Congratulations to Mo Hashi on his 68:03 half marathon clocking on Sunday, his first sub-70 and a massive four-minute improvement over his previous best. It also ranks him fourth on the club’s all-time half marathon ranking. Hashi has been training for the Malaga Half on March 22nd, but with mass sporting events under review due […]
Four of our athletes travelled up to Loughborough on Saturday for the Inter County cross country championships, combined with the British Athletics Cross Challenge. In the U17 men’s race, Mo Ali led the Middlesex team home in eighth, while Seweryn Czapka was fifth scorer in 126th. For the U13 boys, Ed Flewitt was the county’s […]
Having turned 50 last November, Jason Carty has a whole new set of Masters records to break, and he’s made a great start. On February 9th at Sutcliffe Park , he lowered the British M50 indoor 60m record from 7.35 to 7.24. Just 10 days later, he broke it again, with 7.17 at the Newham […]
Many thanks in particular to Graham French who wrote most of the report on the young athletes, and to Jamie Taylor-Caldwell for the men’s report and all the interesting stats. Close to 40 ESM athletes headed up the M1 on Saturday for the National XC Championships at Wollaton Park, Nottingham – much better numbers than last […]
Like many other events on the weekend of Storm Dennis, this one nearly didn’t happen! With a section of Kenton Road reportedly flooded, organisers Metros RC had to do a few last-minute course changes to deliver the promised 10K route. Sadly, they couldn’t do much about the weather, but seven ESM members battled their way […]
Luck was on our side this weekend, as Saturday was blessed with mild, sunny conditions; by contrast Storm Ciara put paid to most outdoor plans the following day. That’s not to say we had it easy: there was mud aplenty, especially around some of the tight turns – Akira wasn’t alone in ending up face-down. […]
Very muddy conditions apparently… well, would we expect anything else at Parliament Hill? Though of course, there’s mud and there’s mud, as Lynn Wilson puts it: “there was the wet mud that you could breeze through, well sort of, then there was that sticky mud which sucked your feet down and made your spikes feel […]
Under 17 Mo Ali continued his return to form with his first sub-15 minute parkrun at Dulwich on Saturday. Only three Under 17s have broken that barrier at parkrun: Charlie Brisley holds the record with 14:53 at Pegwell Bay, and Mo is the second-fastest with his 14:56. Oliver Way also ran a parkrun PB of […]
The name Alexandra Palace can already strike terror into the heart of a cross country runner. Imagine the reaction when, in the days leading up to the fixture, we were advised by the host club that: “the course is very very muddy and very taxing”! Well, they weren’t wrong, it was a mudfest. However… we […]
The weather at cross country races normally seems to start relatively benign then rustle up a storm for the concluding senior men’s race. Not so this weekend, where the young athletes had to contend with the chillier, breezier conditions, while the senior women even enjoyed a few rays of sunshine. However, no-one escaped the mud […]