Soaring temperatures and rock hard ground made for a challenging start to the cross country season, writes John Falvey. Runners had to meet the twin challenges of staying cool and staying on their feet as they traversed the sometimes rutted course. In the senior women’s race, Kat Mertens opted for the […]
Athletics Weekly interviews our very own superstar veteran sprinter Jason Carty this week. He talks about the astonishing progress he’s made since his lung cancer diagnosis, and the way he’s adapted his training to accommodate both his illness and his changing capacity as he ages. Read the interview here.
We sent two teams to the National Road Relays this year: Senior women and Under 17 men. The U17 men, comprising Arun Manget, Mohamed Ali and Elias Ahmed, finished a very respectable 12th out of 42 teams. Mo was the quickest of the leg two runners, clocking 11:50 over the 4.33km […]
81 year old Dennis Wraight took M80 gold in both the 5000m and the 1500m at this year’s Balkan Veteran Games. He took just 25:55.36 to complete the 5000m, and 7:03.70 for the metric mile. (Many veterans several decades younger would be happy to achieve those times!) This ranks him […]
The South Bucks 10K. This Championship race saw 14 club members (plus volunteers and supporters!) head over to Black Park to line up for one of the flattest 10Ks around. A beautiful, if crisp, morning greeted the runners as we approached the starting line. Cold in the shade, warm in […]
A view from the sidelines – Fiona Kennedy reports from the pavement It’s renowned for the fantastic crowd support around the course, and the 2018 Ealing Half – now in its seventh year – didn’t disappoint. (We probably had more club members supporting and volunteering than actually running… what does […]
James Steel reports from Lammas Park: There was a good turnout from the ESM junior section at this year’s Ealing Mini Mile. There was a win in the U12 girls’ category for Mia De Vivenot and in the U16 boys’ race, Marcus West broke the course record to win in […]
It was a perfect late summer’s day for cross-country, and we had some good results – including two individual winners – though numbers in the younger age groups were slightly down, with several of them opting for the Ealing Mini Mile the same afternoon. The U11 boys and U13 girls […]
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 […]