December 2017 – Ilford Athletic Club

Ilford AC Press Report. Monday 1st January 2018

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Ilford AC Boxing Day Handicap Hainault Forest December 26th 2017 A record field of 23 brushed off the Turkey and Christmas hangover’s to toe the line for the 9th annual Ilford AC Boxing day handicap. The overnight rain had turned the course into the usual swamp and choice of footwear was completely irrelevant. The idea of the handicap is that the slower runners go off first at varying time intervals and the fastest runner goes off last and tries to catch everyone, unfortunately time constraints meant the course was not marked or marshalled. A few people were unaware of the course and made up their own route. First off were Sharon and Roger Honey, with Roger being a former 110m …Read More

Press Report 23rd December 2017

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Ilford Christmas Relay Cricklefields Stadium Tuesday 19 December The annual Ilford AC Christmas relay took place at their home track at Cricklefields Stadium. The clubs junior and senior endurance run were randomly selected into teams of three for this 19 lap event. The race is run as a relay with runners dipping in and out to run legs as each team’s tactics are employed. The only rule is each runner must run at least 3 laps. The last leg is run as a team with all3 team members running together It was a close contest with all team s within 300 metres of each other for the entire event. The winning team finishing in 27 mins and 47 secs was …Read More

Press Report 18th December 2017

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CHASE THE MOON 10K London Olympic Park On a cold crisp evening Ilford AC runner Anna Crawley took part in a ‘Chase the moon event’ over at the Olympic park on Wednesday, along with about 15 other people from her work. Anna, who is new to the club, had only done one official 10k before this so was keen to improve on her previous time of 53:54. Whilst the original aim was to try and get around 52 minutes, Anna found herself achieving far better than that and came in at 51:02. Although slightly disappointed to not get under 51 minutes, this was still a pb by nearly 3 minutes and I’m sure she will continue to improve and even …Read More

Press Report. 11th December 2017

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Ware Cup Saturday 9th December Loughton The annual Ware Cup cross-country match was held on a bright but cold Saturday morning at Loughton. The race of 8 km was over a mainly grassland course and Sam Rahman led home the Ilford AC challenge in 21st spot with a good time of 30 mins 27 secs. Next home for the club was Diarmuid Mac Donnell in 39th with 33 mins 35 secs and Andy Catton came home 45th in 35mins 16 secs and he was the first M60 to finish. The scorers were completed by Dennis Briggs in 50th in a time of 35 mins 41 secs.. Kieran McKenna was 1 place behind in 51st in 35mins 55 secs, with Ed Skinner 80th …Read More

Ilford AC Juniors Press Report. 4th December 2017

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Essex Veterans & Junior Cross Country Championships Saturday 2nd December Writtle College A small Number of Ilford AC youngsters travelled to the Essex u13s and U15s X Country Champs at Whittle on Saturday. Ilford ACs Aaron Samuel has had a great X country season so far and In the last 2 weeks has won the English Schools Team Champs, 2nd in the London Youth Games and turned up on Saturday as the favourite to add the County title to his achievements. Aaron took the lead from the start with the Woodford boy sticking on his shoulder for the majority of the race. The 2 boys pulled away from the rest of the field and were still together with 200 metres to go. Aaron …Read More