James Graham was once again the star as eleven SAC runners completed the Larkfield 10k on 8th May in debilitatingly hot conditions. James was 16th overall and first M60 by nearly eight minutes as he led the SAC team home in under 40 minutes. The heat took its toll on most of the field with many dropping out at half way including Pauline Dalton. The Sevenoaks AC results were:

The full results are here.

At the Ted Pepper 10k on Monday 2nd May, two of the club's top M70s were in action, with Jim Fitzmaurice winning M70-74 category and Peter Dillon third. Their results were:

 The full results are here.

And four SAC runners ran in the Whitstable 10k, as follows:

 The full results are here.

Also six SAC runners contested the three races at Hildenborough in the afternoon. Two took on the ten-miler, where Lionel Stielow was first M60:

Another two M60s opted for the five-miler:

In the 2.5 mile race, SAC junior Robin Zijdenbos was third female:

The full results from Hildenborough are here, with photos here.

Eleven SAC runners completed the 2016 London Marathon in cool conditions, with David Ives setting a new M40 club second-best and James Mason (shown finishing in Dan Witt's photo below) a new senior third-best. However, Kim Pegg demonstrated the most even pacing.

The Sevenoaks AC results were:

The London Marathon results are here.

At the Brighton Marathon the previous week, Sally Shewell was fifth W55 with a new club best 3:53:12, Andrew Milne was 268th in 3:10:55, Keith Brown 306th in 3:12:20 and Jenny Austin 1919th in 4:42:27. The full results are here.

James Graham extended his lead in the individual club road race grand prix with a WMA performance of 84.6 at the Rotterdam Marathon on Sunday 10th April 2016. James said:

"On Sunday I took part in the 36th Rotterdam marathon. Rotterdam is an interesting city architecturally as it was virtually destroyed by German bombing during the Second World War and the hastily constructed rebuilding that took place immediately after the end of the war, has now been replaced by many unusual and visually striking buildings.

"The race itself was a great day with fine sunny weather, excellent race organisation and a fantastic crowd all along the route together with much music. There were 17,500 runners in the marathon and some 40,000 participants in total with all the various races held over the weekend. Due to the routing of the course we fortunately had the opportunity to see the race leaders on the opposite side of the road in, what was for them, the final 5km of the race. You could only look in envy at how easily and apparently effortlessly they covered the ground. The race winner was Marius Kipserem of Kenya in a time of 2:06:11 and the first woman home was Leterbrhan Haylay Gebreslasea of Ethiopia in 2:26:15. For my part the pace was rather more sedate but I managed to achieve a PB of 3:00:58 and was third M60. Needless to say, I had a few Grolsch that evening to celebrate!"

The performance takes James closer to the formidable M60 club best of 2:56:58 set by the aptly-named Tom Speed at the 1999 London Marathon. The full results from Rotterdam are here.