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 […]
Well done to all our young athletes who were selected to represent Middlesex at the English Schools. For the boys, John Fielding finished 112th in the Junior category, while Mukhtar Farah was 203rd in the Intermediate age group. Sam Shindler-Glass finished 133rd in the Senior race, with Zephon Allen close […]
Seven of our young athletes were selected to represent Middlesex in the Intercounties cross-country championships at Cofton Park in Birmingham last Saturday, where the relentlessly undulating and boggy course represented a tough challenge to all the athletes in this high quality competition. The club had three representatives in the U13 […]
Steve Mann took three of his young athletes to compete at the Indoor Age Group Championships in Sheffield at the weekend. U20 Nick Landeau won his heat of the 800m in 1:54.25, which is an indoor personal best over the distance. He was third fastest qualifier overall, before placing third […]
We left with mixed emotions after the fifth and final fixture of the North West London cross country league at Wormwood Scrubs. Having set out with realistic hopes of winning their age group, the U15 girls were denied victory by just two points. The U15 boys and the U17 men […]
ESM enjoyed a successful afternoon at the Middlesex Masters Cross Country Champs at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday. With a squad of 17 veterans taking part, we were the best represented club at the event, and were rewarded with two sets of team medals and five individual medals. (Photo of Grazina, […]
Sam Ashcroft, Alison Hopkins, Nicola Ravenhill and Patrick Owen were the star performers for ESM in the Saucony English National Cross Country Championships, staged at Wollaton Park, Nottingham last Saturday. On a sunny but windy day, over 10,000 athletes and spectators attended the Championships, creating a fantastic atmosphere and the […]