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 […]
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 […]