2019 – Page 3 – Ilford Athletic Club

Press Report 19th November 2019

Nov 192019

London cross country champs Parliament Hill Saturday 16th Nov 495 runners took to the hills at this years London Cross country champs. Ilfords Mungo Prior in his 1st year as a u/20 and a step up in distance put in an excellent performance with 51st place overall in 40:41 which placed him 2nd u/20 finisher on the day. Chasing Mungo home was the ever consistent Tom Gardner in 53rd place in 40:47 and 11th vet 35. Gary Coombes in top form at the moment was not far behind in 68th place in 41:30 and 2nd vet 45 on the day. Trevor Robinson completed the team in a time of 1 hr 03:40 for 481st place. Fulham 10k Sunday 17th …Read More

Press Report November 18th 2019

Nov 182019

Samuels Wins the London Youth Games A number of Ilford Athletic club athletes represented their London Boroughs on Saturday at a very wet Parliament Hill First up was newly joined u11 athlete Ryder Islam. Ryder started well in the 1.5 k race and used his strength to work through the field to come a very encouraging 57th . In the u13s Joseph Grange ran an outstanding race.Training with the main group at Ilford has helped build Joseph’s speed and endurance and this was shown in his performance. He worked through the field and had so much left at the end of the race to come a superb 10th position. In the same race Aaron Hick , struggled at the start …Read More

Press Report 12th November 2019

Nov 122019

CHINGFORD LEAGUE Hog Hill Tuesday 5th November Ilford AC joined the Chingford League officially this week, although runners have been running as ‘guests’ for a few years. Today was Ilfords first run in the league and the ladies put on a great display on fireworks night with both entrants making their debut in club colours. Sam Ahmed finished 13th in the 5k race in a time of 21 mins 41 secs, and Lovedip Dhaliwal placing 118th in 31 mins 33 secs. The men’s race also went with a bang with Paul Grange finishing 2nd in 16 mins 36 secs and Gary Coombes in 8th in 17th mins 23 secs although both runners ran for 2nd claim clubs having competed earlier …Read More

Press Report 5th November 2019

Nov 052019

NEW YORK CITY MARATHON Sunday 3 November. The 49th staging of the New York City Marathon took place on a sunny still Sunday morning in 12C degrees, ideal for the 53500 runners. Sam Rahman of Ilford planned a controlled run with the target of finishing in just under 2hours 50 minutes. He ran at his selected pace throughout the race for 35km where the race enters Central Park. The last couple of miles are rolling hills and he lost a little time and finished in 2 hrs 51 mins 43 secs, his second fastest time, in 750th place, 171st in the M35 category. Masters Open Cross-Country Loughton Saturday 2nd November Saturday morning saw the staging of the Masters Open Cross-Country …Read More

Press Report 29th October 2019

Oct 292019

ESSEX CROSS-COUNTRY LEAGUE Horseheath, Cambridge Saturday 26 October Last weekends Essex League cross country match doubled up as a qualifying opportunity for the Junior runners to represent Essex in the Southern inter counties on the 7th of December. Ilford AC were very well represented across the age groups U17 boys as usual performed outstandingly with Aaron Samuels winning by a sizable margin in 21:16 earning him top spot on the Essex team. Jak Wright was the only other qualifying athlete on the day securing 5th in 22:25 with Bradley Deacon only 3 positions away from the required top 8 coming home in 11th position in 23:07 over the 6k distance U15 boys regular scorer Ryan Holeyman was our first athlete …Read More