TRACK A number of Ilford Ac athletes ran across 3 venues on Saturday and all of them achieved Personal Bests. At Bromley both Farris Patel and Dylan Harrod ran an 800m. Farris hadn’t ran on the track for over a year and was against some high quality athletes. The leaders actually went through the bell…
Obituary It is my sad duty to inform the membership of the death of Bob Beningfield. Marion his wife, wrote that Bob died peacefully on Easter Sunday after a long illness. If memory serves me right Bob came to the club in the mid 1970’s from a background with Frenford Youth Club. He was a…
Name: Gary Coombes Born: 23rd February 1972 – age 49 Date Joined: April 2018 Personal Bests: Parkrun: 16.35 (2020 Raphael’s Park) 5k: 16.25 (2019 Hyde Park) 5m: 28.22 (2018 Wix) 10k: 34.31 (2019 Southend) 10m: 55.59 (2019 Stebbing) HM: 76.21 (2019 Pleshey) Marathon: 3:43 (only ran one back in 2005 – it hurt so…
Reunion 5k Kempton Park Saturday 15th May Saturday’s event was part of the Governments Events Research Programme aimed at kick starting the return of mass participation events. All runners and spectators had to take a lateral flow test 2 days before the event, as well as a PCR test on the morning of the event…
Ted Pepper Memorial off road 10k Bromley Monday May 3rd 2021 Bank Holiday Monday saw Ilfords Ex England International runner Andy Catton venturing down to Bromley for the Ted Pepper Memorial off road 10k. Race also doubled as the Southern Vets AC champs. An interesting one lap course, more grass and cross country than trail…