Yet another good day for Kent AC over the ‘country’ this season as our younger athletes really performed well in this annual test of where they are on the London wide Schools scene. With places at stake for the top 8 in each race to represent London in the prestigious English Schools CC champs in March this is often the big race of the year for our younger distance men.

Here are the provisional Assembly League fixtures for the 2010 season. This is the 35th season in which the League has taken place. We will be visiting the familiar race venues with two visits to the fast and completely flat course at the Dome - although as building work in the area continues this course will remain under review.

Club Record Alert !! The 2010 indoor season is in full swing with South of England champs and London Games producing an excellent times from Kent AC athletes. The star so far is Matthew Burton who at The London Games jumped 3 pb's and recorded a massive long jump of 7,63pb (CLUB RECORD).

Despite the 5 week break from racing, due to cancelled races, Kent AC maintained their great progress this year on the Cross Country front. At the traditional home of Cross country, Hampstead's Parliament Hill, we matched our best ever performance in the 'Southern ' with a string of fine runs to finish 5th team in this top level event .

The resheduled Kent County champs is coming up soon - Sat 13th Feb @ Detling showground. This is a great chance for the club to build on that 5th place in the South of England last weekend. This is an event we should be strongly contesting in the 6 to score and the 12 to score events! The likes of Medway, Tonbridge and Blackheath will be our main challengers, however, if people do not show then the team will go home empty handed!

If you decided to forego this race in favour of Christmas shopping you missed a treat. Wimbledon Common had never looked so beautiful: all clad in winter frosting, spread out under a rosy, low December sun hanging in a clear blue sky.

Well done to all those who made Saturdays race at Wimbledon Common. We managed to show how strong a team we are against a few of the Surrey League big guns (Belgrave, Herne Hill and Thames hare & Hounds - All division 1 in Surrey League).

It was a great Kent AC performance. Runners in every race, medals and a cup were won.

M50 Report – Race 1 - Although it might have been anticipated that the over 40’s would be challenging for medals, it was perhaps something of a surprise that our over 50’s team came away with the silver team medal on Saturday.

Another total demolition of the opposition in the league --- but even more comprehensive than the others this year ! We had 9 men home in the top 10 and our last scorer, Rawlston Morian, came in 14th, with a brave run after falling, to close the 10 man team race with a record low score for the league.

We completed a Hat-trick of Team Wins, in all 3 fixtures so far this season, with a demolition of the opposition on Saturday to secure our 7th win in the South of the Thames Team Championship in the last 10 years.

In gale like conditions Kent AC blew away the opposition to maintain their promotion push by closing their 10 man team in the first 15 places home. Fresh from his marathon debut in Frankfurt in 2 hours 27 min Team Captain James Connor ran away from the field to secure an easy win with Richard Phillips coming through on the second lap to gain a comfortable runners up slot as the wind speeds reached 40 mph.

Kent Athletic Club AGM Calling Notice. The Annual General Meeting for 2009 will be held at.. The Goose on the Green Public House, Catford, Rushey Green opposite the theatre. On Tuesday 1st December 2009 at 8:30 pm.

This autumn we managed to turn adversity into opportunity by giving some new faces a chance to run the 6 stage relays while some of our regulars where unavailable. For the Southern 6 Stage in September we fielded three new faces for the event (Graeme Garner, Lee Haze and Phil Sanders) beside three members with more than 20 appearances between them.

Congrats to Phil Sanders who came 2nd in the Beachy Head marathon (3:09) on Sat 24th. The winner (Stuart Mills) has now won the event 6 times, so Phil was very pleased to be the best of the rest!

The full results are here.

Well done to everyone who competed on Saturday in the first Surrey League fixture.

For those of you who haven't yet seen our Surrey League results they are attached and I think you will agree that it makes really good reading.