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 […]

The Mo Show goes on! Mohamed Ali capped off his phenomenal cross country season with a win in the U15 boys’ race at the Nationals.  It was an inspiring sight for all our athletes and supporters at Parliament Hill last Saturday. The plan, according to coach Steve Mann, was to […]

A short trip down the M4 for the first ESM road running club race of the year – to the extended ring of car-parks that seemed to make up much of Wokingham – saw a fine turnout of over 20 clubmates and some Northala Fields parkrun regulars too (Bruce, Vincent […]

It was a rather low turnout for the North West London League fixture at Harrow on Saturday, no doubt partly due to half term, but well done to those athletes who competed. The course was deceptively difficult, writes Team Manager Bridie Lebdiri, muddy on the first field with a long […]