Essex Cross Country League Thurrock 18/10/2014 Ilford AC opened their Cross Country season at One Tree Hill, Thurrock, on Saturday with a superb run by Ahmed Abdulle who showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of the field in the Under 17s race. He was well supported by Usamah Patel, 25th, and Jack Maher 39th. Three other young athletes also performed well in the under 13 boys race with Manraj Gill leading the trio home in 10th, Arun Manget in 12thand Bradley Deacon in 29th. There were 40 finishers in both races. Tom Gardner was the leading Ilford runner in the senior men’s race managing 8th place in a top class field of 162 runners. Malcolm Muir was …Read More