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The Club Annual General Meeting for 2021 took place at the Southdowns Club at 19:00 on Friday September 24th 2021. It was the first AGM for quite a while and provided an opportunity exchange views, to hear more about the club and its activities and contribute to plans for the future. The meeting was open to all Club members, whether athletes or the parents of…

Recent tragic events have highlighted the immensely important issue of women’s safety. At Lewes AC we take this very seriously, for our members, other people who run and take exercise outside, and for every single member of our community.  We all have a right to run and walk our streets and Downs, to take exercise, at any time of day or night without fear of…

Lewes AC and the Strava-saurus With no athletic activities possible on the Lewes Athletics Track and with runners only able to run by themselves or with one other person club members are inventing new ways to keep fit and to enjoy their sport. The latest challenge is to create shapes and forms by running around Lewes streets in a socially distanced way and recording their…

Further to the Government’s latest lockdown this message confirms that all club activities are suspended for 4 weeks starting from Thursday 5th November until Wednesday 2nd December. For clarity this includes all track sessions and gym sessions. The suspension also includes all club off track activities. As of this moment the regulations fail to include athletic tracks as a ‘public outdoor place’ and therefore it…

Background We struggle on through the pandemic and continue to do the best we can for all Lewes AC members. There have been much creative thinking and actions and a range of athletic activities have been put in place to create opportunities for running and track and field activities. At the beginning when lockdown was a new phenomenon there were a large number of virtual…

Despite a weekend of wind and rain there were some great results by Lewes AC runners taking part in tough multi-terrain races across the Sussex Downs. Running in the South Downs Way 50 mile event from Worthing to Eastbourne David Prince-Isles smashed the course record for men aged over 60 with a time of 8 hours 14.38. Also competing in this challenging event were Ruth…

News Extra These are some notes to update you on a few club coaching matters as we trudge slowly forward coping as best we can with the virus. Coaching Use of the track As it is now possible to assemble groups of up to six people we have explored whether we can use this relaxation of the Government’s corona-virus guidelines to enable some coaching to…

As we all struggle on here is the third edition of Lockdown News to try and keep you up to date with some of the activities being undertaken while club activities are suspended. Lewes AC virtual 5K Thanks to the sterling efforts by Andrew Chitty the club’s virtual 5K run is being enjoyed (?) and entered by many club members. Having invited our French twinned…

The Jamie Powell Work Out The sprint group that I lead at the club has been undertaking daily workouts set for them through my work app (Personal trainer level 4 youth exercise and performance specialist). It has daily workouts and activities all scheduled and planned for a 12 week period. It includes workouts, foam rolling and stretching. It is a general full body approach and…

LEWES AC – LOCKDOWN NEWS  In sending this e-mail I truly hope that you are all keeping well and safe and managing to find ways to keep fit and healthy. It truly is an unprecedented situation and we all have to find ways to deal with the situation as best we can. I hope that this newsletter and subsequent newsletter helps in a little way…