Wright sparkles in the London Mini Marathon Ilford AC youngsters continued their good  early season performances by all running best times in the Mini Marathon 3 Mile race on Sunday. The course  is the last 3 miles of the marathon course and a great experience for the young athletes . First up was the U15 Boys, where Ilford had 4 representatives, competing for their various London Boroughs First home for Ilford was Aaron Samuels, who came 8th position, in a high quality field. Aaron was with the leaders for the first part of the race but struggles in last mile , but still ran a big personal best of 16:24. Best performance of the day from an Ilford athlete was …Read More

Southern League Track and Field Lee Valley 14th April 2018 Ilford made a great start to their 2018, southern league campaign with a very good 3rd place at Lee Valley on Saturday. There total points of 226, was only half a point short of last season bests point score. Star performer on the womens side  was Esmeralda Mengeyele, who started the day with pb of 4.93 in coming second in the Long jump. This was followed soon afterwards with another pb of 13.36 in taking second place in the 100m. After a short rest, she was over to the High Jump where 1m 25 was good enough for 3rd place. Her final individual event was the Javelin where a great …Read More

Havering Open Meeting 8th April 2018 Ilford young athletes were again in action this weekend. With almost the whole squad setting Pb’s over 800m last weekend, some of the Athletes tried different distances. First up was Matthew Hick in the U15 1500m, Matthew made a great start and was fully committed from the gun, going through in a very fast first 800m. Matthew slowed a bit in the second half, but held onto 3rd place and new personal best time of 5.05.8 Next up was the U17 1500m, which contained Jak Wright and Bradley Deacon. It was a quick race and both Ilford athletes went with the early pace, both going through 800m in a time which until recently would …Read More