James Baker won the penultimate handicap race of the 2023 series by five seconds after Jim Knight led for almost the whole race.
David Hale in third was fastest overall and Caroline Fenwick in fifth the fastest woman.
If Jim had won, he would almost certainly have taken the series trophy but he does now lead the series by one point ahead of David Hale.
Lucy Wilkes stays in third, after sixth place on the day.
Only Jim or David can now win the trophy, with David needing to win the final race and hope for a better tiebreak. That could depend on how many people turn up for the final race on 3rd December.
That starts as usual at 08:30 from Sevenoaks School track and is over the longer seven mile course.
The details are here.
Allan Lee was first M50, James Graham fourth M70, Holly Diprose sixth U17W, Rebecca Picard seventh W45 and James Ross tenth U13B, while both the boys and girls under-13 teams were sixth in their races at the second Kent Cross Country League match of the 2023/24 season at Somerhill School in Tonbridge on 28th October. The SAC results were:
U17M
28 518 Luke Bridges Sevenoaks AC 22:00
U15M
31 329 Arthur Patten Sevenoaks AC 15:42
64 327 George Fricker Sevenoaks AC 20:27
U13M
10 154 James Ross Sevenoaks AC 11:19
16 1344 Gabriel Mauduit Sevenoaks AC 11:38
40 152 Zack Beckett Sevenoaks AC 12:29
41 156 Dominic Whitworth Sevenoaks AC 12:34
6 Sevenoaks AC 10,16,40 66 5
U13W
18 65 Lauren Copp Sevenoaks AC 13:21
36 68 Sophie Robinson Sevenoaks AC 14:49
45 1343 Abigail Frake Sevenoaks AC 16:58
6 Sevenoaks AC 18,36,45 99 1
U17W
6 405 Holly Diprose Sevenoaks AC 20:54
W45
7 783 Rebecca Pickard (W45) Sevenoaks AC 38:26
M50
1 1200 Allan Lee (M50) Sevenoaks AC 30:07
14 1203 Oloff Van Zyl (M50) Sevenoaks AC 34:22
M70
4 472 James Graham (M70) Sevenoaks AC 27:44
The full results are here.
Caroline Fenwick won the October handicap by more than six minutes ahead of series leader David Hale.
Caroline was the fastest woman and David the fastest overall.
With fourth place in his fourth handicap race of the year, Jim Knight moved into second place in the series, one point behind David and one point ahead of Lucy Wilkes in third.
The next race, over five miles, starts from the track at 08:30 on Sunday 5th November.
The details are here.
Nine Sevenoaks AC runners took on the Tonbridge Half or accompanying 10k in humid conditions on 1st October with some excellent results.
Johnny Mead was fifth overall in the 10k, while Lionel Stielow was first M70 and Lucy Wilkes 2nd W40:
Among the six in the Half Marathon, Ed Saunders led the team home in under ninety minutes while Sally Shewell shook off a foot injury to finish second W60 and Simon Hallpike was first M70. Also, great to see Richie Thomas back racing a year after completing his cancer treatment. The SAC results were:
The full results are here.