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AMSTERDAM MARATHON Sunday 16th October The Amsterdam Marathon was held in good conditions with a slight breeze and Ilford AC had three representatives in the field of 12658 finishers. The trio were led by Sam Rahman in 580th place. He went through the halfway point in 1 hr 26 mins 29 secs and kept the…

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CHICAGO MARATHON Sunday 9 October On a sunny cold day in Chicago two runners from Ilford AC tackled the Chicago Marathon. The course around the Windy City is fast and flat and Diarmuid Mac Donnell went through half way in 1 hr 34 mins 54 secs and pushed on to finish 4232th in a field…

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LONDON MARATHON Sunday 2 October There was an outstanding run from Sameena Ahmed of Ilford AC at Sunday’s London Marathon as she finished in 3 hrs 09 mins 34 secs for 2775th place in the field of 40000 and 56th in the F40 category. Sameena ran at a steady pace throughout the race reaching halfway…

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Essex Cross Country Relays Champs Brentwood Saturday 24th September On a very hilly course in Weald Park the Ilford team excelled themselves. Starting with two vets on legs 1&2 Ilford got off to a flying start with Paul Grange on leg 1 coming in with the leading group in 22:24 over the 6k course. Leg…

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Ingatestone 5 Sunday 18th September 2022 There were 6 Ilford AC runners in this long established race.  The race takes place on a challenging course starting from the Anglo-European school in Willow Green, taking in Fryerning and a challenging Beggar Hill before heading back to the finish at the back of the school. First home…

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Pleshey Half Marathon (incorporating the Essex Champs) Pleshey 11th September 2022 The Essex Championship was once again staged in conjunction with the Pleshey Half Marathon and was preceded with a minutes reflection in memory of the recent passing of The Queen. The race from the picturesque village is over a rolling hilly course and conditions…

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Hillingdon 20 Sunday 4th September Sam Rahman gave an excellent performance on Sunday in the Hillingdon 20 mile road race. The race, the oldest of this distance in England, is over 4 challenging undulating laps of suburban Ruislip. Rahman was in the leading group from the start and reached halfway in 63 mins 30 seconds.…

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KIMBOLTON HALF MARATHON ​Sunday 28th August The Kimbolton Half Marathon runs from the picturesque Kimbolton Castle, once the home of Catherine of Aragon and now a school, on a route featuring two notable hills around the local villages and back to the grounds of the school. Ilford AC had three male runners in the field,…

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Isle of Wight Half 20th August 2022 Ilford AC stalwart Malcolm Muir took a short break in the Isle of Wight and took part in the Half Marathon organized by Ryde Harriers. The course is one of the toughest Half Marathons in the UK and is an undulating, town and rural, single lap course passing…

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Southern League Woodford Saturday 13th August On Saturday Ilford AC Co hosted the Final Southern League match of the season along with Woodford at their venue at Ashton Playing fields. Ilford members  provided good support staff although the turnout of competing athletes was a little disappointing on a blistering hot Saturday Those members that did…

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FOREST FIVE (Elvis race 6) ​Chingford Saturday 6 August The sixth round of the 2022 Elvis league was held in the forest at Chingford on a warm sunny Saturday morning over a 1 lap 5 mile course which was dry and featured a few climbs. Another hazard for the runners was when a herd of…

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SCVAC Lee Valley 25th July Ilford Vets team travelled to Lee Valley on the evening of 25th July for match 3 of the SCVAC league. Great performances on the evening resulted in the Men’s Team winning the event. The Ladies team was represented by Emma Dyos and Lesley Morris who competed in the 2000m walk…

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Harold Wood 5km Elvis Series – Race No 5 Wednesday 20 July There was an outstanding performance from the Ilford AC ladies team at the 5th round of this years Elvis competition winning the match with three runners in the top 4 and all scoring six in the top 20 The race was mainly on…

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INTERNATIONAL World Masters Tampere, Finland Jun 29-Jul 10 Krystle Balogun donned her first British vest as she competed at the highest stage of all in the World Masters Championships held in Tampere, Finland. Competing in the W35 category in her favoured event, the 200m, she qualified for the final with a season’s best performance of…

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Track  Performance of the week undoubtably goes to Ahmed Abdulla who in the Milton Keynes 5000m, placing 8th, dipped under 14 minutes for the first time to achieve a PB time of 13:59. This achievement places him 3rd in the all-time list of 5000m times by an Ilford AC athlete.   English Schools County Championships…

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Ilford AC stalwart Carol Muir achieved a magnificent milestone on Saturday when she competed in her 500th parkrun at Valentines park in Ilford. This achievement is even more remarkable in that Carol has competed at 302 different parkrun locations over the last 12 years, regularly traveling the 4 corners of the United Kingdom to find…

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South of England Champs Chelmsford 12th / 13th June Several athletes from Ilford recently competed in the South of England Championships, which these years were held at Chelmsford.  Samuel Crane and Ryder Islam took part in the U15’s 3000m, for the latter it was his first track race over the distance. In warm, but windy…

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British Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships Derby 10-12 June Krystle Balogun continued to impress in her W35 endeavours with a superb Gold medal in the W35 200m, clocking 26.43seconds into a stiff -3.1m/s headwind putting her 0.5seconds clear of the field. Earlier in the day she had captured a Bronze medal in the 100m…

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ESSEX 5000m Championship ​Chelmsford Wednesday 8 June It was the ladies team of Ilford Ac who fared best for the club at the Essex 5000m championship at the Chelmsford track. Sameena Ahmed moved up the field as the race unfolded to come home 4th overall in 19 mins 38. secs which placed her second in…

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Eastern Young Athletes League. Chelmsford 5th June 2022 The second Young athletes league match was held at Chelmsford at the weekend. Even though the Jubilee celebrations were taking place all over the country ,the key Ilford AC youngsters turned up at Chelmsford to compete for their club. With very strong opposition it was a great…

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Dagenham 88 ELVIS Central Park, Dagenham Wednesday 25 May The 2023 Summer Elvis league kicked off on an off-road grass and gravel course of just under 5 miles last Wednesday in Central Park Dagenham. Ilford AC had 25 runners in action. It was a successful start to the competition for Ilford with Paul Grange winning…

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Ilford AC competed in the first Southern athletic league of the  2022 season  at Lee valley last weekend. Ilford had a small team that turned out but as usual the whole team competed to a high level to finish 4th in the match. With a few more events covered Ilford would have been closer to…

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