Kevin Stroud

Kevin was elected as chair of DMVAC at the March 2026 agm.

He says, I ran cross country as a boy with Horsham Blue Star Harriers realising that as much as I loved football, pace was my main ability.  After a hiatus of 20 years in which I ran casually for fitness and well-being I joined Sutton Runners in my early 40s and started training regularly and competing, mainly in 10 K road races and in the Surrey league cross-country races. On moving to Dorking in 2008 I joined Dorking and Mole Valley AC. It’s such a friendly club I haven't looked back.  I always look forward to the team camaraderie at cross-country races and enjoy competing in the vets track and field events.

I previously volunteered as a parent helper at training sessions with the junior section when my daughter was competing.  I was also team manager for the Lily B girls track and field league.  I am a dad, step-dad and grandad and a registered social worker, currently working independently with children and their families.  I have been the club’s welfare officer for a number of years.

Paula Carter

Paula is the club vice chair and secretary. 

Paula says “I have been a member of the club since 2018, but only started regular training in Sept 2019 with Howard's Wolves. I would have joined much earlier if family and work commitments had not stopped me, as running has always been my preferred sport. I got my running-fix before joining the club by taking part in local races - mostly 10ks - and striking out on the beautiful trails around Dorking.  Since joining the club, I have felt so welcome - you really are all a friendly bunch!!! The opportunity to represent the club by taking part in some of the ladies cross-country races as well as MABAC is a great experience which I would recommend to everyone! ” What Paula does not say is that she has been instrumental in  creating this website.

Nikki Hutton

Nikki Hutton - DMVAC Treasurer from April 2026

Nikki was previously membership secretary for the club, but has been persuaded to take on the challenging task of treasurer, so please help her by paying your subs.

Nikki has always enjoyed running, but only began doing longer distances about eight years ago after her brother challenged her to a marathon. Since then she’s enjoyed a variety of distances from 5km to ultra’s, with a first love always trail running. Since joining DMVAC her running has really improved.

Paul Lomas-Clarke

Paul Lomas-Clarke is the new membership secretary for the club

Howard Jones

Howard is the club's coaching coordinator.

Howard has been with DMVAC for many years and served as chair some years ago. He is a very experienced and well-liked coach and his free summer beginners' courses have encouraged a lot of new runners into the club. He also looks after training and run risk assessments and first-aid course provision.

Howard is a UK Athletics Level 2 Performance Coach and UK Athletics (Event Group) Endurance Coach.

Chris Edwards

Chris is the Youth section representative on the committee

At the age of 11 Chris ran in the Surrey County Cross Country trials and qualified to represent Surrey in Surrey Junior XC championships. His passion for running began to grow and in 1973, his Dad took him to watch the English National Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hills, and the rest is history.

Chris has been with DMVAC a number of years now and is a proper competitor and a real team player, be it winter cross country, summer Ranmore or track at Pixham. Chris is a qualified run leader and EA coach. 

He enjoys his youth section coaching which allows him to give something back to the sport that he is passionate about. After coming through some health issues, he is now enjoying the lovely social side of the club too.

Ruth Kirkpatrick

Ruth is the club's welfare officer 

Ruth started running in 2008 when she was 40. She ran with local friends weekly, doing the occasional 5k race and a few park runs. She accidentally had a silent heart attack in 2017 which took some time to diagnose and fix, with two stents. She lost her confidence in running until she completed intensive cardiac rehab, then completed the Couch-to-5k which coincided with the start of park run at Mole Valley.

Since then she hasn’t really stopped running! Ruth joined the club in early 2018, has increased her mileage significantly, and is known for lovingly coercing other club members into signing up for events and challenges whether they want to or not. She loves the camaraderie of the club, with the Monday Social being the highlight of her week. She leads the social media presence of the club and is a park run fanatic/bore.

Brigit Winn-Taylor

Brigit has joined the committee in the new role of volunteer coordinator 

Jacqui Cooper

Jacqui has been a member of the club for over 20 years. She is a member of this committee and the Dorking Tens committee and assists Paul Reeve in organising the club Phil Sears handicap races. She also started the very popular Monday morning social runs with Ruth. Both are members of the Turtles running group 🐢

Dan Jeffries

Dan would describe himself as a jack of all distances/master of none and loves training and competing for anything from 5km to 50+ miles. Aside from school, he’s been running again since 2008 and has been a DMVAC club member since 2013. Although he’s Cornish at heart, he feels very much at home running in the Surrey Hills and has made some close friendships through the club. He’s recently joined the committee and taken on the mantle of Men’s XC captain. 

Caroline Whelan

Caroline originally joined the committee as editor of the club newsletter but is now responsible for communications in the club using WhatsApp and email.

She runs frequently for the club both on the track and road and cross-country and holds several club age-group records  

Owen Cook

Owen has joined the committee as a representative of the Youth group

Matthew Cluett

Matthew joined the committee in 2024 and competes for the club in cross-county, road and track. As he is leaving for university later this year, he will become a co-opted member of the committee, responsible for the club's Strava account content