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On a rare sunny day on the hills outside Eastbourne Lewes AC secured an impressive team win at the Warren Hill cross country race. Despite the challenging nature of the five mile course there were four Lewes AC runners in first nine places in the race. The Bradford brothers of David and Matt came second and third with David just edging ahead by 10 seconds…

Seeking marathon action over the weekend two Lewes AC runners took different routes to their own personal agony. Sally Norris competed in the Beachy Head Marathon a tough multi-terrain event that starts and finishes at Eastbourne with the last few miles climbing the Seven Sisters Hills. Andrew Masters sought action further afield and travelled to Germany to take part in the Frankfurt Marathon. Sally had…

Josh Burgess having won the national prison service cross country championships earlier in the year was selected as part of the National team for the European Championships in Northern Ireland. Running a five mile course through some quite muddy terrain Josh had a real battle with the athlete he had beaten for the national title earlier in the year. Coming into the last few hundred…

Lewes AC dominate Division 2 at Goodwood Lewes Athletic Club enjoyed a record turnout on Saturday at the first race in the Brooks Sussex Cross-Country League, at Goodwood, with 26 adult athletes taking part. In the men’s race, which was won by Hastings AC’s Adam Clarke in 24mins 52secs, the Lewes A-team was led home by Josh Burgess, who after a steady start worked his…

There were over 300 runners competing in the Lewes Athletic Club’s 10 mile and 5 mile Downland Runs on Sunday 7th October 2012. The best result for Lewes runners was in the 5 mile race where club members took four places out of the first six. The top spot was taken by Stephen Ferroni from the Brighton Club closely followed by Lewes runners Aiden Briffett…

Lewes AC thought that they had made a cracking start to the cross country season by winning the first East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League race held at Whitbread Hollow in Eastbourne. However this was based on the provisional results and when the final results were circulated Lewes had to play second fiddle to Hailsham Harriers. There were however some great individual performances in the…

Club runners were in action in the cross country relays at Goodwood on Saturday 29th September. The best performance from Lewes was the under 15 boy’s team of James Martin, Sam Rogers and Aiden Briffet in securing the silver medal in their event. There were two near misses of a medal with fourth places by the Senior Men’s team of Josh Burgess, Tom Kearns, Patrick…

Lewes AC pole vaulters took part the Jim Day Memorial Pole Vault Competition at the Sutton Arena on the 23rd September where 100 vaulters from a wide range of clubs across the South East were competing for honours. First from Lewes to claim a medal was Freya Fitchett who secured a silver medal in the under 13 girl’s event with a vault of 1.92m. Also…

David Bradford competing in the Berlin Marathon and Alf Pollard competing the World Duathon Championships in Nancy in France both came away with some stunning results. With over 40,000 competitors in the Berlin Marathon David’s 42nd place overall and 16th in his age group in a time of 2hours 28mins 51secs was a really fabulous effort. In the battle of the Brits David was second…

In busy weekend for Lewes AC road runners 14 club members took part in the Seven Stiles race at Henfield on Saturday 15th Sept. Coming to the finish Ed Wheeler just pipped Dave Leach into 14th place but both were given the same time of 27mins 12 secs. Next over the line in 41st position was Matt Haycocks in 29.28 with Gerard Dummett in 66th…