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On 4th October 2015, Gustavo Iriarte, Karen Morse and Rachael Hornigold of Lewes AC took on the Downslink Ultra, an annual 37.5 mile off-road race from Guildford to Seaford. Congratulations to all three on completing the race. Here is Gustavo’s report on his run. I signed up for the Downslink ultra-marathon unaware that it was happening a week after the Berlin Marathon. I mainly did…

Celebrating his selection for the junior England team in their match against Ireland next weekend Ollie Hopkins stepped up a gear and competed in the 10k race at the festival of walking held last Sunday at a circuit near Heathrow. Ten kilometres is twice the distance he has raced to date but his Lewes AC coach Peter Selby considered he would gain valuable experience. This…

Fresh from their team win at the Barns Green Half marathon when four Lewes AC men finished in the top seven in the race with over 1,000 competitors the club again won the team prize in the tough Lewes 10 mile race over the Sussex Downs. The winning team of four runners included David Robinson in 3rd place in the race in a time of…

With 4 runners in the top seven at the Barns Green Half Marathon the Lewes AC men’s team ran away with the team prize. Not only content with winning the team prize each of the team won personal awards in their own right. Leading the way for Lewes AC in the race with over 1000 runners was Ben Savill who was third in the 13.1…

Having a tremendous race the Lewes AC women’s team scooped the team prize over the teams of Hailsham Harriers and Wadhurst Runners. Leading the Lewes team was Emma Rollings who finished 3rd women overall in a time of 39mins 40secs. Next in the team of four was Megan Taylor who was the 4th woman to finish in the race in a time of 40.34 followed…

With darkness closing in 46 Lewes AC runners posed for a group photograph following the 5.3 mile club handicap race over the Sussex Downs up to Black Cap and back. With each runners set off at different times according to their own personal handicap rating it was a question of not being overtaken and trying hard to overtake the runner in front of you. The…

Starting on Monday 24th August the track will be closed for 8 weeks whilst the old surface is removed completely and then replaced with a brand new synthetic surface. Completed in 1999 and having over 46,000 individual uses in a year the track surface is now showing signs of wear. The Lewes club having raised the £658,000 to build the community track in the first…

Representing Sussex in the under 20 Inter-County match Livvy Connor won both her events against tough competition from athletes from other Counties. On a very wet and windy Sunday Livvy won her pole vault event with a vault of 3.80m. Not content with this win Livvy then followed this up with a win in the 100m hurdles in a personal best time of 14,90secs. Returning…