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

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

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