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Perfect conditions. Warm but overcast and no wind on this out-back-out-back promenade run. A Sussex Grand Prix race, this attracted five Phoenix athletes.

22nd Phil Hampshire 18:55 (1st MV3)
30th Terry Avey 19:23 (2nd MV5)
46th Andrew Haig 20:11 (1st MV6)
84th Stuart Pal 21:50
90th Stuart Batchelor 22:13

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On the same evening that Phoenix athletes were all achieving PBs at Watford open, James Miles and Ray Matthews were doing the same at the Dartford Harriers Open. Running the same mile event their results were:

James Miles 4:46 3rd

Ray Matthews 4:58 4th

Ray's result maintains his 3rd place age-group ranking nationally.

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In the Standard Distance (1.5km swim/40km bike/10km run)

103 Deb Evers 1st FSV 2:47:41

Sprint (0.75km swim/20km bike/5km run)

24 Faye McClelland 1st FS 1:14:17

Well done Ladies

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The inaugural running of the Phoenix 10K was an undoubted success. Not only did the race sell-out but initial feedback from competitors is very positive. With chip-timing and well -organised facilities such as toilet provision, baggage tent, massage, PA (great work Tim) etc, the oveall impression was highly favourable and bodes well for the future.

Congratulations have to go to Andy Bone who has steered the event with consumate organisational skill. The marshalling and bike-leading too was excellent with Liz Halliday, Eleanor Moore, Malcolm Kemp and others assuming responsibility. Particularly heartening was the raucus reception committee of junior athletes, organised by John Marinko, at the 5K turnaround point.

It also turned out to be a high quality race with a sprint to the finish with Dean Lacey of Cambridge Harriers just edging out Phoenix's Ian Leitch by three seconds. Josh Guilmant of Phoenix was just 30 seconds back in third place. Phoenix won the men's team prize (Leitch, Guilmant, Hopkins, Hards). A special mention too for Terry Avey who's running has transformed this season. He was first in the over-60 category against a qualty field in that age-group, with a superb sub-40 run. Amazingly, this is his eighteenth age-group first this season.

In the women's race Emma Richards of Hailsham Harriers was run away winner in 37:35, a substantial PB for her. The next two places were fought out by two V45 athletes. Elspeth Turner of Horsham Blue Stars was second in 38:17 and Cathy Ulliot of Brighton and Hove was third in 40:13.

Thirty-one of us competed and here are our results (chip times). Well done everybody.

2        Ian Leitch 30:27
3        Josh Guilmant 31:03
5        Tom Hopkins 33:02
11      Darryl Hards 34:10
15      James Miles 34:38
26      Dave Carter 36:05
31      Michael Whyte 36:52
34      Alexander Bonzi 37:25
41      Miles Davidson 38:21
44      Bruce Faulkner 38:32
54      Jim Whitelegg 39.08
55      Tom Farsides 39:12
61      Sam Priestnall 39:31
63      Terry Avey 39:35
65      Iain Martin 39:52
66      Daren Elliot 39:58
75      Lance Bellers 40:27
83      Andrew Haig 41:17
92      Brian Friend 42:00
97      Andy Triggs 42:12
101     Malcolm Burden 42:17
123     Beth Kidger 43:23
127     Megan Kidger 43:36
132     Tom Sanderson 43:46
148     Stuart Pal 44:49
155     Sonal Chaudhary 44:54
185     Lucy Gallagher 46:27
186     John Lamb 46:29
221     Kathryn Harnett 49:03
230     Vimutka Thurlow 49:51
260     Richard Thompson 52:02

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1.5km sea swim - 42km bike - 10km run

15 Malcolm Hughes (00:24:48/ 00:00:42/ 01:11:04/ 00:00:31/ 00:39:47) 02:16:53

18 Bob Novis (00:24:16/ 00:01:00/ 01:12:51/ 00:00:31/ 00:40:00) 02:18:39

31 John Marinko (00:32:04/ 00:00:38/ 01:09:43/ 00:00:28/ 00:40:59) 02:23:53

55 Roland Harrington (00:29:33/ 00:01:05 /01:15:36/ 00:00:49/ 00:44:11) 02:31:16

61 Lewis Bertrand-Shelton (00:27:32/ 00:04:23/ 01:15:08/ 00:01:59/ 00:44:17) 02:33:21

94 Stuart Townsend ( 00:34:35/ 00:01:10/ 01:17:36/ 00:00:53/ 00:48:07) 02:42:23

107 Andrew Field (00:34:50/ 00:02:10/ 01:21:54/ 00:00:56 /00:46:12) 02:46:03

Lewis 1^st Junior, Malcolm 1^st Supervet

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One of the most beautful races in the Sussex calender, the heat and distance nevertheless made it quite a challenge. Most of the route is on footpath around the shores of the Bewl Water reservoir, finishing at a sunlit meadow where, to the accompanyment of a brass band, the 600+ rrunners were treated to free refreshments including their justly famous selection of homemade cake. Bliss.

46th Daren Elliot 1:48:30
54th Jim Whitelegg 1:49:38
67th Tom Farsides 1:51:37
77th Brian Friend 1:52:16
163rd Andrew Haig 2:01:49
177th Terry Avey 2:03:13

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This new series of races in Stanmer Park made a successful day out for Phoenix athletes, with a silver medal in the adult 8k trail race, gold silver and bronze for the U11 girls, gold for U13 boys, silver and bronze for U13 girls and gold and silver for U 15 boys..

8K Trail Race
2  29:39 Joe Francis
10  32:00 Daren Elliot
54  36:50 Ivan Lyons
83  39:14 Sonal Chaudhary

U11 girls 2k
1  8.17 Almi Nerurkar
2  8.28 Louisa Saunders
3  8.35 Mia Whitaker-Jones
5  9.10 Isabella Rowney
8  9.15 Marie Belcher
13  10.00 Abi Roach Penn

U11 boys 2K
6  8.31 William Saunders
9  9.00 Miles Jamie
10  9.00 Harrison Saunders
11  9.01 Lucas Nerurkar 7 years old
17  9.29 Oscar saunders  8 years old

U13 boys 2K
1  6.58 Archie Davis
5  7.59 Joe Kelly
6  8.05 Harry Swindells
8  8:41 Jake Etherton
 
U13 Girls 2K
2  8.14 Charlotte Matthews
3  8.43 Chloe Watson
4  9.26 Mia Roach Penn
5  9.28 Eve Hull
 9  9.42 Alex Vidler
10  9.45 Constance Pope
15  10.19 Kiera Counihan

U15 Boys 2K
1  6.23 Billy White
2  6.37 Samuel Kitchen
5  7.23 Kyle Lawrie

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Lizzy Brama took on Ironman France on Sunday 26 June. It is in (and around) Nice. It has a sea swim, a hilly bike in those lovely Provençal hills, and a flat sea front run up and down the Avenue des Anglais.

She finished in 10:49:02. Her swim time: 59:37, bike time: 5:52:02, and run time: 3:49:23

Lizzy won her age group and qualifies for the world champs in Hawaii.

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Three Phoenix members ventured to Devils Dyke on Wednesday evening in the wind to take part in the Southdowns Orienteering event. All are new to this branch of running. We all opted for the longer course.
 
Andrew Neighbour came a very good 5th in 47:41
Elana Moore and Liz Halliday took it at a more liesurely club run sort of pace and finished in 1:09:24 and 1:09:26 respectively.

Results

400m swim, 26km bike. 5km run

1 ag1 Sam Wade (5:12 / 44:46 / 16:51) 01:06:49

7 ag1 Malcolm Hughes (6:29 / 45:04 / 19:18) 01:10:51

12 ag1 Bob Novis (6:00 / 46:44 / 20:07) 01:12:50

13 ag3 John Marinko (7:19 / 45:37 / 20:07) 01:13:03

15 ag4 Nigel Herron (7:38 / 45:56 / 19:47) 01:13:21

16 ag3 John Tindell (6:13 / 47:05 / 20:03) 01:13:22

23 ag7 Roland Harrington (6:34 / 48:58 / 21:03) 01:16:36

44 ag4 Stuart Townsend (7:35 / 51:21 / 21:18) 01:20:13

47 ag13 Mark Walker 6:40 / 52:52 / 21:24) 01:20:56

139 ag2 Cathryn Walsh (9:12 / 56:12 / 27:13) 01:32:37

150 ag21 Andrew Neighbour (8:25 / 1:04:58 / 20:16) 01:33:40

207 ag2 Ananda Mello-Costa (10:15 / 1:02:22 / 29:16) 01:41:53

A good turnout for the club. This was the 3^rd race in the club's Multi-Sport Championship.

Well done to Sam on his victory, he had the fastest swim and run splits on the day.

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It was the wind wot won it. The new out-and-back course meant an initial wind-assisted 5k followed by the return leg into the teeth of a fierce and unrelenting gale. Not surprisingly times were a bit down but 621 finished this popular Grand Prix race on an otherwise warm, sunny evening. The race was won in 33:00 by Matt Dunigan of Worthing and District Harriers. Congratulations to our two prize winners Josh and Terry.

2nd Josh Guilmant 33:31
16th Joe Francis 38:31
83rd Terry Avey 42:19 (1st M60)
85th John Tindell 42:24
90th Andrew Haig 42:44
269th Will Flewett 48:13
434th Vimukta Thurlow 54:58

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48th Terry Avey 1:44:42 (first M60)
176th Luke Shields 2:00:33

Results

UKA Champs 20 place Phoenix Ac 1:38:13 Top 3 to score
43 80 Guilmant, Josh GB 0:31:36
51 125 Mcnally, Finn GB 0:31:54
131 160 Wade, Sam GB 0:34:43

There was a great turnout from the youngsters and some very encouraging results, especially from the boys with victories in the 1000m and high jump (Archie Davis) and 4x100m relay (Jake Silver, Archie Davis, Theo Algar, Matt Berridge).

After match one, the boys are third, the girls are fifth and the combined teams are 4th.

Well done to everyone who competed.

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An overcast evening at Withdean but the rain held off, and our first track meeting in a while was quite a success. It was especially inspiring to see so many young athletes keen to compete and the evening was topped off by some truly thrilling BMC races at 800m 1500m and 3000m distances.

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Three Brighton Phoenix people in the results and very well done to them.

109. Michelle Aurthurs 1:27:47

273. Kathryn Harnett 1:46:04

292. Ananda Mello-Costa 1:47:52

Give Kathryn a special well done as this was her first triathlon, and she did the bike course on her trusty old mountain bike.

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Josh ran in the South of England team that finsihed 2nd in the inter-area match

46 Josh Guilmant 31.10

inter-area results

In the long race: 800m / 36km / 8km

5. Hopkins, Tom (00:13:57/ 00:00:43 /00:58:56/ 00:00:29/ 00:27:21) 01:41:27
8. Hughes, Malcolm (00:13:18/ 00:00:32/ 00:57:08/ 00:00:31/ 00:31:08 ) 01:42:38
11. Novis, Bob (00:12:40/ 00:00:39/ 00:57:58 /00:00:34/ 00:31:36) 01:43:28
15. Mills, Chris (00:14:25/ 00:00:41/ 00:57:46/ 00:00:27/ 00:32:12) 01:45:32
18. Herron, Nigel (00:15:49/ 00:00:47/ 00:57:37/ 00:00:27/ 00:32:17) 01:46:58
20. Marinko, John (00:15:38/ 00:00:39/ 00:57:51/ 00:00:26/ 00:33:15) 01:47:50
59. Field, Andrew (00:16:50/ 00:01:52/ 01:09:02/ 00:00:57/ 00:36:26) 02:05:08
71. Harrington, Roland (00:14:01/ 00:00:52/ 01:15:08/ 00:01:01/ 00:37:06) 02:08:08
113. Mcgeever, Gina (00:18:12/ 00:02:28 /01:23:41/ 00:00:38/ 00:50:36) 02:35:36
119. Mello-Costa, Ananda (00:24:47/ 00:00:56 /01:22:11 /0:00:53/ 00:51:51) 02:40:39

In the sprint: 400m/20km/5km

9. Woodman, Tim (00:05:38/ 00:00:27/ 00:31:30/ 00:00:26/ 00:20:19) 00:58:21
29. Mechen, Wesley (00:07:22 /00:01:04/ 00:33:46/ 00:00:59/ 00:17:50) 01:01:02
35. Mcclelland, Faye (00:07:37/ 00:01:03 /00:34:25/ 00:00:35/ 00:19:11) 01:02:52
67. Flewett, Will (00:09:24/ 00:00:43/ 00:35:21/ 00:00:53/ 00:20:41) 01:07:03
76. Hughes, Emma (00:07:06/ 00:00:46/ 00:37:56/ 00:00:34/ 00:21:48 ) 01:08:11
107. Price, Carla (00:07:33/ 00:00:49 /00:40:50/ 00:00:32/ 00:23:09) 01:12:54
144. Browne, George (00:08:00 /00:01:28/ 00:40:28 /00:00:52/ 00:27:52) 01:18:41

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In the long race it looks like Tom did extra lengths in the swim. At least 2 places may have been lost. His run split was fastest by over 2mins.

Ro was unlucky enough to get a puncture at the last RAB so walked the last 2.5 km back to T2. He still finished though.

Malcolm got 1st MaleSVet.

In the sprint Tim managed to break the hour even though he said he wheezed his way through the run.

Faye was 4th female.

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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short race results

4km run/24km bike/4km run

79. Georgina Browne 1:34:01 (21:45/47:11/25:05)
Well done George.

long race results

4km run/40km bike/8km run

5. Malcolm Hughes 1:44:33 (14:42/57:52/31:59)
8. Nigel Herron 1:46:11 (14:46/1:00:18/31:07)
31. Erica Martin 2:01:33 (16:02/1:11:55/33:36)
63. Paul Thomas 2:56:48 (28:38/1:19:01/1:09:09)

Well done to Erica, 3^rd senior female, and Malcolm, 3^rd male vet.

Not the most exciting run – 4x5M laps round the streets of West worthing. Nevertheless, it provides a useful pace check for the spring marathon runners.447 finishers.

23rd Sam Priestnall 2:13:58
25th Bob Novis 2:15:52 (1st M50)
42nd Andrew Field 2:21:57 (1st M60)
79th Kurt Hoyte 2:27:56

113rd Tom Sanderson 2:37:00

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Good running conditions. Nice early spring temperature and very little wind. The hills are still there though.There were 3772 finishers and the race was won by Gordon Mugi of Kenya in 1:08:00.

24th Darryl Hards 1:17:09
165th Andrew Neighbour !:29:27
300th Andrew Haig 1:34:10
348th Terry Avey 1:36:08
460th Tom Sanderson 1:38:20
3619th Paul Thomas 3:04:32

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Max Pickard was second scorer in the senior boys team that triumphed at the English Schools cross-country championships in Nottingham on the 19th of March. This is only the second time in the championship's 50-year history that a Sussex team has led the field.

They beat a strong Kent team into first place by just 9 points.

Other Phoenix runners involved were:
Billy White 64th Junior boys (sixth team), Will Durkin 44th Intermediate boys, Megan Lillie 215th Intermediate girls, Beth Kidger 103rd and Megan Kidger 227th senior girls.

Jake Elliot was unfortunate in having to pull out of the Intermedite boy's race.

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17th Josh Guilmant 1:09:38

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