What does Sevenoaks AC offer its members?

Younger age groups please go to “Young Athletes” page here.

We are a friendly club that caters for runners of all abilities and age groups – we have members running into their 70's and 80's

We have a strong ladies group within the club, contact our ladies leader This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you just enjoy social running we have plenty to offer but if you are interested in competing we offer road running, cross country, and track & field.

We also offer:

Training Sessions
Club Monthly Handicap
For those that enjoy some competitive events
The Social Side

Joining Sevenoaks AC - Three Free Sessions Offer

If you'd like to come along and try the club, our “three free sessions” offer allows you to try what the club offers without obligation before committing to join. Most new members try out our Tuesday evening session first but you can choose another session. You will be surprised how cheap joining a running club is compared with other sports clubs. We pay an annual subscription and after that all club sessions are free.

You may download a membership form by clicking on the underlined text. The form is a pdf file. If you do not have the Acrobat reader installed on your PC, click here for a free download. Returning members please also use the above form.
     
The form is also available in Word format here.

Training Sessions - Weekdays

Tuesday Evenings – this is our most popular session, we meet at the Sennocke Centre at Sevenoaks School at for either a 5 or 7 mile run.  In the winter this is around the streets of Sevenoaks but in the summer we use the beautiful Knole Park. The Sennocke Centre provides us with free changing and shower facilities. For details contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

For this session we have 3 separate paced groups catering for all abilities each with a run leader.  A Faster group – 7 -7.5 min per mile, and a Medium group – 8-9 min per mile, start at 7pm, while there is a Slower group running 7 to 8 km at about 7 to 8 minutes per km which starts at the earlier time of 6pm.

Thursday Evenings – this is an interval training speedwork session designed to improve speed endurance. Held every Thursday at 7pm at Sevenoaks School Track – you will need a head-torch for the darker evenings. For details contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Training Sessions – Weekends

We have a range of weekend sessions available including trail runs, hill sessions, or long runs for marathon training. The programme for these sessions is arranged around other events such as the Monthly Club Handicap, cross country series and popular road races. See the club calendar here for details.

The Sevenoaks School running track is also available for individual use between 09:00 – 10:00 on Sundays but there are no organised sessions.

Competitive Events

If in addition to the club training sessions you are interested in some competitive events there are plenty to try:

Road races are available throughout the year with a good selection across Kent from 5k to Marathon. See the Calendar (hot spot link to calendar) for upcoming events. Some Kent road races are nominated Kent Grand Prix events and performances are ranked against competitors throughout Kent in your age group. All road race performances are included in the club Grand Prix competition with performances ranked by age and gender by use of the WMA age graded tables. See SAC Grand Prix for details.

Cross country:  We compete with teams of seniors and veterans in the Kent Fitness League which is suitable for runners of all abilities and in the more competitive Kent League. We usually host one of the Kent Fitness League events in Knole Park. See the Calendar for dates or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (women) or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (men) for details.

Track & Field:  Our men's and women's teams compete in the Kent Division of the Southern Counties Veterans Athletic Club Track & field league with events taking place on either Monday or Friday evenings during the summer around Kent. The ability range at these events is from the “serious” to the social competitor so no one will feel out of place. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for details and the Calendar for dates. Evening Open graded events are also available at Tonbridge School track once per month throughout the summer.

We also run a Track & Field club Grand Prix competition with all performances ranked by age and gender by use of the WMA age graded tables. See SAC Grand Prix for details.

The World Masters Athletics (WMA), formerly World Association of Veteran Athletes (WAVA), Age Graded Tables first published in 1989 provide the basis for comparing athletic performances for different ages, genders, and between different events.

These tables are based on the world best times or distances either actually recorded or calculated for each age between 8 and 100 years for every recognised track and field and road race event.

Because they provide a world standard for each event at each age they enable each performance by an athlete, male or female, junior or senior, to be compared with the recognised world best for their age and expressed as a percentage.

For example, a 17 year old male sprinter runs 13.5s for 100m and the Age Graded Tables give the world best time as 10.16s for this age. The age graded percentage is calculated as 10.16/13.5 x 100% or 75.3%. We as a Club use these tables for calculating the Grand Prix scores for our three Grand Prix competitions – Junior GP, Road Race GP and Senior Track & Field GP.

There are now on-line calculators for calculating a WMA score for any performance. For the 2024 Grand Prix competitions we use updated calculators which use most recent performance data for all age groups. For the Road race results we now use the Howard Grubb calculator based on 2020 performance data -  and for Track & Field we use the Masters Athletics Age Grading Calculator for 2023 - EML Sports.

Sevenoaks AC - organiser of the Sevenoaks Seven - also has its own (road only) calculator.

For up to date club Grand Prix tables see Tables section of this site.