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 […]
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 […]