Report by Graham French. ESM’s young athletes defied some really challenging conditions at the Middlesex County cross country championships on Saturday 8 January, and for the first time in well over a decade brought home two team trophies, out of the 8 possible trophies for the under 11 to under […]
The Ealing Harriers Boxing Day race has been staged since 1924. The first winner of the cup was J F Bain back in 1936. Apart from the Second World War the race has been held every year since then until 2020 when the lock-down prevented us from staging it. The […]
2021 Awards for Track & Field Friday November 12th The Awards Evening for athletes is taking place on Friday November 12th 2021. Please all come to this event, one of our social events for the year. You don’t have to be nominated to attend. The Awards will be presented at a special evening at the Perivale Residents Association Sports […]
(Report from Shona Cowper) Yesterday a team of valiant ESM women took on the North London Champs XC at Uxbridge and came away with First Place Senior Team and Second Place Vets team. There was a slightly inauspicious start to the event when the Big White Envelope containing the numbers […]
(Junior report by Graham French) The early stages of the cross country season continued with the first Met league race at Claybury. We had been missing some of our younger boys at the North West London League 3 weeks ago, but there was a stronger turnout of under 11s & […]
(Report by Sarah Harris) Mild and slightly muggy conditions welcomed the much anticipated return of the Ealing Half Marathon, in its 9th year. More than 30 members of ESM took part, including a range of first-timers at this distance to more seasoned veterans. The number of runners overall was markedly […]
(Report by Martin Daoud) This was my first run at the Berlin Marathon. I arrived on the Friday to nice cool temperature, ideal for running and also the same on the Saturday. It was good to meet up with Jonathan at the start village and taking in the atmosphere. The […]
The 2nd Middx Young Athletes League match was conducted in the same format as the 1st one – ie it was held over 2 days due to COVID restrictions. Field events took place at Perivale on Saturday & Track Events at Finsbury Park on Sunday. ESM were quite low on […]
Four ESM junior athletes took part in the first Cross Country event held in the UK in 2021 (so the organisers informed us) at Merchant Taylor’s school, Northwood, on Saturday, reports Graham French and Debra Booker. The races were well organised, with rolling starts and chip timing so that athletes didn’t […]
ESM finished in 23rd place in the country in this high quality England Athletics Virtual Road Relay competition. The team had qualified in 19th place, but improved their overall finishing time by more than 3 minutes to 3hrs 52mins. All legs were run over 5 miles and the top 4 […]