You do like to be beside the seaside

Lynne Hinson and Nic Reynolds enjoying the Brighton sunshine. This week there are some fabulous performances in Brighton to report on. We've got Drew Sambridge competing in a couple of tough events over the weekend. He was joined in the second one, at Chedworth, by Becks Pridham. Chairman Paul Hawkins racewalks himself to just outside the top 20 in the UK all-time list, while Daisy Musk runs a superb 600m at Stourport. Also, Neil Wicks ran a 2:50 marathon in Wales while Emma Parkin competed in a 10k trail run in the Lake District. There's details of how you can enter the Warwickshire T&F Championships and finally there's a recap and final report on Matt Sims competing in the Marathon des Sables. I'm also aware that a few of you ran in the Walton Hall 10k at the weekend but at the time of writing the official results don't seem to have been posted, at least I can't find them. Apologies and if they're available, I can report on the race next week. Enjoy the Easter holiday. Best Wishes David Jones From the top : Lynne Hinson and Karl Harris pounding the streets of Brighton. Sarah Boundy and Adam Evans proudly showing off their medals and finally, Nic Reynolds and Kate Sergent. Brighton Marathon and 10k. Report - David Jones. The Brighton Marathon celebrated its tenth anniversary this weekend with another fantastic event the city can be proud of. More than 17,500 runners took part in various races over the two days, with more than 150,000 spectators cheering them on. Seven club members competed in this year’s race. The first of these to finish was Adam Evans in a magnificent PB time of 3:23.16. This was a 13 minute improvement on his previous best time. Adam commented : "This was a new PB for me. My previous best was 3:36 (which was Dublin in 2017) so I'm pleased to beat that time . The course itself was a really good one. It had plenty of spectators everywhere which helps a lot, especially when you are running into a strong headwind at the back of the course. Hopefully I can run an even better race at Edinburgh in 6 weeks time" Adam was followed by Karl Harris, who’s time of 3:48.49 was another PB, almost 12 minutes quicker than his time in this race last year. Just over a minute behind Karl was Lynne Hinson, who was competing in her first marathon. Her many weeks of training paid off as she finished in 3:49.57, to finish 15th in her age group of 315. Commenting on the race, Lynne said “ It was an amazing experience running my first marathon and the support from the public was incredible. I felt good for the first 16 miles then I started to get a shooting pain every now and again above my left knee. At 22 miles it was really niggling but nothing was going to stop me getting to that finish line. I…