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 […]
ESM’s juniors are currently competing in the Middlesex AA Virtual Junior Road Race, which is taking place between 9th-31st January. This event, which is the third Middlesex virtual race of the pandemic, is a great chance for the club’s junior athletes to test their fitness and see how they measure […]
England Athletics have partnered with Sportshall Athletics to run a weekly track and field Quadrathlon competition. This event is a great chance for track and field athletes to compete virtually at home during the lockdown. Anyone aged 9 or over can take part, they just need to sign up here. […]
26 ESM athletes took part in the Qualifying Round of the England Athletics Virtual Road Relay Competition, with the scoring team finishing in an impressive 19th place out of 128 clubs. This mixed gender competition was created by England Athletics to give runners and clubs from across the country the […]
37 athletes competed in the 2020 edition of the traditional ESM Boxing Day Handicap which has been an annual club event since 1924. Due to Tier 4 Covid-19 rules in place in London the race took place virtually, with 30 runners competing at separate times over a course in Perivale […]
Nicky Payne, Sean Hanrahan & Colin Foster all set new personal bests today despite cold, wet and blustery conditions. Nicky has only recently joined us from Harrow but this was already her 2nd PB in ESM colours. She said after the race: “With races throughout the day the rescheduled ‘Remembrance […]
ESM’s juniors were instrumental in Team Ealing’s excellent 4th place finish in the Nike X London Youth Games Virtual Cross Country event last week. Young Londoners competed across four different age groups: U11, U13, U15 and U17, running distances ranging from 1500m to 4500m. Most of ESM’s athletes completed their […]
The results can be found on this link – https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2020/GBR/rr-junior-senior/ Report below from Middlesex secretary John Falvey. Following the success of the September Junior Club Races another virtual competition was held with Athletes recording performances between 16th October and 1st November. In addition a 10km race was added for Seniors. […]