October 2020 – Ilford Athletic Club

Press Report 26th October 2020

Oct 262020

CHINGFORD LEAGUE Epping Forest Saturday 24 October The first match of this winter’s Chingford League took place in Epping Forest on Saturday and was run under the Covid regulations. This necessitated that the men and women ran in separate races and the races were started in 12 separate waves, with each wave racing one minute after the previous. Ilford AC competed in the league for the first time and therefore both men and ladies were competing in division 2. The club entered a large team and were rewarded with good results. It was the first time that most had raced since March. The women’s squad were headed home by Amy-Louise Bird in 24th spot with 37 mins 44 secs for …Read More

Tribute to Joe Mallott RIP

Oct 242020

Joe Mallott It is my very sad duty to inform the club members of the passing of Joe Mallott, after a two year battle with cancer. Joe came to the club in the early 1970s. He was a marvellous athlete. In his first year of competition he reached the Inter-counties final for the high hurdles and featured on the front cover of Athletics Weekly…..not bad for a beginner! He came under the care and guidance of Alf Pells an inspirational coach, where he learnt that time in the air was time wasted. His personal bests of 15.4 secs. for the high hurdles and 6.61m. for the long jump are just the bare bones of his contribution to I.A.C. in it’s …Read More

Press Report 20th October 2020

Oct 192020

Woodchurch 5 Mile Road Race Sunday 18th October 2020 With races in short supply at the present time, two intrepid Ilford AC athletes travelled to a small village near Tunbridge Wells in Kent for the second running of The Woodchurch 5 Miles Road Race. With a Covid friendly wave start involving a maximum number of 12 runners setting off to run in 5 minute intervals, and Competing against 137 other runners over an unbelievably Hilly course around the village of Woodchurch, Terry Knightley won The Male Veteran Over 60 Category finishing in 23rd place overall in 34 Minutes and 11 seconds. Following him in 129th place and 2nd in the Female Veteran Over 60 position was Kim Baxter finishing in …Read More

Press Report 6th October 2020

Oct 052020

Open Meeting Jim Peters Stadium 3rd March 2020 With gale force winds and rain predicted for the weekend, not much was expected from the open Meeting at the Jim Peters stadium at Barking, last Saturday. However the young middle distance squad produced some great performances and achieved 8 personal bests Joseph Grange was the only member of the group to do a 1500m and he had a very good run to record a time of 4.47.24 a pb by 16seconds. Jordan Hinds was feeling ill before her race, but despite this she gave it a go and ran a time of 2.29.36. U13’s Ryder Islam, Samuel Crane and Aaron Hick could count on one hand the amount of track races …Read More

Robert Dobson

Oct 052020

Name: Robert (Bob) Dobson Born: 04/11/1942 Date Joined: 1979 Personal Bests: 3k 12m 40.4s 5k 21m 50.4s 10k 44m 16s 20k 1h 30m 2s 30k 2h 27m 28s 50k 4h 07m 22.4s 100k 9h 56m 34s 12 hours 118.805km (world best) = 73.822miles 24 hours 204.330km = 126miles 1709yds First Club Race: 21/5/1963 (with Essex Beagles) Favourite Race: Hastings to Brighton (38 miles) 6 times winner Notable Performances: Completed 125 races of 50k – 29 of which were UK Champs & all finished in first 9 positions. 49 years in the top 10 UK All time list at 50kms. 1974 Set UK National & British Commonwealth 30 miles & 50kms records ( 4.02.29.2) (4.11.,22) When winning Invitation 50kms Track Race …Read More