Phoenix Athletics and Triathlon club

Great turnout for the club and some fine performances in near perfect racing conditions.

We couldn't have hoped for better conditions: bright sunshine and not a breath of wind. It meant that numbers of entries were mantained with 258 young athletes competing. The Friday-Ad mile featured 23 adult racers.

The Club Awards Ceremony took place in the upstairs rooms of The Open House in Springfield Road on Saturday 20 October and turned into a fun night for all ages.

Our annual road races at Preston Park are on Sunday 11 November. There is a full programme of age group events for junior athletes and the fabulous Friday-Ad mile for adults.

A late congratulations to the senior men on picking up a team Bronze medal in the Sussex Half Marathon Championships

Fresh from helping their Phoenix teams take Gold at the Sussex Cross Country Relays Jake and Almi were at it again

Bob Novis celebrated his 60th birthday with a new 60-64 age group record at parkrun. He knocked a substantial chunk from the mark previously held by Peter Whitcomb of B&H.

Josh Guilmant and Erica Martin were winners at the Big 10K – Bexhill on 30 September.

Leading the way to three gold medals and three bronzes were the U13 girl’s team.

The U15 boys and U17 boys perfomed exceptionally well at the South of England Road Relay Championships in Aldershot. It certainly gave the senior team something of a spur. Qualification for the Nationals was the senior's ambition.

With one race to go, Sam Wade showed his intent to make a name for himself this season.

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Tom Hopkins and Sarah Monk are approaching the Spanish border on their charity bike ride from Brighton to Barcelona. The whole adventure will take four weeks. Tom is filing a daily blog which you can read here Read more

It's here at last – your Super Soaraway Autumn Phoenix Flyer. It's a bumper size edition incorporating your stories and pictures from this extraordinary Olympic Summer. Catch up too with pages of information about Phoenix exploits.

Phoenix had 35 athletes take part. We had a fantastic afternoon finishing 7th overall.
A great achievement for our first season back.

Perfect summer evening for the annual club Handicap run

With the passing of club member Bruce Falkner a few months ago the club was decided that a fitting tribute there would be a minutes applause

Just days after frustratingly getting knocked out in his heat at the World Junior Championships Charlie Grice showed his true metal.

With the London 2012 Olympics just around the corner it was the turn of Phoenix finest middle distance runners to fly the flag at the British trials.

A few weeks ago, Brian Friend was part of a South Downs Way Relay team. Not content with running only a part of the route, he successfully tackled the 100M individual race on 30 June/1 July.

In pretty much perfect conditions with a slight following wind, not too hot and not too cold, Phoenix athletes took advantage winning silver in the vet's category and breaking 18 club records.

Paul made the long trip to the USA to compeate in the Para Cross Tri World championships and came away with gold

Bruce passed away last week after a prolonged battle with cancer. For those of you who didn’t know him, he was a very active member of the club; even when he was weighed down with his illness he always had a smile.

First place for Alex at Uckfield Triathlon

Fresh (or should that be tired) from giving the 3 hour barrier another seeing too in the Marathon

The Big Dogs were out hunting tasty times in the London Marathon this year.

After contemplating retirement last year a change of scenery must have been what Tim needed

Phoenix fielded 25 athletes for the third Brighton Marathon in conditions that were almost perfect. Pat Davoren led the way home in 30th position with Andy Bone the only other sub- three finisher. Most finished sub-4 hours.

On Saturday 14th April. Will Russell joined the 100 club at the Brighton and Hove parkrun. That is to say, he has run the weekly 5k time trial 100 times. For a 14 year old to achieve this is exceptional.

Even before the senior men’s race got underway, the anticipation was at fever pitch as to whether Phoenix would be entering their crack team for this event – not to disappoint the organisers and the other teams, we were!

James Atkinson was the winner of this years Brighton Trail Marathon on 18th March in a time of 3 hours 27mins and 56 seconds . 15 minutes ahead of the second place runner.

On a wet and windy Sunday morning the Brighton Phoenix Multisporters were out in force to defend the team title at the annual season opener of the LA Frosty Aquathlon in Littlehampton.

Bracketed on both sides by sunny days, Sunday 4th March was cold, wet, and windy. Runners shivering on the start line of the Eastbourne Half Marathon forlornly exchanged revised predicted times.

It was proper x-country weather for the final Sussex Cross Country League race at Lancing Manor on Saturday, cold wet and windy. Numbers were down, not o Read more

Phoenix second claimers Ben Tickner and Jon Pepper had storming runs at the South of England
XC Champs at Stanmer Park on 28 January to come first and third respectively in the men's race.

Phoenix athletes were out representing their schools at the Sussex schools Champs at Lancing.

Two years ago it was fourth place, last year 3^rd place and this year the Phoenix men’s M40 team went one better to win the silver medals for second place in the Sussex Masters x-co Read more

Despite a busy fixture list Phoenix athletes start in all races in third Sussex