Monthly Archives: May 2013

With the various County Championships taking place all over the country we had athletes competing in 4 different championships – most of them of course taking part in the Sussex Championships in Crawley. Undoubtedly the best performances came from Chloe Hollamby. On Saturday she ran a very strong 300 metres, with nobody able to push...

It’s been a busy few days with 2 league matches in the last few days (and even busier for some of our athletes with various school competitions over the last week as well). On Thursday evening our youngest athletes had their first Sussex Under 13 league match of the season at K2 – for a...

I now have news of Ryan Spivey’s first decathlon – all 10 events – over last weekend at Woodford Green. He started with the 100 metres – I think the first time he has ever run a competitive 100 metres in club colours – in 12.25 seconds (603 points) before long-jumping 5.69 metres (521 points)...

This last week has been much quieter than normal with no league matches over the weekend – although I think Ryan Spivey did some combined eventing at Woodford. I’ll bring results when I know more. However the very strong wind on Thursday evening came as a nasty surprise and we had to cancel the training...

A rather unpleasant day’s weather was waiting for our under 13 and under 15 team at Lewes on Saturday in our first match of the season. We had rain in the morning with a cool wind blowing all day (and once again the wind was blowing against the sprinters). The sun came out for about...

Nine of our athletes joined with athletes from Haywards Heath and Lewes to form a composite team – under the name of Team Sussex – for the first under 17 and under 20 league match of the summer last Sunday. The match took place at the Julie Rose Stadium in Ashford in Kent and while...