Last Saturday an intrepid group of ESM athletes made the long journey to Yorkshire to take part in the Saucony English National Cross Country Championships at Harewood House, near Leeds, reports Phil York. It really was a glorious day, with the sun shining, facilities great and good transport links to […]
Following his indoor 1500m PB set at the Lee Valley Middle Distance Open last Wednesday, Mohamed Ali went on to win silver at the national indoor championships in Sheffield on Saturday. According to coach Steve Mann, the aim was “just to test out where he is now. He had only completed […]
We had 13 runners in the Hillingdon half marathon this year and one in the 10K, reports Mark Kencroft, with some taking up free places offered after the cancellation of last year’s Hillingdon 10/Finchley 20. Ian Leslie actually turned up without having a place in the race at all, but […]
With many of our young athletes away on on half term holidays, Duke of Edinburgh duties, school trips and so on, a select band of just seven travelled to Hampstead Heath on Saturday for the fourth North West London League cross country fixture, reports Team Manager Bridie Lebdiri. U13 Kian […]
Congratulations to Jamie Taylor-Caldwell and Chris Hepworth for their PB performances at a high quality 5K road race in Armagh last night: 15:14 for Jamie and 15:49 for Chris. Jamie knocked seven seconds off his previous best time on the road, while Chris improved his record by 24 seconds. Jamie […]
Last Saturday ESM travelled to Alexandra Palace for the final Metropolitan League fixture of the 2018/19 cross country season, writes Phil York. Needing a miracle to avoid relegation from Division One, the club’s senior men made a valiant attempt to preserve their top flight status. Although the three lap course […]
Parliament Hill is a notoriously testing course. However, despite rain later in the day, underfoot conditions at this year’s SEAA Championships were among the most benign in recent years. We were well represented in the senior races but numbers were a little down in the junior ranks, with many having […]
There were some great runs by our young athletes at this morning’s London Mini Marathon Trial, which was held at Northala Fields parkrun. Of the 18 who lined up, six ran all-time parkrun PBs: congratulations to Jonah Mezey, Finlay Vadon, Alistair Larkam, Thomas Bass, Lucy Henson and Mia de Vivenot. […]
On Saturday, Thames Valley Harriers hosted the penultimate Metropolitan League fixture of the 2018/19 cross country season at Wormwood Scrubs, and record fields were witnessed. Cross country courses don’t come much easier than this relatively flat course, and runners arrived to find that the conditions underfoot were fairly dry, though […]
ESM hosted the County champs at Horsenden Hill for the second year in a row, and Phil York once again excelled in his role as ‘Clerk of the Course’. Apparently, he started marking it out at 7am, safe in the knowledge that later in the day he could relax and spectate, […]