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Up against 800 runners entered in the race from across the South East and with strong London clubs in abundance Lewes AC secured two magnificent second placed team awards in the Bewl 15 mile event on Sunday. The event around the Bewl Reservoir is described as ‘undulating’ which is runners talk for hilly and tough. Taking on the challenge and now in the veteran age…

On a hot Saturday afternoon last weekend 15 Lewes AC runners joined 200 runners at Hassocks to take part in the Downland Dash race a West Sussex Fun Run League event organised by Burgess Hill Runners. Despite it being a tough course and the temperature on the hot side for running there were some great results by the Lewes members. The 15 Lewes runners were…

A fourth Lewes athletes has been selected to represent Sussex at the English schools championships in July at Birmingham. After getting three pb’s over the weekend and the English school standard Bill Saunders has been added to the Junior boys team in Pole Vault.

Whilst Lewes AC secured a great result at the Heathfield 10K on Sunday a somewhat depleted Lewes team was battling for points in the Southern Athletics League match at the Lewes track on the Saturday. Up against strong teams from Yeovil and Aldershot the Lewes team nevertheless had some great results particularly from the Lewes AC women. Livvy Connor had a great match winning three…

Fresh from winning the South Down Way 100mile relay four of the Lewes team went on to dominate the Heathfield race and win the team prize by a significant margin. The Bradford brothers were first and second in the race with Matt edging out his brother to win in a time of 35mins 08secs. David was just 18 seconds behind with a time of 35mins…

Four Lewes athletes gained the required entry standard to go into the schools selection process for one of the 60 places available in the Sussex team for the championships at the Alexander stadium Birmingham in July. Larissa Carter although throwing the Hammer consistently over the schools mark is unlucky not to get selected due to being fourth on the county rankings. Good news for the…