Surrey League Round One – Priory Park
On a cold, damp and gloomy day the Kent AC women had one very successful outing at round one of the 2019/20 Surrey League. On a two lap (one short, one long) very muddy course Amelia Pettit absolutely blazed home to win the round a whole 29 seconds clear of 2nd place. Amelia is a new addition to Kent AC and lead a strong A team to an overall 2nd place position after round one.
There was a great turn out by the Kent women for round one. Following Amelia (1), Katie Rowland was home in 10th position. Katie has had quite a few injury setbacks this year but continues to be such a strong performer over a range of distances and really made a mark in the competition today. Sarah Hanley is an incredibly tough cross-country runner and was third Kent woman home in 18th spot. Fourth Kent AC woman home was Isabel Bradley (29th) – another runner who excels over cross country showing her strength in a fantastic performance coming home strongly. Eliza Grant (34) was fifth woman home in one of her last hard runs ahead of Valencia Half in a few weeks’ time.
The B team was made up of Georgina Wiley (48), Clara Pettit (59), Megan Williams (70), Victoria Buck (71) and Kate Williams (121). Vic was taking it easy post a huge PB at the recent Berlin Marathon (3.01.59) and backing up with a strong half marathon a week later at the Bournemouth Half Marathon. The B team were third B team home.
We had a big team out with other runners Claire Sutton, Sarah Downing, Rachel Gurnett, Katie Lang, Katie Kennedy, Kornelija Suveizdyte, Zoe Gaffen and Annabelle Hadlow rounding out the team Many of these were first time runners for Kent.
It’s been a great year so far for the female runners of the Kent AC community with a huge number of PB’s and great runs across a range of distances. Looking forward to seeing this continue into the cross-country season and into 2020!
Division 1 match results (Top 20 teams)
Pos Club Points
1 C/C A 79
2 KEN A 92
3 THH A 122
4 SLH A 137
5 BEL A 149
6 H/W A 150
7 RAN A 192
8 STR A 212
9 WOK A 262
10 E&E A 277
11 C/C B 279
12 DUL A 281
13 HHH A 293
14 REI A 305
15 SLH B 334
16 FUL A 369
17 KEN B 369
18 FOT A 447
19 DUL B 465
20 BEL B 529