Ilford AC Press Report Week Ending Sunday 29th September 2013  

Oct 012013
 

Valentines Park 5km, Ilford
29 September

There was another dominant performance from Ilford AC on Sunday in the last
round of this Summer’s East London Interclub Five Series (ELvIS) with both
the men and ladies winning the match and the league title.

The men, who have won every round they have competed in this year, were led
home by Malcolm Muir, who took the runners-up spot in 16 mins 31 secs. He
was supported by Tom Gardner in 4th with 16m 58s and Sam Rahman in 17m 19s
for 9th. The remaining scoring members were Neil Crisp in 17th in a time of
18m 20s placing him 3rd in the M50 category, closely followed by Bradley
Brown who put in a good run for 29th in 19m 17 and 4th in the M40 age group,
while Rohan Alexander recorded a new best for the distance with 19m 28s in
31st.

In addition other notable performances were from the returning to form Kevin
Newell in 11th recording 17m 31s, with 14 year old Usamah Patel 12th in 17m
35s. Jack Maher placed 24th with the time of 18m 56s which is a personal
best for the 15 year old. Kieran McKenna placed 37th in 19m 56s on his club
debut and Andy Catton took the M60 honours with 20m 20s in 62nd, and Martin
Clarke was 2nd in this category in 68th and 21m 38s.

Krystle Balogun was the first home for the ladies side in 19m 50s for 3rd
spot and 36th overall. Breege Nordin again took the F55 prize finishing 5th
lady and 56th in the race with 21m 10s, while Mel Jones set a new personal
best of 21m 54s, winning the F45 category. Dianne Crisp was the team’s 4th
scorer finishing 14th lady in 22m 31s, as the club beat East London in a
close match by 7 points. Jenni Sheehan returned to racing after injury to
finish 19th with 23m 09s.

Also run: Rob Sargent (83rd 22.20) Maran Raju (Club Debut 107th 23.40) Steve
Cheal (124th 24.46) Pathrose Louis (141st 26.00) Carol Muir (153th 26.41)
Suki Jandu (166th 28.00)

Report by Hank in the Bushes

Picture of some of the victorious teams

Half Ironman Triathlon – Stowe House
29 September

Steve Parker took on the Half Ironman Distance Triathlon at Stowe House in
Buckingham. The 1900m swim in the lake was three laps & cold. A long run
upto Transition 1 & a change onto two wheels for 85.4 Km bike ride. The
weather was kind. Two diversions were necessary though because of incidents.
Transition 2 & a run around five loops of very hilly off road course for the
Half Marathon & to complete the Triathlon in 6hrs 42m & 3rd in his age
group. Steve is happy with the result as it was his first Triathlon of this
distance

Report by the Man in the Lake

Berlin Marathon
29 September

Nicola Hopkinson was among the field of over 36000 for the Berlin Marathon.
The race is held over a fast, flat, city centre course passing a number of
the famous sights of the city. This year saw Wilson Kipsang of Kenya improve
the world best time for the distance to 2h 03m 23s.

Nicola ran a steady race and finished 120th female in 3h 45m 30s, just 5
seconds faster than in London in April.

Report by Klaus from the Bierkellar

 

  Ilford AC Press Report Week Ending Sunday 22nd September 2013  

Sep 242013
 

Finally, Hank handed me the Ingatestone 5 report, a crumbled piece of paper with beerstains on it and incomplete information, while muttering something about the Rose and Crown, Clarkey and Ray! I was about to replace him as the field correspondence with Carolina Chuck when he also handed over the Pleshey report. Hank stays for now!

Ingatestone 5
15 September

Ilford AC athletes took part in this annual roadrace at Ingatestone in Essex. Best of these was Steve Philcox in 9th place in a a fast time of 28 mins 24 secs, just 1 second outside his personal best for the distance. Bree Nordin also had a good race placing 6th in the ladies race in 35m 09s and taking the W55 category prize. Carol Muir was 29th lady, Pam Jones 38th and first in the W65 grouping and Julia Ridley 48th. In 106th spot was Graham Williams in 42m 24s for 1st in the M70 age group. A little further back and in the same category was a rare appearance by Graham Pells placing 132nd with 53m 19s

Report by Hank in the Pub

Pleshey Half-Marathon
22 September

For the second consecutive year the Essex County Half-Marathon Championship was held in the picturesque village of Pleshey, near Chelmsford. On a overcast, humid but still Sunday morning over 400 runners set off for the 13 mile race over a testing, rolling rural course. Ilford AC put in another strong team performance being led home by Malcolm Muir in 6th place in 1hr 14mins 35 secs. Next over the line for the club was Spencer Hempstead with 1m 18m 14s for 13th and the bronze medal in the M40 division, with the scoring team completing by Kevin Newell, now back to full action after a summer injury, in 19th with a year’s best time of 1h 19m 14s. The team placed 3rd in the county Championship.

Sam Rahman was just a few seconds away from his personal best with 1h 21m 10s in 22nd, with Kevin Wotton one place and 13 seconds behind with a years best of 1h 21m 23s. Terry Knightley recorded 1h 23m 22s in 37th to place 5th in the M50 category and 6th in the same group was Neil Crisp with 1h 26m 42s for 49th. Further down the order Graham Williams took the Essex bronze medal for the M70 age category in 2h 6m 57s.

Bree Nordin established herself as the leading F55 endurance runner in the county taking another Essex title in the grouping pacing 8th lady in the race with 1h 35m 54s, her best time for the distance this year by over 2 minutes.

Also ran: Bradley Brown (1.31.00 70th) Rob Sargent (1.42.52 168th) Declan Cullen (1.49.40 227th) Dianne Crisp (220th 42nd lady 1.48.41) Carol Muir (375th 2.18.23)

Report by Hank in the Bushes

Pictures courtesy of Kim The Blur and Ralph Nordin

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  Ilford AC Press Report Week Ending Sunday 15th September 2013  

Sep 172013
 

BMAF Track and Field Championship
Alexander Stadium Birmingham 14/15 September

The British Masters Track and Field Championship were held at the Alexander
Stadium Birmingham over the weekend.
Among the 700 competitors were 2 endurance runners from Ilford AC.

On a calm but overcast Saturday morning Kevin Newell had a run out in the
1500m. In a fast race he recorded a seasons best of 4 mins 52.05 secs to
take 7th spot in the M35 event

The weather changed for day 2 of the event on Sunday when the events were
held in blustery cool and damp conditions.
Newell ran in his more favoured event, the 5000m and improved on his best
for the season by 30 seconds to finish a competitive race in 6th with 17m
39.76s.
Club endurance coach Rob Sargent also turned out at this distance recording
22m 29.06s for 8th in the M55 category

Report by the Warrior in the stands

The Dedham 10K Road Race

Ilford AC legend Terry Knightley bounced back into action after a Two Month
lay off from a serious spinal and nerve injury at The Dedham 10K Road Race
on Sunday 15th September. In unexpectedly pleasant but very blustery
conditions 383 runners set off across the very undulating and hilly course.
Terry breezed into 14th place in 39 minutes and 43 seconds claiming the 3rd
Veteran Over 50 position.

Report & Pictures by the Kim the Blur

 

  The Vest of British  

Sep 162013
 

After all these years it’s finally emerged that an Ilford AC member’s T-shirt crossed the finishing line at an Olympic Games in a silver-medal position.

PAUL NIHILL MBE HAS revealed he wore Ilford AC member FERGUS MURRAY’s T-shirt when coming 2nd in the 1964 Olympic Games 50 Kilometres’ Walk. Paul said that as he warmed-up it turned very cold and rain started teeming down. He realised his error in turning-up wearing just a GB representative singlet. Ilford AC’s 2nd ever Olympian – 10,000 Metres’ runner Fergus Murray – was at the start to cheer on UK walkers. Paul saw Fergus and asked for his white t-shirt, which he quickly put under his singlet seconds before the “off”. Just under 4-and-quarter hours later the vest of Fergus sped over the finish line, in pouring rain, for a silver medal. The finish line was on a cinder tack – Toyko 1964 was the last Olympics held on cinders…and in 1964 a “traditional tape” was across the finish line, so winners knew they’d reached the end (unlike in the recent 2013 World Championship Women’s walk).

Result : 1. Abdon Pamich (Italy) 4.11.12.4
2. Paul Nihill (GB) 4.11.31.2
3. Invar Pettersson (Swe) 4. 14.17.4

Essex-born Paul has a connection with Ilford AC as he was guest speaker at our Annual Dinner & Dance when the late Pam Phillips was President and “Crazy Martin” provided one of the best disco displays ever seen. Sadly that year an Ilford AC training weekend was at a Norfolk Holiday camp, so many were away. Paul enjoyed his evening so much, he bought 2 tickets to attend our following year’s D&D!

DA