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Just like buses league championships for Lewes AC this season comes in twos. Last week the club won the East Sussex Sunday Cross County League this week the Club became champions of Division two in the Brooks Sussex Saturday League. Setting themselves the target of winning their division the senior men triumphed with a points total of 241, a massive lead over the next club…

In the last race of the six race series at Pett Lewes AC became league Champions. Up against 11 other clubs in this hotly contested series of races the league win for Lewes is a tribute to all those that turned out to race and to represent the club. A combined team of 20 men and women across a number of age categories is required…

Held over the weekend of 23rd & 24th February 2013. Just two Lewes AC soles made the journey to the NIA Birmingham. Aaron Guilford U20M clocked 51.27 for 4th place in the 400m heats a new pb and club record a time good enough to secure him a place in the semi final. Livvy Connor U17W was the only other Lewes athlete at the NIA…

On a glorious day for running 22 runners from the club joined 7,500 runners to take part in the Brighton Half Marathon. Robbie James was the star performer for the club finishing in 14th position and third over 40 man in a time of 1:15:10. Joscelin Lowden in her debut half marathon was the first Lewes AC woman in a time1:42:42. There were also some…

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…