KFL 2018/19 Match 5, Nurstead Court

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The fifth race in the Kent Fitness League Cross Country series took place in Meopham on Sunday January 6th, on a tough 5-mile course around the paddocks and woodlands of Nurstead Court, including several obstacles, writes Jim Knight.

Running conditions were good, except for the notorious water-splash, a 10-metre long pond that competitors had to negotiate twice on the two-lap course.

With some of our fastest runners busy elsewhere, Sevenoaks AC fielded a slightly weakened team of 33 athletes, but with a strong women's team.

In the women's race, Cath Linney was the fastest Sevenoaks runner in 11th position, closely followed by Vanessa Gilmartin (16th), Heather Fitzmaurice (17th) and Marion Van Lille (22nd). Notable in the age categories were Bridgit Weekes (2nd W60 on the day and in the series) and Pauline Dalton (3rd W50 on the day and 2nd in the series).

The Sevenoaks women were 2nd on the day and this brought the women's team up to 3rd in the series. Petts Wood Runners had a very strong women's team and retained the top position in the series.

The SAC men's team lacked our top M50s but Guillaume Nineven led the team home in a very impressive 10th position, followed by Andrew Milne (23rd), Andrew Hutchinson (26th), Russell Crane (30th) and Ed Saunders (33rd). Dan Witt was our first M40 in 45th, and the team's M50 scorers were Jim Harness (82nd), and James Wright (85th).

The men’s team were 3rd on the day and move up to second in the series.

The combined team, lying in 2nd position after 4 races were again second on the day and retained their second place in the series. The club hopes to raise a strong team for the next race – the popular Minnis Bay race which takes place in Birchington next weekend (Sunday Jan 13th).

THe SAC results were:

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Runner	Age	Time	Club	Rating	# Races
10	10	Guillaume Nineven	33	31:26	Sevenoaks AC	96.88	3
23	23	Andrew Milne	36	32:46	Sevenoaks AC	92.36	20
26	26	Andrew Hutchinson	39	32:59	Sevenoaks AC	91.32	6
30	30	Russell Crane	36	33:08	Sevenoaks AC	89.93	4
33	33	Edmund Saunders	36	33:16	Sevenoaks AC	88.89	9
37	37	Mike Lochead	33	33:38	Sevenoaks AC	87.50	5
46	45	Daniel Witt	43	34:11	Sevenoaks AC	84.72	50
73	69	Jimmy George	37	35:32	Sevenoaks AC	76.39	6
80	76	Nick Humphrey-Taylor	46	35:53	Sevenoaks AC	73.96	5
87	82	Jim Harness	51	36:16	Sevenoaks AC	71.88	8
90	85	James Wright	50	36:22	Sevenoaks AC	70.83	28
100	93	James Baker	54	36:45	Sevenoaks AC	68.06	21
111	101	Jatinder Soomal	36	37:12	Sevenoaks AC	65.28	5
113	11	Cath Linney	49	37:15	Sevenoaks AC	92.91	27
123	112	Nick Holmes	43	37:47	Sevenoaks AC	61.46	4
125	114	Andy Evans	48	37:54	Sevenoaks AC	60.76	42
134	16	Vanessa Gilmartin	43	38:12	Sevenoaks AC	89.36	9
141	17	Heather Fitzmaurice	49	38:33	Sevenoaks AC	88.65	75
157	137	Hugh Shewell	29	39:14	Sevenoaks AC	52.78	19
167	22	Marion Van Lille	33	39:45	Sevenoaks AC	85.11	5
173	23	Pauline Dalton	54	39:54	Sevenoaks AC	84.40	44
178	155	James Nash	27	40:05	Sevenoaks AC	46.53	Debut
182	158	Toby Fitzmaurice	18	40:19	Sevenoaks AC	45.49	3
188	162	Graham Dwyer	46	40:26	Sevenoaks AC	44.10	5
201	31	Diana Bryant	44	40:52	Sevenoaks AC	78.72	5
204	173	Andy Manning	50	41:01	Sevenoaks AC	40.28	5
224	185	Duncan Cochrane	61	42:00	Sevenoaks AC	36.11	29
240	46	Sarah Shewell	59	42:56	Sevenoaks AC	68.09	107
245	48	Bridgit Weekes	60	43:22	Sevenoaks AC	66.67	5
295	66	Rhea Malkin	33	46:02	Sevenoaks AC	53.90	4
310	71	Paula George	54	46:52	Sevenoaks AC	50.35	3
349	256	Lionel Stielow	70	49:31	Sevenoaks AC	11.46	12
404	276	Peter Nuttall	46	54:15	Sevenoaks AC	4.51	23

The full results are here.

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 12 are needed to score in the team competition – 8 men (of whom two must be V50 and one V40) and 4 women (of whom one must be V45 and one V35).