Twenty-five ESM road runners took part in the Hampton Court Palace Half Marathon on Sunday. It’s a flat course although the stretch along the river is on gravel with the usual potholes. It wasn’t a closed circuit either but the marshals did their best to hold back the cars at […]
Twelve of our young athletes competed at the County indoor championships at the weekend, and achieved six medals between them. U17 sprinter Phoenix Lyon took gold convincingly in both his events, with a lifetime best of 7.20 in the 60m and an indoor best of 23.1 in the 200m. In […]
Our veterans came home with a clutch of medals after the 18th Middlesex Masters Cross Country Championship on Saturday. On an undulating but relatively firm course at Cassiobury Park, W55 Fiona Kennedy won the women’s race outright. With Louise Prince and Alison Turrell, the club’s women secured team medals in […]
Congratulations to Jason Carty for his victory in the M45 60m, in a time of 7.25. Tracey Gould won both the indoor W35 weight throw (9.08k) with a distance of 9.79m and the outdoor hammer throw with a throw of 35.44. After his indoor track debut at the Southern Counties […]
Well done to Mukhtar Farah, Manish Kunwar, John Fielding and Anisa Ibrahim, who represented Middlesex at yesterday’s Inter-Counties in Birmingham. Mukhtar and Manish ran in the U20 men’s race, finishing 55th and 79th. They were third and fourth scorers in the 4-to-score team competition, in which Middlesex finished fifth. John […]
Congratulations to six of our young athletes who were selected to run for Middlesex in the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships at the weekend: Senior boys (7k): 109 Mukhtar Farah (310 ran) Intermediate boys (5.7k): 141 John Fielding 19:59; 149 George Kerry 20:02 (335 ran) Senior girls (4.2k): 133 Jessica Harbert […]
Saturday’s weather proved challenging for our young athletes competing in the final fixture of the North West London League at Wormwood Scrubs, but they enjoyed a successful end to the season, with the U17 girls taking the overall league title. (The U15 girls were also awarded the trophy for their […]
Twenty-one of our young athletes had an early start heading for the National Cross Country Champs at Donington Park in Leicestershire, while three of our senior men had a slightly more leisurely journey, making their own way up to the venue for their 3pm start. Cold, bright weather and good […]
With the last Met League over it’s time to add up the scores and work out who were this winter’s champions. Whilst lots of people turned out in one race or another, few people did enough races to be in contention. In the end it came down to one new favourite, […]
It was a low-key turnout by ESM at the final Met League fixture at Ally Pally on Saturday, especially from the senior ranks – perhaps in the knowledge that relegation was inevitable. While there were some good performances from those who went, including the outstanding tenth place for Tom Jervis […]