Press Report 26th July 2016  

Jul 262016
 

Newham 10k

On a very hot and humid Sunday morning in Londons East End, 4 Ilford athletes lined up for the annual Great Newham 10k run which finishes with a lap of the Olympic Stadium.
Runners were warned before the race started to not go for PB’s or attempt a sprint finish due to the extreme conditions.
The route seems to change every year, although it may well be that the park changes every year so it just seems different. The course is quite a twisty one with more than its fair share of inclines to deal with and offers no shade at all.
Ilford was lead home by an impressive run in the circumstances by Rohan Alexander in 43:59 followed almost a full 10 minutes later by Billy Green in 53.35.
First female home for Ilford was Carol Muir who continues her good form of late with a time of 60:10.
Suki Jandu completed the Ilford contingent with a time of 63:25

  Press Report 18th July 2016  

Jul 192016
 

Newman Hilly 5
Wednesday 13th July 2016
Ilford AC successfully hosted their showcase event at Chigwell Row last Wednesday evening with the 26th running of the Newman Hilly 5 which was also the 4th race of the extremely popular Elvis series. Well over 200 runners took to the trails of Hainault Forest over a 2 lap course of just over 5 miles on a cool but pleasant evening which provided almost near perfect running conditions although recent rain had made the terrain a little muddy underfoot.
As always this event shows the club at its best and even with an army of volunteers and marshals was still able to put out 21 runners and dominate the men’s race. At the end of the first lap training partners Ahmed Abdulle and Tom Gardner were locked together well out in front with the chasers including a posse of Ilford vets. It was the in-form 17 year old Abdulle who looked the easiest and so it proved as he pulled away opening up a 40 second gap and finishing in 26.57 with Gardner back in second in 27,37, Billericay’s Crispian Bloomfield was third a further 37 seconds adrift and top male vet 40 on the day. 4th place went to Alex Richards of Ilford in 28,43 whilst Steve Philcox, 7th in 30.07, and Andy Catton,50th in 36.10, both scooped the supervet prizes in the MV40 and MV50 categories.
The Ilford men continued to pack well with Paul Holloway, Sam Rahman, Usamah Patel, Robin Mc Nelis and Kevin Wotton making 9 Ilford runners home in the top 20 positions. Needless to say the Club took both the Men’s Race team and Elvis team victories on the night.
The ladies fielded a weakened team with many out either through volunteering duties or through injury but nevertheless still managed to close a team with Bee Nordin once again leading the troops home clocking 37.10 for 3rd lady home and first in the FV55 category. She was joined by Julia Galea 33rd lady in 45.50, Carol Muir 49th lady in 49.46 and Nichola Fairburn, 49.52 as 51st lady closing the team to 6th on the night in the Elvis competition. The club also had 2 ladies from their Harriers section Launa Broadley, 56.28, and Sheila Sinclair, 57.21, 67th and 68th ladies respectively. The usual very strong East London Runners squad were top team on the night in both the ladies team race and Elvis competitions.

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The current Elvis standings with 3 races to go shows Ilford and East London Runners in a titanic battle, locked together on 6 points. In the ladies East London Runners are in a strong and virtually unassailable pole position with just 4 points following their 4th consecutive victory with Ilford back in 4th on 16 points

Other Ilford runners positions and times were 21st Neil Crisp 32.12, 37th Rohan Alexander 34.31, 42nd Terry Knightley 35.02, 51st Bradley Brown 36.11, 74th Declan Cullen 37.57, 115th Satha Alaga 42.1, 148th Sukhbindar Jandu 46.39.

SCVAC Match 4
11th July 2016
The Ilford AC Vets track and field team travelled to Jarman Park Hemel Hempsted last Monday evening to compete in the fourth and final meeting of the season and hosted by Dacorum and Tring.
The evening started positively with Steve Uttley winning the 2000m walk in the over 35 age group in 11:11:3.
Henry Ricketts competing in the same age group placed 3rd in the 200m in 27.4s, 6th in the high jump clearing 1m 10 and finished 1st in the long jump with 5m 24.
Peter Whiting threw the javelin 25m 01 to place 4th in the over 35 age group. His over 50 high jump of 1m secured 5th and his 200m time of 32.3s secured 4th in the same category.

Andy Catton competed in the 3000m for over 60 men and finished 2nd in a time of 12.11.0.
The team finished 7th on the evening and 5th overall for the season. Barnet and District will represent SCVAC at the end of season finale.
A big thank you to all who participated, officiated and supported the team over the 2016 season.

Battersea Park 5k Races
On the same evening Gary Floate took part in the Sri Chimnoy Battersea Park 5k and was pleased with his time of 20.16 which placed him 63rd in a good class field of 168 runners.
The following evening in a much more low key Veterans AC 5km Championships. Ilford AC had 5 runners in a field of only 45 runners and recorded the following results.

Steve Philcox, 4th in 17.37 (M50 Gold), Steve Parker 19th in 22.10 (M60silver), Dianne Crisp 26th in 24.27, Julie Gillender 38th in 28.24 (F45 Bronze), Pam Jones 42nd in 31..17 (F80 gold and age group course record).

  Press Report 12th July  

Jul 112016
 

Felsted 10k

Over 400 runners lined up for the Felsted 10k on a muggy morning last Sunday. The race which starts and finishes at Felsted school is held over a fast flat road course with some gentle undulations. It was also the Essex 10k championships and the 4th county Grand Prix Race for 2016..
Ilford AC had 12 runners competing in these championships with Malcolm Muir returning from a lay off the best of the bunch coming home in 18th place with 36.15. He was followed in by Sam Rahman, 24th in 36.56 and Paul Holloway 32nd in 37.37. Other Ilford men’s times and positions were Steve Philcox, 39th 38.26, Neil Crisp 42nd 38.32, Terry Knightley 58th 39.43, Declan Cullen 153rd 45.38, Steve Parker 179th 46.29, and Satha Alaga 264th 50.59.

The ladies also managed to put out a scoring team with Ilford legend Pam Jones running in her first County Championships as an 80 year old. Pam clocked 64.36 for 438th place and wa joined by Julia Galea 333rd in 55.06 and Carol Muir 416th in 61.49.

Other Races

Elsewhere Club Captain Billy Green took part in the Vitality British 10k London Run where he clocked 48.45 for position 1260 in a mass field of over 11000 athletes. The race was won by Southend’s Paul Whittaker in 32.03

Across the pond Ilford AC’s Rob Sargent took part in the annual 4th July race in Greenville South Carolina USA . On a sunny hot Monday morning over 1100 lined up for the 5km race around the grounds of the picturesque Furman University (where ex Tottenham player Clint Dempsey played his college soccer) over a fast course. Rob ran a steady race in the 85F temperature to finish 439th in 26 mins 44 secs taking 10th spot in the M60 age category.

  Press Report 5th July 2016  

Jul 052016
 

ORION Forest 5
Chingford. Saturday 2nd July.

On a warm Saturday morning 4 Ilford AC athletes were amongst the 154 runners lining up for the second in the series of 3 ‘Forest 5’ runs organised by Orion Harriers.
The course followed a one lap route around Epping Forest with plenty of hills, and this year a lot more mud than previous years.
Leading the Ilford men home, and placing first in the M50 category with an impressive time of 31:08 was the in-form Stephen Philcox.
2nd and 3rd men home were Billy Green coming in at 41:12 and Pathrose Louis clocking 46:09.
Performance of the day though was from Pam Jones who completed her last race as a septuagenarian finishing to huge cheers with a time of 58:16.

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A club member since the 1950’s, she has set many club records as wellas winning county and national honours.
After the Orion Race The Club threw a surprise 80th birthday party and picnic at their Chigwell Row headquarters which was well attended by club members past and present as well as many members of the local running fraternity.

Pleshey 5. Friday 2nd July.

Carol Muir, who continued her good form of late with a time of 47:11.

  Press Report 28th June 2016  

Jun 282016
 

OLYMPIC PARK 5km (ELvIS)

A good team performance from the 28 Ilford AC finishers in this race. the 3rd round of this year’s ELvIS league, saw the team produce their best result of the season in the league competition. The race was over 5km on a 2 lap twisty course to the north of the Olympic Park held last Tuesday evening and hosted by East End Road Runners.

The team were led home by Sam Rahman, who is returning to top form, in 7th place in 17m 41s, with Steve Philcox close behind in 9th with 17m 42s, a performance that once again won him the M50 category prize. Paul Holloway took the award for 1st in the M40 group finishing 11th in 17m 57s. The scoring team was completed by a closely bunched pack of Robin McNelis ,Neil Crisp and Kevin Wotton in 16th, 17th and 18th separated by 1 second with McNelis recording 18m 21s. The team won the match beating East London Runners for the first time this season.

The ladies team was still underpowered but was boosted by the return of Bree Nordin who ran her best time for the distance for 8 years of 21m 28s as she finished 5 in the ladies race and 1st in the F55 category. Next home was the in form Nicola Hopkinson with 23m 12s as 18th lady and 3rd in the F45 group, while Dianne Crisp impressed with 24m 55s in 38h spot in the ladies event. The team was completed by Julia Galea with 26m 07secs as 40th lady and 4th in the F55 category. The ladies combined to produce a third place finish in the team match.

Tony Hyde came home 20th in the race of 303 finishers in 18m 28s with Terry Knightly recording 18m 52s in 29th..

Other runners: Bradley Brown (53rd 20.10) Gary Floate (70th 21.05) John MacKenzie (117th 23.11) Ernie Forsyth (134 23.26) Billy Green (137 23.41) Satha Alaga 164th 24.21) Pathrose Louis (175 25.02) Rob Sargent ( 199 26.18) Rachel Halpin (203 26.29) Suki Jandu (209 26.45) Carol Muir (226 27.31)Nicola Chester (231 28.00) Doris Gaga (246 28.44) Julie Gillender (280 30.15) Pam Jones (280 32.15) Kim Baxter (287 33.18)

BMAF 5km Championship.

Ilford had 6 runners in the recent BMAF 5k championships held at Horwich with results as follows.
Steve Parker 22:29
Julie Galea 26:22
Rob Sargent 26:45
Carol Muir 27:43
Doris Gaga 28:55
Pam Jones 31:20 silver
City Of London Mile – St Pauls
8 Ilford runners achieved the following times.

Amin Koikai 4:39
Steve Philcox 5:08
Tony Hyde 5:23
Krystle Balogun 5:28
Bradley Brown 5:35
Bree Nordin 6:06
Zuzana Sinalova 6:15
Julie Gillender 8:07

North Downs Run

Peter Spelman ran the North Downs Run once again as preparation for the Swiss Alpine
Marathon in July. The conditions were very muddy this year after the
recent deluge of rain hence he was unable to run downhill and finished
in a much slower time than previously. His Chip Time was 03:50:01

SCVAC – Vets Match 3

The Ilford contingent of 3 represented the Club at the Vets Track and Field matc held on 13th June at the Allianz Stadium.

Henry Ricketts finished 2nd in the 100m for 35+ athletes in a seasons best time of 13.0s. 6th place was achieved in the Discus with 22m 05. 3rd place was achieved in the triple jump with a distance of 9m 66.

Peter Whiting competed in the 100m for 50+ athletes finishing 7th in 16.1s. His Javelin throw of 18.96 placed him 8th and his triple jump of 8m 17 secured 4th place.

Andy Catton had the busiest evening finishing 3rd in the 60+ category 400m in 81.1s. He then came down to the 50+ age group to compete in the 5000m and 1500m finishing 6th and 4th respectively in times of 21.26.3 and 5.46.6.

The team finished 9th on the evening.
Thanks to Clare Levey for officiating on the evening. The fourth and final match will be held on 11th July at Dacorum and Tring.

Tromso Marathon

Declan Cullen of Ilford AC travelled to the North of Norway to take part in the Midnight Sun Marathon. Declan put in another good run over the marathon distance reaching the halfway point in 1 hr 46mins 44 secs. In the second half he pushed on overtaking a number of other runners to finish second half to finish 150th in 3hr 39mins 17 secs and was awarded the second place trophy in the M60 age group.