John Falvey reports on a weekend in Ealing’s twin town near Lille… After much advance planning (half an hour), Fiona and I booked ourselves onto the Marcq-en-Baroeul “semi marathon” (actually 7K for me) three weeks before the race. Fiona immediately embarked on a full week of intensive training for a […]
Five ESM members tackled this year’s edition of the recently revived Harrow Half, writes Fiona Kennedy, and fine sunny conditions greeted the field of almost 600. First home for the club was Santosh Rai, running as part of his build-up to the Chicago Marathon in three weeks’ time. Knowing it was a […]
Conditions once again felt warm and humid for this year’s Middlesex Road Relays at Minet Park. There have only been senior races since 2016, and turnout remains relatively low, but you can only beat those who compete, and our men’s and women’s A teams did just that. Jamie Taylor-Caldwell led […]
Sarah Harris reports from this year’s race… We set off bright and early on Sunday 9th of September to take part in the River Relay. It was one of those beautiful mornings when late summer is still holding out against the advent of autumn and after months of running through […]
Top ESM veteran Jason Carty took M45 gold in both the 100m and 200m at the World Masters Championships in Malaga last week. Having broken the British M45 record for 100m earlier this year, he broke it again with a truly impressive clocking of 11.01. (And no, there wasn’t a […]
The ESM Yacht Handicap has been an annual fun event for ESM runners & friends for at least the last 50 years & quite possibly longer. The concept, borrowed from the world of sailing, is designed to give everybody regardless of ability, a chance to win. In the 1960s the […]
Last Saturday the club travelled to Battersea Park for their final Division 3N Southern Athletics League (SAL) fixture of 2018, writes Phil York. The team finished fourth out of the five teams involved, in a match won by Wycombe Phoenix Harriers. This meant that ESM finished in a mid-table position […]
Quite a few ESM members completed a parkrun this weekend, writes Fiona Kennedy, but none faster than 14-year-old Mohamed Ali. In fact, his 15:14 clocking was the fastest parkrun across the whole of the UK yesterday! His target had actually been the Under 15 record of 15:31 set by Southampton AC runner Zakariya […]
14-year-old Mohamed Ali set a world age best of 8:15.02 at the Hercules Wimbledon 3000m Open Graded Meeting last night – comfortably beating the previous record of 8:21.32 set by Chikashi Ikeda in Japan in May 2012. He also smashed his own PB of 8:37.01 set in June this year. Coach Steve […]
With the school holidays having already started, we headed to the final fixture with a depleted team, approximately 40% down on previous matches, reports Bridie Lebdiri. It was probably much the same for the other clubs, with noticeably fewer non-scoring numbers turning out. Our athletes did themselves proud and we […]