In the first match of the Youth Development League on Saturday, we won 22 events and finished fourth overall – just four points behind the combined team of Bournemouth, Poole & New Forest Juniors. The temperature remained slightly above the seasonal average but the strong swirling breeze represented a challenge, […]
It was “mission accomplished” for our men at the South of England Road Relay Championships on Sunday, as they achieved their main aim of qualifying comfortably for the Nationals in Birmingham in two weeks’ time. They were also relishing a resumption of the usual local rivalry with Thames Valley Harriers […]
Saturday afternoon saw the final fixture of this season’s North West London cross country league, and it was a successful afternoon for our young athletes. The U15 boys’ team won the league title and the club came away with six individual medals, the latter being awarded for points scored over […]
Jason Carty does it again! Following his gold medal-winning performance of 7.32 over 60m at the British Masters Indoor Champs a couple of weeks back, he took gold at the Europeans in Torun. Starting with 7.29 in his heat, he improved to 7.25 in the semi, and shaved his time […]
We enjoyed a successful morning at the Middlesex Masters XC Champs at Trent Park on Sunday. It was a well-attended event, with over 100 athletes, though ESM sent a relatively small squad of 10 (plus a guest). However, we were rewarded with two sets of team medals and two individual […]
At least 31 ESM runners took part in a parkrun yesterday morning, which is probably a club record! (And that’s not counting the fair few who were out there volunteering). Quite a few of the youngsters were at Northala Fields trying to get qualifying times for the Mini-Marathon, while Gunnersbury Park […]
After a successful inaugural event last year, we once again hosted the Derek Hebbes Memorial Schools Relays at Perivale Park on Wednesday. Around 100 children took part from seven local schools, with Notting Hill & Ealing High and Belvue High participating for the first time. ESM members played a prominent […]
We secured eleven medals at the Middlesex Indoor Athletics Championships at Lee Valley last weekend. For the senior men, Seb Zajaczkowski clocked up a personal best in the 800m to claim a silver medal, ducking under two minutes for the first time. Behind him, Mo Hashi ran almost exactly the […]
Five of our young athletes represented Middlesex at the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships in Blackburn yesterday. All six races comprised fields of well over 300, and a total of almost 2000 young athletes raced over the undulating course in Witton Park. Erica Wallace’s 73rd place was an excellent performance […]
Five of our young athletes were selected to represent Middlesex in the Inter-Counties cross-country championships at Cofton Park in Birmingham last Saturday. The event took place in glorious Spring weather, but the undulating course still presented a challenge in this high quality competition. In the 5km U17 women’s race, Erica […]