Individual League titles are based on the best three runs while the team titles are based on all four fixtures.
Five runners have already chalked up two victories this year and if they can repeat the medicine again at Lancing then they will be assured of being crowned League champions at the end of the season. Martha Coyle (Brighton & Hove) has actually finished first and second in the senior women’s race this season but she is still in the under 17 age group, who race with the seniors, and she has led her age group home in both races.
In the under 20 men’s group, who also race with the seniors, Harry Leleu from Chichester finished fifth and eighth respectively in his two races and each time he has been the first U20 runner to finish.
In the U15 boys events George Pool from Hastings has been a clear cut winner in both races this season and looks to be in a class of his own but the U13 girls age group poses a little more of a problem. Chichester’s Olivia Wiseman has won both races but Harmony Cooper (Hastings) put up a good fight in the second event at Plumpton and if she can reverse the places at Lancing then this event could go to the final fixture.
The fifth runner set to confirm a title at Lancing is Crawley’s Neil Smith who has been the leading in both this season’s races.
The League racing starts at 12.30 with the U13 girls and the senior/U20 men complete the afternoon’s racing at 2.35.
Before the League events there will be a race for Under 11s at 12.00,