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Lewes Athletic Club’s much-loved Lewes Downland Santa Run returns for its 4th annual event on Sunday, 21st December 2025. Runners of eight years and above and all abilities are invited to don festive hats and take to the beautiful South Downs in support of local charity, The Friends of Lewes Victoria Hospital. Starting from Wallands School, participants can choose between 5k, 10k, or 15k well-marked…

A strong contingent from Lewes Athletic Club turned out in force over the weekend of October 25–26 to take on the famously scenic yet demanding 2025 Beachy Head Marathon Weekend Marathon, Half Marathon, and 10K events. The weekend saw hundreds of runners gather at Beachy Head, with challenging off-road courses that climb through the South Downs National Park and along the Seven Sisters cliffs, offering…

Lewes Athletic Club’s Sarah Webster has made history by setting a new Women’s European and World 24-hour record. Sarah covered an astonishing 278.622 kilometres at the IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Albi, France, on October 19th, 2025. Sarah’s performance surpassed the previous world record of 270.36 km, set by Japan’s Miho Nakata at the last championships two years ago. Competing in a world-class field, Sarah…

Lewes Athletic Club is proud to be part of the national Let’s Lift the Curfew initiative, encouraging women to reclaim their right to get active outdoors safely during the darker months. We’ll be hosting a Let’s Lift the Curfew Run meeting in front of Tesco, Lewes, at 6.30pm on Monday 27 October, and we warmly invite women of all abilities to come along, join in,…

Lewes Athletic Club proudly hosted the opening fixture of the 2025/2026 East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League (ESSCCL), welcoming runners from across the county to a challenging and scenic five-mile course starting and finishing in the Meadow at Landport Bottom. In ideal running conditions, cool, dry, and touched with autumnal sunshine, 48 Lewes AC members took part in the event, tackling an uphill start onto…

Lewes Athletic Club kicked off the 2025/26 Sussex Cross Country League season in strong form at the opening fixture held at Goodwood. On a cool, dry autumnal day, runners tackled the undulating course with determination, producing an excellent set of early-season results across all age groups. The Sussex Cross Country League is a long-standing highlight of the county’s running calendar. Taking place between October and…

We are deeply saddened to share that Angela Brinkhurst, one of our club and academy coaches and a long-standing club and committee member, passed away peacefully yesterday morning after a brave battle with cancer. She was surrounded by her family at St Peter’s Hospice in Chailey. Angela was instrumental in the success of our Junior Academy, laying the foundations for what we have today. She…

Another successful exchange has come to an end, culminating in the Lewes 10 Downland race on Sunday, 5th October. Although not part of the official Lewes-Blois twinning, the link with Marolles came about through Blois AS. They felt that a smaller athletics club like Marolles was more appropriate as a twinned club, given the relative size of Lewes AC at the time, back in 1984….

Lewes Athletic Club hosted another successful edition of the Lewes Downland 5 and 10-Mile Races on Sunday 5th October, welcoming runners from across Sussex and beyond to take on the scenic and challenging courses of the South Downs. Held annually on the first Sunday in October, the event forms a much-loved fixture in the local running calendar, with the 10-mile race also counting towards the…

Runners from Lewes Athletic Club put in a strong showing at the 38th John Faulds Hellingly 10k on Sunday, 28 September. The race, organised and hosted by Hailsham Harriers as part of the Sussex Grand Prix, took competitors on a scenic but testing course through the undulating country roads and lanes of Hellingly, finishing in Hellingly Country Park. The Hellingly 10k is part of the…