Well done to everyone who ran on Saturday at a freezing cold Parliament Hill. We had some very good individual performances such as myself finishing 6th in the race (3rd in the London Champs due to a few guest runners), Rich Munn having a strong run and showing that his marathon training is paying dividends.

The club AGM will be held on Tuesday 2nd December at the Goose on the Green in Catford at 8:45pm (after the Tues eve. training sessions).

Please find attached the calling notice to the 2008 agm and the minutes of the 2007 agm.

For the juniors we only had 2 under 17's and 2 under 20's for this fixture but they all acquitted themselves well. On a very demanding course at Mote Park Alfie Grimsey improved on the last fixture by coming home 2nd in his race, just behind the talented Seb Harding and not that far behind the winner of the race - one of the Tyler brothers who was in the under 20 section.

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Congratulations to all who ran at the Southern Road Relays in Aldershot. It was out best ever turnout at this top class event. With 4 full teams, with the A-team finishing in 5th position out of 92 teams, which equals our best ever position.

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Great news, the B Team will still be in Southern League Division One next season. As we'd hoped, the creation of a new British League division means that only two teams (Winchester and WSEH) are being relegated, so we're safe.

A small group of young athletes gave a good account of themselves at Capstone Park. In the under 15's David Rowbotham came home 15th in what was a very strong field. David had a bad patch in the middle of the race but as usual came through strongly in the closing stages.

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The Southern road relays are on Sat 27th Sept. Book in diaries. It is Aldershot as usual. We're looking for a strong M40 and M50 teams, so Luke says no excuses. It would be good if you could race either assembley league at beckenham or club 5000m so the selectors can have a look at current form.

Final match round-up from British Athletic's top columnist:

Pre-senile dementia is a terrible thing. I typed up the results, posted Larry's copy off to him with my extravagant expenses claim for the season, then forgot to email them to you lot.

That's more like it. Some excellent performances and a third place for the B team at Ladywell on Saturday. We beat two teams above us in the League and got pretty close to two promotion contenders. With twenty competing athletes and loads of guests, there's life in the old dog yet.

Oh dear, another bad day for the B team in Essex (is there any other sort of day in Essex?). We were up against exceptionally strong opposition and there were some good performances, but we'll always struggle in this Division when we can't fill all of the events.

This years AAA's u20/23 champions and World Junior Trials was probably the most sucessful for Kent AC athletics. The atheltes suffered from a windy Bedford track with wind speeds of up to 6.8 which causes problems for those looking for qualifying times.

A group of our junior runners impressed at the London Schools Championships on Saturday. Quasar Mays managed to win the inter boys 400 Hurdles in a seasons best of 64 seconds. It was a small field but you can only beat those who turn up.

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On the face of it disappointing- fifth and last. However, considering our very slim resources it was probably as good as could be expected. The small select band who competed did well. Rawlston and Trevor covered a lot of events whilst Theo got a PB in the 800.

B team Picketts Lock Southern League Match report from the club's best columnist, (shame I didn't get them up onto the website with such efficiency!) ...

Morning, chaps. Ten out of ten for efficiency this week, the results on your desk first thing Monday morning.