About: Lester Medcalf

Schools cross-country races last Wednesday We had a number of our athletes running in the Mid Sussex primary schools championships last Wednesday at East Court. An excellent run from May Sippetts in the girls race saw her finishing in second place and therefore qualifying for the all-Sussex races to be held in March. In the...

Mid Sussex Primary schools cross-country races on Wednesday January 16 Following our October primary school cross-country races at East Court the better state school athletes from those races will be representing the town in the Mid Sussex races on Wednesday January 16 at East Court. We will be helping to get the course ready in...

Sussex Cross-Country Championships What are the odds that, of our 6 runners in the Sussex cross-country championships last Saturday at Bexhill, three of them would have finished in the same place ? Yes we had three athletes finishing 11th in their races – Gabi Holland in the under 13 girls race, Cameron Wells (taking a...

Back at training on Thursday evening Schools are back this week and we will re-start our Thursday evening sessions at Imberhorne Upper School this coming Thursday January 3 for our normal 7 to 8 session. Sussex Cross-Country Championships To get the New Year off to a good start we have the Sussex County Cross-Country Championships...

Happy Christmas to you all Enjoy your Christmas break but don’t eat or drink too much. Go out for a run somewhere in the next week. With the shortest day of the winter now in the past (it was on Friday December 21) we can look forward to the days getting longer. And before we...

Last Thursday evening training of 2018 at Imberhorne coming up this week Just a reminder that this coming Thursday December 13 is the last Thursday evening training session of the year at Imberhorne. Please wear something Christmassy for this week’s training. We will be back at Imberhorne on the other side of Christmas and the...

Sorry that we cancelled Thursday training at Imberhorne so late Our apologies for calling off Thursday evening training on the track at Imberhorne at the very last minute. It wasn’t until we got down to the school at about 6.50 that we realised how much water was lying on the track. So we called it...

Another week of training done and another week to come Nothing very much to tell you this week. We’ve had another week of training, and there’ll be another week over the next 7 days. Sunday morning at East Court continues to be disappointly low in numbers: those who come are noticeably benefiting. It’s not too...

40th anniversary and annuals awards presentation evening We had a great evening at the East Grinstead Rugby Club to celebrate our 40th year and to present cups and trophies to those of our athletes who had performed well in the summer of 2018. I didn’t have time to count how many people were there but...

Sussex Cross-Country League match on Saturday We had 6 runners at the first cross-country league match of the winter down in Stanmer Park, which is close to Brighton & Hove Albion FC’s ground. I have now seen the results and there were some excellent performances from our athletes. May Sippetts got things going in the...