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At the Wokingham half marathon on Sunday 10th February five of the six Lewes AC athletes competing broke their personal best times. In view of the appalling weather perhaps they should compete more often in dreadful weather. In a race with 2,200 finishers David Bradford’s 20th position and a personal best time of 72mins 10sec was a great performance. On the way to finishing David…

Held on Saturday 9th February and at the same venue as the Sussex Masters Championships was the Sussex Schools Cross Country Championships. In this event the athletes compete for their schools but there were some really good performances by Lewes AC coached athletes. Probably the best results were in the Junior Boys race where Aiden Briffett was awarded the Silver medal. Close behind were Sam…

On the Saturday 9th February and just avoiding the forecast heavy rain and snow the Sussex Masters (Veterans) Cross Country Championships were held on a very muddy course at Bexhill Down. The condition of the course however held no fears for Robbie James who quite literally ran away from the field to win the gold medal and became the Sussex over 40 cross country champion…

On Sunday 3rd February there were 19 senior and veteran Lewes AC athletes competing in the Chichester 10K race. Four of the 18 Lewes runners finished in the top hundred which is a great result in a race with over 1,700 competitors from all over the UK. There were great runs to beat their life time best times by David Bradford (38th 33.07), Matt Suter…

Competing in the second of two Sussex indoor League matches at Worthing the Lewes AC team of under 11 and under 13 young athletes won the League. Having won the first match in December by a convincing margin it was touch and go in the second match. With three young boy athletes missing it was left to the rest of the boys and all the…

Looking for a four mile dash 14 Lewes AC runners made their way to Worthing Sea Front to take part in the Lido 4. Clearly a popular Sunday event as over 500 runners from Sussex had the same thought. Whilst the sea front was somewhat congested there were some great runs by the Lewes runners. The best individual Lewes performance was by Sophie Southerden who…

Rob Mullett ran at a major indoor track meeting in Sheffield on the 6th January and won the 3,000m event in a time of 8.00.15. This superb performance caught the eye of the England Athletics selectors and he has been chosen to represent England in a 3K race at an international indoor meeting in the city of Linz in Austria at the end of January…

On Sunday 13th Jan 26 Lewes AC runners went to Snape Wood at Wadhurst to do battle against seven other clubs in the fourth of six Sunday cross country races. Over a 5 mile course with steep hills and really muddy tracks the Lewes team was victorious and is now two points clear of Hailsham Harriers with two matches still to go. First for Lewes…

Great performances and results for Lewes AC runners and teams at the Sussex Cross Country Championships held at Stanmer Park. With over four hundred runners in all age groups competing from the 38 eligible Sussex Clubs Lewes AC turned out 43 runners. First off were the Under 13 age groups where the boy’s team came in with the Silver Medal. Ben Martin had a great…

170 runners from 12 clubs across Sussex braved the very windy conditions at Firle Beacon in the third of the East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League races. Lewes AC turned out 32 runners in total and was successful in getting nine runners finishing in the top twenty in the race. Winning the race and also the first man over 40 was the Lewes AC runner…