About: Lester Medcalf

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Here is the current list of cancellations. I’m afraid that there will be more: Saturday April 11 – open meeting at K2 Sunday April 19 – league match for under 17 and under 20 athletes Saturday April 25 – senior league match Thursday April 30 – open meeting at K2 Thursday May 7...

In the last couple of days we have heard that the under 13 match – for those in schools years 6 and 7 – due to take place on Thursday May 7 has been cancelled. This will not be the last cancellation over the summer and we will use the website to tell you which...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) As we all know Coronavirus is having a very severe effect on us all and looks as if it could be with us for a while longer. The effect on the world of club athletics is very simple – for the time being there is to be no training and no league matches...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) We at EGAC are being guided by the UKA and Government guidelines surrounding the Coronavirus. Any information that we receive will be shared with you immediately. Training will continue as usual but please keep an eye on social media, emails and our website. Below is the current statement from UKA. UK Athletics is...

Training cancelled last Thursday I hoped that with the advent of March we might see better weather for training. And then we had the heavy and persistent rain all day on Thursday which lead to our cancelling training that evening. Our apologies for calling off the training but it was all far too wet –...

Following the persistent and heavy rain throughout today we have cancelled training on the track this evening. This includes the middle distance group.  ...

Is the weather going to improve now we are in March ? We were able to have our Imberhorne jumping session earlier today on the first day of March after 3 weeks of horrible weekend weather. Let’s hope it’s a sign of improved weather as the summer season approaches. Indeed our first matches of the...

All England Indoor Championships Cameron Wells went up to Sheffield on Saturday to take part in the under 17 pole vault in the All England Championships, perhaps hoping to clear 4 metres. Unfortunately it didn’t happen and he had to settle for a clearance of 3.80 metres. What’s happening in the coming week ? Tuesday...

Sussex Indoor Championships A quick round-up of news from the Sussex Indoor Champs held at Sutton. Rebekah Tyler was busy with 3 under 20 events. She won 2 of them – the shot (10.64 metres) and long jump (4.93 metres) with all of her jumps off her wrong foot – and also picked up a...

The weather has beaten us again and so there will be no jumps training this morning. Surely there can’t be another storm next weekend...