The fourth match of the SCVAC series, on 13 June and again at Bromley, was our most successful so far, in spite of being unable to fill two high jump slots – we finished in third place for the meeting. Overall, we are still in fifth place in the series, but are closing in on Swanley, the next placed club.
Our best results were in the sprints, where we had four 200m competitors, as well as Richard Pitcairn-Knowles running as a guest. Three won outright. Paul English made a welcome return to the track after injury, heading the M35A stream with 25.7 seconds, well clear of other competitors. Martin White, although headed by two younger non-scoring guest athletes, won the M35B stream in 27.3 seconds. In the M60s, Geoffrey Kitchener was over a second and a half clear of the rest of the field, in 29.9 seconds; and Duncan Cochrane came off fourth, after a close battle in the M50s.
In the 1500m M50 race, Geoff Vine secured his best time since 2006, for fifth place in 5 minutes 52.2 seconds, which should be worth a top 12 place in the national rankings (M65). All of our middle distance runners were competing well out of their age brackets: Maurice Marchant (M65) and Richard (M80) bravely took on the M35 A and B groups, securing fifth and fourth places respectively. Richard’s 7 minutes 56.9 seconds should put him well to the top of the UK rankings for his age group.
The shot put competition saw Paul first in the M35s, throwing 8.80 metres and shattering his own club best M40 performance by 34cm. Duncan backed this up with a fourth place in the M50s. Our only high jumper was Geoffrey, first M60 competitor, with 1.20 metres. The final field event was javelin, in which Duncan and Richard took fourth places, in the guise of M35 and M50 competitors, and David Simpson (M70) threw a season’s best 18.60 metres for third place in the M60 competition.
The 4 x 400m relay was the final event of the evening, in which we fielded a team of Martin, Duncan, Geoff and Geoffrey. Although we came home in fourth place, it was a promising run, a fast first lap by Martin having put us into early contention with second position.
I attach results, plus photos of team members in action –
Paul (200m),
Duncan (javelin)
and Richard (1500m).
GREAT DAY. Too hot and humid for racing . Muddy underfoot in places in the woods, but not too bad. Times for most of us were down on expectation.
Think we were 23 runners strong. This event has a nice atmosphere . Beer on the green ran out. Good to see Fraser Partridge and wife Ute running.
Rain showers stopped by time we got there. Had fun putting tent up, helps not to try erecting it upside down!
Peter Ash saved us continuing to provide the comedy act to all the runners watching us !
Photo here shows us very quickly taking the tent down! Demolition always easier
Alan Lee was injured, so kindly took the pictures. Some of our runners were so fast I am sorry to say the pictures were not always clear. I will send some out to individuals.
David Lee first home for us in 4th place. He is FAST !!!
Keith Dowson 1st M50,
Jim Fitzmaurice 1st M70 receiving a kiss
Geoff Vine 2nd M65.
SAC results:
Pos | Time | Name | Club | Cat | Num | Chip |
4 | 29:07 | David Lee | SEVENOAKS AC | M - Senior | 431 | 29:07 |
14 | 29:59 | Keith Dowson | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 50 | 595 | 29:59 |
39 | 32:34 | Chris Desmond | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 50 | 292 | 32:33 |
42 | 32:48 | Daniel Witt | SEVENOAKS AC | M - Senior | 721 | 32:45 |
58 | 34:03 | John Stevens | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 50 | 53 | 34:00 |
67 | 34:57 | Stuart Thompson | SEVENOAKS AC | M - Senior | 162 | 34:57 |
88 | 35:49 | Peter Ash | MV 40 | 452 | 35:42 | |
105 | 36:24 | Geoffrey Vine | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 65 | 66 | 36:22 |
107 | 36:27 | Anthony Waldron | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 40 | 201 | 36:21 |
121 | 37:06 | Fraser Partridge | MV 50 | 543 | 37:04 | |
179 | 39:02 | Erik Folkesson | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 50 | 280 | 38:53 |
205 | 40:26 | Duncan Cochrane | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 50 | 383 | 40:03 |
243 | 41:46 | Martin White | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 40 | 198 | 41:25 |
254 | 42:05 | James Fitzmaurice | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 70+ | 72 | 42:01 |
273 | 42:55 | Kimberly Pegg | F - Senior | 451 | 42:55 | |
334 | 44:48 | Sarah Shewell | SEVENOAKS AC | FV 55 | 33 | 44:43 |
361 | 45:38 | Clair Thornton | SEVENOAKS AC | FV 35 | 227 | 44:55 |
429 | 47:31 | Hugh Shewell | SEVENOAKS AC | M - Senior | 34 | 47:11 |
440 | 47:52 | Tony Ostlere | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 60 | 234 | 47:19 |
468 | 48:28 | Debbie Mosley | SEVENOAKS AC | FV 35 | 196 | 47:43 |
496 | 49:34 | Peter Dillon | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 65 | 91 | 48:38 |
550 | 51:44 | Maria Ashlee | SEVENOAKS AC | FV 35 | 182 | 50:45 |
563 | 51:57 | Sylvia Lewis | SEVENOAKS AC | FV 60 | 419 | 50:59 |
568 | 52:07 | Ronald Denney | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 70+ | 77 | 51:23 |
578 | 52:45 | Rob Carr | SEVENOAKS AC | MV 40 | 197 | 52:23 |
593 | 53:42 | Rosemary Draper | SEVENOAKS AC | FV 45 | 542 | 52:43 |
Results all on the H5 web with times.
Geoff Vine
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In good running conditions, Keith Dowson won the sixth stage of the 2014 Sevenoaks AC handicap series by thirteen seconds from James Wright. Details here.
We were successful in the sprints, with Martin White taking second place in the M35 100m in 13.4 seconds, a personal best which currently rates 46th in the M45 national rankings. Geoffrey Kitchener won the M60 100m in 15.1 seconds, well clear of competition; the remaining 100m races were undertaken by Duncan Cochrane and Ron Denney. Ron and Keith Dowson both stepped down to the M35 age group to fill the 800m slots, picking up valuable points and opening up the M50 race for Chris Desmond, who came second in 2 minutes 30.9 seconds, 55th in the national rankings. Keith’s 800m outing demonstrated considerable resilience, coming a few days after completion of a marathon.
Consistency was demonstrated in the field events, in which nearly all competing members came fourth: Martin in the M35 long jump, Geoffrey in the M50s; Ron in the M60 discus and Keith in the M50s. Duncan added a fifth place in the M35 discus. The final event was the 4 x 200m relay (Martin, Chris, Duncan and Geoffrey), in which the two leading teams soon became uncatchable, but there was a fairly close tussle for the remaining places, in which we came a respectable fourth.
I attach the results plus a couple of photos: Ron in the 400m and Keith in the discus.
The next match will again be at Bromley (the Norman Park track, Norman Park, Hayes Lane, Bromley, BR2 9EF), due to the non-availability of Gillingham. This is on Friday 13 June and the programme times are as follows (men’s events unless otherwise mentioned):