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James Graham took the M60 Kent Championship at the Tonbridge Half Marathon on Sunday 2nd October in fine conditions. Jacqui O'Reilly was a brilliant sixth in a field of over 360 women and Sally Shewell Sallywas W55 runner-up with yet another excellent performance on the roads. Keith Dowson led the nineteen-strong Sevenoaks AC contingent home, narrowly ahead of James Graham.

Tonbridge Half expert Grace Manzotti writes:

Grace"A PB today!! i have done all 6 of them since the first one. I just live 5 minutes from so no excuses! I was really worried about this race as it was my first Half Marathon after getting  an injury last year and I did run this race  last year with an injury, which wasn’t fun and not a good idea at the time. I had not run a half marathon since last October.

"And even though I have been running regularly I felt I hadn’t done enough distance for it. To be honest I was happy to be at the starting line injury free, was good to see all the Sevenoaks AC friends and I started with Lionel and Anna and that helped with my nerves about my hip falling off or something like that!

"It is  a hard course, undulating they call it,  but I think I found the hills slightly easier than  the previous times, maybe it is all the Tuesdays runs in Knole park with the crazy hills there and the handicap races which helped me with the hills.  I enjoyed it especially when I realised I was fine and was going to finish it OK! I enjoyed  going through Leigh,  so much crowd support. The last 4 miles where hard as it is when the hills start again, and the last stretch in Lower Haydsen lasts forever but crossing the finish line was amazing I am still buzzing. Thanks to everybody at Sevenoaks AC for all the encouragement I get all the time!"

The SAC results were:

Pl. Bib Name Club Sx Cat Net Time Time By cat.
30. 905 Keith DOWSON Sevenoaks AC M M50 01:26:22 01:26:23 6
32. 672 James GRAHAM Sevenoaks AC M M60 01:26:21 01:26:25 1
34. 1172 Andrew MILNE Sevenoaks AC M SM 01:26:37 01:26:42 33
43. 1100 Daniel WITT Sevenoaks AC M M40 01:27:26 01:27:31 18
67. 360 John STEVENS Sevenoaks AC M M50 01:29:22 01:29:27 11
83. 980 Nick HUMPHREY-TAYLOR Sevenoaks AC M M40 01:29:42 01:30:36 29
92. 1255 Jacqueline O'REILLY Sevenoaks AC F SW 01:31:44 01:31:48 6
98. 655 Joe PARSONS Sevenoaks AC M SM 01:32:36 01:32:40 92
116. 1112 Chris DESMOND Sevenoaks AC M M50 01:34:19 01:34:24 21
235. 463 Simon HALLPIKE Sevenoaks AC M M60 01:41:51 01:42:02 10
311. 518 Sarah SHEWELL Sevenoaks AC F W55 01:46:00 01:46:19 2
387. 163 Grazia MANZOTTI Sevenoaks AC F W45 01:50:01 01:50:47 15
426. 978 Anna HUMPHREY-TAYLOR Sevenoaks AC F W45 01:52:23 01:53:08 19
460. 681 Lionel STIELOW Sevenoaks AC M M60 01:54:46 01:55:33 18
521. 576 Jonathan COPPING Sevenoaks AC M M60 01:57:22 01:58:08 21
673. 1137 Clair THORNTON Sevenoaks AC F W35 02:07:19 02:08:09 53
674. 1138 Mike ALLEN Sevenoaks AC M M40 02:07:19 02:08:10 167
687. 249 Robert PEERS Sevenoaks AC M M50 02:07:49 02:08:52 120
770. 715 Sylvia LEWIS Sevenoaks AC F W55 02:13:24 02:14:55 13

The full results are here.

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