Our running activities barely seem to pause for breath, writes Martin Wilson. Following on from the Northala Christmas Day parkrun special it was the turn of the traditional ESM Boxing Day handicap to take centre stage. As far as we know this has been an annual event since 1924, and […]
Santa Canter results are here! Breege won the coveted Santa, with Nick Steel the fastest man and Shona Cowper the fastest woman. Happy Christmas one and all.
Last Sunday saw the 20th running of the Perivale 5 mile road race, writes Race Director Phil York. Thankfully, weather conditions on the day were clear, crisp and dry – had the event been held a week later, it would have been cancelled due to the snowy conditions. Just ahead […]
There was lots of positive feedback about the course that hosts Hillingdon AC devised for the third Met League match. It included the usual testing little hill over the old ski slope, but this year also had a stream in the lower section of the course – amusing to watch […]
Two ESM athletes won medals at the London Universities & Colleges Championships held at the Lee Valley indoor stadium at the weekend. Sebastian Hanson won both the 1500m and the 3000m. He had a four second winning margin in the 1500m, which he ran in 4:11.47. He also had a […]
Jon Ellis has achieved great success in ultra running throughout this year, including fourth place in the gruelling Swissalpine Marathon 78K race in July. Having won the South Downs Way 50 in April and the North Downs Way 50 in May, he turned his attention this autumn to the Chiltern […]
Coach Bridie Lebdiri shares a few observations on the last match. Thanks to Annick Hooge for these photos; there are more on our Facebook page. U11 boys: It was good to see Tom and Evan trying out cross country. Alec Edgar did very well, I advised him to follow Lucy […]
Having won the Under 15 Boys’ race at the first British Cross Challenge in Milton Keynes earlier this month, Mohamed Ali underscored his dominance with another win at Sefton Park in Liverpool. Easing around the undulating 3km course, he held on for an impressive win, according to the British Athletics […]
Another fabulous day for cross country: cold and still frosty underfoot in places, but glorious winter sunshine in Trent Park for this long-established cross country race. It’s a popular course, being, as Louise put it “nicely challenging, but not overly so”, and many of the women enjoy the chance to […]
The ‘Challenge’ is to stay on your feet! Herbert’s Hole, the last in the series of Club Championship races, and arguably the hardest, writes Louise Prince. Listed under the heading of ‘Multi terrain 10Ks’, runners could have been forgiven for thinking it was a 10K race, when actually it was […]