Press Report 25th July 2005

Ilford's new recruit Vince Hehir proved to be the dark horse of the field as 25 runners contested Ilford AC's yacht handicap 5 mile race held on the paths and tracks of Hainault forest on Wednesday evening. Hehir, proprieter of Ilford Pub ,The Black Horse, demonstrated it was not all beer and skittles as he showed the rest of the field a clean pair of heels finishing the course in a time of 40mins 15 secs (41.01 handicap time).Fastest runs of the day came from Woodford Green's Paul Clarke (30.50) just ahead of the host club's Karen Sindall (31.06)

The previous evening Bree Nordin ran 34.34 to finish as 3rd Lady in Havering 90s midsummer 5 mile race in Raphael Park.

There were also some good performances by Ilford athletes in Wednesday's Woodford Green open graded meeting at Ashton playing fields. Malcolm Muir improved his pb in the 1500m to 4min 24.4 secs for 3rd spot and then took the 3000m im 9.25.9 defeating Harlow's Rob Dewhurst. Matt Maple led for most of the way in the 1500m but was outkicked by Havering's Tony Collins and finished 2nd with 4.23.0. In a slowly run  400 metres Neil Keane returning from injury clocked 61.0 secs fading in the last 100metres.