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Hailsham Harriers, Eastbourne Rovers and Run Wednesdays athletes have been out in all weathers – and a wide range of races. Here is how they have been faring...

Two members of Hailsham Harriers joined 200 runners at Pippingford Park, near Nutley, on Saturday to take part in the Fortitude challenge.

The Fortitude Challenge is a timed, lapped event, where by entrants run laps of three, four or five miles on the hour, every hour for ten hours.

This challenging course takes in up to 700ft of elevation but proved no problem at all for Harriers Julie Lewis-Clements and Michelle Hollands, two of Hailsham's’ Couch to 5K run leaders.

Fortitude -was enjoyed by Harriers duo Michelle and Julie

They both chose the three-mile lap and clocked up an impressive 30 miles each, finishing with beaming smiles, as for both, this heralded their longest running distance ever.

Meanwhile In Hastings, on a wet Sunday morning, 28 Harriers turned out to run the 39th Hastings Half Marathon with sterling performances all round.

Ross Brocklehurst raced to a new personal best in 1:14:47, over a minute quicker than last year, placing eighth overall and first in age.

Ross was followed by teammates Rob Chrystie 1:22:34 and Los Burrett 1:26:03 both running personal best times. Graham Woolley 1:29:47, Helen O’Sullivan 1:35:42, Matt Southam 1:36:43, Audrey Haddon 1:39:29 with a personal best, Simon Haddon 1:41:13, Carl Barton 1:41:50, Mik Husarz 1:41:50, Tina Macenhill 1:45:50, Wendy Robson 1:47:27, Graham Purdye 1:47:27, Chris Little 1:48:59, Tracy Erridge 1:49:01, Gary Smith 1:50:01, Barry Burgess 1:55:39, Mark Pope 1:56:46, Hannah Deubert-Chapman 2:00:27, Victoria Little 2:02:30, Frances Delves 2:06:46, Katy Reed 2:08:58, Sam Neame 2:13:20, Ros Thomson 2:21:41 with a personal best, Lisa Phillips-Horner 2:28:51, Maria Stanford 2:43:03, and Darren Gillett 2:44:45 made up the strong black and red team.

Hailsham duo Los & Mik at the Hastings Half

Like past years, the Hastings Half is overseen by Hastings Lions Club and this year’s saw 2,000 entrants run, with the event raising funds for charities including Martha’s Trust, St Michael’s Hospice, The Sara Lee Trust and Chestnut Tree House.

Hailsham Harriers will begin their next Couch to 5K programme in April. Email Tom Price at [email protected] to join.

EASTBOURNE ROVERS

Eastbourne Rovers athletes were undeterred by rain when they competed at the Crawley spring open track meeting.

This event provides competition in some of the more unusual events of 75m, 150m, 300m and 600m for athletes to test their speed ready for the start of the outdoor season.

Oscar Mizen started his day lining up for the under-15 boys’ 600m.

He took the lead from the start and held off the rest of the field as he sprinted into the home straight to record a personal best of 1min 35.

Oscar then found more speed as he won the 300m event knocking a fantastic 1.5 secs off his last season’s best time.

Hailsham duo show great Fortitude… Rovers on track at Crawley… Wednesday gang enjoy finale