Sussex School’s cross-country runners face a tough time at Leeds this weekend when they compete in the English Schools Cross-country championships in possibly snow at Temple Newsam. Sussex have lost a couple of their leading runners from Saturday’s race through injuries which makes life even tougher if they are going to get the high team […]
Goodbye to Indoor Sprints at Broadbridge Heath – – – Keith May
HORSHAM BLUE STAR The Blue Stars held their final Indoor Sprint meeting in The Tube at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre at Horsham, West Sussex on Thursday, February 22nd. Having held these meetings for 30 years, the closing of the current Leisure Centre, due in October, and its demolition, including the majority of the Indoor Athletics […]
Tremendous results for Sussex at Loughborough
A tremendous day for Sussex, at the Inter-counties cross country championships at Prestwold Hall in Loughborough, on Saturday saw one gold medal for Bethany Cook and four Top Ten team places. Both the U17 teams finished a splendid fifth place, the senior men a remarkable seventh and the U15 girls filled ninth place – all […]
Tough battles for Sussex at Loughborough
Sussex will be represented in all ten age groups at the Inter-counties Cross-country Championships, being held at Loughborough on Saturday. Some teams are looking pretty thin and as we go to press it will be touch and go if we complete a scoring team in either the U20 or senior women’s age groups. Saturday’s races will […]
Sussex Youngsters Enjoy SE Regional Sportshall Final
The Sussex U13 and U15 Sportshall teams competed against 6 other counties at the South East Regional Final on 4th March at Burgess Hill. Both the U13 boys and girls teams finished in third place, the U15 girls in fourth place and the U15 boys just missed the National Final finishing second. The U13 boys […]
Tom Evans wins Costa Rica Coastal Challenge
Tom Evans a Lewes AC runner travelled to much warmer climes and took on the Costa Rica Coastal Challenge. This is a 230km, six stage race run over six days from the 11th to the 18th of February. Taking on the top trail runners from across the globe Tom won the race by 4mins 38 […]