2025/2026 East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League

Nineteen members of Lewes Athletic Club took part in the sixth and final fixture of the 2025/2026 East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League on Sunday 29th March, held in Pett and hosted by Hastings Runners. The five-mile, single-lap course combined woodland trails and open fields. Runners faced an undulating route with plenty of muddy sections. Cool, sunny weather provided ideal racing conditions. Lewes AC delivered…

Twenty-seven members of Lewes Athletic Club turned out on Sunday, 8th February, to compete in the fifth fixture of the 2025/2026 ESSCCL (East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League), hosted by Run Wednesdays at Whitbread Hollow, Eastbourne. The five-mile course took runners across exposed South Downs chalkland, featuring rolling hills and a notoriously challenging uphill section. While the surface is typically less muddy than other cross-country…

Thirty-seven members of Lewes Athletic Club braved cold, windy and wet conditions to compete in the fourth fixture of the 2025/26 East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League, held on a tough new course at Seaford Head on Sunday 11th January. The relentlessly hilly route featured an anticlockwise lap of Martello East Field before heading onto the Esplanade and climbing Seaford Head. Runners tackled exposed, muddy…