GALLERY: Steyning Athletic Club's Easter Monday walk

WALKERS braved the coldest Easter for more than 40 years at the annual Festival of Sport.

Click on the green play button to see a slide show of photographs taken on the day.

Steyning Athletic Club's historic Easter Monday walking races went ahead but without its famous 15-mile event which organisers scrapped due to a lack of support and problems with health and safety.

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An adult 5km road race took place in Steyning High Street followed by a 2km road run for 11 to 18-year-olds and the a 2km race walk for those aged 12 and over.

The popular junior walking races for the under-12s, and under sevens also went ahead along with toddlers races.

In the afternoon hundreds of competitors from national clubs lined up for two different time starts of the duathlon of a 7km run, a 36km cycle and a 5km run around Steyning and the surrounding villages.

See the Thursday, March 27 edition of the Herald for a list of winners.

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