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A hugely successful day for Phoenix athletes with representation at all levels.

U13 boys took gold with a fine individual course record by Archie Davis. U15 boys took bronze with Billy White storming to an individual course record. The story was repeated with the senior men taking gold and bronze medals. The A team set a fantastic course record with Ben Tickner lowering the individual record by a huge margin. The medals continued for the men with O50s taking bronze and O60s taking silver.

No medals for the female athletes but some fine performances non-the less with all age groups represented (even if the vet women raced in the wrong category!).

There is a full report in the news section and full results here.

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Congratulations to Tom Farsides. Tom trained hard for this one and was rewarded with a fine PB.

224th Tom Farsides (M45) 2:57:00

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Great weather and an encouraging entry by younger athletes. The adult mile also benefitted and attracted three times the normal entry.

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32 Phoenix AC 1:53:09
Tom Hopkins    (63) 18:58
Max Pickard      (50) 18:39
Samuel Wade   (50) 19:06
Charlie Grice     (39) 18:21
Josh Guilmant   (37) 19:05
Finn McNally      (32) 19:00

The senior men were an fantastic 14th out of 62 teams, the top 25 go to Nationals, well done guys.

    Phoenix A.C.    1:58:01
    Finn Mcnally    18:57    17    14
    Max Pickard    19:37    17    20
    Charlie Grice    19:02    14    9
    Jake Elliott    20:28    17    24
    Sam Wade    20:16    17    21
    Josh Guilmant    19:41    14    15

Five firsts for Phoenix young athletes including two course records.

Boys U15 2300M
1st 7:06 Billy White  NEW COURSE RECORD
2nd 7:38 Sam Kitchen
4th 8:52 Will Russell

Boys U13 1500M
1st 4:55 Archie Davis  NEW COURSE RECORD

Girls U13 1500M
1st 6:11 Maria Andrews
5th 7.00 Alex Vidler
6th 7:04 Tallulah M-Jackson

Girls U11 1500M
1st 5.54 Almi Nerurkar
6th 6.21 Louise Saunders
7th 6.25 Mia Whitaker-Jones
9th 6.33 Esme Whitworth
13th 6.54 Hannah Andrews
15th 7.01 Ruby Graves

Boys U11 1500M
17th 6.26 William Saunders
24th 6.44 Gillespie Jackson
34th 7.36 Miles Jamie

Boys U9 800M
1st 2.56 James Lucas
5th 3.18 Lukas Nerurkar

Adult 5K
5th 17:58 Daren Elliot
16th 19:14 Paul Collicutt
100th 22:33 Sonal Chaudhary

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30th Michael Whyte 38:40
31st Daren Elliot 38:53
54th Terry Avey 40:35 (1st M60)

4th team

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The lateness of Easter meant brilliantly sunny and warm conditions, and a good turnout from the club was rewarded with a fair share of the honours. The U13 boys, who fielded two teams, kicked us off with a silver medal – Archie Davis taking individual bronze (third fastest leg). Next was a splendid gold-team performance by the over 60 men and then, highlight of the day, a spirited gold-medal performance by an inspired senior men's team. Sixth after two of the six legs, the next four laps took them one minute ahead of arch-rivals Brighton and Hove. Josh Guilmant won individual gold and Tom Hopkins bronze. Charlie Grice was actually second fastest runner of the day behind Josh which made him U17 gold medalist. We scooped all the individual medals in that category – Will Durkin was second and Jake Elliot was third.

U13 Boys
A team 2nd
B team 14th

U13 Girls
A team 17th

Senior Men
A team 1st
B team N/S (9th)

Senior Women
A team 7th
B team N/S (15th)

O40 Men
A team 4th
B team 5th

O50 Men
A team 4th
B team 10th

O 60 Men
A team 1st

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Whew – what a race that was! And that was just our gallant band of Phoenix athletes

These are the one's i know about. As seems to be the fashion, the results are not searchable by club. If I've missed you out can you email

Dave Carter 02:41:11
Mike Whyte 2:59:07
Jim Whitelegg 3:36:16
Emma Satterly 4:06:06
Elana Moore 4:12:24
Terry Avey 4:14:49
John Lamb 4:20:55

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Our junior athletes were out in force on Brighton Marathon day. There was a terrific entry in the ten races that constituted the Mini-Mile. We were winners in no less than four of those races with pride of place going to Charlie Grice, winner of the U18 boys for the second year running.

It was especially encouraging to see 21 young athletes from the Phoenix starter group with some stunning results especially in race 7 (2nd, 3rd and 6th).

Here are the results. If I've missed you out please email me to correct.

Race 1 U18 boys
1     Charlie Grice 4:18
3     Will Durkin 4:33

Race 1 U15 boys
1     Sam Kitchen 5:09
8     Will Russell 6:03

Race 2 U15 girls
4     Jody Mann 6.05
8     Camille Burton 6:24
9     Maddelaine Houghton 6:25
18     Lea Sawicki 6:53

Race 3 U13 Boys
2    Archie Davis    05:27
5    Matthew Berridge    05:53
12    Joe Kelly    06:05
21    Harry Swindells    06:15
29    Joe Aston 6.34
85    Joshua White    07:34
93    Alex Marinko Maechler    07:40

Race 4 U13 Girls
3    Maria Andrews    06:15
7    Charlotte Matthews    06:26
9    Elorah Mann    06:34
13    Annie Tree    06:48
14    Zoe Sawicki    06:52
15    Ateya Marshall    06:53
17    Mia Roach Penn    07:02
20    Tara May    07:11
22    Alex Vidler     07:12
23    Tallulah Jackson-Marriott 07:13
24    Eve Hull 7.14
30    Kiera Counihan 7.21
32    Laura Bird    07:24
49    Alice Chapman 7.42
50    Constance Pope 7.44

Race 5 U11 Boys
1    Luca Bigg    06:02
38   Miles Jamie 7.14

Race 6 U11 Boys
1    Samuel Betts    05:50

Race 7 U11 Girls
2    Cicely Perry 6.45
3    Mia Whitaker-Jones 6.48
5    Claudia Betts    06:57
6    Esme Whitworth 7.01
17   Marie Belcher 7.28
20   Abi Roach Penn 7.34
26   Amelia Arlett 7.47
29   Alice Jeffrey 7.54
47   Laura Hewlett 8.32
76   Lottie Bentham 9.12

Race 8 U11 Girls
6     Louisa Saunders 7.15
10   Ruby Daniels 7.22
16   Ruby Graves 7.34
21    Miranda Wright 7.43
35    Isabel Whitelegg    08:01
36    Franchesca White 8.02
69    Madeleine Marinko Maechler 9.00

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Mo Farah won the NYC half marathon in 1:00:23

Chasing him were the doughty Phoenix contingent who had flown in just hours before

1102nd Malcolm Kemp 1:34:43
1774th Phil Hampshire 1:40:46
5734th Carol Webb 2:03:59
5736th Steve Webb 2:04:00
6981st Jeanette Dobson (Phil's partner) 2:11:13

There were 10,188 finishers

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Great performances by Phoenix (and well done to Paul and the marshalls too). Quite a few pbs – Bruce Warren, jim Whitelegg and Paul Thomas knocked huge chunks off their previous times.

2nd 1:08:30 Ian Leitch
8th 1:12:58 Dave Carter
14th 1:15:22 Daryll Hards
29th 1:18:50 Bruce Warren
34th 1:20:05 Bruce Faulkner
41st 1:20:52 Mike Townley
52nd 1:21:37 Mike Whyte
80th 1:24:18 Joe Francis
105th 1:25:24 John Marinko
129th 1:26:20 Jim Whitelegg
176th 1:27:54 Phil Hampshire
194th 1:28:24 Brian Friend
243rd 1:29:23 Andrew Neighbour
471st 1:34:15 Jon Mitchell
506th 1:35:04 Terry Avey (1st M60)
636th 1:36:58 Phillip Stevens
670th 1:37:48 Tom Sanderson
751st 1:38:54 Jonathan Lamb
826th 1:38:32 Stuart Batchelor
1331st 1:45:49 Stephen Fewings
1561st 1:47:22 Carol Webb
2146th 1:52:03 Peter Hards
2641st 1:57:14 Rik Taub
5496th 3:05:29 Paul Thomas

Great turnout for the junior races as well with Isaac Wright, Max Winter and Archie Davis in great form.

8–11 year olds
1st Isaac Wright 5:02
2nd Max Winter 5:05
Then well done to the rest of the Phoenix 'team' who finished in this order: Almaz Nerurkar, Charlotte Matthews, Louisa Sanders, Harry Swindells, Mia Whittaker-Jones, Adam Willard, Annie Tree, Lukas Nerurkar, Tallulah Jackson-Marrot, Daisy Reuby, Joshua White, Miles Jamie, Marie Belcher, Constance Pope, Alice Chapman, Laura Bird, Eve Hull, Alice Jeffrey, Laura Hewlett, Isabelle Curd, Madelaine Marinko Meacher.

12–16 year olds
2nd Archie Davis 4:40
25th Chay Reuby 6:07

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Max-Patrick Lippert  3:07:12 (Half 1:29:56) 1415th
 
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This is keenly fought by all the major clubs in the South. In this environment we would always hope to be at least in the middle of the results and...guess what – thats pretty much what each team achieved with some sepecially tasty performances. The only disappointment was the complete absence of women's and girls teams.

Boys U13's   17th (out of 31)   48m 19s 
Reuben Hoyte        11m 31s
Matthew Berridge   12m 22s
Will Russell           12m 57s
Archie Davis          11m 29s

Senior men   34th (out of 62)    2:03:14
Dave Carter                       20:00 44  
Matt Barrie                        20:27 36 
Max Lippert                       20:54 38 
James Miles                       21:17 40  
Josh Guilmant                    19:09 32  
Joe Isherwood                   21:27 34   

Vet 40 men   18th (out of 31)    1:32:27
Ray Matthews                    23:01 42 
Lance Bellers                    23:36 34
David Powell                     22:25 29
Malcolm Hughes               23:25 24   

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Wet conditons didn't stop some great times at Bristol's 22nd Half Marathon.
Lance tucked under 90 minutes for the first time and Jim knocked 5 minutes off his PB.

Andy Bone         1:21.53 151st
Lance Bellers      1:29.44 498th PB
Jim Whitelegg     1:30.56 575th PB
Rebbeca Hodder  1:36.42 1185th

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20th Michael Whyte 38:49, 38th Andy George 40:21, 47th Terry Avey 40:49, 315th Pat Kearney 48:34.

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Great weather, great organisation, great support. The inaugural Brighton Marathon was a success beyond most people's expectation. And Phoenix featured large on the day. Second claim member, Tom Naylor was, with Tim Hutchins, the event organiser – so hearty congratulations to them. Olympic Champion and club founder Steve Ovett started the race. Mike Whyte and Tim Woodman fulfilled their pacing roles to perfection and, of course, 29 of you took part and came up with some quality performances. We had four runners under three hours led by returning member Neil Boniface (7th in 2:41:23). Mike Greenwood ran the best judged race of all finishing 18th in a time of 2:50:13 which shaves his previous best by some 25 minutes!. Good to see Daryl Hards back in shape and although he slipped back in the closing miles managed an impressive 2:54:36. Max-Patrick Lippert was supposed to be running the Boston Marathon but his plans fell to ash (of the Icelandic variety) but he was offered a last minute place in the race and responded with an even-paced 2:59:42 for 90th position. As you can see from the list here, a further 18 Phoenix athletes finished under four hours with everyone safely home by five. As if that weren't enough, Charlie Grice won the mini mile event. Last year Charlie broke Steve Ovett's 800m Brighton schoolboy record, taking it down to 1:55.80. On Sunday he got to meet the great man in person. Archie Davis was first U13 boy in the mini mile.

7 [2:41:23] BONIFACE, Neil
18 [2:50:13] GREENWOOD, Michael
29 [2:54:36] HARDS, Darryl
56 [2:59:42] LIPPERT, Max-Patrick
90 [3:05:15] TOWNLEY, Mike
121 [3:08:46] PIKE, Jon
133 [3:10:45] BEARD, Leigh
230 [3:16:21] NOVIS, Robert
248 [3:17:29] FIELD, Andrew
269 [3:20:12] BONZI, Alexander
289 [3:20:35] HERRON, Nigel
299 [3:21:21] FRIEND, Brian
306 [3:22:47] POWELL, David
480 [3:28:42] WHYTE, Michael (pacer for 3:30)
771 [3:39:11] HARDS, Peter (Kim)
889 [3:41:51] LYONS, Ivan
962 [3:39:35] MITCHELL, Jon
1084 [3:46:02] McNALLY, Liam
1122 [3:44:40] BIBBY, Rachel
1161 [3:46:31] SHIELDS, Luke
1270 [3:51:45] AVEY, Terry
1318 [3:53:21] HOLBORN, Tony
1509 [3:53:08] SANDILANDS, Tess
1712 [3:54:33] WOODMAN, Tim (pacer for 4:00)
2507 [4:09:19] PERRY, Rachel
3321 [4:24:27] HALL, Joanne
3741 [4:32:10] GREGORY, Louise
3898 [4:40:01] KEMP, Malcolm
4419 [4:42:59] REGAN, Lucy
4729 [4:46:25] MELLO-COSTA, Ananda
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Seniors men win silver with fantastic fight back by the boys especially Dan, Charlie and Josh). Team - Sam Wade, Max Pickard (U17), Finn McNally, Dan Stepney, Charlie Grice (U17) and Josh Guilmant. Vets Over 60s win bronze despite breaking course record! team Andrew Haig, Andrew Field and Malcolm Kemp Over 50s A team came a creditable 4th. Tony Holborn, Terry Avey and Brian Friend Over 40s A team – 8th Senior women - 9th No juniors! Next year maybe?

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An astonishing 11 minute pb for Michael Whyte (V1 category) for 423rd place in a time of 2:57:11.

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Congratulations to Tom Farsides who recorded a PB on the 'slow' NY course

1075th 3:01:03

He is now one of a large group of Phoenix athletes who must surely break through that 3 hour barrier next time round.

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244th Paul Thomas 1:15:21

The format of this is a race within a race between the three Brighton Clubs at the Hove Park time-trials. Despite the short notiice nine Phoenix athletes competed. If I've understood the scoring system correctly (smallest club entry minus 3 to determine the number of scorers and points awarded according to position of competing club runners). This gave six to score and our team were Dave Carter 3rd 16:03, James Miles 5th with a 16:42 pb for the event, Tom Coates 9th 17:48, Miles Davidson 12th 18:22, Garry Thayre 14th 18:30 and John Marinko 24th 19:33. Brighton and Hove won it with 30 points, we were second with 49 points and Arena last with 92 points.

Other Phoenix runners were: Andrew Neighbour 45th 21:02, Andrew Haig 49th 21:31 and Deb Friis 61st 22:40 (a pb for the event by 9 seconds)

12th Erica Martin 18:47, 19th Ray Matthew 19:27, 39th Terry Avey 21:29