Thanks to all those who have been involved in the redevelopment of our club website, from Darren Halford who instigated the process, to John Falvey and Fiona Kennedy who fine-tuned the details. Louise Prince has also joined the admin team and will help manage the site on an ongoing basis. […]
On an unseasonably warm and sunny morning, fourteen ESM members lined up for the start of the 2017 Brighton marathon (writes Fiona Kennedy). We’re not sure if this is a record turnout for the club in a single marathon, but it’s certainly the largest number for several decades, and half […]
Congratulations to Jon Ellis who won the recent South Downs Way 50 in a time of 6:27:46, from a record field of 393 runners. That’s 50 miles, by the way, off-road (with around 6000ft of climbing in total), and on an unseasonably warm day. Jon won by 20 minutes. Amazing! […]
Just a reminder that subs were due on the first of this month, and that you need to be a paid-up member in order to have your England Athletics registration renewed. All the details are on the Membership page of the website.
On a wet and windy weekend, several ESM track athletes travelled to Lee Valley to compete in the Middlesex County Indoor Championships, writes Phil York. Those that warmed up on the outdoor track in the blustery conditions were glad to move back indoors to test themselves on the banked 200m […]
Congratulations to U20s Nicola Ravenhill and Laura Stewart, who won the 1500m and 400m respectively at this weekend’s Middlesex Indoor Championships, Nicola setting a championship best performance.
We had four representatives at the prestigious English Schools’ Cross Country Championships on Saturday. For the men, George Kerry finished 78th in a field of 324, (in his first year in the Senior Boys age category), and was the second scorer in the London team. For the women, Nicola Ravenhill […]
ESM secured four medals at the British Masters Indoor Athletics Championships at Lee Valley last weekend, writes Phil York. Fed up with the cold and wet weather, a group of us travelled over to Lee Valley Athletics Stadium for the British Masters National Indoors Championships. Sprinter Jason Carty breezed to […]
There were some good results at the final fixture of the North West London cross country league at Wormwood Scrubs. Jessica Leane (pictured) and John Fielding took individual wins in the U17 races. George Kerry took third but had a good battle with John in the course of the race. […]
The Met League at Ally Pally was the last of the races counting towards this winter’s XC championships. The championships were scored over your best five races so both Ben Waterman and Lucy Ellis fell one vital race short. The winners and runners up were: Senior Men Masters Men […]