Nine of our athletes competed at the South of England individual indoor track and field championships, which were held over three days at Lee Valley. The best performance for the club came from fifteen-year-old Joel Wynter, who came away with a bronze medal after a personal best of 5.63m in […]
We successfully retained the Hec Petersen Trophy against Ranelagh Harriers in Richmond Park on Saturday afternoon. In the six-to-score match, ESM scored 139 points to beat Ranelagh by 30 points. The Hec Petersen Trophy was presented by John Petersen in 1994 in memory of his father who died in 1993. […]
Mud glorious mud! Horsenden Hill is known for it at this time of year, and we hear that the odd shoe succumbed to its gloopy powers in the course of the afternoon. But we were also blessed with sunshine for the fourth Met League Cross Country fixture. As hosts, we […]
We brought back four sets of team medals and two individual silver medals from the Middlesex Cross Country Champs at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday – a good haul, but perhaps not one of our better years. More remarkable was the amount of surface water on this normally flat and fast […]
Click here for the latest edition of our Young Athlete newsletter, produced by Graham French: ESM AC YA newsletter – 2 January 2014
Run annually since 1924, the Ealing, Southall & Middlesex AC Boxing Day handicap once again took pride of place in the club’s Christmas calendar. Run over a unique distance of 4.15 miles, on a road course which takes in parts of Perivale & Greenford, this year’s race, run in cold, […]
What a turnout for the third Met League fixture at Alexandra Palace on Saturday afternoon! Fifty-three of our athletes decided a romp in the mud was more fun than Christmas shopping, and we came home with plenty to celebrate. Continuing their strong season, the girls got us off to a […]
Six of our juniors had the honour of representing Middlesex at the South of England Intercounties Cross Country Championships at Biggleswade on Saturday. Meanwhile, at the Southern Masters Championships which were held at the same time, there was a gold medal for one of the club’s five veterans taking part. Sadly, […]
We had mixed fortunes at the third fixture of the North West London cross country league at Trent Park last Saturday. Among the most pleasing results were a couple of top-three places, and good team positions for the U15 girls and the U17 men. With Nicola Ravenhill injured, the U15 girls’ […]
We made a low-key outing to the Fraternity and Sorority Cross Country Cup meetings at Trent Park last Saturday, but there were some good individual performances from those who took part. This fixture is unusual in that men and women run together over the same 5-mile course. Women have few […]