“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 […]
The annual cross country awards were presented to our young athletes after training on Tuesday evening, by coach Graham French and club President Carol Jones. Awards are determined by a points system across 10 League races, whereby 20 points are allocated to the first ESM runner, 19 for the second […]
Hyde Park 10K Congratulations to Jonathan Horan for winning the Hyde Park 10K in a personal time of 35:38. Jonathan has made great progress in the last year, lowering his 10K best by two and a half minutes. M55 Martin Daoud also won a trophy for finishing first in his […]
Congratulations to U13 Theo Jarrett for winning this month’s Jack Petchey award. Theo is coached by Manicon Pillai and was nominated by young athlete coach Bridie Lebdiri, who says he is a polite and hard-working athlete. He trained through the whole winter, and this effort resulted in a PB in […]