About: Lester Medcalf

Older club members – in particular from the later 1990s – will remember that Tony Elder was one of our coaches for 2 or 3 years. His speciality was middle distance and in particular we remember him working with Tony Read. However his experience also enabled him to help Georgina Hayward get to the English...

I am aware of a couple of people associated with the club who have had the first jab in the  Meridian Hall at East Court. Alf Smart for one and then John Gamble – for a number of years John audited our financial books. They are both in the over 80 groupings. And did you...

Just a reminder that we won’t be training this week – and probably not for a few more weeks. We will let you know when we can train again. Having said that you can of course go out and do your own session...

We have decided to cancel all training with immediate effect while we remain in tier 4. So, starting on Sunday January 3, there will be no Sunday training at East Court or Thursday training at Imberhorne for the time being. We feel this is the correct decision to make for the health and safety of...

As you will be aware those of us who live in Sussex are now in the government’s coronavirus tier 4, to go alongside those of you who live in Kent and Surrey. However the rules do allow under 18s to take part in group training sessions, subject to the maintenance of 2 metres social distancing...

Did you know that from now on the days will get longer – the sun will begin to appear earlier and will disappear later.  Which means that we are nearer to the summer of 2021 than we are to the horrible summer of 2020. A summer which we also hope will enable our athletes to...

Last week’s training plus news of training over the Christmas and New Year period Back to training at Imberhorne on Thursday evening and another good session on a rather cold wet Sunday morning at East Court. We are of course approaching Christmas and there are changes to our training sessions as follows Thursday December 17...

Last week’s training We are sorry that we had to cancel Thursday evening’s training but the all-day rain left lots of water on the track. However Sunday morning’s training at East Court  went ahead and the athletes and coaches (and parents) enjoyed a good morning’s work – finishing of course with the hill run which...

It’s been raining all day, it’s cold and it’s pretty unpleasant out there. We have therefore cancelled training for this evening. We look forward to drier weather next week. Sunday training will take place at East Court from 10.30 to 11.45. Even if you’re not a regular Sunday morning athlete you might like to come...

We are pleased to be able to tell our members that training will re-start this week. We will be back at Imberhorne Upper School on Thursday December 3 from 7pm to 8pm and then again on December 10 and 17. The school will be closed over the Christmas holiday period and so there will be...