KFL 2023/24 Match 2 - Oxleas Wood

Team

The second race in the Kent Fitness League 2023/24 season took place in Eltham on Sunday Nov 19th, writes Jim Knight. 545 runners from18 Kent Athletics Clubs, including a strong team of 41 from Sevenoaks, tackled the hilly course through Oxleas Woods in bright sunny, but cold conditions.

After coming 3rd in the first race in Swanley on Nov 12th, Sevenoaks ladies ran even better in Eltham to win the race and improve to 2nd in the series.

Star runner Andrea Berquez led throughout the race to secure a comfortable win in 35 minutes 38 seconds. The other scoring team members all ran brilliantly – Caroline Fenwick (11th &1st W45), Joanne Rodda in her first KFL race (14th), Cath Linney (16th) and Pauline Dalton (54th) – to score a comfortable win over Canterbury Harriers in 2nd position.

In the men’s race, Allan Lee 50 year-old was a brilliant 3rd (& 1st M50) just 17 seconds behind the winner, having missed the Swanley race through injury. James Mason was 6th again (&1st M40), followed by Ed Saunders (36th), Guillaume Nineven (41st), Luke Green (78th), Harvey Taylor (84th), William Palmer (64th), and Keith Dowson (110th).

Medway & Maidstone AC won the men’s race with Sevenoaks in 2nd, just ahead of Dartford Harriers.

In the series, Petts Wood Runners still lead the combined team event with Medway & Maidstone 2nd and SAC 3rd. However the Sevenoaks women’ team, in 2nd place, is only one point behind leaders Canterbury Harriers.

The SAC results were as follows:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Bib	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Score	Rtg	#
3	3	863	Allan Lee	50	30:43	Sevenoaks AC	V50:1	99.45	16
6	6	869	James Mason	40	31:16	Sevenoaks AC	V40:1	98.61	21
36	36	887	Edmund Saunders	41	34:31	Sevenoaks AC	V40:2	90.30	23
41	41	879	Guillaume Nineven	38	34:52	Sevenoaks AC	M1	88.92	12
60	1	836	Andrea Berquez	38	35:58	Sevenoaks AC	V35	100.00	8
66	64	881	William Palmer	51	36:20	Sevenoaks AC	V50:2	82.55	8
84	78	1021	Luke Green	32	37:29	Sevenoaks AC	M2	78.67	Debut
93	84	893	Harvey Taylor	19	38:07	Sevenoaks AC	M3	77.01	11
96	86	878	Sebastian Naughton	49	38:14	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	76.45	12
99	89	830	Richard Alford-Smith	47	38:27	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	75.62	16
100	11	852	Caroline Fenwick	45	38:29	Sevenoaks AC	V45	94.57	9
104	92	834	James Baker	59	38:40	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	74.79	26
116	14	1022	Joanne Rodda	47	39:14	Sevenoaks AC	F1	92.93	Debut
120	106	1044	Nick Humphrey-Taylor	51	39:29	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	70.91	8
124	110	848	Keith Dowson	60	39:38	Sevenoaks AC	V60	69.81	17
130	16	865	Catherine Linney	54	40:00	Sevenoaks AC	F2	91.85	45
132	116	874	Andrew Monk	47	40:04	Sevenoaks AC	NS	68.14	6
133	117	832	Andrew Ashlee	54	40:08	Sevenoaks AC	NS	67.87	29
138	120	846	Chris Desmond	60	40:20	Sevenoaks AC	NS	67.04	86
145	21	854	Nicola Glover	35	40:45	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	89.13	10
154	133	831	Brian Allen	51	41:02	Sevenoaks AC	NS	63.43	2
158	136	896	Anthony Waldron	56	41:20	Sevenoaks AC	NS	62.60	36
160	138	868	Jonathan Marsh	63	41:27	Sevenoaks AC	NS	62.05	7
162	140	872	Nicholas Mileham	43	41:33	Sevenoaks AC	NS	61.50	5
164	142	835	Adam Bates	40	41:33	Sevenoaks AC	NS	60.94	2
170	147	859	David Killpack	38	41:41	Sevenoaks AC	NS	59.56	5
173	149	849	Graham Dwyer	51	41:51	Sevenoaks AC	NS	59.00	22
227	37	853	Vanessa Gilmartin	48	43:42	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	80.43	30
228	191	862	Leonard Lai King	44	43:44	Sevenoaks AC	NS	47.37	12
250	205	850	Andrew Evans	53	44:39	Sevenoaks AC	NS	43.49	54
256	209	900	Daniel Witt	48	44:52	Sevenoaks AC	NS	42.38	68
260	211	866	Alan Male	53	45:09	Sevenoaks AC	NS	41.83	6
266	51	883	Sarah Philpott	45	45:29	Sevenoaks AC	NSBLS	72.83	2
275	54	844	Pauline Dalton	59	45:53	Sevenoaks AC	V55	71.20	60
302	63	898	Bridgit Weekes	65	47:01	Sevenoaks AC	NS	66.30	22
345	264	856	Simon Hallpike	70	48:22	Sevenoaks AC	NS	27.15	60
349	84	901	Samantha Znetyniak	48	48:40	Sevenoaks AC	NS	54.89	14
354	86	889	Sarah Shewell	64	49:05	Sevenoaks AC	NS	53.80	125
458	132	843	Becca Crowe	63	55:28	Sevenoaks AC	NS	28.80	12
482	340	892	Lionel Stielow	74	58:09	Sevenoaks AC	NS	6.09	25
517	162	857	Anna Humphrey-Taylor	54	1:02:58	Sevenoaks AC	NS	12.50	6

The full results are here.

The next race in the series will take place in Knole Park, Sevenoaks, on Nov 26th when SAC will have the difficult task of organising the race and also fielding a strong team of runners. The race starts at 9 am.

The Kent Fitness League is a series of cross-country races between the 18 registered Athletics Clubs in Kent. Any number of club members can compete, but 13 are needed to score in the team competition – 8 men (of whom one must be aged 60+, two must be 50+ and two 40+) and 5 women (of whom one must be aged 55+,one 45+ and one 35+).