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Sunday 13th March @ Carshalton. The last indoor Pole Vault competition of the winter season saw seven vaulters from the Lewes based squad travel to Carshalton, joining sixty like minded athletes. Naomi Lee continued her brilliant start to the season after moving up to the U17 age group she added a new p.b. 3.22m closely followed with 3.32m. This moves her to third in this…

Five Lewes AC athletes are off to Crofton Park Birmingham to represent Sussex in the Inter County Cross Country Championships. Ludo Goodliffe in the U17 age group: Catlin Lloyd and Gina Wilson in the Senior Women’s team and Eve Rothwell and Holly English in the Under 15 girls team. Congratulations and the best of luck to you all.

26th & 27th February Sussex Indoor Championships at Sutton. This must have been one of the best kept secrets in Sussex! 7 Junior events with only one competitor, several with none. Booked the same weekend as UK indoors, good planning! Anyway four Lewes athletes somehow managed to find out about it and put in some very creditable performances. Oliver Smith U15B Bronze medal in the…

Sunday 27th February. UK Indoor Champs at Birmingham. Pole Vault. U15 Girls Livvy Connor produced a seasons best of 2.90m just 1 cm off her p.b. to finish 4th, just one failure at 2.80m cost her a share of the Gold medal, she had three really good efforts at 3m. Vicky Warren cleared 2.30m just 10cm off her best for 10th place. A fantastic gutsy…

Five members of the “Lewes girls pole vault and jogging club” (new club name suggested by Steve King) travel to the NIA Birmingham on Sunday 27th February to compete in the UK indoor age group championships. All have met easily the exacting qualifying standards. Emilie Blackwell U17W, Naomi Lee U17W, Holly Turner U17W, Livvy Connor U15G and Vicky Warren U15G. Apart from Emilie the girls…

Just the Pole Vaulters in attendance. A seasons best for Sam Brown on Saturday 4.00m Whilst on Sunday the girls took centre stage. Emilie Blackwell collected the silver medal in the U17W vault with 3.20m Naomi Lee was fourth with 3.00m Livvy Connor cleared 2.80m to take the Bronze medal in the U15G vault with Vicky Warren in fourth place with a new p.b. of…

Livvy Connor has now moved up to the U15 age group and has started the new indoor season as she left off breaking club records. On Thursday 13th January at the Horsham indoor open she added the club 50m (7.2sec) record to her tally and took a share of the 50m hurdles record with 8.6sec. On Sunday 16th January at the South of England champs…

A reminder that Lewes AC is a member of the WSFRL which is a series of events throughout the year. The events cater for runners of all abilities and are designed to be fun and affordable. The next event is the Plumpton Classic which is 7.5km and starts at 11:00am on 16th Jan at Plumpton Racecourse. Never fear the course goes round the outside of…

Adult club members please be aware that as the Leisure Centre closes all day on the 23rd December the track will not be available. (No one to switch the flood lights on!!) Also as the Leisure Centre closes at 5.00pm on Tuesday 28th December again no track as no floodlights!

Travelling to Cyprus to take part in the International Four Day Festival of Running the Lewes AC team came away with first prize. Not only did the team win but David Bradford came first overall and John Lowden came first in the over 50 category. The four events included a time trial over 5K a hill climb of 11K a half marathon followed by a…