About: Lester Medcalf

We will start training on Tuesday July 7 at East Court. We are restricted to 30 athletes and already have that number. We have a few athletes on a waiting list. We’ll start at 6.45 and expect to finish at about 8 o’clock...

We have had an excellent response to our e-mail inviting our members to re-start training at East Court and we soon had responses from 30 athletes – 30 being the maximum number we can accept. Those 30 members should be receiving further details in the near future. TUESDAY JUL7 is confirmed as our starting date...

Our club members should have received an e-mail in the last few days telling you about the re-start of training on Tuesday evenings on the playing fields at East Court. The first session will take place on TUESDAY JULY 7. We will start at 6.45 and expect to finish at about 8pm. We can only...

As you are probably aware the Government has eased some of the lockdown rules – and in particular groups of up to 6 people are now allowed to spend time together outdoors provided that the “2 metres apart” rules are complied with. This does raise the possibility of an athletics coach running training sessions for...

I stumbled on an interesting American website during the week which gave us what it considered to be the best 10 athletics world records. So, with the triple jump being my favourite event, I was pleased to see that Jonathon Edwards’ jumps in the 1995 world championships in Gothenburg was considered to be one of...

Sussex Under 13 League for 2020 We have just heard that the Sussex Under 13 league (for those in school years 6 and 7) will not take place this year. Normally the league has three midweek matches during the summer and then a grand final event on either the last Sunday in August or the...

A note from England Athletics about athletics competitions later in the summer England Athletics, the governing athletics body in England, has recently published a programme for athletics competitions for the second half of the summer track and field season. It is based on an assumption that the Government will allow athletes, officials, helpers etc to...

A surprise Not sure how many of you watch the BBC television programme “The Repair Shop”. I don’t make a habit of watching it but my wife watches it quite regularly. I caught a brief part of it earlier this week and I was sure that I recognised a couple of people on the programme...

Yesterday (Saturday April 25) was due to be our first senior match of the season with what would have been an awkward journey to the Parliament Hill track in North London. It is a long time since I went there and my memory is that parking was a real problem. My own memory of my...

No match today I’m writing this on Sunday April 19 – which should have been our first league match of this summer. Our under 17 and under 20 athletes would have joined with fellow athletes from the Lewes and Eastbourne clubs to form Team Sussex in the YDL UAG – Youth Development League Upper Age...