KFL 2015/16 Match 2 - Swanley Park

Having won the previous race in Knole Park, Sevenoaks AC athlete James Mason was second in the Kent Fitness League race in New Barn Park, Swanley on Sunday 8 November.

In a field of over 500 runners from 18 Kent running clubs, Mason led a 31-strong Sevenoaks AC team home over a 3 lap, 5.25 mile, muddy course.

Mason was once again involved tight finish with Noel Sutton of Thanet Road Runners, only this time the 32-year-old Otford resident allowed his rival to get a few too many metres ahead before the final sprint and was just unable to close the gap before the finish line.

Race Finish

In a field of over 500 runners, Mason led home a 31-strong Sevenoaks AC team over the muddy 3 lap, 5.25 mile course.

Other fine Sevenoaks AC men's scoring performances came from brothers Allan Lee (4th over-40) and David Lee in 15th and 16th, Andrew Mead 44th, Edmund Saunders 59th, Stephen Searby (over-50) 65th, and Chris Desmond (over-50) in 96th.

The return of Katie Wills, who missed the Knole Park race, gave a boost to Sevenoaks AC's women's team which was once again led by Cath Linney. Linney (2nd over-45) was 134th overall, with Wills 185th and Sally Mortleman (over-45) making up the scoring trio in 215th.

Also running well in their age groups were James Graham, (1st over-60) in 106th overall, and Sally Shewell (2nd over-55 - 253rd).

Sevenoaks AC led the league after the first race with the men's and combined teams first and the women's team 4th. After the excellent team performance at Swanley, where the men and women were both 4th and the combined team 3rd, the club is still well in contention with the men 2nd in the standings, the women 3rd and the combined team 2nd.

The Kent Fitness League is a series of cross-country races between 18 registered Athletics Clubs in Kent. Any number of club members can compete, but 10 are needed to score in the team competition – 7 men (of whom two must be over 50 and one over 40) and 3 women (of whom one must be over 45 and one over 35). The next race in the series will be in Fowlmead near Deal on Sunday November 22nd, starting at 11.00.

The SAC results were as follows:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Rating
2	2	James Mason	32	29:23	Sevenoaks AC	99.70
15	14	Allan Lee	42	31:03	Sevenoaks AC	96.14
16	15	David Lee	37	31:04	Sevenoaks AC	95.85
44	43	Andrew Mead	46	33:42	Sevenoaks AC	87.54
59	57	Edmund Saunders	33	34:14	Sevenoaks AC	83.38
64	61	Andrew Milne	33	34:31	Sevenoaks AC	82.20
65	62	Stephen Searby	52	34:36	Sevenoaks AC	81.90
71	66	Lee Lintern	35	34:45	Sevenoaks AC	80.71
95	88	John O'Callaghan	31	35:45	Sevenoaks AC	74.18
96	89	Chris Desmond	52	35:46	Sevenoaks AC	73.89
106	99	James Graham	62	36:02	Sevenoaks AC	70.92
116	108	James Baker	50	36:35	Sevenoaks AC	68.25
124	114	Sharn Mullen	39	36:53	Sevenoaks AC	66.47
126	116	Alan Macpherson	59	36:56	Sevenoaks AC	65.88
134	10	Cath Linney	46	37:15	Sevenoaks AC	94.51
145	131	Alan Lewis	49	37:37	Sevenoaks AC	61.42
185	21	Katie Wills	27	38:51	Sevenoaks AC	87.80
190	167	Andy Evans	45	38:58	Sevenoaks AC	50.74
197	173	John Denyer	67	39:16	Sevenoaks AC	48.96
215	27	Sally Mortleman	50	40:08	Sevenoaks AC	84.15
232	200	Duncan Cochrane	58	40:42	Sevenoaks AC	40.95
238	204	Geoff Vine	68	40:51	Sevenoaks AC	39.76
253	37	Sarah Shewell	56	41:15	Sevenoaks AC	78.05
263	223	Simon Hallpike	62	41:39	Sevenoaks AC	34.12
272	40	Nicki Thompson	39	41:54	Sevenoaks AC	76.22
312	54	Sophie Lamb	24	43:43	Sevenoaks AC	67.68
369	84	Clair Thornton	40	46:28	Sevenoaks AC	49.39
379	289	Lionel Stielow	66	46:51	Sevenoaks AC	14.54
416	107	Becca Smithers	54	49:28	Sevenoaks AC	35.37
423	112	Jenny Austin	38	49:46	Sevenoaks AC	32.32
457	320	Peter Nuttall	43	53:17	Sevenoaks AC	5.34

The full results are here.

Three Sevenoaks runners contested the previous day's Kent League XC race at Sparrows Den: Dan Witt was 83rd in 39:07, Chris Desmond was 86th in 39:20 and James Graham was 101st in 40:05 (1st M60). The full results are here.