Sussex Open Meeting on Sunday October 4 at Lewes In horrendous conditions at Lewes – heavy rain and very strong gusty winds – 3 of our athletes competed in the Martin Etchells Open Meeting at Lewes. The wind was blowing against the sprinters in both the 100m and 200m and meant that pbs were most...
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Back to Imberhorne Upper School this week
Changes to training sessions A reminder that Tuesday evening training sessions at East Court have now finished. However we will start our autumn and winter training sessions on this coming THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER at Imberhorne Upper School. We will start at 7pm and finish at about 8pm. Members should have received an e-mail with more...
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Training news and Lewes Open Meeting
Changes to training sessions This coming TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 will see our last Tuesday evening session at East Court. A prompt start at 6.30 and we’ll finish when it gets too dark at about 7.30 or a bit earlier. We then hope to re-start training at Imberhorne Upper School on THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER starting at...
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Scilly Isles, Lewis Jones, October 4 and September 15 – read all about it
Apologies for the slightly later than normal updating of the website – we have been away for a week’s holiday on the Isles of Scilly. I couldn’t find an athletics track while we were there – although I did see the Exeter track just before we landed on the way back. Lewis Jones went to...
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Training and Open Meeting news
Changes to training sessions This coming Tuesday September 8 our East Court training session will start at 6.30 (and not 6.45) and will finish at about 7.30. This will be the last East Court session BUT we will re-start THURSDAY evening sessions in the following week on Thursday September 17. These THURSDAY evening sessions will...
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News from Chelmsford meeting
Results from weekend meeting at Chelmsford We had a couple of athletes competing at Chelmsford over last weekend in an open Meeting arranged by South of England Athletics. Rebekah Tyler in her first year as an under 20, despite doing no throws training at all this summer, took part in the shot and the discus...
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Schools cross-country news and changes to Tuesday evening sessions
Schools cross-country races CANCELLED It probably won’t come as a big surprise to you that, because of the coronavirus, we have decided to cancel this year’s schools cross-country races. The races were due to take place at East Court on Sunday October 11th. We have told the schools (though many of the school contacts won’t...
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At last the 2020 summer track and field season has started !!!
Last Tuesday August 11 saw our first performance of the 2020 summer track and field season. On a very hot evening Gabi Holland (first year under 15) went down to Worthing for their evening meeting to run in an 800 metres race. Given the heat Gabi was a few seconds off her PB as she...
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A few Open Meetings coming up in the next few weeks
We are aware of a few Open Meetings in the near future. Because of the virus there will be fewer events than normal and of course the meetings will be subject to all the relevant restrictions – social distancing in particular. Tuesday August 11 at Worthing (might be too late to enter ?) Tuesday August...
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Tuesday evening training
East Court on Tuesday evenings is going well. We made a few changes to some of our groups last week and this seemed to work OK for our athletes. We have heard that Worthing AC are holding an open meeting – with a restricted number of events – on Tuesday August 11. Speak to one...
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