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 Despite the heavy overnight and early morning rain nearly two hundred tuned up to run off their Christmas excesses of Christmas Day in Brighton’s Preston Park for the annual Boxing Day runs and walks.
The Walks have been held since the early thirties but the runs were not introduced until 1953. Then the races were held from the Labour Club in London Road.
There were only about sixty competitors so this year’s tally is pretty good.
Veteran and Steyning veterans at that dominated the approx 5.5-mile road walk with Trefor Jones, after letting Ian Richards lead through the first two laps, pulling well clear over the second half of the race to win in 46:12 to Richard’s 47:02 with oft times winner Shaun ....
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 Thanks to Martin Duff we can report that the Brighton & Hove city team missed team medals in the South of Thames at a snow encrusted Wimbledon Common on Saturday.
Racing on their home turf or rather snow it was Belgrave who took the team title with 105 points just squeezing out Kent, who scored 114 and Herne Hill Harriers who totalled 120.
The Brighton & Hove team were a little adrift of the leading three teams scoring 211 in fourth team, a placing they have matched several times in the past.
It was the baby of the team James McCarthy, who is in his first year as an Under 20 runner, who again proved the best of the team finished a fine ....
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 A tremendous run from Chichester’s Charlotte Browning in the European Cross-country championships at Santry Park, Dublin saw her miss an individual medal by just four seconds but took a well deserved Gold medal in the Under 23 team event.
There were medals for Great Britain in each of the six races with two Golds and four silvers in the team events plus six individual medals.
Charlotte ran a well-paced sensible race in the muddy conditions that got worse and worse as the afternoon progressed.
Finishing in a brilliant fourth place Charlotte was just four seconds adrift of bronze medallist Jessica Sparke from Woodford and was the second British runner to finish.
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 Keith Newton, although confessing to be far from fit, notched up his sixth victory in the Sussex Master’s cross-country championships at Denne Park, Horsham to equal Horsham’s John Luxford tally of six titles back in the seventies.
Despite his lack of fitness the Brighton & Hove runner finished well clear of former champion Vestures Dude from Crawley although Viesturs was hot on the champion’s heels until well into the second of five laps.
Keith was able to ease up over the final lap but still finished well clear clocking 36:26, to the Crawley athlete’s 36:57.
Conditions were considerably tougher this year with mud and slush hampering the runners as opposed to last year’s much firmer underfoot conditions, so maybe he is not ....
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 Charlotte Browning, who is currently at University in America, has been selected to run in the European Cross-country championships at Dublin on 13th for the Great Britain cross-country team.
Charlotte, who returns to Sussex this week has been showing good for in the United States, has been selected to compete in the Under 23 team.
Whitewash for Steyning at Wimbledon
Steyning Athletic Club swept the board in the Belgrave 7-mile Open road-walking event at Wimbledon.
Darrell Stone notched up his second successive victory racing well clear to win in 51:12 exactly eight minutes clear of club mate Trefor Jones who was the second athlete to finish while Ian Richards took third place in 59:47 to give the Steyning club the team victory with ....
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 Hailsham’s Ben Warren made no mistake in keeping a clean sheet at Plumpton in the second of this season’s “Brooks Sussex Cross country League” events.
After the course had been given a good pummelling by more than a two hundred runners in the first six races the senior men topped the afternoon’s activities with Ben recording an impressive solo run as he headed the field from the first few yards and eventually finished nearly one minute clear of reigning League champion Jamie Baker from Chichester.
Conditions were much better than could have been expected earlier in the week and although the mild autumn conditions meant that the grass was much longer than normal, sapping the strength from the legs of the runners ....
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 Five days on and we do not have full details of the South of England Inter-county championships but there are more details in Athletics Weekly, which would suggest these, could have been published not later than Tuesday albeit provisional form.
However it appears that it was the senior women’s team that shone the brightest for Sussex at Parliasment Hill placing a splendid second.
Fiona Clark was an excellent second in the Inter-county event although third overall with Julie Briggs filing 16th place, Holly Wheeler 27th and Fiona Powell 37th.
The Under 20 team, who ran with the seniors did exceptionally well to take bronze medals in the team event. Abigail Fowlie leading them home in 35th overall but (8th) amongst the under 20s ....
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 Steyning AC took both indoividual and team honours in the 83rd Annual Enfield Harriers Open 7 Miles Road Walk in very windy conditions at Lee Valley, London last Saturday.
On a mile out and back lap there was not respite from the wind as the walkers were buffetted from every angle.
Darrell Stone proved too strong for the opposition right from the start and had a comfortable win in 52:51, and along with club mates Jimmy Ball 3rd in 57:23 and Trevor Jones 5th in 61:25 Steyning convincingly won the Team Race with 9pts to Ilford's 16pts.
In the women’s race Anne Bellchamber took second place in 75:13, nearly ten minutes down on Tobridge’s Kate Funnell.
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 Despite the conditions on Sunday morning the battle between Telford’s Chris Davies and Phil Wickes (Belgrave) produced a cracking run to set two of the four fastest times ever recorded over this course.
A heavy rain shower greeted the runners as they set out from the Madeira Drive towards Black Rock before they turned to head out to Hove into a strong southwester.
The race really livened up as the runners took full advantage of the tail wind as they headed back to the finish with the Telford runner pulling well clear of Wickes to finish in 29:04 just five seconds outside Rob Denmark’s 26 year old course record of 27:59.
Wickes clocked 29:31 to record the fourth fastest time ever.
Jean Adayisenga ....
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 Both Arena 80’s Caroline Hoyte and Fiona Clark have been included in the South of England team for Sunday’s “Brooks” Brighton & Hove City 10km road race.
Entries closed for this event one month back and we can expect a couple of thousand athletes to face the starter on Madeira Drive at 10.00 on Sunday morning.
The inclusion this year of the Inter-area match has attracted a much classier field than in recent years headed by Belgrave Harrier Phil Wicks.
Apart from Phil there are several runners well capable of cracking the half-hour barrier if conditions are not too dire.
Fiona, who was the first woman to finish last year, will find the competition much tougher this year apart from the presence of ....
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