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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…

At the weekend over 50 Lewes AC runners turned out for the Cross Country League races at Bexhill on Saturday 15th December. Again it was a winning weekend for the club with many team and individual first places and high scoring positions. The senior men’s teams continued their winning ways with the A team again winning the second division of the league and now look…

Building on the success that the club had at the Brighton 10K and at the Plumpton cross country event the club continued its winning ways at the Crowborough 10K and at the junior indoor athletics league event at Worthing on Sunday 2nd December. At the tough Crowborough 10k race on Sunday with 386 competitors there were 22 Lewes AC runners. In second and third positions…

Competing in the Sussex Cross Country League at Plumpton Agricultural College on Sunday 24th November the Lewes AC senior men had tremendous success. In a notoriously muddy and wet course made even more challenging by the current weather the team won the second division race in the league by a staggering 100 points. Their score would also have won the first division of the league…

With 42 senior club members taking part in the Brighton 10K along the sea front with 3,000 other runners there were some amazing results for club members. First of the Lewes AC runners was Rob Mullett who finished in 6th position overall in a time of 31mins 32sec. This meant Rob was the first Sussex runner in the Sussex County 10K Championships and also the…

On a rare sunny day on the hills outside Eastbourne Lewes AC secured an impressive team win at the Warren Hill cross country race. Despite the challenging nature of the five mile course there were four Lewes AC runners in first nine places in the race. The Bradford brothers of David and Matt came second and third with David just edging ahead by 10 seconds…

Seeking marathon action over the weekend two Lewes AC runners took different routes to their own personal agony. Sally Norris competed in the Beachy Head Marathon a tough multi-terrain event that starts and finishes at Eastbourne with the last few miles climbing the Seven Sisters Hills. Andrew Masters sought action further afield and travelled to Germany to take part in the Frankfurt Marathon. Sally had…

Josh Burgess having won the national prison service cross country championships earlier in the year was selected as part of the National team for the European Championships in Northern Ireland. Running a five mile course through some quite muddy terrain Josh had a real battle with the athlete he had beaten for the national title earlier in the year. Coming into the last few hundred…

Lewes AC dominate Division 2 at Goodwood Lewes Athletic Club enjoyed a record turnout on Saturday at the first race in the Brooks Sussex Cross-Country League, at Goodwood, with 26 adult athletes taking part. In the men’s race, which was won by Hastings AC’s Adam Clarke in 24mins 52secs, the Lewes A-team was led home by Josh Burgess, who after a steady start worked his…