Parliament Hill Fields
The longer distance of 15km, the hilly terrain, and above all the legendary Parliament Hill mud make the Southerns a real stayers' race. This perhaps goes some way to explain the reversal of the positions of our top three finishers compared to the Kent Championships three weeks earlier. This time it was our ultra-specialist Danny Kendall, for whom a marathon is a short race, who was first home for the club just 15 seconds ahead of Chris Wyles with Rob Jackaman third.
The six to score team, completed by David Reader, James MacDonald and Christian Poulton, finished 20th out of the 70 clubs fielding complete teams. We had 15 runners (in a field of well over a thousand) which in some previous years would have been sufficient to carry off the coveted Camden Cup for the best Kent club on a 12 to score basis but with both Tonbridge and Kent AC both fielding strong squads it was not to be this year.
In the pub after the race all were agreed that this was as muddy as we had ever seen the course, but we seem to say that every year!
POSÂ TIMEÂ Â Â Â Â ATHLETE
068.  0:54:57  Danny Kendall
076.  0:55:12  Chris Wyles
103.  0:56:36  Rob Jackaman
296.  1:02:20  David Reader
338.  1:03:18  James MacDonald
392.  1:04:32  Christian Poulton
572.  1:08:59  Peter St Amour
654.  1:10:50  Andy Knight
659.  1:10:59  Graham Maynard
707.  1:12:20  Clem Dixon
763.  1:14:30  Martin Hawkins
905.  1:21:09  Mal Pires
962.  1:25:32  Steve Brown
979.  1:28:25  Mark Newell
986.  1:29:23  Peter Hadley
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