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Its been a busy bank holiday weekend with various races over the weekend. Over the weekend there are three races which make up the 'The Sussex Living Marathon Weekend', the East Grinstead 10 mile on Saturday, the Haywards Heath 10 mile on Sunday and the Burgess Hill 10k on Monday which makes in total the marathon distance. Martin Kennett ran all three with 1hr 29.45 at East Grinstead and 1hr 25.18 at Haywards Heath and 56.23 at Burgess Hill. Nikki Maher also ran East Grinstead in 1hr 42.40 and Burgess Hill 10k in 59.34.
The Haywards Heath 10mile is a Sussex Grand Prix Event and was well supported by the club with 7 runners in total including Martin. The runners were Mark Slaughter 1hr 11.08, Charlotte Menzies 1hr 24.12, Martin Kennett 1hr 25.18, Catherine Harker 1hr 26.32, Rebecca Stonebanks 1hr 30.47, Peter Wilkes 1hr 32.23, Sara Ballinger 1hr 41.25.
Jon and Sue Collett are the first two runners from our beginners group started in February to complete the Eastbourne Parkrun on Saturday 4 May. Jon finished in 24.42 and Sue in 30.05 Well done. Also running, and both running a PB for the Eastbourne Parkrun were Graham West 21.18 (First V50) and Brian King 23.02.
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Tanya Edmondson completed the Triathlon to finish first in the F60 category with a time of 2hr 18.08. A little further afield Hen Browne completed the Heidelberg Half Marathon.
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Well done to Jason Hillier (3hr 29), Jon Waite (4hr 18) , Jo Nash (4hrs 29 PB beating her prevous time by 19mins) and Kathy Gore (5hrs 58) on completing the London Marathon.
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Well done to Mark Slaughter, Tara Twyman, Chris Lugg and Rachael Hornigold on completing the Brighton Marathon. Mark ran a PB with an excellent time of 3hr 24.15.
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Hastings is a very hilly course with the main climb from 3miles to just past 7 miles, but at least you get the hills out first. It was not helped by the unusually cold weather, my car showed -1c when we got to Hastings and add to that a cold East North Easterly wind the wind chill officially was -5c. For this one back out with the winter gear, I (Graham) donned, tracksters, long sleeve top with vest over, hat and gloves. However the award for if not best dressed Uckfield Runner certainly most dressed runner goes to Racheal who managed to find at least two more layers than me in her stock of running stuff: well done Racheal (but let me know if you ran and think you can beat that). I did have to check the entry details for the date yep it was March. Still saw some runners in vest and shorts, made of tougher stuff than me, and what are they going to do when summer does come. AS always the event was well supported with over 3,000 runners and good spectator support along the full route in spite of the cold.
Running from Uckfield were Jason Hillier 1hr 32.46, Graham West 1hr 39.33, Jo Nash 1hr 51.51, Rachael Hornigold 1hr 56.00, Sarah Ballinger 2hrs 19.39, Chris Lugg 2hrs 07.03, Ray Edmondson 2hrs 33.20, Kathy Gore 2hrs 37.44.
No picture I'm afraid Lorraine (my wife) understandibly thought it too cold to stand around taking photos: don't blame her.
Charlotte Menzies ran the Heathfield 10k and in spite of the cold and the hills ran a PB of 48.29. Well done Charlotte