Ladies Lead the Kent Fitness League

The Canterbury Harriers women’s team made it a hat-trick of victories in the KFL by winning at a sunny Allhallows on 2nd February. Emily Collins again led the women’s team, coming second to Andrea Berquez of Sevenoaks AC who made it four victories out of four races. Emily is currently second in the women’s individual championship behind Andrea who now cannot be caught. As well as Emily, there were great runs from Faye Roberts (4th, V35), Sarah Newman (7th), Barbara Grogan (17th, V45) and Claire Pluckrose (20th, V55). Faye Roberts has now also made certain of winning the F40-44 category in the league, with the second and third in that category also being Canterbury Harriers: Sarah Newman and Katie Grover. Barbara Grogan is also in the lead in the 50-54 category but can still be overtaken. Joanne Norrington came 14th but did not score due to the age category requirements. The victory means that the Harrier women are now one point ahead of Sevenoaks AC in the standings with just the final race at Blean Woods to come. The top six are:

Rank	Club	Match					Best 4	Total	TB	Places
		1	2	3	4	5
1	Canterbury H	16	17	18	18	18	71	87	8	327
2	Sevenoaks AC	18	18	17	17	17	70	87	7	399
3	Petts Wood Runners	17	15	16	15	16	64	79	—	595
4	NEJ Running Club	12	16	15	13	13	57	69	—	893
5	Dartford H	15	3	14	16	12	57	60	8	1262
6	Thanet RR	14	14	12	14	14	56	68	—	1018

The men’s team came sixth, led home again by Simon Jones who was tenth. Roddy McLachlan in 28th was the second V40 scorer and he was followed by Ben Parmar (30th), James Pullen (35th), Matt Newman (54th), Hugh Gostelow (77th; V60 scorer), Fiouse Corbeil (108th; first V50 scorer) and Colin Kent (116th; second V50). Hugh Gostelow still leads the league in the 65-69 category. Aaron Hancock and Paul Pollard finished before the team’s last scorer but did not scorer themselves due to the age requirements. The men’s team remain 8th in the standings, with Petts Wood Runners having already secured the title, and the top eight being:

Rank	Club	Match					Best 4	Total	TB	Places
		1	2	3	4	5
1	Petts Wood Runners	18	16	18	18	18	72	88	—	1372
2	Sevenoaks AC	16	17	16	14	17	66	80	—	1766
3	Medway & Mstn AC	11	18	17	15	16	66	77	—	1889
4	Paddock Wood AC	15	14	13	16	15	60	73	—	2035
5	Thanet RR	13	13	14	17	14	58	71	—	2273
6	Dartford H	17	15	15	11	4	58	62	8	2880
7	Istead & Ifield H	14	12	12	12	12	50	62	7	2854
8	Canterbury H	12	11	11	13	13	49	60	—	2856

In the combined league the club came fourth again and are now up to fourth in the standings with the top eight being:

Rank	Club	Match					Best 4	Total	TB	Places
		1	2	3	4	5
1	Petts Wood Runners	18	17	17	18	18	71	88	—	1967
2	Sevenoaks AC	17	18	18	16	17	70	86	—	2165
3	Paddock Wood AC	15	16	12	14	16	61	73	—	3262
4	Canterbury H	14	14	14	15	15	58	72	—	3183
5	Thanet RR	13	13	13	17	14	57	70	—	3291
6	Dartford H	16	11	16	13	6	56	62	—	4142
7	Medway & Mstn AC	10	15	15	12	13	55	65	—	3907
8	Istead & Ifield H	11	12	11	11	12	46	57	—	4780

There are photos from the race in the gallery.

39 Canterbury Harriers finished

Ov Pos	Lg Pos	Runner	Age	Time	Score	Rtg	#
10	10	Simon Jones	49	36:02	V40:1	96.90	50
28	28	Roddy McLachlan	46	38:32	V40:2	90.69	22
30	30	Ben Parmar	30	38:35	M1	90.00	18
36	35	James Pullen	23	39:06	M2	88.28	6
49	2	Emily Collins	30	40:04	F1	99.35	21
56	54	Matt Newman	38	40:28	M3	81.72	14
67	4	Faye Roberts	42	41:39	V35	98.04	19
80	7	Sarah Newman	41	42:47	F2	96.08	6
88	77	Hugh Gostelow	67	43:32	V60	73.79	5
93	82	Aron Hancock	45	43:53	NSBLS	72.07	12
99	88	Paul Pollard	48	44:47	NSBLS	70.00	10
109	14	Joanne Norrington	41	45:17	NSBLS	91.50	63
117	17	Barbara Grogan	52	45:41	V45	89.54	13
127	108	Fiouse Corbeil	52	46:18	V50:1	63.10	30
129	20	Claire Pluckrose	56	46:25	V55	87.58	32
139	116	Colin Kent	59	47:00	V50:2	60.34	79
141	24	Nicky Leatherbarrow	58	47:15	NS	84.97	16
174	31	Faye Jeacocke	48	49:35	NS	80.39	5
181	148	Andrew Thorns	59	50:00	NS	49.31	2
205	167	Adam Cowper-Smith	65	52:07	NS	42.76	50
233	187	Joe Hicks	71	53:54	NS	35.86	82
234	188	Gary Robertson	63	53:57	NS	35.52	18
235	189	Rob Waite	52	53:58	NS	35.17	3
261	204	Marco Keir	63	55:37	NS	30.00	75
264	207	Phil Wyard	62	56:04	NS	28.97	38
280	64	Deb Parris	56	57:26	NS	58.82	37
281	217	Daren Parris	56	57:28	NS	25.52	27
282	218	Peter Yarlett	72	57:30	NS	25.17	66
283	219	Ben Lowe	47	57:31	NS	24.83	3
301	228	Mike Jefferies-Pottle	56	58:37	NS	21.72	12
310	77	Sammy Black	44	59:28	NS	50.33	18
313	79	Jean Roffe	57	59:54	NS	49.02	23
314	235	Matthew Northover	56	59:55	NS	19.31	35
341	248	Steve Clark	71	1:02:37	NS	14.83	144
360	257	John Cooper	65	1:05:50	NS	11.72	44
364	106	Shirley Pullen	60	1:06:22	NS	31.37	48
385	267	Geoff Burston	75	1:11:06	NS	8.28	32
428	144	Tina Jones	78	1:23:17	NS	6.54	62
432	285	Roy Gooderson	67	1:25:09	NS	2.07	90

Full results are on the KFL site.

Robin Bell of Plumstead has produced the following video of the race:

The club will be hosting the final race of the season on 23rd February at Blean Woods.