KENT AC NEWS BULLETIN
3 July 2022

It was another big week of racing with many of our Kent AC members descending on Battersea Park for both the Sri Chimnoy 5k on Tuesday night and RunThrough’s Chase the Sun series on Wednesday night. Congratulations to all who raced!

Further afield Zuzana Nemeckova is fast becoming Kent AC’s ultra running queen with a 2nd place finish in her age group at this weekends UTS50 in Wales. Second Claimer Max Nicholls was 18th overall at the Up and Down race at the Euro Athletics off road champs with the British men’s senior team finishing in 5th place.

A lot of news to get through this week including last chance to order kit and an opportunity to become a Juniors coach. Please click here to see a brilliant video put together by member Paul Crompton featuring many of our junior members for more information on coaching.
Please contact /" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Barron if you would like more information on becoming a junior coach!

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NEW BALANCE RACE KIT – LAST CHANCE TO ORDER 

A reminder that orders for the New Balance kit shop close midnight Thursday 7th July 2022

This is likely to be the last opportunity for sometime to purchase these items so please get your orders in quickly.

 ·      Crop Top – £27.60

·       Race Knickers – £25.20

·       Hot Pants – £25.20

·       Sprint Short – £30.00 (male)

·       Multisport Shorts – £24.00 (unisex)

 Kent AC Members | New Balance Teamsports

 Delivery 8-10 weeks

If a member wishes to receive their training kit and race kit orders dispatched together this will be on the 8–10-week lead time. The cost of shipping (£5.99) will only be taken once. If a member wishes to have the race kit delivered separately from the training wear on the 3-10 working daytime frame, they should place a separate order for the training wear, as this will allow the NB ordering system to flag up the training kit as an urgent pick and pack order.

Should you have any questions please email  

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OFFICIALLY NEEDED

Your club needs you!

Kent AC are badly in of  need officials, especially for the two remaining SAL matches.  

You don’t need a qualification, duties aren’t onerous and in fact are good fun. You also get travel covered & a free lunch!

The fixtures are:

16-Jul: SAL Tooting
6-Aug: KYAL Tonbridge
13-Aug: SAL Tooting

We also need people to do courses in field, starter, track judge and timekeeping and the club will pay for these and your EA subs.

Contact Len to volunteer or for more information.

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LADYWELL COUNTDOWN

 Ladywell 10000 coming up on Sunday 21st August 2022

Entries are now open to the public. Please spread the word about the event to your running friends and communities.
NEW this year: we’ll have 100m races at the event, as part of our championships series this summer, see more below.

The event is a fantastic opportunity to run 25 glorious laps and set a new 10000m PB in the calm and tranquil environment of Ladywell Arena in late summer.

It’s a great day of racing and a lot of fun.

 The event is open to everyone who can run under 55mins for 10km.  Races will be seeded to ensure athletes run in races suited to their ability.

Entries here

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CLUB CHAMPS

 Jake Simmonds is currently organising our 2022 club champs season for us. First up will be the 800m distance coming up quickly on 21 July 2022 

(provisional) Future dates:

28 July  200m,1500m

21 August – 10,000m, 100m

25 August  3000m,  LJ 

15 September – 5000m, 400m

Members can sign up for the 800m using this link 

 

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ASSEMBLY LEAGUE AND CLUB PARKRUN COMING UP THIS WEEK

The next Assembly League fixture is this Thursday 7 July in Victoria Park (distance 3.5 miles).

The next club Parkrun will also be this coming Saturday 9 July at Dulwich, with coffee at the Clock Cafe afterwards.

Additional dates for diaries: 

Assembly League
August 4 Beckenham Place Park

Southern Assembly League
16 July Tooting
13 August Tooting

Club Championships – Road Races
10km – Sri Chimnoy 10k, Battersea Park – Sat 6th Aug
Half Marathon – Big Half, Greenwich – Sun 4th Sep
Marathon – London – Sun 2nd Oct

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NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to our new members this week:Amy White
Adam BurshamMatthew Bouette

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WIN A TRACK PASS

In recognition of the importance of our volunteers, all gate volunteers each month are in with a chance of winning themselves a month’s track pass (worth £10).
To be added to the rota simply email Jacqueline/Simon at ( / 
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We only need each track attendee to volunteer a couple of times a year to spread the responsibility fairly.

T&Cs for the track pass draw:

All volunteers for the current month will be added into the hat for a draw each month.
The winner will win a free pass for the next calendar month.
Names will be automatically drawn from https://namepicker.net/ (or similar alternative)
The winner can either chose to:

use their free pass within a calendar year
allow their free pass to roll down to another volunteer
annual pass holders can nominate another club member if they cannot make use of the pass themselves 

No refunds/discounts will be provided in place of the free monthly pass.
Volunteers will only be eligible to win a pass once every three months.

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TRACK, TRACK, TRACK

Buy your track pass here.
The usual track times are:
Tuesday 17:15 – 20:45
Thursday 18:30 – 20:30
Sunday 09:00 – 11:30
Please note that individuals are permitted to do their own sessions during club opening times, but coached group sessions continue to take priority.

Track Pass – Juniors
Please purchase your £5 junior monthly track pass in advance here. When purchasing the track pass can parents/guardians please enter the athlete’s name when completing the transaction

Please see a helpful FAQs guide here

Ladywell Arena now has new opening hours dedicated to the public. While during these times the Kent AC track pass is not valid, members can pay for an individual session.

Session times are: 
Monday: 07:00 -15:00
Tuesday – Thursday: 1300 -1700
Friday: 07:00 – 15:00
Saturday – Sunday: 09:00-15:00

Price:
Adult resident: £2.70
Adult non resident: £3.00
Junior (U16): £1.30

The Kent AC track pass continues to be required for training on Tues/Thurs evenings and Sunday mornings.

Track staff have encouraged people to double check the opening hours before their training session, as they may occasionally be closed for school sport days and football friendlies. Hours can be checked at https://www.better.org.uk/leisure-centre/london/lewisham/ladywell-arena. This will likely suit members who can’t make training sessions but would like to train in the morning/lunchtime/evening.

Pay as you go fees can either be paid via cash to the desk or using the Better app (note: staff are working to add the sessions to the app).

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CLUB DISCOUNTS

A reminder that your membership with KentAC awards you with numerous discounts to get and keep you running. 

More information can be found on the Kent AC website

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