Results From Saturday 7th October 2023

October 2023

The full list of race times from Saturday 7th October 2023 can now be found on the link below. Wherever you finished, we hope you had a great day!
October 2023 Results

October 2023 Report

Our early-morning crew faced a herculean task on Saturday getting stakes into the concrete-hard ground, but they somehow managed to get the course set up in time for the Thanet Primary Schools' Cross Country. I'm told that the site has had only 3mm of rain since 1st September.

With volunteers from Thanet Athletics Club and the Margate Junior Parkrun and hares from Medway & Maidstone AC, Folkestone Running Club and Thanet Roadrunners, it was a great communal effort, and everyone's help was enormously appreciated even if I did forget to thank you personally on the day.

Huge thanks are due, as always, to Quex Park Estates for welcoming us once again and to Margate Ambulance Corps for providing first aid support. The Sign & Safety Company took care of parking and traffic signs for us and Fresh Toilets Ltd lived up to their name with spotless portaloos (at least that's how they started!)

Thank-you to all the parents, grandparents and teachers who made our job far easier by keeping (most of) the children in the right place at the right time. There were 890 finishers (441 girls and 449 boys), with a whopping 269 of them in Year 3, taking their very first opportunity to run and grab a well-deserved medal at the end.

All the finishing times are now on the www.eastkentcoaching.com website. We hope those post-race smiles lasted all weekend and that everyone will be back again on Saturday 2nd March 2024.

The first three finishers in each race were as below. Please let us know if anyone's name is incorrectly spelt and we'll change it as quickly as we can.

Year 3 Girls (1000 metres)
10:00 (133 runners)
1st -- Iona (Upton Junior) 3:48
2nd -- Ellie (St George's) 4:01
3rd -- Imogen (St George's) 4:01

Year 3 Boys (1000 metres)
10:20 (136 runners)
1st -- Edward (Upton Junior) 3:35
2nd -- Hugo (Holy Trinity) 3:40
3rd -- Will (Ramsgate Arts) 3:42

Year 4 Girls (1000 metres)
10:40 (139 runners)
1st -- Tess (Upton Junior) 3:41
2nd -- Flossie (St Lawrence College) 3:43
3rd -- Elodie (St Peter's) 3:46

Year 4 Boys (1000 metres)
11:00 (126 runners)
1st -- Hugo (St Saviour's) 3:16
2nd -- Lucio (Upton Junior) 3:18
3rd -- George (Upton Junior) 3.24

Year 5 Girls (1500 metres)
11:20 (95 runners)
1st -- Iris (Minster Primary) 5:04
2nd -- Esme (Upton Junior) 5:35
3rd -- Chloe (Chilton Primary) 5:40

Year 5 Boys (1500 metres)
11:40 (96 runners)
1st -- Orlando (Upton Juniors) 4:53
2nd -- Seth (St Saviour's) 4:59
3rd -- Charlie (Upton Juniors) 5:07

Year 6 Girls (1500 metres)
12:00 (74 runners)
1st -- Eva (St Joseph's) 5:31
2nd -- Indigo (St George's) 5:38
3rd -- Suri (Wellesley Haddon Dene) 5:49

Year 6 Boys (1500 metres)
12:20 (91 runners)
1st -- Alfie (Preston Primary) 4:34
2nd -- Lenny (Garlinge) 5:02
3rd -- Thomas (St Lawrence College) 5:03

Thanks once again for being with us today to race, or watch, or help - We hope to see you again on Saturday 2nd March 2024.