Bramley 20 miles Sunday 15th February 2015 Further afield 2 of Ilford’s top endurance athletes competed in the Bramley 20 mile event which was hosted by Reading Roadrunners with an acompanying 10mile race on Sunday. Malcolm Muir finished 9th overall and 2nd vet 40 over a 2 lap course finishing in a time of 1.55.00 . After running the 1st half in a steady 58.50 he then raced the 2nd half in 56.10 for a significant negative split. Ben Jones came 85th in 2.14.32 which was more than impressive as he has not been able to do any long distance training for the race . Ilford AC now look forward to holding their club Championships over a classic 3 lap …Read More

Lee Valley Indoors Centre Essex and Eastern Counties combined champs 8th – 9th February 2014 Ilford AC’s small team of middle distance athletes excelled at these champs. Krystle Bologun got the squad off to a good start in the 800 metres setting a fast pace from the start coming home 1st in 2-22, a Pb for indoors & both titles. Next was Jack Maher who has been out of form lately but not to day with 150m in the 800 to go he made his move to come home 1st in 2-01 for a Pb indoors & both titles. Reining champion Usamah Patel faced his training partner Ahmed Abdulle in the 1500m,. The pace was fast from the start with …Read More

South of England Cross Country Championships – Brighton Ilford AC continued to maintain a strong presence in these championships with Club captain Malcolm Muir drawing on his elite troops in the Senior race. Held over 9 miles at Stanmer Park , Brighton, last Saturday on a hilly but dry course and on a cold crisp day, 5 Ilford athletes travelled down to compete in the race. The race was won by Ben Tickner of Brighton Phoenix in 50.21. The Ilford athletes’ times were as follows: 1. V40 runner Malcolm Muir – Position 122nd, time 57.05 2. SEN track runner Tom Gardner, Position 129th, time 57.20 3. V45 runner Paul Holloway, Position 434th, time 66.23 4. SEN Sam Rahman, Position 475th, …Read More