We had some great results at the Middlesex Schools, which took place at Harrow School. John Fielding came away as County champion for Year 8/9 boys, and Nicola Ravenhill is County champion for Year 8/9 girls. Six more of our athletes qualified for the County team for the English Schools, with success across the […]
Over 3,000 athletes converged on Parliament Hill for the South of England cross country championships on Saturday. After the persistent heavy rain of late, conditions were muddy in the extreme, adding to the renowned challenge of this hilly course. With the last two winters being noted more for snow, ice […]
As you may be aware, we conducted a member survey last autumn. We sought members’ views about shortening the club name to Ealing AC, as well as having the club name on the vest. The results showed 61% in favour of the shorter name, 36% preferring the existing name and […]
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 […]
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
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 […]