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The County Indoor Championships will take place on the weekend of the 28th February/1st March at Sutton Arena in conjunction with the Surrey AA Championships. The Entry form for the Sussex Chmapionships is now available on the Entry Form section of the website.
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 It was easy wins all round for the winners of the main events on a bright crisp morning at the 81st Annual Boxing Day races in Preston Park, Brighton.
In the 5.5-mile walking event Steyning newcomer Trevor Jones shook off the attentions of club mate Ian Richards before the end of the first of four laps and romped clear to win by more than two minutes in 44:40 with Ian clocking 46:54 in second place and another Steyning walker Ron Penfold taking third place in 53:22.
In the running event, runs weren’t introduced on Boxing Day until 1953, last year’s winner Andrew Donno was quite happy to have Hailsham’s Ben Warren and County veteran’s cross-country champion Keith Newton for company until the ....
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 Arena 80’s Vicki Boyle has taken over the roll of Sussex Women’s senior/Under 20 cross-country team manager and will be selecting teams for the Inter-Counties (National) Cross Country Champs on 7th March 2009 and the SEAA Cross Country Inter Counties Championships Sat 31st January 2009 – at Old Warden Park, Shuttleworth, Biggleswade, Berkshire.
Selection takes place after the county championships at Stanmer Park on 3rd of January when the first five in each race qualify automatically. The further three places will be selected taking into consideration the results throughout the season and current fitness.
Because the Sussex Schools Cross-country championships are also being held on 31st January it is expected that those eligible for the Schools senior age group will compete in ....
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 Brighton & Hove’s Katy Moore became only the second Sussex winner of the women’s title at the South of Thames Senior cross-country championship when she took the crown by nearly one minute at Wimbledon Common on Saturday.
The race was first held 120 years ago but it is only in the last five years that women have been admitted and it was another Brighton & Hove runner, Julia Downes who won the first women’s title in 2004.
Conditions were good over the 12km reasonably flat course that is Wimbledon Common and Katy showed excellent form to finish well in the top half of the two hundred plus finishers placing 75th in 48:27 nearly one minute clear of Arena 80’s Fiona Clark, ....
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 It was very much a case of the youngsters leading the way again in the Hove Park 5km run on Saturday morning on this week the Under 17s, rather than the Under 20s that stole the limelight.
Worthing’s Tom Marsden threw down the gauntlet right from the start and only fellow Under 17s Brighton & Hove’s James McCarthy and Finn McNally (Phoenix) were only ones to take up the challenge.
Indeed these ran together throughout, usually with Tom spearheading the charge and Finn sticking to his tail.
Tom powered clear over the final half-mile to win in 16:24 with James, again getting the better of fin in the dash to the finish clocking 16:31, 20 second than his previous best at this event ....
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 Junior first timers were first in both the men’s and women’s races on a rain soaked morning in Hove Park 5km “Parkrun” on Saturday when 37 brave souls survived the elements and completed the course.
Under 20 athletes Adam Clarke and Ross Skelton from Hastings headed up the race with Adam clocking 16:33 to Ross’s 17:26 and the Hastings club took a clean sweep of the medal placing with Jamie Larkin clocking 17:41 for third place.
Worthing’s Brittany Saville, like Adam and Ross is also in the Under 20 age group, finished fifth overall in 19:45 to lead the women home with Brighton & Hove’s Jeanette Kenneally filling second place in 20:50 and Arena 80’s Caroline Wood placing third in 20:56.
A reminder ....
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 ALL TIMES IN THE RACE HAVE BEEN INCREASED BY 20 SECONDS.
Sussex runners had to settle for silver medals in the Centenary celebratory Hastings Marathon on Sunday but what silver medals they were.
The race celebrated the 1908 Hastings Marathon but unlike the 1908 race the runners on Sunday covered the full 26min. 385 yards.
Julian Rendall from the Tonbridge club managed to draw clear of the Hastings duo of Daniel Anderson and Henry Mountcastle to put nearly one minute between himself and his rivals to clock 2:36:51 a faster time than that recorded 100 years ago over a much shorter distance.
Dan pulled well clear of his club mate to record 3:38:07 with Henry running his fastest marathon for at least a decade ....
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 Oops! The Hastings Marathon on Sunday will not be the first actual marathon race to be run in Sussex.
John Gill and Paul Froud have jogged my memory and pointed out that in the 1980s the Worthing & District Harriers organised marathon races over their Goring course from 1983 to 1986 with a special race to celebrate the Centenary of Worthing Council in 1990.
The races were held in June, not a very popular month for Marathon running, but they still attracted fields of around 1000 runners.
Thanks to Alan Grove at Worthing we have pieced together some more information.
Brighton & Hove’s Sam Lambourne the owner of the Jog Shop in Brighton does, I am certain, however hold the record for a the ....
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 What could be the first proper Marathon to be held on Sussex roads is being held from Hastings on Sunday.
In was in 1908 after the drama at the Olympic Marathon that many so called Marathon races were held but none replicated the new Olympic distance of 26miles. 385 yards.
There have been several, so called Marathons, held in Sussex in the past 100 years but I am not aware of any race that was actually held over the now standard distance.
Promoters called many of their races Marathons but they ranged from 10-mile up.
On December 16th in 1908 41 runners started the Hastings marathon although the distance was thought to be around 25 miles but in those days course measurement was less ....
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 Samantha Alvarez from Hailsham (pictured) opened the racing at Sussex Masters Cross-country Championships at Denne Park, Horsham on Sunday with a convincing victory in the Women’s O35 3.2km race.
The fog that was forecast to engulf Mid Sussex for most of the day luckily disappeared early and the runners were able to enjoy a bright crisp day with the going getting softer by the minute as the sun swept across the sky but there were large areas of hardened frost
where the sun did not reach. Generally conditions were good for racing.
Reigning champion Julie Briggs from Arena 80 is injured and failed to reach the starting line but this was going to be Samantha’s day.
Although Steyning’s Camilla Neale put up ....
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