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On Saturday 21st April Lewes AC members were competing at Hastings in the newly formed Southern Athletics League. This league has men and women competing in the same club team whereas before the men and women competed in separate leagues. Up against teams from Brighton, Hastings and Invicta East Kent the Lewes combined team came a very creditable second position in the match. In gaining…

Mike Scholes a 58 year old runner with very little sight ran a fantastic 3hrs 14mins 48sec London Marathon guided by Dave Bradford from the Lewes Club. Dave who himself has Retinitis Pigmentosa an hereditary sight loss condition helped Mike thread his way through the mass of 37,000 runners to achieve a great time. At the half way mark Mike was on for a 3…

There were some amazing results for Lewes AC runners in the Brighton Marathon held on Sunday. There were eight life time bests out of the 16 Lewes AC runners taking part. Best of the bunch must be Matt Homewood who knocked 41minutes from his previous best time when he finished in 3hrs 15mins 45secs. Not too far behind in ‘beating the personal best stakes’ must…

With such great results for Lewes AC runners with the Easter 10K and Easter 2 mile races there was also some great results at the Sussex Road Relay Championship on Easter Saturday. Best of the bunch must be the under 13 boy’s team winning the Silver Medal just behind the Phoenix club in a time of 18mins 40secs for the three lap 6.5mile course. Aidan…

With much competition taking place over the Easter Weekend Lewes AC athletes had some great results. Running in the club’s own 10Km race on Easter Monday Lewes AC athletes took four of the first five places. There was an even better result in the two mile race when the younger club athletes took all five first places. First over the line in the 10Km race…

The endurance runners in the club had a great day at the Hastings Half Marathon securing third place for senior men’s team and a hat full of personal bests and age group wins and high placings. In a race that had 3,600 finishers Lewes AC had 20 runners taking part with three Lewes runners finishing in the top 20. First Lewes AC runner was David…

There were amazing performances by Lewes AC athletes over the last weekend with National, County and Club records achieved, many personal bests secured over a very busy few days for the club. Pride of place must go to Livvy Connor with her performances in the biggest pole vault competition in the UK at the Carshalton Arena in Sutton which attracted 124 of the top vaulters…

Sunday 25th March at Carshalton Arena Sutton. Eleven Lewes vaulters entered Vault London the UK’s biggest Pole Vault event of the Indoor season. Eight of the Vaulters produced lifetime bests, Two more vaulters had Indoor lifetime bests, gaining three Club records and one Sussex record. Jack Harris U13B 2.14m pb Club record Bill Saunders U13B 1.84m pb Polly Saunders U15G 2.34m pb Vicky Warren U15G…

Now that the Olympic torch route and torch carriers have been announced it is great to record that Dave Bradford from Lewes has been chosen to carry the torch in Sussex. Dave is not only a first class runner with a 2hour 38min time for the marathon and a very active member of Lewes AC but has raised an amazing amount of money for the…

With Lewes runners spread far and wide across the globe Rob Mullet, currently in the USA, finished 3rd in the high quality race the Rhodes City 10Km in a time of 30mins 32sec. Dave and Matt Bradford are two other Lewes AC runners who are also spreading their wings and have travelled to Bekoji in Ethiopia to take part in high altitude training and to…