Ealing Southall & Middlesex AC is mourning the loss of Mike Barratt, one of its finest ever athletes and someone who gave so much both to the Club and to the sport in general in a career lasting almost 65 years. Mike collapsed and died yesterday lunchtime after a short run […]
Ealing’s women grabbed a Division 2 win and there was a much improved performance from the men’s team at Fairlands Valley Park. The outstanding individual performance came from John Fielding who helped his team move up to top spot in the league with a win in the under-13 boys race. […]
Ealing sent up a record number of teams to Mansfield for the National Cross Country Relays. Races involved teams of three runners negotiating the short course around the lake, through hills in the forest and a long run in down and up a hill up to the finish. This is the most […]
Over 280 athletes from ten different clubs took part in the first North West London Young Athletes League fixture of the season – a very high turnout reflecting the ‘Olympic effect’ influx of new members to many athletics clubs. The race took place on the first weekend of half term, […]
ESM gained little from having home advantage for these champs with only the veteran men coming close to team success. Angelo John continued the good form he showed at Claybury by winning the veteran men’s individual silver medal. Fiona Kennedy, in her first race as a V55, was our leading […]
Caterina Granz finished in third place to help get the women’s team off to a promising start in the first league meeting of the season at Claybury. In the other races, George Kerry, John Fielding, Roisin Lynch, Sam Shindler-Glass and Mukhtar Farah all finished with top ten places but there was little good […]
The journey up to Chester for the MBNA Chester Marathon this morning proved worthwhile for Alison Hopkins, as she finished the race in 2 hours 57 minutes and 51 seconds. This not only revised her PB by more than 4 minutes, but also took half a minute off the previous club […]
This was the first Ealing half marathon (in this century), although some of the other ESM members remember the Southall Charity Half Marathon 1988 (in the Ealing Borough), see Lynn Wilson’s picture. The course started in Lammas Park, running mainly on the smaller leafy roads of Pitshanger & West Ealing as well […]
After a quiet summer, Sam Ashcroft returned to racing in fine style with 7th place and a 33m 16s PB on a course just across the road from the Olympic Park. Results
On Sunday the veteran men were greeted by weather better suited to ducks. As a result of the torrential rain, some sections of the two lap 6km course were under water, and runners had to take extra care as they negotiated the puddles. Ealing Southall & Middlesex AC fielded an […]