Burgess Hill Runners take oon a variety of events

At the longer end of the scale on Saturday Jan Lavis completed the CTS Endurancelife ultramarathon.

This is a tough event, covering 33.7 miles of the South Downs and including a double crossing of the Seven Sisters. Jan was pleased with her overall time of 7hrs 15 minutes. Dropping down the distances, a large contingent made the journey to Hastings and joined almost 3,500 runners for the ever-popular Hastings Half Marathon, many using this as their last long run-out before the upcoming Brighton and London marathons.

Paul Sargent, who is attempting the South Downs Way 50 mile race in 2 weeks again ran a brilliant race, finishing in 13th place overall over the testing, hilly course in an excellent 1hr 17m 10s.

There were also good performances from Neil Grigg (1.25.07), Jon Boxall (1.37.34), Neil Philpot (1.44.09), Stuart Anderson (1.45.19), Jason Wadey (a new PB in 1.48.15), Sharona Harrington (1.49.40), Susan Lyle (1.53.58), Lee Crow (1.56.23), Linda Russell (2.11.24), Helen Pratt (2.11.51), Kevin Walker (2.16.48) and Steve Gray (2.31.07). Finally, the club sent a number of runners to the latest West Sussex Fun Run League event on Sunday, the Hangover 5 organised by Goring Road Runners which was in fact ‘hungover’, having been cancelled due to flooding in January. Results awaited at the time of going to press.