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 46^th 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, 55^th 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):

Read more: SCVAC Over-35 T&F 30 June

Andy Nicholl led SAC's three runners home at the Folkestone Coastal 10k on 25 May. The SAC results were:

The full results are here.

Match 2 of the SCVAC Kent league took place on 12 May at Canterbury.  We had a team of five and finished the meeting in fifth place.  This is also our position in the series, having now, as predicted, overtaken Istead & Ifield.

Read more: SCVAC Over-35 T&F

Oriol Margo won the May handicap race - see the details here.