The newly flourishing B endurance squad turned out in force on Sunday to win the team prize at Elmbridge 10k. Although the times recorded by our runners were a good way off the impressive leading times of 30 minutes 20 seconds and 30 m 25 s, we showed our our new strength in depth in winning a 6 to count team competition awarded on a cumulative time basis.

Sunday 21st March saw us once again compete in the SEAA Southern 12 Stage Road Relay Championships in Milton Keynes. With bright sunshine but a stiff breeze all the runners knew they would have their work cut out to match last year's result of 11th place.

Well done to all finishers at this years Sidcup 10 mile road race held on Sunday. It was an excellent turnout in 2010 with 389 finishers. Victoria Park's Paul Martelliti won the race in the fastest time seen for quite a few years of 49:15.

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.

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.

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.

If any one would like to come along to support the 12 stage team in the National Road Relays in Sutton Coldfield the plan is to meet at Marylebone at 8am on Saturday. Ken is organising tickets there.

On Sunday 5th April Kent AC once again travelled to Milton Keynes to contest the Southern 12 Stage Road Relays. This year’s team was a true blend of youth and experience with too many years to mention separating the ages of our youngest and oldest runners.

Gary Thornton had a superb run at the City-Pier-City half-marathon in The Hague. He set a club best time for the event and broke his PB by some four minutes in a top quality event, Haile Gebrselassie suffered a shock defeat coming second in 59:50.

Many congratulations to all competitors in todays Sidcup 10 road race.  We had a very strong field this year with 30 athletes running under 60mins, many of these were PBs.  This year saw a highly competitive race with the top 3 finishing just 4 seconds apart and the top 2 breaking the 50 minute barrier.

Kent AC achieved their second best ever result by finishing 15th at the ERRA National Six Stage Road Relay Championships, but it was Paul Pollock who took the limelight with the fastest ever leg by a Kent AC athlete.

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.

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 assembly league at beckenham or club 5000m so the selectors can have a look at current form.