The first Southern Athletics League meeting of 2016 on Saturday provided us with relatively few highlights. It was a chilly and damp afternoon, yielding only nine personal best performances, and the club won just 11 events. Although a good-sized squad of 28 athletes made the journey to Winchester, there were too few specialist field eventers […]
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ESM YA Cross Country Awards...
Ealing Southall Middx AC – Young Athlete Cross Country Club Championships U11 Boys 1st Najiib Hersi 100 2nd Finn Combe 99 3rd= Masaki Kanai 89 3rd= Harvey Williams 89 U11 Girls 1st Sadie Lawrence 40 2nd Amelie Canniff 19 U13 Boys 1st Matteo Lamagna 100 2nd Mahiis Hersi 98 3rd Mikey Kouwiloyan 96 U13 […]
News round-up on road &...
Despite the inauspicious weather conditions created by Storm Katie, at least twenty-two ESM road runners turned out to race over the Easter weekend, and were rewarded with three trophies and a clutch of personal best times. Five of the veteran men decided to join Mo Farah at the Cardiff Half Marathon on Saturday, also the […]
Hampton Court Palace 1/2M &...
Twenty-five ESM road runners took part in the Hampton Court Palace Half Marathon on Sunday. It’s a flat course although the stretch along the river is on gravel with the usual potholes. It wasn’t a closed circuit either but the marshals did their best to hold back the cars at crossing points. In spite of […]
Middx Indoor T&F Champ...
Twelve of our young athletes competed at the County indoor championships at the weekend, and achieved six medals between them. U17 sprinter Phoenix Lyon took gold convincingly in both his events, with a lifetime best of 7.20 in the 60m and an indoor best of 23.1 in the 200m. In the U17M 800m, George Kerry won silver […]
Middlesex Masters XC Champs...
Our veterans came home with a clutch of medals after the 18th Middlesex Masters Cross Country Championship on Saturday. On an undulating but relatively firm course at Cassiobury Park, W55 Fiona Kennedy won the women’s race outright. With Louise Prince and Alison Turrell, the club’s women secured team medals in the 45+ category. The M60 […]
British Masters Indoor T...
Congratulations to Jason Carty for his victory in the M45 60m, in a time of 7.25. Tracey Gould won both the indoor W35 weight throw (9.08k) with a distance of 9.79m and the outdoor hammer throw with a throw of 35.44. After his indoor track debut at the Southern Counties Masters in February, Dave Foley […]
CAU Inter County Cross Coun...
Well done to Mukhtar Farah, Manish Kunwar, John Fielding and Anisa Ibrahim, who represented Middlesex at yesterday’s Inter-Counties in Birmingham. Mukhtar and Manish ran in the U20 men’s race, finishing 55th and 79th. They were third and fourth scorers in the 4-to-score team competition, in which Middlesex finished fifth. John was first U17 men’s finisher […]
English Schools’ Cros...
Congratulations to six of our young athletes who were selected to run for Middlesex in the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships at the weekend: Senior boys (7k): 109 Mukhtar Farah (310 ran) Intermediate boys (5.7k): 141 John Fielding 19:59; 149 George Kerry 20:02 (335 ran) Senior girls (4.2k): 133 Jessica Harbert 19:01 (307 ran) Intermediate girls […]