Category Archives: Club Update

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...

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...

We’ll be training again on Tuesday evening at East Court from 6.45 to about 8. We are going to make one or two changes to the groups and we’ll tell you more on the evening...

This weekend just passed should have seen the English Schools Athletics Championships in Manchester, but the virus put paid to it some time ago. A great pity as it is a great event to be part of – whether as an athlete or as a spectator. I have also just heard that the English Schools...

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...