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SAC Handicap March 2025
Jon Maxim won the March (five-mile) handicap race ahead of Anthony Waldron and Heather Fitzmaurice.
Jon was the fastest man and Heather the fastest scoring woman, but Jane Waldron, in her first SAC handicap race, was fastest overall on the day.
After three races, no-one has yet emerged as a likely challenger for the 2025 series.
The fourth race, over the seven mile course, starts from the track at 08:30 on Sunday 6th April and all are welcome.
The details are here.
Paddock Wood Half Marathon 2025
Eighteen SAC runners contested the Paddock Wood Half Marathon on 9th March 2025 in warm sunny conditions with some great performances.
Allan Lee led the Sevenoaks runners home and was second M50 in seventy-three minutes, while Jamie Philip and Guillaume Nineven also ran super-fast times. The event was also the British Masters champs at the distance, in which Allan got M50 silver and Simon Hallpike M70 bronze. The full SAC results were as follows:
Place | Gun Time | Name | Gender | Team | Category | Number | Chip Time | Cat Pos | Gen Pos |
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38 | 01:13:22 | Allan Lee | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 50-59 | 2627 | 01:13:18 | 2 | 38 |
88 | 01:16:31 | Jamie Philip | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 361 | 01:16:26 | 20 | 88 |
144 | 01:18:58 | Guillaume Nineven | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 190 | 01:18:49 | 94 | 144 |
605 | 01:35:40 | Luke Green | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 420 | 01:35:00 | 266 | 605 |
619 | 01:35:57 | Nicola Glover | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 35-44 | 1895 | 01:35:33 | 25 | 619 |
770 | 01:40:51 | Paul Elton | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 2504 | 01:40:03 | 200 | 770 |
814 | 01:42:49 | Nick Humphrey-Taylor | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 50-59 | 1664 | 01:41:55 | 92 | 814 |
963 | 01:47:14 | Andy Edwards | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 924 | 01:46:34 | 231 | 963 |
1108 | 01:52:13 | Elizabeth Bull | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 35-44 | 1878 | 01:51:32 | 70 | 1108 |
1150 | 01:53:30 | Samantha Znetyniak | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 45-54 | 188 | 01:52:18 | 55 | 1150 |
1174 | 01:54:37 | Bridgit Weekes | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 65+ | 2842 | 01:53:24 | 9 | 1174 |
1182 | 01:54:56 | Adam Bates | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 174 | 01:54:05 | 260 | 1182 |
1432 | 02:02:03 | Charlotte Dyer | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 45-54 | 2497 | 02:00:30 | 82 | 1432 |
1465 | 02:03:22 | Simon Hallpike | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 70+ | 2262 | 02:02:29 | 11 | 1465 |
1520 | 02:05:17 | Simon Bishop | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 60-69 | 1903 | 02:03:51 | 53 | 1520 |
1701 | 02:11:49 | Sarah Shewell | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 65+ | 2286 | 02:10:52 | 15 | 1701 |
2155 | 02:36:42 | Lionel Stielow | Male | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 70+ | 389 | 02:34:42 | 17 | 2155 |
2160 | 02:38:13 | Emma Pattenden | Female | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 45-54 | 2710 | 02:37:21 | 184 | 2160 |
SAC at Dartford Half Marathon 2025
Mostly in freezing fog, Nicolene Hanekom was the women's winner of the Dartford Half Marathon and the incorporated Kent Long Course Road Race Championship at Central Park, Dartford on 2nd March. Of course, Nicolene was also first W45.
Keith Dowson was also a Kent champion, finishing first M60, while adding to the defence of his Kent GP M60 title after a win at the Deal Half and second place in the Canterbury 10.
Three other SAC runners contested the championships, with Chris Desmond 11th M60, and Simon Hallpike (2nd M70) and Sam Znetyniak (9th W45) just a stride apart further back down the field. The full SAC results were:
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Pos | ChipPos | Num | Name | Gun | Chip | Cat | CatPos | Gender | GenPos | Club |
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23 | 22 | 1747 | Nicolene Hanekom | 01:21:29 | 01:21:25 | V45 | 1 | Female | 1 | Sevenoaks Ac |
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79 | 81 | 1370 | Keith Andrew Dowson | 01:28:40 | 01:28:33 | V60 | 1 | Male | 76 | Sevenoaks Ac |
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366 | 379 | 1483 | Chris Desmond | 01:46:44 | 01:46:36 | V60 | 11 | Male | 331 | Sevenoaks Ac |
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520 | 536 | 22 | Simon Hallpike | 01:53:35 | 01:52:55 | V70 | 2 | Male | 446 | Sevenoaks Ac |
|
521 | 537 | 1620 | Samantha Znetyniak | 01:53:38 | 01:52:58 | V45 | 9 | Female | 90 | Sevenoaks Ac |
The full results are here.
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