In the first match of the Youth Development League on Sunday, we won eighteen events and finished third overall. Not a bad start, though another 16 points would have put us second, ahead of local rivals Hillingdon! It was a cold and windy day, which slowed times in the middle […]
Nick Landeau took silver in the 1500m at the CARIFTA Games in Fort de France, Martinique on Easter Sunday, in a time of 3:58.27. A day later, the talented nineteen-year-old also took bronze in the 800m, in a time of 1:51.86, not far outside his personal best. Twenty-seven Caribbean nations […]
After our promotion to Division Two last season, we were pleased to finish this first match of the season in second, just 25 points behind Herts Phoenix and well clear of both St Albans and Highgate. Our team was a mixture of youth and experience, with ages ranging from 15 […]
Mel Newbery clocked up a victory in the 10,000m track race at the prestigious Oregon Relays meeting in Eugene last Friday. Her time of 34:45.85 was both a personal best and a new club record.
Forty athletes from our thriving junior squad represented the Borough at the Mini London Marathon last Sunday. This popular event is the official British Athletics three mile road championships for young athletes aged 11-17, and includes teams from all 33 London Boroughs, as well as the nine regions of England, […]
It was a sell-out evening at The Hungry Yeti last night! With 105 tickets sold and only 100 places, we thought we might have to join Musical Chairs to the evening’s entertainment. (We have to thank the few who didn’t make it, thus sparing Fiona the potential embarrassment). There was a […]
Good performances from our athletes across a range of distances… Across the pond, Mel Newbery ran an impressive 6:42.37 for the 2000m steeplechase in the Oregon Preview meeting. Saturday’s Gunnersbury parkrun was won by James Steel in a personal best of 18:28. At the same event, Santosh Rai clocked up another PB […]
The inaugural Derek Hebbes Memorial Schools Relays at Perivale Park were a resounding success. Around 100 children took part from seven local schools – many of them ESM members of course! See how many you can spot in the photo of runners from Elthorne Park… Each team of five legs […]
It was a nail-biter to the last, but our men achieved their aim of qualifying for the National Road Relays in Birmingham in two weeks’ time. The qualification challenge was to finish within the top 25 clubs – no mean feat with several of our top runners unavailable. The 12 […]
We scooped 17 medals at the Middlesex Indoor Athletics Championships at the weekend. The event took place over two days at Lee Valley, and attracted a record field, with numbers 11% up on last year. For the senior men, Mo Hashi took silver in the 1500m and bronze in the […]