Billy Green

Press Report 29th October 2018

Oct 292018

Essex League Hockley 27th October 2018 JUNIORS After some success with recent relays, Ilford young athletes were ready to go at the first cross country race at Hockley last weekend, with added incentive of the first six finishers being chosen to run for Essex at the Southern Inter counties. First up were the U13’s, Ilford’s two runners were Joseph Grange and Aaron Hick, both of whom are U11 and therefore giving over two years to some of the other runners. In the circumstances that both had very good runs, Aaron started steadily and worked his way through to a very good 47th. Joseph was a bit more ambitious and despite a mid race fall came home in 19th place. Which …Read More

Press Report 22nd October 2018

Oct 222018

South of England XC Champs Wormwood Scrubs 20th October Ilford ACs under 17s team competed in the Southern England X country champs at Wormwood Scrubs last weekend. Full of confidence after their exciting win in the recent Essex champs, the boys had high hopes of doing well. It shows the strength of the team that Ilford are able to replace a class athlete like Jak Wright, who was unavailable, with another class athlete in Farris Patel. Over 30 teams from all over Southern England participated in the race .Farris Patel ran the first leg and ran a great leg to run the 20th fastest time of the day ,bringing Ilford into 10th position, in a time of 11.02 Mungo Prior …Read More

Press Report 22nd October 2018

Oct 222018

ELVIS Presentation evening Forest Gate 19th October After another successful ‘Elvis’ series, now consisting of 8 races after Harold Wood joined the club this year, the presentation evening was held in Forest Gate last Friday. Hosted by East End Road Runners (EERR) the evening was well attended by runners from all clubs celebrating some fine performances and sell out attendances. Ilford AC came away with 3 individual age graded first places – Breege Nordin Veteran Female 55, Gary Coombes Veteran Male 40, and Stephen Philcox who was in attendance on the night to collect the Veteran Male 50 trophy. Wix 5 Incorporating the Essex 5 mile County Championship 21st October ILFORD MEN LAND COUNTY SILVER MEDAL The Wix 5 is …Read More

Press Report. 16th October 2018

Oct 152018

Metropolitan League Cross Country Claybury Saturday 13th October Ilford’s Tom Gardner opened his account for the start of the X country season at Claybury, with a solid run on a 3 lap course. After 2 laps Tom was laying in the 29th place, but not being race sharp yet he slipped back on the final lap to 35th in 28-09. Two other Ilford athletes guested in the race, Gary Coombes finishing in 30:47 for 119th place and Trevor Robinson who came in on 43:37 for 453rd place TIPTREE 10 Sunday 14th October. Sunday morning saw the running of the 2018 Essex 10 mile Championship incorporated into the Tiptree 10 mile road race. The race was held on quiet rural …Read More

Press Report October 9th 2018

Oct 082018

Chicago Marathon 0730 Sunday 7th October Trying to complete all the Abbott Marathon majors, Seb Parris took on his 5th in the series over the pond in Chicago. A new event record of 44,571 runners hit the downtown ‘loop’ headed by the speedy event winner, Mo Farah. The race began unusually early at 0730 and conditions were cold and wet throughout. A good recent training cycle due to an ironman event meant Seb was hunting a new marathon PB despite falling a last-minute victim to the dreaded food poisoning less than 48 hours pre-race. The rain was persistent all morning but so too was Seb’s determination. Crossing the line at the city’s Grant Park in a 6-minute PB for 03.03.39 …Read More