Congratulations to U15 Sonia Ouzhene for winning the Jack Petchey award for September 2019. Sonia attends training sessions regularly and is a very polite and friendly member of the endurance group. She’s shown great club loyalty by turning out at every cross country race so far this season. Despite being […]
Abingdon Marathon In recovery mode after hacking 10 minutes off his own marathon PB in Chicago recently, Andy Leung got on his bike to cheer on his team-mates at the Abingdon Marathon this weekend. Anyone who has witnessed Andy supporting a race knows he puts almost as much energy into […]
This was the club’s first-ever appearance in the senior races at the Southern Cross Country Relay Champs at Wormwood Scrubs, and our men finished a solid 22nd out of 36 finishing teams, reports Team Manager Chris Hepworth. Chris himself got us off to a good start, finishing with the team’s […]
The senior men stole the headlines at this opening match. Following their return to Division One, they produced their best Met League team result for some years, finishing fifth on the day. Jamie Taylor-Caldwell takes up the story: Having spent most recent seasons yo-yoing between Divisions 1 and 2, (and […]
Only our second ever appearance at these 6-stage National Road Relays in Birmingham, writes Team Manager Jamie Taylor-Caldwell. We didn’t quite manage our 46th place finish from 2007, but 53rd was still a good result. Ben Waterman got us off to an excellent start, with ESM’s fastest run on this […]
After some pretty spectacular downpours during the week, Sunday’s weather was pretty kind to our runners and spectators at the annual street party that is the Ealing Half Marathon. A little rain at the start, a slight breeze, but it could have been s-o-o-o much worse! There was the usual […]
Bridie Lebdiri reflects on the opening match of the season: During the past few weeks, we have had quite a few team talks at the clubhouse, with the aim of getting our young athletes and their parents/carers to understand the importance of turning out to represent the club. We have […]
Weather-wise, it felt like Groundhog Day – the report on last year’s Middlesex Road Relays began “conditions once again felt warm and humid”… And so it proved again, though as Breege pointed out, we only had 3K to tackle, unlike our team-mates who’d competed in the Harrow Half that morning. […]
Mission accomplished! We achieved a fifth successive victory at the final SAL match of the season on Saturday – all the sweeter because it was on home soil. We now stand at the top of our Division, with promotion back to Division 2 assured for next season. It wasn’t plain […]