September 2020

27 September 2020

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 27th September 2020

jules

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 27th September 2020

Please see this week’s update for Kent AC members – 27th September 2020

KENT AC NEWS BULLETIN

27th September, 2020

NEWS

EA update in response to the Government’s new restrictions:
England Athletics released a statement in response to the new restrictions announced by the Government on Monday of this week. The statement confirmed that the new restrictions will have no impact on athletic club or group activity and all activity will be able to continue as before.

RESULTS
Club Champs:
Thanks to everyone who took part in the most recent 800m & 100m Club Championships last Wednesday – full results will be released tomorrow by organiser supremo Ben Cook, but congratulations to our 800m club champs Joseph Yee and Victoria Stepanova.

Many thanks to all the volunteers across the three weeks for making the evenings possible!

Folkestone Half Marathon:
On a wet and windy morning on the Kent coast, many braved the conditions with great success. With the event taking place under COVID-secure conditions, small waves of runners started from 8am on an out-and-back seaside circuit, including an unwelcome steep cliff-top climb at about 12 miles in.
Despite the testing weather, the event was worth the early start with Kent runners taking the individual wins for men & women, with six men featuring in the top ten, making the event feel more like a Club Champs race. Our winners were Anthony Johnson and Georgina Wiley, both slightly outside their PBs but in far from favourable weather!
Anthony Johnson – 68:24 – 1st
Dave Morgan – 72:16
Ben Hope – 72:26
Dan Pettitt – 72:32 PB
George Russell – 72:32 PB
Ben Cook – 72:53
Rob Laing – 73:35
Barny Day – 73:53
Tomas Sloan – 77:12
Kieran Page – 81:59 PB
Jamie Stinson – 83:27
Georgina Wiley – 84:17 – 1st
David Venn – 86:51
Adrian Dracup – 91:06
Jeegna Patel-Jones – 1:51:19
Nicholas Walne – 1:54:43

MK5000 PB Special:
The second edition since races restarted saw two Kent runners make the journey up to Milton Keynes. In a good quality elite field Owen Hind ran 14:21 for 4th place in a race won by Australian International Ryan Gregson. Joe Hartley confirmed his good form with a slender road 5k PB of 15:35.

Wimbledon Track Open:
Jim Allchin & Neil Phillips continued their interest in 3000m racing with another race last Wednesday. Jim carried on his remarkable consistency, posting an 8:34 whilst Neil managed a solid 9:47.

Any results missed? Let us know!

TRAINING
C-Group training
This week’s session is a mouth-watering 4x 1 mile at 5k pace off 3 minutes recovery. Those joining should meet at the entrance to the track at 7pm on Tuesday night already warmed up. Before attending the session can everyone make sure they have filled in the Covid-19 self-declaration form available here.

Runners have also been asked to consider wearing a brightly coloured top or investing in a head torch as we head into the autumn months. Any questions please contact via email here.

B-Group Training
Training continues with small groups in Greenwich Park for the rest of this month. Please contact Stuart Beaney for more details.

B-Group women
Training continues with Pete Boxshall and Ellie Brown on Tuesday nights meeting at 7.10pm. If interested, please contact Pete or Ellie for more information.

A-group training
The A-group continue with Fartleks around Ladywell, meeting at 7:30pm. For more information please contact Ken.

YOUR FEEDBACK

After starting some new communication methods over the last couple of months including our newsletter and the KENTversation podcast, we need your feedback to help us understand how these are working for you. Please let us know your thoughts by completing our anonymous, short 5-minute survey here.
Feedback closes on Saturday 3rd October.

KENTversation

No podcast this week, however you can catch up on last week’s episode with Simon Allen, one of Kent AC’s volunteer coordinators and Jericho Road Project Director – listen to it and previous episodes on Spotify now.

20 September 2020

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 20th September 2020

jules

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 20th September 2020

Please see this week’s update for Kent AC members – 20th September 2020

KENT AC NEWS BULLETIN

20th September, 2020

NEWS

Lewisham to reopen leisure centres from October
A phased reopening of Lewisham’s leisure centres and swimming pools will start from October 2020.

It is anticipated four leisure centres will open in the coming weeks starting with Glassmill, Forest Hill pool and Ladywell Arena in October and Wavelengths in November. Reopening dates will be announced early October. GLL is in the process of undertaking an assessment of centres and the committee have been in contact with them to discuss our requirements.

Club Champs
The last round of Club Champs will be held this Wednesday with both 100m and 800m distance races being held over the evening. Further details for participants racing this week will be sent out by Ben Cook and Rob Laing separately.

A big thank you to both Ben and Rob for organising the championships over the last three weeks and to all the volunteers from the club who have made the events possible helping out with the organisaton and officiating. If you would like more information get in touch with race directors /" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ben and Rob.

RESULTS
Club Champs 3000m
Club races continued this week with 3000m and 400m action at Sutcliffe Park on Wednesday evening. The evening was another success and while results are not yet available on Power of 10 there seemed to be a large number of PBs recorded from the Strava results!

Anthony Johnson was crowned men’s club champ with a time of 09:06.7, followed by Dave Morgan in 09:10.5 and George Russell in 09:17.4. A special mention to U20’s Joseph Yee front-running in the penultimate race in 09:21.2 and U17 Lucas Zurdo coming in second in 09:24.2. Both would have placed well in the last race.

For the women, Alexa Parker captured first place in a 10.22.6 performance followed by Georgina Wiley in 10.26.7 and Victoria Stepanova in 10:53.7.

In the 400m the first race saw every runner go under 60 seconds, however, the race belonged to the young lads with Archie Harper just getting the better of Stanley Forman with 53.5 and 53.9 respectively to be crowned first and second in the champs. Louis Wampler led the second race to come third overall in the champs in a time of 54.3. Vic Buck became the female club 400m champion with Dee O’Brien in second.

Many thanks to all the volunteers for making the evening possible!

Night of the 1500 PBs
Last Tuesday night Belgrave Harriers hosted the night of the 1500m PBs at Battersea park. Kent was well represented with Owen Hind, Jim Allchin, Ben Harding and Dan Pettitt participating in a tactical ‘Soar Battle of South London (SW vs SE)’ race prior to the A races on the night. While they were unfortunately defeated by the SW Cottage team both Jim and Dan picked up 1500m PB’s for their efforts. Additionally, Ian Ellwood continued his run of PBs with a 04:23.1 in one of the previous races.

RunThrough Olympic Park 10k and Kew Gardens 10k
It was a big week for both 10k’s and PBs with Tom Sloan running 33:42 at the RunThrough 10k in Olympic Park and Christopher Schofield running 37:19 at Kew Garden. Susie Fairbrass and Ivona Gongolva also ran strong times at Kew on what sounds like it was a hugely twisty (although beautiful!) course.

TRAINING
C-Group training
This weeks session is 5 x 30 secs @ 1500 pace with 2 mins 30 secs recovery. Those joining should meet at the entrance to the track at 7pm on Tuesday night already warmed up. Before attending the session can everyone make sure they have filled in the Covid-19 self-declaration form available here.

Runners have also been asked to consider wearing a brightly coloured top or investing in a head torch as we head into the autumn months. Any questions please contact via email here.

B-Group Training
Training continues with small groups in Greenwich Park for the rest of this month. Please contact Stuart Beaney for more details.

B-Group women
Training re-commenced last week with Pete Boxshall and Ellie Brown with sessions on Tuesday nights meeting at 7.10pm. If interested, please contact Pete or Ellie for more information.

A-group training
The A-group continue with Fartleks around Ladywell, meeting at 7:30pm. For more information please contact Ken.

KENTversation

This week’s podcast is with Simon Allen, one of Kent AC’s volunteer coordinators and Jericho Road project director – listen to it and previous episodes on Spotify now.

14 September 2020

Welcome Return of Kent AC “Champs” – 1500m and 200m

Alan Curtis

1500m and 200m Race Report - Sutcliffe Park

Club racing returns! Sadly at Sutcliffe Park as Ladywell Arena remains closed – come on Lewisham Council & GLL! Thanks to Shanice at GLL and the KAC volunteers, for making it a great event, brilliant to see a sea of blue vests back on a track. Report from Ben Cook

…big thanks to everyone that made this great evening happen, Rob Laing, John Barron, Dan Pettitt, Len, Heather, Dave, Simon, Kate, Rowan and everyone else that helped out in this really odd year.

Now on to the races, the results are attached but as always, these only tell half a story. Race 1 was very exciting and saw lots of new club members running. Timothy Ssali took the race out hard and had the handful of spectators wondering whether he was going to be able to hold on to the end and Gary Sullivan, always a canny racer, seemed to smell blood in the water. However after a dip in the third lap Timo managed to find a strong last lap for the win, closely followed by new club American import Louis Wampler with Gary just behind him.

The race also saw some great performances from Susie Fairbrass to run a PB and Nicky Hayes who ran in her first ever 1500m with a performance that will see her go 7th in the UK in her category.

The second race was just as exciting, Sarah Hanley took the race on and looked like she was going to win, however Laurie Garrett ran an incredibly strong last lap to win with Sarah just behind him. This race was the battle of Kent AC’s v50 men with Paul Crompton showing utter disdain for rank and coming in 6 seconds ahead of our illustrious president Alan Curtis who in turn got the better of Paul McCrone. There were two other notable performances in this race, Dee O’Brian’s run will put her in 7th place on the all important Power of 10 rankings and Jo Mott who turned up late for the first race and ran in the second race running a whole minute faster than her predicted time.

The final race of the evening was an absolute peach with Joe Hartley taking it out hard, leaving us all wondering if he would be able to hold off Chris McGurk who was fresh off a 10k PB last Sunday, however, reminiscent of Timothy Cheruiyot in Monaco the other week, Joe managed to find the strength to hold Chris off for a fantastic win. Another notable performance from Clare Elms to be crowned club champion with her time fractionally faster than Sarah Hanley’s.

Finally, at the end of the evening we had two 200m races with Nathan Stevens really showing us what proper sprinting looks like, but there were also notable performances from Louis Wampler and Joseph Yee. Finally, Dee O’Brian, who had decided to enter at the last minute ran 33.3 to become club champion and put herself just outside the top 20 on Po10.

Ben Cook & Rob Laing

1500m Results

Race	Pos	Name	        Club	M/F	Cat	Time
R1	1	Timothy Ssali	Kent AC		SEN	05:26.9
R1	2	Louis Wampler	Kent AC		SEN	05:29.5
R1	3	Gary Sullivan	Kent AC		v60	05:32.4
R1	4	Susie Fairbrass	Kent AC	F	SEN	05:44.3
R1	5	Joe Daniel	Kent AC		v40	05:49.5
R1	6	Neil Gordon-Orr	Kent AC		v55	05:56.6
R1	7	Nicky Hayes	Kent AC	F	v55	06:02.9

Race    Pos     Name            Club    M/F     Cat     Time
R2	1	Laurie Garrett	Kent AC		SEN	05:02.7
R2	2	Sarah Hanley	Kent AC	F	SEN	05:07.1
R2	3	Paul Crompton 	Kent AC		v50	05:09.4
R2	4	John Slade	Kent AC		v35	05:11.9
R2	5	Daniel Bowers	Kent AC		v40	05:14.3
R2	6	Alan Curtis	Kent AC		v50	05:15.3
R2	7	Paul McCrone	Kent AC		v50	05:20.2
R2	8	Dee O'Brien	Kent AC	F	v45	05:23.6
R2	9	Jo Mott	        Kent AC	F	SEN	05:57.7

Race    Pos     Name            Club    M/F     Cat     Time
R3	1	Joe Hartley	Kent AC		SEN	04:16.5
R3	2	Chris McGurk	Kent AC		SEN	04:20.0
R3	3	Joseph Yee	Kent AC		U20	04:23.6
R3	4	Ian Ellwood	Kent AC		SEN	04:25.7
R3	5	Nick Ostrowski 	Kent AC		v35	04:31.2
R3	6	Tom Sloan	Kent AC		v45	04:35.2
R3	7	Jamie McCall	Kent AC		SEN	04:37.5
R3	8	Ed Matthews	Kent AC		SEN	04:42.7
R3	9	Adrian Dracup	Kent AC		v35	05:02.6
R3	10	Clare Elms	Kent AC	F	v55	05:06.8

Overall
Race	Pos	Name	        Club	M/F	Cat	Time	Overall	Female
R3	1	Joe Hartley	Kent AC		SEN	04:16.5	1	
R3	2	Chris McGurk	Kent AC		SEN	04:20.0	2	
R3	3	Joseph Yee	Kent AC		U20	04:23.6	3	
R3	4	Ian Ellwood	Kent AC		SEN	04:25.7	4	
R3	5	Nick Ostrowski 	Kent AC		v35	04:31.2	5	
R3	6	Tom Sloan	Kent AC		v45	04:35.2	6	
R3	7	Jamie McCall	Kent AC		SEN	04:37.5	7	
R3	8	Ed Matthews	Kent AC		SEN	04:42.7	8	
R3	9	Adrian Dracup	Kent AC		v35	05:02.6	9	
R2	1	Laurie Garrett	Kent AC		SEN	05:02.7	10	
R3	10	Clare Elms	Kent AC	F	v55	05:06.8	11	1
R2	2	Sarah Hanley	Kent AC	F	SEN	05:07.1	12	2
R2	3	Paul Crompton 	Kent AC		v50	05:09.4	13	
R2	4	John Slade	Kent AC		v35	05:11.9	14	
R2	5	Daniel Bowers	Kent AC		v40	05:14.3	15	
R2	6	Alan Curtis	Kent AC		v50	05:15.3	16	
R2	7	Paul McCrone	Kent AC		v50	05:20.2	17	
R2	8	Dee O'Brien	Kent AC	F	v45	05:23.6	18	3
R1	1	Timothy Ssali	Kent AC		SEN	05:26.9	19	
R1	2	Louis Wampler	Kent AC		SEN	05:29.5	20	
R1	3	Gary Sullivan	Kent AC		v60	05:32.4	21	
R1	4	Susie Fairbrass	Kent AC	F	SEN	05:44.3	22	4
R1	5	Joe Daniel	Kent AC		v40	05:49.5	23	
R1	6	Neil Gordon-Orr	Kent AC		v55	05:56.6	24	
R2	9	Jo Mott	        Kent AC	F	SEN	05:57.7	25	5
R1	7	Nicky Hayes	Kent AC	F	v55	06:02.9	26	6

200m Results

Race	Pos	Name	        Club	M/F	Cat	Time
R1	1	Nathan Stevens	Kent AC		SEN	22.9
R1	2	Louis Wampler	Kent AC		SEN	23.6
R1	3	Ian Ellwood	Kent AC		SEn	26.3
R1	4	Timothy Ssali	Kent AC		SEN	26.8
R1	5	Adrian Dracup	Kent AC		SEN	29.7

Race	Pos	Name	        Club	M/F	Cat	Time
R2	1	Joseph Yee	Kent AC		U20	25.6
R2	2	Ed Matthews	Kent AC		SEN	27.8
R2	3	Tomas Sloan	Kent AC		V45	29.4
R2	4	Paul Crompton	Kent AC		V50	30.0
R2	5	Dee O'Brien	Kent AC	F	V45	33.3
R2	6	Paul McCrone	Kent AC		V50	36.5


Overall
Race	Pos	Name	        Club	M/F	Cat	Time	Overall	Female
R1	1	Nathan Stevens	Kent AC		SEN	22.9	1	
R1	2	Louis Wampler	Kent AC		SEN	23.6	2	
R2	1	Joseph Yee	Kent AC		U20	25.6	3	
R1	3	Ian Ellwood	Kent AC		SEn	26.3	4	
R1	4	Timothy Ssali	Kent AC		SEN	26.8	5	
R2	2	Ed Matthews	Kent AC		SEN	27.8	6	
R2	3	Tomas Sloan	Kent AC		V45	29.4	7	
R1	5	Adrian Dracup	Kent AC		SEN	29.7	8	
R2	4	Paul Crompton	Kent AC		V50	30.0	9	
R2	5	Dee O'Brien	Kent AC	F	V45	33.3	10	1
R2	6	Paul McCrone	Kent AC		V50	36.5	11

13 September 2020

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 13th September 2020

jules

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 13th September 2020

Please see this week’s update for Kent AC members – 13th September 2020

KENT AC NEWS BULLETIN

13th September, 2020

NEWS
Latest EA Guidance
Despite the latest government restrictions coming into force on Monday, organised sport is excluded from the 6 per group rule, with further clarification on the ‘no change‘ from EA here.

Club Champs
The next round of Club Champs kicks off on Wednesday with entries for the popular 3000m full. Further details for participants racing this week will be sent out by Ben & Rob separately.
16th September – 400m and 3000m
23rd September – 100m and 800m
If you would like more information get in touch with race directors /" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ben Cook and Rob Laing.

RESULTS
Return of Club Champs
Club races returned with 1500m and 200m action at Sutcliffe Park on Wednesday evening. The evening was a success with 14 PBs (53.8%) across the three 1500m races and plenty of people adding 200m to their Powerof10 profile.
Joe Hartley was crowned men’s club champ with a strong front-running performance of 4:16, followed by second claimer Chris McGurk in 4:20 and Joseph Yee a very credible 4:23. For the women, Clare Elms led the way with 5:06, just ahead of Sarah Hanley who led out the previous race, clocking 5:07 with Dee O’Brien third in 5:23.

Nathan Stevens ran a strong 22.9 in the 200m, ahead of an impressive 23.6 from Louis Wampler after doubling up in the 1500m. Dee O’Brien took the women’s crown in 33.3, with Ben Cook’s race report from Saturday worth the read. Many thanks to all the volunteers for making the evening possible:
Ben Cook, Rob Laing, John Barron, Spenser Lane, Dan Pettitt, Len Reilly, Heather Castle, Pete Boxshall, Dave Devlin, Simon Allen, Kate Williams & Rowan Crichton

Short but sweet triathlon season in Hamburg for Alex
With only one event possible in this year’s World Triathlon Series, the season was limited to a one-off World Championship in Hamburg. Alex Yee had a storming run (fastest of the day) in fifth and the first Brit home, before anchoring the Mixed Relay team to bronze the following day.

Sprinters make their mark
Sprinters Joe Appiah and Nathan Brown have been making the most of a shortened season. Joe was in competition this weekend finishing his season with a SB in the 100m (11.79w) over in Dagenham, ahead of moving up to the M50 category next month. Since opening the season over in Budapest, Joe has been busy competing across the country over the hurdles in Nuneaton and Trafford, leaving him top of the 110H UK Masters rankings.
Nathan currently leads the club rankings with a 11.02 in the 100m having run a 10.89w in the same meeting at Stratford on the 6th September.

Highgate Harriers Open
Three made the journey up to Parliament Hill for some 3000m action on Wednesday evening:
Neil Phillips – 9:31
Dave Morgan – 8:58
Jim Allchin – 8:36

South London Harriers Open
PB-man of the summer, Ian Ellwood, took another 2 seconds off his recent 800m PB, with a 2:07 clocking. Doubling up, he also took the win in a 1500m later on in 4:30.

Antrim Coast Half Marathon
Kent AC participation was limited to second claimer Ross Braden, but his great run is worthy of a mention, claiming a big PB of 66:30.

TRAINING
C-Group training
Tuesday’s continue to be popular with 26 attending C-group training in Ladywell Park. This week’s training session will be hills after lamposts last week and those joining should meet at the entrance to the track at 7pm on Tuesday night. Before attending the session can everyone make sure they have filled in the Covid-19 self-declaration form available here.
Runners have also been asked to consider wearing a brightly coloured top or investing in a head torch as we head into the autumn months. Any questions please contact via email here.

B-Group Training
Training continues with small groups in Greenwich Park for the rest of this month. Please contact Stuart Beaney for more details.

A-group training
The A group continue with Fartleks around Ladywell, meeting at 7:30pm. For more information please contact Ken.

KENTversation

No podcast this week but you can catch up on last week’s podcast with Russell Bentley – listen to it and previous episodes on Spotify now.

6 September 2020

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 6th September 2020

jules

Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 6th September 2020

Please see this weeks update for Kent AC members – 6th September 2020

KENT AC NEWS BULLETIN

6th September, 2020

NEWS
Club Champs
Club championships return over the following three Wednesdays (9th, 16th, 23rd) at Sutcliffe Park.The fixtures are:
9th September – 200m and 1500m
16th September – 400m and 3000m
23rd September – 100m and 800m
If you would like more information get in touch with race directors /" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ben Cook and Rob Laing.

Cross Country update
October’s Surrey League fixture has been cancelled and the November fixture is now in doubt. We should have more information later this month, but you can read the latest guidance from England Athletics on cross country here.

RESULTS
A busier week of racing on both the track and the road, with plenty of PBs to be had in Battersea Park this morning at the RunThrough 10k in good conditions. Special mention to Ian Ellwood setting two PBs in the 800 in a week, with young Olly Buck also bettering the time he ran at last week’s BMC meeting by 2 seconds as well.
RunThrough Battersea 10k, 6th September:
Chris McGurk (2C) – 31.55 – 10k debut
Ben Cook – 32.54 – pb
Barny Day – 33.49 – pb
Tom Marshall – 33.59 – 10k debut
Jake Herrera – 34.46 – pb
Nick Ostrowski – 34.58 – 10k debut
Tim Copley – 35.00 – pb
Heather Castle – 51.58

Folkestone Coastal 10k, 6th September:
Oliver Cobb – 35.21

SLAN Open 800m, 5th September:
Dan Pettitt – 2.06
Ian Ellwood – 2.09 – pb
Olly Buck – 2.22 – pb

Herne Hill Harriers Evening Open, 2nd September:
800m – Ian Ellwood – 2.11 – pb
3000m – Neil Phillips – 9.29

TRAINING
C-Group training
Last Tuesday’s return to C-group training in Ladywell Park was considered “a big success” with 22 members in attendance. The feedback has been that training with others was “very motivating”. This week’s training session will be hills and those joining should meet at the entrance to the track at 7pm on Tuesday night. Before attending the session can everyone make sure they have filled in the Covid-19 self-declaration form available here.
Runners have also been asked to consider wearing a brightly coloured top or investing in a head torch as we head into the autumn months. Any questions please contact via email here.

A-group training
The A group returned last Tuesday. For more information on this week’s session please contact Ken.

KENTversation

This week’s guest on the podcast is Russell Bentley – listen to it and previous episodes on Spotify now.

OTHER NEWS

Club 250
September’s winner of the Club 250 is Richard Phillips number 32.