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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...