London Marathon The recent good form of the endurance runners of ILFORD AC continued on Sunday in the London Marathon. On a warm sunny morning the 10 club members ran the 26.2 mile course from Blackheath to Westminster and were led home by Robin McNelis who came home in 2hrs 52mins 53 secs in 692nd place out of the 35000 plus entrants in his fastest marathon since 2009.[shashin type=”album” id=”115″ size=”small” crop=”n” columns=”max” caption=”y” order=”date” position=”left” clear=”left”] Next home was Steve Philcox, who ran a personal best and broke the 3 hour barrier for the first time recording 2h 59m 00s and Paul Holloway also ran a new best time of 3h 13m 46s. Sam Rahman set off at a …Read More
Virgin London Marathon Results 21st April 2013
Well done to all our finishers 😆 Virgin London Marathon 2013 results: Club, Charity and Ballot 9 Results | Club: ilford | Split: Finish time Place overall Place gender Place category Name Club Runner no Category HALF Finish time 601 586 71 » WOTTON, KEVIN M (GBR) BARKING … 32935 45-49 01:24:45 02:51:22 692 672 136 » MCNELIS, ROBIN N (GBR) ILFORD A… 31977 40-44 01:24:07 02:52:53 1193 1148 170 » Philcox, Stephen D (GBR) Ilford A… 20703 45-49 01:25:13 02:59:00 2572 2371 387 » HOLLOWAY, PAUL G (GBR) ILFORD A… 54079 45-49 01:34:29 03:13:46 2903 2649 1388 » RAHMAN, SAMUEL (GBR) DAGENHAM… 32210 18-39 01:25:15 03:16:31 7468 1382 80 » HOPKINSON, NICOLA (GBR) ILFORD A… 28598 50-54 01:50:13 03:45:35 17687 4470 2639 » Allen, Rachel (GBR) ILFORD A… 54084 18-39 02:09:34 04:29:41 25977 18138 2416 » Green, Billy (GBR) Ilford A… 24516 45-49 …Read More
SCVC Match 1
Hi all, Just a reminder that the first match is scheduled for Monday 29 April at Lee Valley with the first event scheduled for 6:30. Grateful if you could let me know if you are coming and your preferred event. Please feel free to share as I am bound to have missed someone. Regards Henry SCVAC_2013.docx
Ilford AC Walking Section Report -15/04/2013
ILFORD BLOSSOM IN MILDER WEATHER Ilford’s walkers contested the annual Pat Furey 5 Miles with an unusually early Saturday morning start, which saw competitors cover 4 circuits of the Lee Valley track before wheeling out of a stadium to race over 4 X 1 mile circuits so making up the distance. This heavily sponsored race, paid for by a former Irish International race walker whose name provided the event’s title, drew a bumper field despite it’s early start. From the gun, Ilford AC Olympian NERINGA AIDIETYTE and Hillingdon AC’s Polish star FABIAN DEUTER set a blistering pace with only Ilford protagonist FRANCISCO REIS keeping touch as the trio pulled clear of the rest. Approaching 2 miles Reis felt indiposed and …Read More
Ilford AC Press Report for 07/04/2013
BRAINTREE “ESSEX” 5 – SUNDAY 7TH APRIL There was a large party of 19 runners from Ilford AC taking part in last Sunday’s Braintree 5 mile road race, which incorporated the Essex Championship. It was an excellent day for the club winning 6 Essex medals, including a number of fine performances. The race was over a gently undulating rural course on a pleasant spring morning with just under 400 competitors and Malcolm Muir came home third in a fast time of 26 mins 35 secs to take the county bronze medal. He was well supported by Tom Gardner, 5th in 27m exactly and Spencer Hempstead 7th in 27m 06s, which was the gold medal performance in the M40 category. Together …Read More