Our Perivale 5 road race, Ealing’s longest established, was a sell-out for the second year running, with 400 runners signing up in advance. In cool conditions with light intermittent rain, Mo Hashi took an early lead, with a blistering but unsustainable 4:40 opening mile. Jamie Taylor-Caldwell then took up the […]
Some of the club’s top juniors travelled up to Liverpool for the British Athletics Cross Challenge. Congratulations to Mukhtar Farah (54th) and Charlie Sillett (94th) who competed in the Under 17 men’s race, George Kerry (41st in the U15 boys) and Nicola Ravenhill (22nd in the U15 girls). Despite that, […]
We made a very low-key outing to the Fraternity and Sorority Cross Country Cup meetings at Trent Park last Saturday, with some club members opting for a race-free weekend and others testing their legs on the roads, ahead of next weekend’s Perivale 5. The fixture is unusual in that men […]
The Under 15 boys’ and girls’ teams were the star performers at the second fixture of the North West London League, though there were excellent individual runs across the age bands. The U15 boys finished joint second on points with Harrow, but ceded to third on countback. George Kerry was […]
Our women acquitted themselves well at the London Cross Country Championships this year. With only four completing the tough Parliament Hill course, all had the satisfaction of being in the scoring team. The squad of veterans finished 11th out of 21 full teams, a comparable performance to last year’s ninth […]
Nineteen of our young athletes represented the Borough at the London Youth Games at a muddy Parliament Hill on Saturday. These races feature representatives from all 33 London borough teams. Lucy O’Brien was initially disappointed with her 25th place in the Under 13 girls’ race, though in fact she turned […]
There were record fields at the second fixture of the Met League cross country league at Stevenage on Saturday. Despite this, we held our ground, with the seniors moving up a place to seventh overall of the 21 clubs, and the juniors maintaining their sixth place out of 14. The […]
Our men’s team achieved an outstanding result at the ECCA Cross Country relays in Mansfield on Saturday, where the team of track specialists came home 35th out of 143 finishing teams. Jamie Taylor-Caldwell continued the great form shown at the first Met League fixture, running the team’s fastest leg. He completed the […]
We claimed three sets of team medals at Fryent Country Park in Kingsbury on Saturday, competing in two concurrent cross country competitions: the Liddiard Trophy and the North of Thames Championships. The senior women ran a 3 mile circuit of the course, setting off in mild and sunny conditions, with […]
The day after the first Met League fixture, three of ESM’s veteran women competed in a 10-mile off-road race organised by Ware Joggers. W55 Fiona Kennedy made a cautious start, lying third in the early stages. She moved into second at three miles and caught the leader at seven, upping […]