Burgess Hull Runners cover distances from 1.25 to 100 miles

Burgess Hill Runners were scattered around the South East this weekend covering distances from 1.25 miles up to 100 miles.
The runners poised to take on the SDW100 (courtesy: Jon Lavis) vLkeFftrKm-Ie-CNJQS3The runners poised to take on the SDW100 (courtesy: Jon Lavis) vLkeFftrKm-Ie-CNJQS3
The runners poised to take on the SDW100 (courtesy: Jon Lavis) vLkeFftrKm-Ie-CNJQS3

Mark Nicholls, Darren Chilcott and Diane Delderfield ran through the day and night at the South Downs Way 100 which follows the whole of the popular 100 mile route from Winchester to Eastbourne. They completed the gruelling event in stunning times of 23:03:22, 24:59:57 and 29:44:11 respectively. Several club members also manned an aid station at the Clayton windmills for all of the competitors.

Burgess Hill scored maximum points at the Littlehampton Beach Run in the West Sussex Fun Run League last week. Paul Sargent was the first of the ‘blue army’ to finish the approximately five mile course, his time 29:08. Also scoring full points were Paul Prosser (29:21), Jon Boxall (29:27), Gary Woolven (29:29), Jason Collett (30:24), Sharona Harrington (34:33) and Kirsty Armstrong (34:54). At the second race of the week, the Hove Park 5k, the club finished joint second and just short of full points. Top point scorers were Gary Woolven (18:03), Neil Grigg (18:18), Steve Bird (19:08), Jo Bryce (19:13), Miranda Skinner (21:31) and Anette Maynard (22:49). The club were proud of several club members that made their WSFRL debuts at these races. At the Beach Run - Geoff Barbe, Lynette Brown, Oliver Day, Phil Latham, Denise Murphy, Paul Turner and George Wotton. At Hove Park - Sarah Hellier, Janella Merritt and Rebecca Norton.

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The club entered several teams in the Haywards Heath Summer Relays. Four runners cover a very short, sharp 1.25 mile loop of Whiteman’s Green in Cuckfield. The fastest BHR team comprised of Miranda Skinner, Richard Copeland, David Leen and Trevor Symes who covered the course in 37:55.

Elsewhere, Oliver Dewdney completed the Osterley Park 10k in 48:05 and Claire Giles completed three laps of the five mile course at the Endure 24 event.

Finally, five club members added swimming and cycling to their repetoire at the Mid Sussex Triathlon. Completing the three disciplines were Simon Alexander in a total time of 1:23:36, Emma Buckland (1:28:35), Benny Coxhill (1:30:04), Sally Symes (1:30:06) and Catherine Kempton (1:50:21).

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