Ilford AC Press Report. Tuesday 22nd August 2017  

Aug 222017
 

Pride Run 10km
Victoria Park
Saturday 12​th August

Nearly 1,000 runners ran in the annual ‘Pride Run 10k’ in Londons Victoria Park.
The course is a 3 lap flat run via the parks tarmac roadways, with runners cheered on by a large enthusiastic crowd.
Two Ilford AC athletes took part in the event with Steve Parker finishing in 275th place in 46:11 and the evergreen Pam Jones coming in at 908th place in a time of 67:27.

South of England AA Championships
Crystal Palace
19th/20th August

There were two Golds for Ilford AC in the South of England AA Championships last weekend.
Mark Culshaw recorded 28:30:98 for 1st place in the 5km Track Walk, whilst Anthony George recorded a PB in the U17 Mens Triple Jump to secure first place with a jump of 13:11

Southern Athletics League Division 3N
Colchester
19th August

In the final Southern league of the season last Saturday Ilford came 4th, but scored 237 points – the best score for the season. This time last year Ilfords highest previous score was 86 points in one match.
Ilford put out 26 athletes out and at one point we were only 2 points behind second. Sam Malekout did 8 events, Ahmed Abdulle 4 races then a relay, Krystle Balogun 3 races and a relay, Usamah Patel threw the Hammer and Jordan and Isabella
did the discus. Virtually everyone did at least two events to try and gain points.

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  Ilford AC Press Report. 14th August 2017  

Aug 222017
 

​Ilford AC Press Report. 14th August 2017​

International Elvis 5k
Saturday 12th August
Memphis Tennessee
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The annual Elvis Presley 5k run is held every year in August in the Kings hometown of Memphis Tennessee.
Saturday 12th August saw the 35th running of the event, which starts and finishes outside Elvis’ home ‘Graceland’.
Club Captain Billy Green this year travelled out to America to do the run and represent Ilford AC.
The event has an 8am start because of the heat and humidity in Memphis in August which meant an early start for the 1500 participants who travelled from all over the world to compete.
After a congested start on ‘Elvis Presley Blvd’ the participants soon spread out as they race on to the wide suburban back streets of Memphis, where they are very well received by local residents who come out to cheer and hand out water to participants with some even getting out their garden hoses and giving runners a nice cold water spray relief from the mornings heat.
The race is marshalled by the local Police and Fire Officers who also provide a lot of runners in the charity event, which helps to create a great atmosphere
The course is an undulating one and despite the early start the temperature was already in the early 80’s at the start of the race so pb’s are at a premium.
Despite this Billy came very close to a pb finishing in 55th place from 1500 runners in a time of 23:14, a time which placed him 3rd in his age group, first Brit in his age group and for the first time ever….first Ilford male home in an Elvis race!

 

  Ilford AC Press Report. Monday 7th August 2017  

Aug 072017
 

ILFORD AC PRESS REPORT. MONDAY AUGUST 7th 2017​

Orion Forest Five – ELvIS
Epping Forest
Saturday 6 August

The 5th round of this year’s ELvIS competition was held on Saturday over a 5 mile challenging lap on the trails around Epping Forest at Chingford.
Leading the way for Ilford AC was Steve Philcox in 11th spot in 30 mins 15 secs, which saw him victorious in the M50 category.
He was backed up by Neil Crisp in 28th and 3rd in the M50 age group with 32 mins 11 secs and Dennis Briggs 75th with 35mins 46 secs.
Also in the scoring six for Ilford were Andy Catton, 83rd in 36 mins 09 secs and 1st in the M60 category.
Declan Cullen placed 94th in 36 mins 45 secs and 4th in the M60 age group and young Bradley Deacon​,​ who on his first race at the distance recorded 39 mins 13 secs for 116th.

Bree Noordin took the the ladies F55 category prize in 37 mins 47 secs for 100th overall in a field of 300plus.
Nicola Hopkinson was 119th with 39 mins 10 secs and Carlie Qirem placed 150th in 41 mins 07 secs.
Dianne Crisp completed the ladies scoring team in 154th with 41 mins 25 secs.

There were new best times for the 5 mile distance from Tony Young in 117th in 39m 05s, Launa Broadley in 258th with 50.27 secs and Sheila Sinclair in 292nd with 55 mins 53 secs, while Diane Deacon made her club debut and first ever run over the distance in 299th in 57 mins 55 secs

Also ran: Billy Green 126th 39 23s,
Adnan Karim 127th 39.35,
Ernie Forsyth 134th 40.05,
Satha Alaga 151st 41.17,
Pathrose Louis 211th 45.24,
Rachel Halpin 235th 48.00,
Suki Jandu 259th 50.27,
Natasha Mansouri 279th 53.26
Pam Jones 286th 53.53

​BMAF Long Distance Racewalk Championships 20 Miles
Bury St. Edmunds.
Saturday 5th August ​

Mark Culshaw & Ed Shillabeer took gold in their age groups
​ in the 20 mile category of the BMAF Championships on Saturday.
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  Ilford AC Press Report. 31st July 2017  

Aug 012017
 

ILFORD AC PRESS REPORT 31st JULY 2017

Ilford Athlete Peter Spelman has this week been competing in the ‘Swiss Alpine Davos running event’ which is a series of races and trail runs in Davos, Switzerland that is very popular for running tourists.
On Tuesday 25th July Peter ran in the 4k lake race which is held on a hilly course around the Davos lake.
In very wet and cold conditions Peter was the 3rd M65 home in a time of 25:34.

On Saturday 29th Peter took part in the K31 event which is a 31k run starting in Davos, travelling through the Wiesner viaduct before finishing in Filisur.
Peter came 25th in his age group today in a time of 3:49:10.

Sunday 30th Peter competed in his 2nd race in 2 days and third in a week when he lined up for his toughest race of the week, the D22 event. The D22 is a 22k trail run which takes in 1150m of climb.
During the race the participants have the option to shorten their distance at 9k or 15k but Peter battled through to compete the gruelling course in 3:57:00 which placed him 6th in his age group.
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  Press Report 24th July 2017  

Jul 242017
 

Southern Veterans Track and Field League
Hemel Hempstead
10th July 2017

In addition to the previous SCVAC report of 10th July, field events were also on the schedule.
Pete Whiting placed 6th in the M35 Javelin with 22m 65. Cliff Warren placed 4th in the M40 Long Jump with 4m 58. Ted Skinner’s 3m 47 in the M60 Long Jump secured first place.
Henry Ricketts cleared 1m 20 in the M35 High Jump for 8th place and Cliff’s 1m 30 in the M50 category meant that the team had won four events on the evening.

IAC finished 5th in the match and 4th overall for the season.

London Heathside go through to represent the men and Stevenage the women in the end of season finale.

Thank you to all participants and supporters. There’s plenty of time to get some good training in for next season where we will be looking to improve on this fantastic season.

Silver Starling 5k
Battersea Park
17th July 2017

On a muggy Monday evening Steve Philcox ran in the silver starling 5k self-transcendence race at Battersea park (they have given every race in this series a name)
On a fast and flat 2 lap oval course Steve was pleased to clock a time of 17.15 finishing in 21st place and first 50 vet.

AJ Bell London Triathlon 
Excel Centre
22nd July 2017

Ilford Athlete Nicola Hopkinson competed in the gruelling ‘London Triathlon Sprint’ race at the Excel Centre in London on Saturday.
The race consists of a 750m Swim, 20k Bike Ride and ends with a 5k run.
Nicola started well with a 14:55 swim, continued in fine form for a 46:48 Bike ride and finished with a very impressive 22:31 5k to finish with a chip time of 1:30:47 after transitions to finish in 647th place and 2nd female in the 55-59 category.

Race for Life (cancer research) 5k 
Hylands Park, Chelmsford
23rd July 2017

Julie Gillender and Carol Muir both ran in the ‘Race for life’ (cancer research) 5k race at Hylands park Chelmsford.
This event has special meaning for Julie and Carol as they both lost their mums to cancer.
They both struggled a bit with the race as it was quite tough being on a cross country course that was quite muddy, both coming in at just over 30 minutes

Julie and carol would both like to thank all the club members that sponsored them as they both managed to raise over £200 between them.