South of England AA Championships Parliament Hill 25th January 2020 Parliament Hill was the venue for last weekend’s South of England cross country championships. The recent heavy rain meant that is was going to a real energy sapping mud fest, a few athletes were even seen finishing with only one shoe on. For some of…
South of England AA Championships Parliament Hill 25th January 2020 The penultimate race on the long day of Cross Country running was the Senior ladies. With the fields now well and truly churned up this was always going to be a tough race. However the 5 Ilford ladies equipped themselves very well over the…
Benfleet 15 January 19th 2020 Three Brave and intrepid Ilford AC team members took on the tough and gruelling 30th Anniversary Benfleet 15 Miles Multi-Terrain Race on Sunday Morning. A Very Challenging 15 Mile Multi-Terrain Course incorporating sections of the Canvey Island Sea Wall and the brutally hilly and very slippery and muddy Hadleigh Downs….
Ilford AC athletes were out in action on Saturday at the Essex Schools XC Championships. In this race, the top 8 finishers are selected to run for Essex in the English Schools XC championship – with two discretionary places, and the top 20 finishers are selected to run in the South Eastern Inter-counties race. First up was Joseph Grange…
ESSEX CROSS-COUNTRY LEAGUE Hilly Fields, Colchester Saturday 11th January The latest round of this winter’s Essex Cross-Country League took place over a firm,course on Hilly Fields just outside Colchester with a testing hill on each lap. The ladies raced over a two lap course of 6km with Anna Crawley showing her current fine form in…