Press Report 14th June 2016  

Jun 142016
 
Press Report 14th June 2016

Woodford Open Graded Meeting Ilford Youngsters Make the Grade Ilford’s young athletes had a great night at the recent open graded meeting at Woodford. The late afternoon thunderstorms had finished and it was a perfect night for running, with for the first time in living memory, no gale force wind at a Woodford Open meeting. First up was new member Temi Adeoshun, who despite getting lost on route and only turning up 15 minutes before the start, ran a great 100m in a time of 12.12. Next up in 100m was Ellie Wright who achieved a personal best time of 13.98 in placing 2nd in the 100m, followed up less than an hour later with another personal best of 29.23 …Read More

  Press Report 7th June 2016  

Jun 072016
 
Press Report  7th June 2016

Orion Forest 5 Ilford AC’s Steve Philcox led a trio of club runners home in the first of Orion’s 3 race forest 5 mile series held over the normal undulating multi-terrain course at Chingford Plain on Saturday morning. Philcox clocked 31.37 for 12th spot overall just missing out on the top male vet 50 run of the morning. He was accompanied by Peter Spelman who managed 128th place with 46.56 and the legendary Pam Jones competing in the female over 55 category but incredibly in her 80th year and clocking 55.11 in 144th. SCVAC – Match 2 Stevenage A small contingent of 3 travelled to Stevenage recently to compete in match 2 of the Vets League. Due to the schedule …Read More