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.

 

  Friday 29th March – Last Friday 5k Hyde Park  

Apr 022013
 

Five athletes from Ilford braved the cold and windy conditions on Good Friday to take part in the Last Friday 5k, this event is held every month and usually attracts fields of over 200 runners who fancy a race in their lunch hour.
Although numbers were slightly down this month the quality of the field was very high, with the race being won by Matthew Fayers of Hillingdon in a fast 15.09. After making a slow start Iain Knight worked his way through the field to finish in 23rd place with a time of 18.01, which pleased both Iain and coach Gainsy. Next home was Gary Floate who struggled throughout but still managed a season’s best in 67th place with a time of 20.38. Eileen Sheridan has not raced since last year’s London Marathon due to injury, and despite only arriving with 2 minutes to go before the start was pleased with her run of 26.21 for 119th place.
Carol “Parkrun”Muir was the 4th finisher in 130th place with a time of 28.11, this was Carol’s fastest run around the Hyde Park course. Meredith Floate was rewarded for her recent spell of hard training with an excellent time of 32.23 which was almost 2 minutes faster than her last race and her best time for over 18 months.

  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 programme). This trophy goes to the first Essex-resident Centurion. All WTW races for this series commence 8.30pm.Congratulations to Olympian Neringa Aidietyte who came 5th in a top class 20K in Olomouc (Czech Republic) clocking 1.35.34. Well done from us all!
DA

  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.

IMG_1814

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 position before a storming last leg by Steve Philcox overtook the last leg runner from Victoria Park Harriers to finish 2nd behind a very strong Eton Manor side. His leg of 9m 36s made him 5th fastest individual in the race.

 

There was an excellent opening leg for the B team by Richard Mould of 10m 24s which placed the team 5th. During the middle legs by Ted Skinner ( 12m 13s) and Steve Parker (12m 17s) the team slipped to 6th but a determined last leg by Gary Floate of 11m 18s re-established the team into 5th.

IMG_1812

Inga Hayden-Cooper opened for the ladies and placed them 5th in their category with 12m 34s. Next up was Nicola Hopkinson who held the position with a time of 12m 35s for her leg before handing onto Dianne Crisp, who moved them up to 4th running 12m 18s. Anchor leg runner Jenni Sheehan then chased down the Victoria Park B team runner and just pipped her on the line to claim 3rd with a fast time of 11m 58s for her run. The Victoria Park Ladies A team won the event.

Report by the Man in the Shadows

pdf iconIndividual_Leg_Times_2013.pdf pdf iconResults_by_Team_2013.pdf