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 […]
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 […]