British Masters Indoor Championships Lee Valley 10th-11th March Ilford Super-vet John Batchelor managed to take four M75 golds this weekend in the British Masters Indoor Championships to match last year’s performance. On Saturday John took the 400m in a time very close to last year’s performance with a start to finish blast in 74.61 seconds, and followed that with the 1500m in 5:54.87. On Sunday John came close to beating the top M70, Rod Scholes, in an exciting 800m in which he moved from 5th to 2nd in the final 250m, taking the M75 title in 2:50.30. By the 3000m race, one hour later, competing with very much younger and faster athletes, John was content to run towards the back of the field and …Read More

The Vitality Big Half Marathon Central London Sunday 4th March 2018 The Vitality Big Half Marathon is a new event that starts outside the Tower of London, following much of the first half of the London Marathon route, but in reverse, passing through the Boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Lewisham before finishing up in Greenwich. It was the only big outdoors running event last weekend that survived last weeks ‘Beast from the East’ and six Ilford athletes pitted themselves against Mo Farah and 2017 London Marathon winner Daniel Wanjiru. In what other sport do you get to compete with and against the worlds best? Unfortunately none of the Ilford runners managed to beat Mo, but all gave a good account …Read More

Saucony English National XC Championships Parliament hills Fields Saturday 24th February A small contingent of Ilford Athletes made their way to the “Home” of Cross Country last Saturday. The course was a little drier than in previous years and the sun was out but the hills remained the same!! In the Ladies race Launa Broadley & Sheila Sinclair, in their first National, started steady and completed the 8km course in 57:50 and 61:06 respectively. There were 1113 finishers. This was a huge achievement for both Ladies and is the culmination of an excellent Winters Training. They now look forward to a great Spring now!! In the Men’s race held over 12.5km, and after a very congested start, Malcolm Muir running strongly …Read More