About: Lester Medcalf

Half-term and Halloween keep Thursday training numbers down Half term always sees a reduction in numbers at training and when Halloween also falls on a training night we see an even bigger reduction. Which is what happened last Thursday. Let’s hope for bigger numbers at training in this coming week – though it’s Bonfire night...

Apologies for cancellation of Thursday evening training Sorry that we had to cancel training on Thursday evening with the rain making the track both wet and slippery – we seem to have a dry few days ahead of us and so let’s hope we can train on this coming Thursday evening. However it was a...

We are having to cancel this evening’s training session at Imberhorne Upper School. This includes the middle distance group. The track is very wet and slippery. So why not come to East Court on Sunday morning from 10.30 to 11.45 to make up for this missed session ? Sprinters, middle distance and field event specialists...

Autumn/winter training has re-started A reminder that we are now running 3 regular training sessions each week during the autumn/winter. These sessions are open to all athletes from school year 6 upwards. We were a bit disappointed that nobody arrived for the Sunday session at East Court. TUESDAY EVENING from 7 to 8 in the...

Last throw of the summer and a new club record for the ladies discus A couple of weeks ago in one of the last open meetings of the summer at Tooting Bec Rebekah Tyler became our first female discus thrower to throw over 30 metres when she threw the 1k discus 30.07 metres. The previous...

Autumn/winter training about to re-start If you have been getting a bit fed up with no training over the last few weeks then you’ll be pleased to know that we are about to re-start training in order to get you fit for the forthcoming winter cross-country season and also of course for the 2020 summer...

An update on autumn/winter training Last week I told you when we were going to re-start training after our September break. I said that we were investigating the possibility of training indoors on Tuesdays as well as outdoors on Thursday evenings. I can now update that for you. We will re-start on THURSDAY OCTOBER 10...

When does autumn/winter training re-start ? We now know when we will re-start Thursday evening training. We will re-start on THURSDAY OCTOBER 10 – under the floodlights at Imberhorne Upper School of course. From 7pm to 8pm. The middle distance group will also meet at Imberhorne at 7pm and most weeks they will then go...

As we are now in our September break there isn’t much to tell you about. However in a horizontal jumps meeting at Lewes on Saturday Rebekah Tyler at last went over 5 metres in the long jump – 5.08 metres...

Sussex Combined Events Championships We only had 3 of our athletes competing at this year’s Combined Events championships at the Sutton track – but all 3 came home with a medal. In fact 2 of them came first and so brought home the gold medal. Rachel Tyler competed in the under 15 girls 5 event...