ESM was well represented in Sunday’s Mini Marathon. All 32 London Boroughs compete against each other in different age group categories, and the vast majority of young athletes from the Borough of Ealing were ESM club members. The races are run over the final three miles of the London Marathon […]
We are sad to announce the death of Modupe Cole, who died last Wednesday 22nd April aged 55. She had been suffering from Motor Neurone Disease for the past three years. A talented middle distance runner, Modupe competed for the club for many years during the 1980s & 90s. For any […]
We were narrowly beaten into third at the first Southern Athletics League meeting of 2015 at Uxbridge on Saturday, behind hosts Hillingdon AC and Newbury AC. We were placed first in 24 events – the men and the women contributed equally to the overall points tally, but the women claimed […]
Ben Waterman set a new course record of 15:50 at Northala Fields parkrun this week, while 20 “graduates” of the ESM Couch-to-5k course completed their first 5km run at the same venue. We had 20 ESM parkrunners out this weekend, at Northala, Gunnersbury, Fulham palace and South Oxhey, and a roundup of […]
Belated congratulations to our winners and runners-up in the 2014-15 cross-country championships. Men Pete Flewitt 113 Jamie Taylor-Caldwell 97 Florjan Bakalli 94 U20 Men Florjan Bakalli 60 Vet Men Pete Flewitt 60 Ian Leslie 44 James Steel 40 Women Fiona Kennedy 117 Sarah Richardson 112 Nicola Shelley […]
In the first match of the Youth Development League on Saturday, we won 22 events and finished fourth overall – just four points behind the combined team of Bournemouth, Poole & New Forest Juniors. The temperature remained slightly above the seasonal average but the strong swirling breeze represented a challenge, […]
Good Friday will see ESM members Alison Hopkins and Andy Dodd get married – and they will be celebrating their wedding in good old running style by taking part in the Richmond Park parkrun the following morning! Alison and Andy would like to invite club members to join them for […]
It was “mission accomplished” for our men at the South of England Road Relay Championships on Sunday, as they achieved their main aim of qualifying comfortably for the Nationals in Birmingham in two weeks’ time. They were also relishing a resumption of the usual local rivalry with Thames Valley Harriers […]
Saturday afternoon saw the final fixture of this season’s North West London cross country league, and it was a successful afternoon for our young athletes. The U15 boys’ team won the league title and the club came away with six individual medals, the latter being awarded for points scored over […]
Jason Carty does it again! Following his gold medal-winning performance of 7.32 over 60m at the British Masters Indoor Champs a couple of weeks back, he took gold at the Europeans in Torun. Starting with 7.29 in his heat, he improved to 7.25 in the semi, and shaved his time […]