Erik Folkesson just held off Sean Leith by one second to win the third race of the 2020 handicap series with Jon Copping in third.
Marco Mion was the fastest man and Jane Morgan the fastest woman.
The next race, a seven-miler, will be a virtual event. Any run of around 11k/7M in April can be submitted by posting to the Sevenoaks AC club on Strava or by emailing the evidence to
The full report and details are here.
Jon Copping won the second race of the 2020 handicap series ahead of Erik Folkesson with Lucy Wilkes third.
Andrew Mead was the fastest man and Pauline Dalton the fastest woman.
The next race is a five-miler on 1st March starting at 09:00 from the Sevenoaks School track.
The full report and details are here.
Sally Shewell was second W55 as seventeen Sevenoaks AC runners braved storm Dennis and contested the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon on 16th February. Guillaume Ninevan led them home.
The SAC results were as follows:
Pos | Gun | Chip | Name | Club | Gen | Cat | Bib | PGen | PCat |
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17 | 01:23:13 | 01:23:10 | Guillaume Nineven | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 910 | 17 | |
27 | 01:25:56 | 01:25:51 | Michael Lochead | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 761 | 26 | |
29 | 01:26:02 | 01:25:57 | Keith Brown | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 144 | 28 | 10 |
31 | 01:26:11 | 01:26:07 | Andrew Milne | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 867 | 30 | |
51 | 01:28:38 | 01:28:22 | Nick Humphrey-Taylor | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 621 | 50 | 15 |
59 | 01:29:26 | 01:29:22 | Edmund Saunders | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 1084 | 58 | |
115 | 01:34:35 | 01:34:29 | Daniel Witt | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 1330 | 108 | 38 |
117 | 01:34:46 | 01:34:41 | George Heyworth | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 571 | 110 | |
142 | 01:37:50 | 01:37:43 | Graham Dwyer | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 40 - 49 | 354 | 132 | 46 |
151 | 01:38:28 | 01:38:23 | Catherine Linney | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female 45 - 54 | 758 | 11 | 4 |
170 | 01:39:21 | 01:39:13 | John Stevens | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 50 - 59 | 1163 | 158 | 19 |
303 | 01:46:27 | 01:46:20 | Christopher Desmond | Sevenoaks Ac | M | Male 50 - 59 | 327 | 271 | 37 |
445 | 01:52:40 | 01:51:30 | Sarah Fisher | Sevenoaks Ac | F | - | 407 | 56 | |
539 | 01:56:25 | 01:56:00 | Sarah Shewell | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female 55 - 64 | 1120 | 79 | 2 |
598 | 01:58:22 | 01:57:26 | Ian King | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 701 | 505 | |
680 | 02:03:20 | 02:02:54 | Hugh Shewell | Sevenoaks Ac | M | - | 1119 | 561 | |
690 | 02:04:08 | 02:02:48 | Anna Humphrey-Taylor | Sevenoaks Ac | F | Female 45 - 54 | 620 | 121 | 38 |
The full results are here.
In the final Kent League Cross Country fixture of the season on 8th February at Norman Park, Bromley, Sevenoaks AC had just three runners. Suzy Claridge finished in 35th place in the senior women's race, her best position of the series. Andrew Mead was 105th in the senior men's race, where Chris Desmond also competed, finishing 162nd.
Suzy and Andrew thus completed all four races in the elite county competition with both achieving impressive 10th places in their respective categories, W45 and M50, over the season.
The full results are here.