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Lewes Athletes to go to English Schools With great runs at the Sussex Schools Cross Country Championships at the weekend Maddy Smith and Ludo Goodliffe both qualified to run at the National English Schools Cross Country Championships at Taunton in Somerset in March. Maddy was fourth in her race in Sussex in a time of 19mins.01sec and Ludo was third and a bronze medal winner…

Lewes AC athletes produced some very good results at the South of England Indoor Championships last weekend. On Saturday Sam Brown placed sixth in the Senior mens Pole Vault clearing 4.20m, well down on his personal best but at not his favourite venue! James Shackleton cleared 3.20m just short of his personal best to take 4th place in the under-17 mens Pole Vault. Ella James…

Lewes AC had a good day out at the Sussex Masters Cross Country Championships, run on Saturday in mild conditions over a strenuous course from Lancing all the way up to Cissbury Ring and back (or in the case of the men, up and back twice). The women’s over-45 team came in fourth out of ten teams, with 43 position points – only 4 points…

Lewes AC’s runners put on another good performance in the third race of the Brooks Sussex Cross Country League at Bexhill on 14 January. Aidan Briffett ran a great 3k race coming fourth of the under-13 boys in 10:48. As a result of this and other performances Aidan has now been selected for a place in the Sussex team at the National Inter-Counties cross country…

15 young athletes from the club travelled to Horsham to take part in an indoor sprints and hurdles competition in the ‘tube’ at Broadbridge Heath. With the weather as cold as it has been this was a good choice and there were some good performances. Livvy Connor was first across the line in the 50m hurdles under 15 age group race in a time of…

Lewes AC runners were in action at two venues on Sunday. At the fourth of six races in the East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League they took the overall lead from their arch-rivals Hailsham by just one point. Meanwhile at the Brooks Sussex Cross Country Championships the under-13 boys team won the bronze medal and two junior runners finished in the top 5 of their…

Rick Pilling was awarded the Development Coach of the Year Award from England Athletics at a ceremony in London last week. This prestigious award was in recognition of all the work that Rick has done to develop coaching within the Lewes club and to help athletes across Sussex to realise their true potential. Rick started coaching at Lewes AC when his son Chris started competing…

For those who don’t yet know, Parkruns are friendly, free timed 5km runs for runners of any ability that take place at 9.00am every Saturday morning of the year, in parks all around the country. The first was established in 2004 and there are now 87 in Britain as well as 12 others in Denmark, Australia, Iceland, Poland and most recently South Africa. The Brighton…

The first of the West Sussex Fun Run League’s 2012 events, the ‘Hangover Five’ at Worthing, took place on Monday. Not for the first time in the League’s history, the term ‘fun run’ was hard to justify. The temperature was not too bad at 8C, the wind felt no more than a breeze, and the sun blazed from a blue sky, but the terrain was…

This was the third of six races in the East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League calendar this winter, moved from Plumpton because of problems with that venue, and hosted by Lewes AC. The temperature at the start was 3C and the road up to the car park was so thickly frosted that some of us had to slither rather drive than up it, sliding from…