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Ilford AC Walking Section Report -15/04/2013

Apr 152013

ILFORD BLOSSOM IN MILDER WEATHER Ilford’s walkers contested the annual Pat Furey 5 Miles with an unusually early Saturday morning start, which saw competitors cover 4 circuits of the Lee Valley track before wheeling out of a stadium to race over 4 X 1 mile circuits so making up the distance. This heavily sponsored race, paid for by a former Irish International race walker whose name provided the event’s title, drew a bumper field despite it’s early start. From the gun, Ilford AC Olympian NERINGA AIDIETYTE and Hillingdon AC’s Polish star FABIAN DEUTER set a blistering pace with only Ilford protagonist FRANCISCO REIS keeping touch as the trio pulled clear of the rest. Approaching 2 miles Reis felt indiposed and …Read More

Ilford AC Press Report for 07/04/2013

Apr 112013

BRAINTREE “ESSEX” 5 – SUNDAY 7TH APRIL There was a large party of 19 runners from Ilford AC taking part in last Sunday’s Braintree 5 mile road race, which incorporated the Essex Championship. It was an excellent day for the club winning 6 Essex medals, including a number of fine performances. The race was over a gently undulating rural course on a pleasant spring morning with just under 400 competitors and Malcolm Muir came home third in a fast time of 26 mins 35 secs to take the county bronze medal. He was well supported by Tom Gardner, 5th in 27m exactly and Spencer Hempstead 7th in 27m 06s, which was the gold medal performance in the M40 category. Together …Read More

Ilford AC Walking Section Press Report 9th April 2013

Apr 092013

GOOD SEND OFF Ilford’s FRANCISCO REIS was a convincing winner of Sunday afternoon’s representative 2,000 metres walk at Lee Valley’s Indoor Arena. It was the last domestic indoor walk of this season at Lee Valley and Reis dominated it as he’d so done in all previous appearances. Representing the South he sped away from his rivals as soon as the gun sounded and pressed on to achieve a race feat of lapping the entire field in such a short race. Reis clocked 9 minutes and 13 seconds, overtaking and lapping 2nd placed Steve Allen (Barnet) as they rounded the final bend with 30 metres to go.

The End of the Pier Show (For Ilford AC Walkers)

Apr 022013

Well done to Estuary-based members Olly Browne & Steve Allen who, together with local unattached walker Sheila Fitzpatrick, set a new distance record for the annual Southend-on-Sea Pier charity walk on Easter Sunday. The previous record of 18 miles (held by Olly) was smashed as the hardy trio completed 23-and-a-half miles in conditions which saw biting cold winds along the exposed structure. Well done, and it’s all good mileage for their future 2013 distance endeavours….and all for a good cause to boot!One for the far distance : The annual race for the George Woods Memorial Trophy is set for Tuesday 27th August at Ashtons Track…a track 3,000 metres in the Woodford Tuesday Walk Series (final race of their 2014 Ashtons …Read More

Physical Shield Road Relay Loughton Tuesday 26th March 2013

Apr 012013

PHYSICAL SHIELD RELAY – LOUGHTON The Warriors of Time endurance training squad of Ilford AC travelled to Loughton for a midweek relay event on a cold Tuesday evening. The Physical Shield Relay is a long standing event and is currently run over 4 legs of a hilly residential course. each leg being 2 laps of the route totalling 2800m. Ilford entered 2 men’s and a ladies team and gained impressive results with the men placing 2nd and 5th and the ladies 3rd in their competition. Sam Rahman led off the A team and handed over 3rd after a run of 9mins 54secs, the 7th faster runner of the night. Paul Holloway (10m 08s) and Kevin Wooton (10m 29s) kept this …Read More