Full results from Saturday’s highly successful Sussex Road Relays are now posted on the results pages.
Six records tumbled during the afternoon and what is believed to be a record number of 172 teams completed the eleven races.
The Lewes Athletic Club Boys U13 team broke Phoenix’s fourteen year old mark of 18:28 with 18:17 and in the U13 Girls record also tumbled as Bodyworks took a chunk off the Hastings Club’s 19:48 of 2015 with 19:21.
The rest of the records all came in the Masters' races with Arena 80 breaking their own year old W40 aggregate record of 38:06 with a fine clocking of 36:43 while Julie Briggs, who had anchored the Arena 80 team broke Sharon Elder’s (Worthing) 2012 lap record of 12:00 by two seconds.
There was also a double record in the M60 races where Brighton & Hove improved their own five year old total time of 37:59 by just three seconds and John Lowden (Brighton & Hove) clocking 11:55 was just one second faster than club mate Peter Witcomb’s 2012 time for a new lap record.
Twenty four records are listed and the Lewes youngsters became only the sixth non-Brighton based record holders.
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