I’m not able to run the final Summer League race at Battersea, writes Shona Cowper, as I’m attending a wedding at a festival that weekend (although I’ve discovered they have organised morning runs so I’ll still get some miles in!). Therefore, I thought I’d write some words about the races […]
The tenth running of the popular Ware 10 was a club championship event, but most of us seem to have stayed home wilting in the heat, reports Fiona Kennedy. The weather conditions were far from ideal – it was a good day for personal worst times – but there was […]
While a group of runners travelled across London to Dulwich for the Summer League last Sunday, nine ESM road runners opted for this popular local race, reports Mark Kencroft. This year saw a late change of organisers, who had just over five weeks to get the event up and running, […]
“The Glastonbury for runners?” Most of us had never heard of this race when Barbro first suggested ESM take part. It’s a 24 hour race over an 8K circuit, and can be undertaken solo, in pairs or in teams of up to eight. Barbro’s enthusiasm persuaded ten people – a […]
Long-time ESM member Dennis Wraight set an M80 record of 25:47.61 over 5000m in the Slovenian Championships in Celje recently. This also ranks him fifth on the UK all-time list for that age group. Dennis, now 81, has found some good form lately, which he attributes in part to having […]
It may have been Father’s Day, but that didn’t deter more than 50 of our young athletes turning out at the third match of the season, writes Bridie Lebdiri. The six-lane track at Finsbury Park was buzzing with nearly 400 enthusiastic young athletes. We put in another solid performance and […]
A few of our middle distance athletes clocked pleasing times at the Watford Open Graded Meeting last Wednesday evening. Nick Landeau dipped under 1:50 again with his 1:49.79. George Kerry got agonisingly close to a sub-two-minute clocking with a personal best performance of 2:00.69. Relative novice Seweryn Czapka – still […]
Provisional results from last week’s Vets Track & Field League are below and are also available on power of 10. The men’s team placed sixth and the women fourth. Results from Match 2 Men 040618 Results from Match 2 Women 040618 The next match is this coming Monday evening at […]
Thanks to Bridie Lebdiri for this report from the MYAL match at the weekend. And the winners are…!!!! “We won??” Was my response to John when we received the results! We certainly did not expect that, so a very well done to all our athletes, coaches and officials who helped […]
On paper, the second SAL fixture was scheduled to be a six-team contest. However, Loughton kept their promise to be a ‘no-show’, leaving the usual five teams on the day. On his way through the stadium car park at 11:30am, ESM men’s team manager Phil York had a conversation with […]