Phoenix Athletics and Triathlon club

Finn McNally who is only in his first year as an Under 20 athlete, became one of the youngest ever winners of the annual Boxing Day race in Brighton's Preston Park.

James Miles has come second on three occasions in the Hove Park 5K time trials, but on Saturday 5 December he ran a hugely commited race to win the event. Martin Bean and Howard Bristow from Brighton and Hove AC pushed him all the way, with Martin taki Read more

The over 60s men's team (aka Silver Foxes) were defending champions at the Sussex Masters XC Champs at Denne Park on Sunday 6 December. That they did so with a thumping 16 point lead over silver-placed Brighton and Hove was down to a fine run by Andrew Read more

Congratulations to Faye McClelland for winning her category an Read more

The weather may have been appalling, leading to reduced numbers on the day but the racing was good and Phoenix notched up considerable success. Josh Guilmant took the men's race with a thrilling finish against Chichester's James Baker. Erica Martin led Read more

Well done to Nigel Herron for his 2^nd

October has seen two of our ladies taking on the challenge of ironman racing. Rachel Bibby was in action in Barcelona on the 4th while Lizzy Brama was in Hawaii for the World Championships on the 10th.

Phoenix women entered an unprecedented four teams for the Sussex Cross Country Relay Championships and were rewarded with victory for the A team. Erica Martin came home in the lead after leg 1 only for Horsham Blue Stars to take over the lead on the se Read more

Sophie Coleman and Vicky Graves have continued British Triathlon’s summer of success winning gold and silver respectively at the Junior Women’s 2009 Concord ITU Duathlon World Championships held in Concord, North Carolina on 26 September

The senior men put together pretty much their best team for this prestigious event A devastating first leg by Pat Davoren (18:58) and an equally impressive last leg (19:10) by Josh Guilmant bookended fine runs by the rest of the team. They were rewarde Read more

On Saturday 26th September Tim Bayley broke 4 mins for the first time

On Saturday 29th August, Josh ran 15:08 to take the top spot in the all-time Hove Park 5K time trial records. This eclipses Ben Warren’s long-standing time by 4 seconds and knocks 14 seconds off Josh’s pb on this course. What made

Faye won the T4 event at the Hyde Park Paratriathlon on Saturday 15th August which is a showcase event for the 2012 ParaOlympics with the largest ever field for a ParaTriathlon in Europe.

Fayes time of 41.38 was the fastest of the womens catego Read more

Josh Guilmant travelled all the way to Stretford track Manchester on Saturday 25 July to compete in a paced 5k race and recorded a massive pb which keeps him firmly at the top of this year's Sussex rankings. 

The annual Phoenix Blackcap handicap  was held on the most perfect of Downland evenings (see attached photos)  and attracted a record 35 athletes for this 5mile run. Thanks are due to Liz Halliday for a splendid piece of organisation and to J Read more

At last weekends South Of England track and Field Champs Phoenix had a small group of athletes who on the whole performed very well. Top of the bunch was Pat Davoren ( pictured in his race ) who

There must have been something in the air at the Hove Park 5k time trial on Saturday 20 June. No fewer than 5 Phoenix runners recorded pbs by substantial margins. For the icing on the cake Dave Carter won the event, which had a record Read more

A fantastic day out... Phoenix had three teams running on a good day for racing with a light wind helping and cool conditions a number of Phoenix records were broken and many others challenged. Read more

Tim Bayley is still putting up good performances in the US and is still proudly wearing the Phoenix vest. Recent marks include two 1:48 800ms and a second place in the Puma Mile in 4:02. If you go to the link below you can see a video of Tim running

At the Sussex Track and Field Championships in May Sophie Coleman broke Bridgit Smyth's U20 Club and Sussex record for 3000m when she won the County Champs in 9.27.9. This time is a qualifying time for this years European Junior Championships and curre Read more

Charlie Grice has had an amazing week. On Wednesday 20 May at the Brighton Schools Championship he set a new record time of 1:58 for the intermediate boys 800m. To put this in perspective this eclipses the time set by Steve Ovett at the same age and su Read more

Saturday's Little Beaver Triathlon saw Malcolm Hughes qualify for GB Team.

The impending orders for new tri gear should look something like this (these are the designs we submitted) When the suppliers proofs are ready we will show those here.

Tim Woodman and Debbie Evers qualify for the GB team going to Australia in September.

Malcolm Hughes got his first podium finish at the Steyning Long Triathlon on Sunday 3rd May. Finishing third behind

World Junior Champion Sophie Coleman added the National Junior Duathlon Championship at Loughborough on Sunday 26 April. Her winning time was 1:03:22 almost 1 minute ahead of 2nd.

After 4 races Nigel Herron is 15th overall and 2nd in his age-group in the British Duathlon Ranking Series.

Saturday 25th April 2009

Lizzy Brama wins the British Universities Colleges and Sport 10 Mile Time Trial Championships in Oxford in a time of 24 min 25 sec.

Hot conditions in the capital but Phoenix were well represented with at least six PBs.

The senior men were defending champions at the Sussex Road Relay Championships at Christ Hospital on 11 April. This time it was bronze for the team with Josh Guilmant running a storming leg for individual silver.

Well done to John Marinko, I think that he has qualified to go& Read more

At the British Duathlon Champs in Milton-Keynes on Sun 5th April Nigel Herron qualified to go to the ETU Duathlon European Championships in Budapest on 24 May. See the forum for his race report.  Well done Nigel!

Mike Murphy broke the three hour barrier with a splendid 2:58:36 at the Rotterdam Marathon on April 5th. This should spur on the others in Malcolm's training group who are eyeing the same target in London.

The Reading Half Marathon has become very popular with Phoenix Athletes in recent years. It's reasonably flat well-organised and perfect for pbs. This year's hopefuls were not disappointed.

A record 172 ran the Hove Park 5K timetrial on 21 March and Phoenix athletes Josh Guilmant and Matt Barrie lit the event up on their debuts.

Phoenix athletes were in action at the English Schools Cross country Championships at Stanford Hall on Saturday 21st March. Charlie Grice came 28th in the Inter Boys race and Max Pickard (pictured) came 98th. In the Inter Girls race Beth Kidger came 77 Read more

Ian Moss ran his first fell race of the season on March 7 – Black Combe in the South-West Lake District.

Men's manager Andy Bone has announced his selection this week for the 100 mile South Downs Way relay on Saturday 6th June.

There was Phoenix representation across the board in Sussex vests for the Inter-county championships in Nottingham on 7 March. Stars of the day were Charlie Grice who was 6th in the U15 boys and Sophie Coleman 10th in Read more

Superb performances again by our young stars. Sophie Coleman came 6th in the junior womens’ race which does no harm to her immediate goal of making the GB team for the World cross country champs in March.