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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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Hot and humid this one, with a nasty uphill finish. Liz's result followed on from a 20 mile bike ride to get to the race!

43rd Andrew Haig 43:19 (1st M65)
95th Liz Halliday 48:34

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MALCOLM HUGHES  50-54 02:13:37 74 3 Brighton Phoenix 00:23:28 00:01:33 01:10:26 00:00:53 00:37:17

DEBORAH EVERS  50-54 02:51:52 594 8 Brighton Phoenix 00:28:09 00:02:30 01:30:18 00:01:34 00:49:21

PAUL THOMAS  50-54 03:38:21 746 58 Brighton Phoenix 00:37:01 00:04:46 01:39:33 00:01:41 01:15:20

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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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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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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

Arundel Sprint Triathlon (400m swim/19k bike/5.26k run)

7. John Marinko 45-49 01:02:36 00:07:54/ 00:00:26/ 00:32:14/ 00:00:24/ 00:21:36
16. Wesley Mechen 30-34 01:05:57 00:07:07/ 00:00:59 /00:35:13/ 00:00:34 /00:22:02
53. Emma Hughes 25-29 01:15:40 00:07:03/ 00:00:38/ 00:41:27/ 00:00:30 /00:25:59
64. Tess Sandilands 35-39 01:16:35 00:07:20/ 00:01:08/ 00:42:23 /00:00:23 /00:25:19
101. Cathryn Walsh 40-44 01:22:16 00:08:54/ 00:01:16/ 00:41:18/ 00:00:47 /00:30:00
125. Gill Checkley 35-39 01:28:14 00:10:42/ 00:01:32/ 00:48:50/ 00:00:32/ 00:26:35


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Arundel Standard Triathlon (800m swim/37k bike/9.25k run)

4. Malcolm Hughes 50-54 01:54:19 00:13:46/ 00:00:33/ 01:00:24/ 00:00:37 /00:38:57
21. Roland Harrington 45-49 02:05:41 00:14:16/ 00:00:48/ 01:06:11/ 00:00:56/ 00:43:29
66. Elizabeth Halliday 45-49 02:27:54 00:17:08/ 00:02:18/ 01:21:23/ 00:01:14/ 00:45:50
105. Paul Thomas 50-54 03:23:23 00:21:12/ 00:05:04/ 01:28:20/ 00:01:49/ 01:26:56

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Well done to everyone

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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5th in this season's SGP series and…well where was everybody?

65th Andrew Haig 44:04 (2nd M60)

Thanks to Stuart Pal who supported and helped with the leafleting

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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.

Tom Farsides 3:18:11

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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Hotter than expected but what a fantastic spectacle and, in the circumstances, some tidy performances for Phoenix.

The results don't allow for club or age category search so if I've missed you out please let me know.

25 Alex Bonzi 2:54:51                                                                                     
32 Mike Townley 2:56:49
40 Jon Pike 2:59:31
72 John Marinko 3:07:34
147 Miles Davidson 3:13:55
166 Bob Novis 3:14:45
346 Brian Friend 3:24:09
349 Daren Elliot 3:25:20
473 Jonathan Hancock 3:29:41
514 Sam Priestnall 3:31:26
536 Andrew Field 3:31:15
607 Andrew Neighbour 3:32:54
872 Tom Holborn 3:42:14
1155 Stuart Batchelor 3:47:59
1296 Ivon Lyons 3:50:07
1650 John Lamb 3:57:53
1862 John Tindell 4:00:35
2005 Terry Avey 4:04:50
4950 Cathryn Walsh 4:47:08

Kurt Hoyte guided a blind runner, Keith Turner of Arena 80, to a 4:09:39 finish

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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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54th Dave Carter 1:13:54
263rd Michael Whyte 1:24:09
395th Jim Whitelegg 1:26:42
443rd Ray Matthews !:1:27:40
498th Brian Friend 1:28:08
2196th Liam Chessel 1:42:36

THe race was won in 1:03:03 by Edwin Kipyego
There were 12,308 finishers

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There were nine Phoenix athletes selected for County representation in Birmingham and eight were able to run, with impressive results.

For the senior men, Finn McNally was 126th and James Miles 246th. For the U20 men Max Pickard was 36th as part of the third-placing team. In the U15s Billy White was 85th and in the U13s Archie Davis was 103rd and Reuben Hoyte 177th. Liz Durman ran 198th in the senior women's race and Beth Kidger 118th for the U17s.

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17th Josh Guilmant 1:09:38

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44th 00:38:27 Josh Guilmant Phoenix AC

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At the last cross-country league race at Lancing on the 12th February, the Under 13 boys team who have been excellent all season took first place on the day and claimed silver team medal for the season.

With seven athletes in the team all performing well, the lads really showed the rest of us how its done. Team manager Quenton Davis puts it this way: 'I think a combination of up-and-coming talent & and our commitment to attendance in numbers saw us through'

Archie Davis was first home in third place just 23 seconds off the lead. Archie was unlucky to miss out on the individual medals by a whisker. Then we had Matt Berridge 7th, Reuben Hoyte 9th, Isaac Wright 12th, Will Russell 32nd and Josh White 40th. Joe Lillie was unlucky to have to withdraw with an injury.

U15 boys featured two ever-reliable athletes Sam Kitchen 9th and Luke Reynolds 21st and place sixth for the year.

There was no U17 boys team featuring at all in the results.

Charlotte Matthews ran well again for the U13s but without support the team was just 11th for the season. Jody Mann 6th, and Amber Muir 14th ran well for the under 15 girls but without a full team had to settle for 6th overall.

The senior women fielded just two runners, Liz Durman 15th and Megan Lillie (U17) 42nd. After poor representation all season they languish 5th in the second division.

The senior men again featured just two runners (James Miles an excellent 9th and Andrew Neighbour 69th) and had to depend on the vets for their scoring including 60+ runner Malcolm Kemp. They were inevitably well short of the medals in 5th place. The vet men have been reasonably represented during the season but were without their strongest team at Lancing. They held on to fifth place. Nigel Herron ran a terrific 34th and Malcolm Hughes 55th and Lance Bellers 67th were the other scorers.

We need to decide whether we want to succeed across the board in this competition next season and, if so, what can we learn from the U13 boys team?

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It's tough at this level, so some good performances here, especially by Archie in the U13 boys race. Figures in brackets give size of field/winning time.

U13 boys Archie Davis 32nd 12:29 (224/11:19)
Sen women Liz Durman 83rd 35:23 Erica Martin 90th 35:46 Sonal Chaudhary
331st 46:11 (381/29.47)
Sen men Dave Carter 106th 55:31 Andrew Neighbour 521st 1:08:04 (885/48:23)

Next year this fixture will be at Stanmer Park. Maybe we can look forward to a better turnout and, who knows, some teams!

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Team silver for the over 60s (Andrew Haig, Terry Avey, Malcolm Kemp with Rik Taub in support) and team bronze for the over 40s (Bruce Warren, David Powell, Nigel Herron, Bruce Faulkner with Malcolm Hughes, John Marinko and Ro Harrington in support). Fine runs by Phil Hampshire and Brian Friend in the over 50s.

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It's the boys teams that are still keeping the Phoenix flag flying. The U13 boys fielded 5 runners with Archie Davis (3rd), Reuben Hoyte (4th), Isaac Wright (9th) running exceptionally well, with Joe Lillie and Will Russell in support. Winners on the day, the team have now moved into bronze position overall. The U15 boys have jumped from 7th to 4th overall with excellent runs from Billy White (3rd), Sam Kitchen (14th) and Luke Reynolds (21st). Thats where it stops with the under 17 boys without a team and no longer featuring in the tables.

Well done to Charlotte Matthews, Elorah Mann (U13G), Jodie Mann, Amber Muir (U15G) for strong performances. Its always going to be difficult to trouble the medals without full scoring teams. The U15s, though, have moved up from 9th to 8th place.

Then – oh dear – the senior turnout was dire. The women first. TheU17 runner Megan Lillie, was the ONLY Phoenix runner. She ran brilliantly for 30th place but in division 2, the women's team has now plunged from third to fifth position overall.

The men too were unable to provide a complete scoring team with James Miles (an excellent 9th) the only senior runner. As ever it was down to the four vets who turned up to provide a measure of respectability. Bruce Warren (33rd), Nigel Herron (48th) and Malcolm Hughes (69th) ran well, with O65 runner Andrew Haig (91st) unexpectedly having to contribute to the scoring. Inevitably the seniors have slipped from third to 4th overall but with 34 points separating them from bronze could still get among the medals at Lancing. The vets have slipped a place to 5th but it's very tight with just 11 points separating them from bronze-placed Arena 80.

THIS FROM U13 BOYS MANAGER QUENTON DAVIS:
…the U13 Boys now lie in bronze position in the team event overall. Statistically, we have not yet fielded our strongest 3 runners in any of the first 3 matches. Brighton & Hove have pretty much run away with the gold medal  but Chichester, currently in 2nd place,  are now only 15 points ahead of the Phoenix Boys. After the great performances on Saturday at Bexhill, we took the team event over Chichester by 12 points. With Archie Davis now looking like he is back to full fitness and the other boys all improving with every match, particularly Reuben, Matt Berridge and Isaac Wright, if we manage to field our strongest teams at Lancing, it may all get very interesting indeed. Whatever the outcome, this has been an outstanding cross country season for the Phoenix U13 Boys, who are pretty much all in their first season and with the exception of Will Russell, all eligible to compete in this age group again.

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22  01:19:57 92 Liz Halliday Vet F   1ST