Mission accomplished yet again for our senior track & field squad, as Phil York reports: Two weeks ago the ESM senior track and field squad made the short journey over to Parliament Hill to take part in the third Southern Athletics League fixture of the 2019 summer season. A magnificent […]
Tim Hannah reports from a successful day out: Team West London, our combined U20/U17 team from ESM and TVH, went off to Guildford on Sunday 30th June with our largest squad for several years. We were rewarded with a second place finish in this seven-team match, held in perfect weather […]
Congratulations to Maxi Steel, Cameron Thomas, Mia de Vivenot and Kai English, who are all recent recipients of Jack Petchey Awards. Maxi’s award was for lopping a mighty six seconds from his 800m PB in the Middlesex Track & Field Championships, where he dug in and displayed good improvement in […]
Team Manager Tim Hannah reports from a home match: Our composite team with TVH (Team West London) came third in this match yesterday out of the seven teams in our division. This was our home fixture at Perivale and we had our usual fine weather and superb organisation both on […]
Last Saturday ESM travelled to Peterborough for the second Southern Athletics League (SAL) fixture of the 2019 season. Having won the opening match at Perivale, joint team managers Jamie Taylor-Caldwell, Patricia Thomas and Chris Hepworth were hopeful of a good result deep in the heart of rural east England. The […]
Congratulations to Sarah Richardson, who won W45-49 Gold at the Aquathlon World Champs in Pontevedra (Spain) earlier this month. Christine Meek won Bronze in the W60-64 category, and Keith Freegard also competed. The event consisted of a 1km river swim and 5km run. Sarah says: “The swim was pretty tough, going […]
Loughborough student Oliver Way continues to enjoy success as he extends his range beyond his specialist distance of 1500m. Following his 31:57.79 at the BUCS 10,000m Championships in April, where he finished tenth, he broke 9 minutes at his first attempt over 3,000m, with a clocking of 8:49.86 at the Loughborough International on […]
Lynn Wilson reports: Focus Race for the Month of May – Langley Park 5k Having introduced a focus race of the month for the road runners, our first outing was to Langley Park for the first of a three-race series. Not only were we graced with the beauty of trail […]
Seventeen of our athletes travelled over to Lee Valley for the County Champs last weekend, and they came back with medals and PBs aplenty – though the gusty wind meant some of the best performances were wind-assisted. For the senior men, Mo Hashi won both the 1500m and the 5000m. […]
Steve Plummer (runner) and wife Caroline (supporter) have put together a great report on this year’s race, from their two different perspectives: Runner’s perspective The build up to the 2019 London Marathon has been very exciting this year. The combination of so many ESM runners taking part and groups getting […]