Track & Field season is just around the corner and your England Athletics registration is up for renewal on April 1st, so don’t forget to pay your subs for 2018-19 please! You can pay online and details are on the website: https://esm.org.uk/membership/. NB: The bank account details changed last year so […]
New data protection regulations come into force in May, and we will be obliged to ask all members for permission to use their personal contact details to communicate with them. This will happen soon, but in the meantime all registered athletes need to go through the same process with England […]
Congratulations to new member Mia de Vivenot for winning the girls’ race at the Maidenhead Easter Mile today, which was held prior to the traditional Good Friday 10 miler. The mile race was for U11s and U13s and 11-year-old Mia finished in a time of 5:57, which was a PB […]
Ten-year-old Finlay Vadon was selected to run at the National Schools’ Years 5 -7 Cross Country Championships at Prestwold Hall in Loughborough on March 24th. It was his first taste of racing at such a large and high profile event and he handled it well, finishing 58th in a field of 266. It […]
Our young athletes finished off their cross country season with the North West London League at Wormwood Scrubs last Saturday, a fixture which was rescheduled from its original date due to snow. Young athlete coach Bridie Lebdiri shares a few thoughts on how it went. In the U11G race, Sophie Buzzigoli ran […]
Massive congratulations to Jason Carty, who won a gold medal at the European Masters Indoor Championships in Madrid. He progressed from 7.28 in his heat to 7.13 in his semi and then ran 7.12 to win the final. Jason is in the habit of winning gold medals at masters championships, […]
Five ESM athletes represented Middlesex at the prestigious English Schools National Cross Country Championships held in Leeds earlier this month. U20 Nicola Ravenhill was making her fifth appearance at these championships; for U20 George Kerry it was his fourth. Both are now in their final year at school, so […]
It was a great morning out for the club at Northala Fields parkrun on Saturday, reports Fiona Kennedy, with 47 members taking part in the run and many volunteering in one form or another. For the roadrunners, it was one of two 5K events in the yearly championship schedule. (The […]
We had seven athletes taking part in the Inter Counties cross country championships at Nottingham last Saturday, reports team Manager Tim Hannah. Mohamed Ali finished fifth in the U15s race, which took place over a 4.5K course. He was in the lead until the last half mile or so, but was […]
Nine-year-old Evan Thomson received the Jack Petchey Award at the clubhouse on Tuesday. The award was in recognition of his regular attendance at training, for representing the club at races, and for being a good team player and caring towards others. Well done Evan. The £250 award is being spent […]