Sunday 11th June saw a small but determined band of runners and a couple of supporters (thanks Catherine and Philip) trek out to Wargrave for the first of the club championship road 10Ks, this race replacing the cancelled Ealing Eagles/Gunnersbury Park 10K. It’s a race some in the club have […]
There was a good set of times from ESM athletes at the latest Watford Open Graded Meeting, with a healthy sprinkling of PBs. Mo Hashi was our fastest over 1500m. He has run under 4 minutes already this season, and got agonisingly close to doing so again. George Kerry sliced a […]
ESM St Marys finished runners-up in the second Youth Development League match of the season, which took place in beautiful late spring conditions, writes Tim Hannah. We had a large team of Under 17 and Under 20 athletes from Ealing and St Mary’s due to compete. Unfortunately five of our brightest […]
Ben Waterman ran a season’s best of 1:48.68 to win the 800m at this year’s Loughborough International match. Nick Landeau also competed for the club, finishing second in the guest 1500m in a personal best time of 3:49.67. Described as “the athletics season’s traditional curtain raiser”, the match saw Loughborough students taking […]
We managed a slightly higher match score than the first meeting at Yeovil but still finished a disappointing fourth at Kingston. There were some encouraging performances from the men, especially in the track events, writes Phil York. We welcomed back Jamie Taylor-Caldwell, who has been studying at West Texas A&M […]
Saturday May 20th saw the second match of the new Middlesex Youth Development League at Finsbury Park for our younger athletes, writes Tim Hannah. Very mixed weather meant that we went from warm sunshine one moment to heavy rainstorms the next. Highgate won again with the home club London Heathside in second […]
Sunday 21st May saw the first of the Club Championship multi terrain 10Ks, writes Louise Prince, and also saw the first we’ve seen in a while of the Sun, which made for a very warm race. 20 club members, 13 men and 7 women, braved the heat of the morning […]
Saturday saw the opening day of the Middlesex Championships at an overcast Lee Valley, writes Tim Hannah. Despite the conditions with howling winds blowing down the valley ESM athletes were very successful on a day which featured seniors, U20 and U17 athletes. Ealing athletes were winning medals in the first […]
Jon Ellis does it again! After winning the recent South Downs Way 50, writes Fiona Kennedy, Jon went one better and won the North Downs Way 50 with a course record time of 6:37:27. For the first half of the race, Jon was behind the second-placed athlete, but he pulled through […]
The young athlete cross country awards for 2016-17 were belatedly handed out at Perivale Track after training last Thursday 11th May. For the age group awards, points are given for the best five results out of 10 league races (20 points for the first ESM runner, 19 points for the […]