Race Director Richie Thomas has obtained permission to hold the next Sevenoaks 7 race in Knole Park at 09:00 on Sunday 10th July 2022 on the new course here. Race Notes are here. There will also be a 2.5k junior race on this course.
The race is sponsored by Up & Running, Sevenoaks, and will raise funds for the Dame Kelly Holmes trust, to help disadvantaged youngsters in Kent to get their lives back on track.
Just three Sevenoaks AC runners completed the Tonbridge 10k on 24th October, but Paul Freeman-Jones won the race, Lionel Steilow was first M70 and Graham Dwyer was fourth M40.
The SAC results were as follows:
1 Paul Freeman-Jones 00:35:12 MS 1 18 Graham Dwyer 00:44:24 M40 4 95 Lionel Stielow 00:57:41 M70+ 1
Sevenoaks AC once again closed out teams in the senior men's and under-15 boys categories at the second KXCL match of the series at Somerhill on 23rd October. Again there were brilliant individual performances in the women's categories where Andrea Berquez was first masters athlete. Andrea also leads the masters category in the series (after two races) while Holly Diprose is 3rd u15g, Oloff Van Zyl 4th M50, the senior men's team 12th and the u15b team 6th.
The SAC results were as follows:
Tonbridge match:
SW 14 776 Andrea Berquez (W35) Sevenoaks AC 33:51 (1st W35)
SM 76 1181 Oloff van Zyl (M50) Sevenoaks AC 32:06 131 1182 Daniel Witt (M45) Sevenoaks AC 34:41 144 1179 Andrew Mead (M50) Sevenoaks AC 35:24 179 1176 Chris Desmond (M55) Sevenoaks AC 37:09 238 1177 James Graham (M65) Sevenoaks AC 42:26 team: 16 Sevenoaks AC 76,131,144,179 530 4
u15g 6 263 Eliza Nicholson Sevenoaks AC 16:06 8 260 Holly Diprose Sevenoaks AC 16:14
u15b 18 334 Andrew Simmons Sevenoaks AC 15:29 19 328 Ryan Alford-Smith Sevenoaks AC 15:36 31 333 Indigo Morris Sevenoaks AC 16:47 39 331 Harry Mitchell Sevenoaks AC 17:40 team: 6 Sevenoaks AC 18,19,31 68 2
u13b 30 145 Lucien Hayes Sevenoaks AC 12:11
After 2 races:
SW 10 776 Andrea Berquez (W35) SEV 12 14 26(2) 1:08:24 W35 1 776 Andrea Berquez (W35) SEV 3 1 4(2) 1:08:24
SM team: 12 Sevenoaks AC 11 (2) (978) M50 4 1181 Oloff van Zyl (M50) SEV 6 4 10(2) 1:05:15 20 1179 Andrew Mead (M50) SEV 20 28 48(2) 1:10:52 33 1176 Chris Desmond (M55) SEV 41 40 81(2) 1:14:48 M40 33 1182 Daniel Witt (M45) SEV 4341 84(2) 1:09:55
u15g 3 260 Holly Diprose SEV 5 8 13(2) 0:32:21
u15b team: 6 Sevenoaks AC 5 (2) (154)
15 334 Andrew Simmons SEV 19 18 37(2) 0:31:01 19 328 Ryan Alford-Smith SEV 35 19 54(2) 0:33:03 28 331 Harry Mitchell SEV 40 39 79(2) 0:35:37
Six Sevenoaks AC runners tackled the Beachy Head Marathon on 23rd October. The race is off-road and features over 800 metres of climbing and a field of over 1500 finishers. The SAC results were:
441 Pauline Dalton W55 4:35:24 457 Sam Znetyniak W45 4:36:28 977 Rob Carr M50 5:23:28 1431 Heather Fitzmaurice W45 6:58:52 1432 James Fitzmaurice M60 6:58:53 1535 Sylvia Lewis W55 8:19:09
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