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.

The winter is just around the corner, with the smell of cross country in the air once again! Last weekend was the first race of the season in the Surrey League (and probably the last in such glorious sunshine on a flat track - golf fairway springs to mind!) which started on a good note with us have 6 in the first 7 in this 10 to score team event, and running out clear winners on the day.

New boys to the league Kent AC overwhelmed the opposition by placing 6 men in the first 7 positions held in summerlike conditions on the firm lawnlike conditions at Cranford Park, Middlesex.

Many congratulations to Conrad Williams who won a Silver medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. He ran the first leg in the 4x400m, setting the GB team up for a second placing behind the awesome US team.

As the summer season draws to a close it is time once again to turn our attention to the 6 stage road relays.

As normal we will be having the Kent AC Club 5K Track Championship prior to the Southern 6 Stage, which we will use as a selection race.

Even though it is only the begining of August and I imagine the thought of wet, muddy cross country races are far from most people's minds I thought it was fitting to give advance notice to all runners about the change to next years racing calendar.

Results from World Masters Athletics Championships, Lahti, Finland.

Joe Appiah, M35 110m hurdles World Masters Champion
Time 14.50secs pb by half a sec (3.3 height), Gold medal

Joe Appiah, M35 Long Jump 6.

If you haven't already heard, it's bad news for the B Team following a disappointing fifth place at Tonbridge on Saturday. Once again, there were lots of good performances but the high standard of the other teams and our lack of field athletes, particularly throwers, meant that we lost out.

Late news in, some great performances at the World Trials on 10/11/12 July 2009. Jermaine Mays won the 1500m in 3.41:26, followed by Lee Emanual of Sheffield in 3:41.82 and Morpeth's Nick McCormick in 3:42.

Thank you to all those who contributed to my brother's spikes appeal. I visited the village secondary school in Ghana in May and handed over approx 15 pair of spikes shoes. The headmaster held a meeting with all the teachers and l presented the shoes.

Evening all. Fourth place for the B team at Woking. Once again, lots of excellent performances and, in a tough match, we were only six points off second place. Noteworthy performances included Kent AC athletes winning the first three track events of the day, all at 400m hurdles with the third being a pb for Quazar running as a guest in the Division Three match.