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MARATHON: 77th Ivan Lyons 4:38:36

HALF MARATHON: 47th Matt Plass 1:51:02, 128th Elana Moore 2:15:56

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12 Andy George 1:09:48

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Cold, wet and windy with race organisation that, well, just fell apart at the seams. The question has to be asked whether the race can sustain such numbers (6000+ finishers). Having said that, this was a good day for Phoenix. To quote The Argus:

...Dave Carter helped Phoenix scoop the team prize ahead of B&H. Carter came seventh with Bruce Faulkner, Darryll Hards and Max-Patrick Lippert making up the victorious quartet...

Not only that but Archie Davis won the junior 800m race and Max Pickard the junior 1M event

HALF MARATHON
7 Dave Carter 1:13:29, 28 Bruce Faulkner 1:18:02, 34 Darryl Hards 1:18:49, 36 Max-Patrick Lippert 1:18:45, 50 Andy Bone 1:21:40 PB, 82 Michael Whyte 1;23:51, 104 Daren Elliott 1:25:03, 111 John Marinko 1:25:05 PB, 186 James Hayward 1:27:55, 95 Andrew Field 1:28:12 (first M60), 209 Joseph Francis 1:28:25, 318 Brian Friend 1:31:15, 483 Andrew Haig 1:34:35, 563 Andrew Neighbour 1:34:55, 661 John Doonan 1:37:37, 681 Tony Holborn 1:37:17, 747 Roland Harrington 1:38:44, 795 Elisabeth Brama 1:38:34, 828 Kim Hards 1:39:45, 915 Luke Shields 1:37:05, 974 Nathan Broderick 1:40:32, 1006 Terry Avey 1:41:18, 2063 Iain Plant 1:49:17, 2524 Patrick Kearney 1:52:45, 3660 Rachel Perry 2:01:59, 4066 Louise Gregory 2:06:49, 4528 Carolyn Austen 2:10:51

8-11 800M
1 Archie Davis 3:13, 10 Jacob Hill 0:00, 22 Alex Vidler 0:00, 25 Anna Lewis 0:00

12-16 1 MILE
Max Pickard 4:32

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88 Anita Jones 00:44:02, 13th female

This opening race of the Sussex Grand Prix season and of the Sussex 10k Challenge series is flat and fast and attracts 1500+ athletes including 14 from Phoenix. Leading runner was Josh Guilmant who recorded a chip time of 30:59 to give him seventh place and a pb by 30 seconds or so. Other results (chip times shown) were as follows:

Bruce Faulkner  34:30 29th, Tom Farsides 38:12 93rd, Sundai Boulton 40:55 180th, Terry Avey 41:18 192nd, Andrew Haig 41:24 196th, Andrew Seivewright (second claim) 43:25 291st, Liz Brama 44:59 365th, Vimukta Thurlow 46:23 478th, Rachel Bibby 46:48th, Debbie Evers 49:32 685th, Jane Edmonds 58:28 1183rd, Sue Hudson 1:01:21 1321st, Paul Thomas 1:11:52 1521st.

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Traffic chaos prevented some from reaching Parliament Hill, but some good performances here especially by Finn and Archie

Senior Men
Max Lippert 220th 1:02:38
James Miles 295th 1:04:52

Senior Women
Liz Durman 68th 36:03
Erica Martin 79th 36:35

U20 Men
Finn McNally 23rd 29:14
Sam Wade 56th 30:41

U17 Men
Charlie Grice 25th 21:56

U15 boys
Robbie Fitzgibbon 127th 18:26
Luke Reynolds 183rd 19:27

U13 boys
Archie Davies 42nd 12:38

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Two of our ladies travelled to Portland for these trail races

In the 10km(actually 13.5km) Anita Jones 42nd in 1:19:44

In the 1/2 marathon Ananda Mello-Costa 259th in 2:48:26

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A postponed event which was wet and muddy. In the circumstances there was a mixed turnout to report. Well done to the U13 girls, U15 boys and the senior/vet men for fielding complete teams.

Excellent performances in the junior races from Jodie Mann (12th U13G) Billy White and Archie Davis (3rd and 11th U13B) Robbie Fitzgibbon (6th U15B). The under 15 boys are still holding silver medal position.

There were just two senior women competing (impressive runs from Liz Durman 10th and Anita Jones 37th) but inevitably the team has now dropped to fourth place in division 2.

There were Just two senior men running backed up by four vets. Tom Coates was lead scorer with an excellent 20th place. Vet, Bruce Faulkner was next scorer in 26th. Although in fourth spot there are just 60 points to make up if we can field our top team in the final event at Lancing. The vets too are in fourth just 4 points away from bronze position. Easily attainable with a full turn out at Lancing.

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The turn out of seniors was terrific, with A and B teams scoring for both the men's and women's races. In brilliantly sunny but freezing conditions we did well to take bronze team medals in both events.

Josh Guilmant (5th) and Pat Davoren (6th) were top scorers for the men with James Miles (26th), Tom Coates (27th), Max-Patrick Lippert (30th) and Bruce Faulkner (36th) completing the A team. Sophie Coleman (2nd), Erica Martin (12th), Liz Durman (20th) and Anita Jones (46th) made up the women's A team. Katie KIdger, who has transferred to Phoenix, was 19th but is not yet eligible to score for us. Looks like she is going to be a great asset for the women's team.

The junior age groups were represented thinly with no entries at all for U13 and U15 girls and complete teams only for U15 boys (silver team medal – William Dukin individual silver) and U17 boys (bronze team medal – Charlie Grice individual gold). Beth Kidger took individual bronze for the U17 girls and Finn McNally silver for U20 men. Sophie Coleman (second in the senior women's race) took gold for U20 women.

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