Monthly Archives: March 2014

A number of our athletes took part in Open Meetings over this last weekend – Crawley on Saturday and, for Abby Beswick, Sunday at Havering in Essex. I hope they all enjoyed the warm summer-y weather. I am still waiting for some of the results and I will write a separate note when I have...

If you join an athletics club  you can see the world. Wayne Gadd spread his wings again on Tuesday when he was in Budapest for the World Masters Indoor Championships. (Last year he went to San Sebastian in Spain for the same indoor championships.) To make it worth his while Wayne took part in the...

On Saturday 26th April EGAC is opening it’s new Academy.  This is aimed at 9 and 10 year olds and it’s aim is to coach them in running, jumping and throwing. Spaces will be limited to 24 so if you are interested please contact Phil Rogers or Eddie Vermeer. Training will take place at Imberhorne...

As well as the normal training sessions in this coming week we have our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday March 26th. This meeting will be held at Imberhorne School in the room immediately behind the room we use for booking athletes in on training nights. The meeting starts at 8.00. In addition next Saturday we...

We had a quiet week last week although the decent weather was a great help for those training – especially in the warm sunshine on Saturday and Sunday mornings. All last week’s training sessions looked very focused – which is of course how it should be with the new summer season only a few weeks...

Just received some news from the British Masters Championships held at Lee Valley over last weekend. We had 2 athletes taking part and Lincoln Campbell, competing in the over 45 category, won his 60 metres heat in 7.61 seconds – and then he won the final in a time of 7.60 seconds. Wayne Gadd was...

Signs that the summer season can’t be too far away – especially with the warm sunshine we had on Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday was the last Sunday morning training session at East Court – the next few Sunday morning sessions will take place at Imberhorne School. And this coming Tuesday March 11th sees the last...

With the new summer season only a matter of weeks away, you can now find all the confirmed fixtures for this season on the Fixtures menu...

It was good to see such a large turn-out for John Rogers’ funeral earlier today at the Sussex and Surrey Crematorium in Crawley. There were a large number of athletes of different ages – some who competed in the club’s early days, some from more recent times and a number of current athletes resplendent in...