Mayday Races 2019

Allan

Allan Lee was third and first M40 at the Whitstable 10k on Bank Holiday Monday 6th May, where Chris Hall also had a great run in 29th. The SAC results were:

Pos Name Cat Chip
3 Allan Lee MV40 33:45
29 Chris Hall MV40 41:02

The full results are here.

Heather & Jim

Meanwhile, Andrew Mead was 20th and 4th M50 at the Ted Pepper 10k at Norman Park, Bromley, with Heather Fitzmaurice, Laura Andrade and Jim Fitzmaurice also running well. Heather took the W45 and Jim the M75 SCVAC multi-terrain title. The SAC results were:

Pos Gun Chip Name Club Sex Cat Num GPos GCat
20 00:40:11 00:40:08 Andrew Mead Sevenoaks AC M Male Vet 50 243 20 4
82 00:45:49 00:45:43 Heather Fitzmaurice Sevenoaks AC F Female Vet 45 137 17 7
99 00:47:25 00:47:11 Laura Andrade Sevenoaks AC F Female Vet 35 10 21 8
303 01:03:10 01:03:04 james fitzmaurice Sevenoaks AC M Male Vet 60 136 187 27

 The Ted Pepper results are here.

Sevenoaks AC also had four runners in both the Hildenborough 10 and 5 milers, with Lionel Stielow 1st M70 in the longer race:

SAC results at Hildenborough 10:

 SAC results at Hildenborough 5:

The full Hildenborough results are here.

Finally, Pauline Dalton was 72nd (6th W45) in 1:16:21 and Duncan Warwick-Champion 90th (20th M50) in 1:19:22 at the Witham 10 - results here.

SAC at London Marathon 2019

John

John Witton led Sevenoaks AC's sixteen finishers in this year's London Marathon on 28 April. John ran an excellent 2:45 and was the first of four SAC runners under three hours, while Sally Shewell was our best-placed finisher in category. The SAC results were:

LM results 2019

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The full results are here.

Paddock Wood Half Marathon 2019

PW Half Start

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.

World Gold and UK Record for RPK

RPK UK recRichard 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!

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