Congratulations Linden
Our star middle distance champion, Linden Hall, has made the 57 strong Australian team for the IAAF World Champs in Doha, Qatar, between Sept 27 and Oct 6. Linden has been selected to compete in the 1500m.
Round 9 XCR ’19
The Victorian Half Marathon championships were conducted in chilly conditions at Burnley. Liam Adams (1:05:13.29) finished 2nd behind a former Essendon member. Damien Bruneau (1:12:15.06) won the 40 -44 division. Mitch Brown returned to competition with a solid 85 min run. Don McLaren produced another PB. Don has had a great season pulling out PBs […]
Melbourne Marathon 2019
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED. 40km Drink Station No.11 When :- 7:30am – 1:30pm Sunday 13 October 2019 Where :- Wellington Parade South, East of Flinders Street. For many years Athletics Essendon has provided volunteers to hand drinks to the marathon runners during this event.The event organisers pay Aths Ess to provide our volunteers at this drink station.This […]
City to Surf 2019
We had quite a few distance runners head up to Sydney, for the 49th running of the City to Surf (C2S) on Sunday Aug 11. With a sell-out field for the first time in ten years, there were 84,259 entries. With nearly 10,000 of these runners from outside of NSW or overseas. Here are our […]
Australian Half Marathon
Congratulations to Makda Haji Harun for her great run in this morning’s Australian Half championship on the Sunshine Coast. Makda finished 21st overall and 5th in the women’s race with a slick time of 1:12.02. Makda has been training very hard with coach Frances Lipscombe and deserves her success.
Round 7 XCR ’19 and Run Melb
It was a weekend of long distance racing with the AV 15Km road event in Ballarat and Run Melbourne Half,10k and 5k on Sunday. Damien Bruneau continued his great form, collecting his 2nd medal of the winter; His time of 50:49 for the 15k put Damien in 59th place overall for a 2nd in the […]
Australian Junior Cross Country Champs
Congratulations to Bianca Puglisi, Aidan Roberts and Archie Noakes. They have been selected in the Victorian team to compete at the National junior cross country Championships in Woolongong on Aug 24. Archie competed last Shield season and has run as a Little A runner this winter. Aidan is new to the club but has had […]
Round 6 XCR ’19
A big thank you to our 3 Helpers who got out early in the cold to support our runners at Albert Park. Robyn Coyne and Maz Strong have volunteered many times in the last 12 months and along with Rebecca Roberts from the Red & Black group, helped AV put on the event. We don’t […]
2019 World Uni Games
The 2019 World University Games are being held in Naples, Italy between July 3 and 14. Chris Mitrevski, representing RMIT has made the final of the long jump with a leap of 7.71m in Stadio San Paolo. Over 300 countries are represented at the games this year. Australia is currently sitting in 11th pace on […]
Gold Coast Heartbreak
Essendon’s star, Liam Adams was shattered to miss an Olympic Qualifying time by just 6 secs last Sunday on a wet and windy Gold Coast. His marathon PB of 2:11.36 is a new club record, but he’d hoped to go even quicker. Liam finished in 6th place and was the first Aussie home. Club stalwart […]
