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Despite very severe weather conditions 22 Lewes AC runners took part at Ashdown Forest in the penultimate race of the Sunday Cross Country League series. Despite a number of the Lewes runners having run previously in the Sussex Masters Cross Country Championships the club had strength in depth to win this league match. This puts the club solidly at the head of the League with…

16th/17th February held at Carshalton arena. The Lewes performance of the weekend at the championships must go to Jack Harris at just 11 years of age with no U13B Pole vault he had to compete in the U15B age group but still travelled home with the Silver medal plus a new U13 club record of 2.50m. Sam Brown collected the sen mens Gold with 4.20m…

In the 3.5 mile Valentines Run on Sunday 10th February Sophie Southerden, despite the first mile of deep mud, had another great run to finish second women overall in 38th position in a time of 27.39 and claiming great points for the team. There were 290 runners in the race and Emmanuel Mamaezakis was first Lewes runner home in 27th position in a time of…

At the Wokingham half marathon on Sunday 10th February five of the six Lewes AC athletes competing broke their personal best times. In view of the appalling weather perhaps they should compete more often in dreadful weather. In a race with 2,200 finishers David Bradford’s 20th position and a personal best time of 72mins 10sec was a great performance. On the way to finishing David…

Held on Saturday 9th February and at the same venue as the Sussex Masters Championships was the Sussex Schools Cross Country Championships. In this event the athletes compete for their schools but there were some really good performances by Lewes AC coached athletes. Probably the best results were in the Junior Boys race where Aiden Briffett was awarded the Silver medal. Close behind were Sam…

On the Saturday 9th February and just avoiding the forecast heavy rain and snow the Sussex Masters (Veterans) Cross Country Championships were held on a very muddy course at Bexhill Down. The condition of the course however held no fears for Robbie James who quite literally ran away from the field to win the gold medal and became the Sussex over 40 cross country champion…

On Sunday 3rd February there were 19 senior and veteran Lewes AC athletes competing in the Chichester 10K race. Four of the 18 Lewes runners finished in the top hundred which is a great result in a race with over 1,700 competitors from all over the UK. There were great runs to beat their life time best times by David Bradford (38th 33.07), Matt Suter…

Competing in the second of two Sussex indoor League matches at Worthing the Lewes AC team of under 11 and under 13 young athletes won the League. Having won the first match in December by a convincing margin it was touch and go in the second match. With three young boy athletes missing it was left to the rest of the boys and all the…

Looking for a four mile dash 14 Lewes AC runners made their way to Worthing Sea Front to take part in the Lido 4. Clearly a popular Sunday event as over 500 runners from Sussex had the same thought. Whilst the sea front was somewhat congested there were some great runs by the Lewes runners. The best individual Lewes performance was by Sophie Southerden who…

Rob Mullett ran at a major indoor track meeting in Sheffield on the 6th January and won the 3,000m event in a time of 8.00.15. This superb performance caught the eye of the England Athletics selectors and he has been chosen to represent England in a 3K race at an international indoor meeting in the city of Linz in Austria at the end of January…