Half and the London Marathon "Big Half", with results as follows:
