Name: Sharon Honey Born: 1957 Joined Club: I joined Ilford AC on 17 April 1980 so I’m doing this around my 40th anniversary of joining the club! I initially ran for Essex Beagles from 1975. RECORDS TRACK 800m               2.28.4              25/08/1981      Ilford               Club Champs              SL 1500m             4.57.3              20/09/1980      Ilford               Gibson Trophy            SL 3000m            10.43.8             10/05/1981      Hornchurch     GRE Cup                    SL 5000m             20.06.0            ??/??/1996       ???? ????                                           V35 10,000m          39.16.5            ??/??/1994       Ilford               Club Champs              V35 ROAD 5k                    19.02               29/08/1994      Barking Park   Barking Park 5k          V35 (6th fastest IAC lady ever) 5m                   32.02 (31.06*) 20/10/1985      Ingatestone     Ingatestone 5m            SL …Read More

Like so many, Dave commenced race walking through his employer, in his case the Royal Air Force which he’d joined in 1965. While training at RAF Hereford (now SAS HQ) 2 were needed for an Inter-Squadron athletics meeting in May 1966. None volunteered, so the Sergeant in charge of the athletics team called out names of the first 2 on his alphabetical roll call, hence ‘A’ was a selection cert. The Sergeant himself was a celebrity – Irishman Jack Murray – as his sister was the late Ruby “Softly Softly” Murray whose name now lives on in cockney rhyming slang. One of Dave’s instructors was then Flight Lieutenant Mike Shannon, a 4-times’ senior Welsh champion in times when it was …Read More