Congratulations to six of our young athletes who were selected to run for Middlesex in the English Schools’ Cross Country Championships at the weekend: Senior boys (7k): 109 Mukhtar Farah (310 ran) Intermediate boys (5.7k): 141 John Fielding 19:59; 149 George Kerry 20:02 (335 ran) Senior girls (4.2k): 133 Jessica Harbert 19:01 (307 ran) Intermediate girls […]
Saturday’s weather proved challenging for our young athletes competing in the final fixture of the North West London League at Wormwood Scrubs, but they enjoyed a successful end to the season, with the U17 girls taking the overall league title. (The U15 girls were also awarded the trophy for their age group on the day, […]
Twenty-one of our young athletes had an early start heading for the National Cross Country Champs at Donington Park in Leicestershire, while three of our senior men had a slightly more leisurely journey, making their own way up to the venue for their 3pm start. Cold, bright weather and good ground on the hilly course […]
With the last Met League over it’s time to add up the scores and work out who were this winter’s champions. Whilst lots of people turned out in one race or another, few people did enough races to be in contention. In the end it came down to one new favourite, Simon Shaw, and one old […]
It was a low-key turnout by ESM at the final Met League fixture at Ally Pally on Saturday, especially from the senior ranks – perhaps in the knowledge that relegation was inevitable. While there were some good performances from those who went, including the outstanding tenth place for Tom Jervis in the men’s race, the […]
It was a blustery day in Harrow for our young athletes competing in the fourth and penultimate fixture of the North West London League. With numbers generally apparently down a little in all fields, our small squad took full advantage, with three individual winners on the day. Anisa Ibrahim, who is continuing to develop as […]
Jason Carty ran a 7.14s 60m race on Sunday 31st Jan 2016, at Lee Valley, setting a new British Men’s all time record for the M45 category. Congratulations Jason.
Saturday saw ESM host the fourth fixture of the Metropolitan Cross Country League. The club was well represented, with 75 athletes taking part and countless volunteers and officials around the course. Apparently several of the young athletes lost shoes in the mud but battled on regardless. There were a lot of cross country novices, including […]
The Under 20 men’s squad led the way for ESM at the Middlesex Cross Country Champs at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, winning the team trophy. While there were no individual wins in any of the races, the club left with a good clutch of awards: three more sets of team medals and four individual medals. […]
Four of our juniors had the honour of representing Middlesex at the South of England Intercounties Cross Country Championships at Shuttleworth (Biggleswade) on Saturday. The highlight for the club came in the U17 women’s race where Erica Wallace was fourth to score in the Middlesex team. With the Weir sisters of TVH finishing 12th and […]