• Davos Marathon, Havering 90 5 miles, Tour of Little Baddow

    Mountain Marathon Spelman

    Ilford's athletic club's most intrepid traveller, Peter Spelman completed the tough C42 Davos Mountain Marathon in Switzerland for the second successive year in near perfect conditions.  His time of 4 hours 7 minutes was a 16 minute improvement on last year showing that Peter is in the best form of his life. He came 38th in the race overall and 5th in his age group.

    Meanwhile Ilford's road running squad showed up well in the late summer evening heat of the Havering Midweek 5 miler.  Female supervet, Bree Nordin was narrowly defeated to 2nd in the vet women's race with a time of 35.23.  Sally Gillam competed well to beat the 40 minute barrier with a time of 39.31, while Joan De'Ath completed the women's team in 64th with a time of 43.58.

    Heading the men's squad was veteran Terry Knightley who is continuing to find form with a time of 30.27 in 6th place.  Behind him in 8th was Matt Maple in a time of 30.44.  Andy Catton (33.14) got the better of Martin Clarke (33.53) in 16th and 17th respectively as Andy is gathering a consistent run of performances.  Completing the team was Owen Phipps 43rd with a time of 39.22 and Ray Rawlinson, 53rd in 40.40.  The men would've won the team prize in former times when such a prize existed.

    Always one for a challenge, Malcolm Muir completed the arduous challenge of the Little Baddow Tour.  The tour consists of four consecutive days of tough races, made up of an 11km road race, a 4 mile cross country, a 4.5 mile hilly road race and toughest of all, two one mile time trials, once down hill, once up hill.  This was followed up by the compulsory 'non-competitive' fell race which drained the competitors of any remaining energy.  Malcolm competed well throughout to win the 4.5 mile road race and consistently place in the top 3 but ultimately had to succumb to Springfield's Paul Dobson and Chelmsford's middle distance expert, David Fewell.  Matt Maple kept Malcolm company for the final day's time trials and the post race festivities (also compulsory to avoid time penalties).
     
  • EYAL Walthamstow

    On a sunny day which was a relief to many as the forecast was for some ran Ilford hosted there fixture at Walthamstow due to there own being resurfaced. This was not to put off the club in any way and a turn out of 38 athletes helped Ilford come 3rd, final results below:
     
    1) Basildon AC      - 653 Points
    2) Chelmsford AC  - 613 Points
    3) Ilford AC           - 447 Points
    4) Luton               - 359 Points
    5) West Suffolk    - 272.5 Points
    6) Trent Park       - 214.5 Points
     
    Stars of the show have to go to Sarah Kigozi in the U/17's with a sprint double PB and Charlotte Smitheram in the U/15's with 3 PB in the throwing. Sarah ran - 13.0s in the 100m for 1st in B-String and came 2nd in the B-String 200m with a new PB of - 27.0s. Charlotte Smitheram excelled herself today with 3 marvellous performances in the throws. She started with a Hugh putt of - 8m 80 for 1st B-string which was well over a 1m further than she had putt before. In the discus it was another fine throw finishing 2nd in with - 19m 22cm, again well over her previous best and threw a PB as a non-scorer in the javelin.
     
    In the U/13 Girls Corina Bryce-Arnold is showing impressive form of late. She came 2nd in the 70m hurdles with a new PB of - 13.2s, another PB in the 100m with - 13.8s and 3rd and to round it off yet another PB in the 200m with a time of - 28.8s and 1st. Katy Rounce coming back after injury ran the B-String hurdles coming 3rd with a PB of - 15.7s and ran the 100m in - 15.3s for 4th. Mika Marston putt a new PB in the shot with - 6m 61 and 1st, 5th in the long jump with - 2m 62 and 4th in the 200m with a time of - 30.2s. Paris Rhodes jumped well in the high jump for - 1m 30 and 3rd, putt 7m 04 in the shot and leaped well in the long jump for - 3m 34 and 6th. They finished with a 3rd place in the 4x100m relay with - 58.9s. (Katy, Corina, Mika & Paris)
     
    The U/15 Girls saw Aimee Jones run a good 200m to finish 5th with - 29.7s and a new PB in the 300m with - 46.7s and 2nd, she also did the long jump and came 4th with - 3m 78. Rochelle Rhodes jumped a new PB in the high jump with a clearance of - 1m 40 and a PB in the long jump with - 4m 15 for 5th and was also in action in the 200m coming home 4th in - 32.3s. Lydia Hall did the high jump and finished 4th with - 1m 25, ran the 1500m in - 5m 35.8s and 2nd. Zena Uppal ran very well in the 800m and it was good enough for a PB time of - 2m 38.1 and 4th. Charlotte Deacon putt another distance in the shot coming out 1st with - 8m 93 and threw the javelin - 17m 93 and 1 in the B-String. Charlie Clements extended her post 2004 CLUB RECORD with a throw of - 22m 76 and 1st, whilst coming 1st in the B-String discus with - 17m 33. Iyunade Ajibola competing for the first time ran the 100m in - 14.8s for 4th. In the 4x100m relay the team came home 4th with a time of - 59.9s (Aimee, Charlotte.D, Rochelle & Iyunade)
     
    Rachel Giwa ran a new PB in the 200m U/17 Girls with a 1st place time of - 25.8s and also came 1st in the 100m with - 12.4s, whilst throwing - 15m 58 in the javelin for 4th. Laura Townsend ran the 300m in a time of - 46.6s and 4th, threw the discus - 14m 40 for 2nd and putt the shot a distance of - 7m 03 for 2nd. Jamie Smith threw well and came 1st in the discus with - 23m 26 whilst finishing 3rd in the shot with - 7m 44. Julianna Dougan jumped - 2m 92 for 2nd in the long jump and threw - 14m 34 in the javelin for 3rd. Fionnuala Crowe had to settle for the 80m hurdles only this time and came 4th with - 16.4s and she ran the 300m in a time of - 52.4s. The relay squad were very impressive coming home in fine style for 1st place in a time of - 52.1s (Rachel, Laura, Sarah & Julianna).
     
    In the U/13 Boys Youcef Zatat extended his CLUB RECORD in the shot putt with a Hugh distance of - 9m 25 but could only finish 2nd. He also came 2nd in the discus with a distance of - 24m 20. Ben Jones also recorded a PB in the shot with - 6m 64 and 1st in B-String, this continued in the discus with a new PB of - 15m 10 and 2nd, he also came 5th in the high jump with - 1m 05. Joshua Daly jumped well in the long jump finishing narrowly in 2nd place with - 4m 50, he ran 14.4s in the 100m for 3rd and 30.0s in the 200m for 4th. Alex Legon ran the 800m in a time of - 2m 52.3s and 4th, the 200m in 31.8s and 3rd, whilst jumping a new PB in the long jump with - 3m 93 and 2nd. Alex Richards ran the 1500m finishing 1st in - 5m 17.1s. Jordan Akisanya ran his first club race in the 100m and finished 1st in a time of - 14.3s and did the long jump as a non-scorer. The relay team of (Jordan, Joshua, Alex.R & Alex.L) came 3rd with a time of - 62.1s.
     
    The U/15 Boys had Chris Dawe record a new PB in the shot putt with - 8m 63 and 2nd, whilst throwing - 21m 62 in the discus for 3rd. Andrew Townsend came 4th in the shot with - 5m 30 and was a non-scorer in the discus. Jerrell Alleyne ran well and finished 3rd in the 100m with - 13.0s and 3rd again in the 200m - 26.0s, he also competed in the long jump. Aaron Akisanya also ran the 100m coming 3rd with exactly the same time as Jerrell of - 13.0s and he to also did the long jump. Liam Leddy ran the 800m and finished 4th with a time of - 2m 37.0s. Kurtland Martyr is improving all the time. He threw the discus - 18m 36 for 2nd and the javelin - 28m 26 again for 2nd. Andy Carle fresh from 2 weeks holiday showed he hadn't lost much as he came 2nd in the javelin with a throw of - 38m 56 which was not far away from his best. Ayokunle Adekeye ran the 200m and finished 4th with a time of - 28.3s. In the relay the team of (Mohammed, Jerrell, Aaron & Ayokunle) came 4th with a time of - 52.2s.
     
    In the U/17 Boys Gull Hassen-Ditta extended the post 2004 CLUB RECORD for the javelin with a throw of - 25m 10 for 3rd whilst coming 3rd in the shot putt with - 8m 89, he also ran the 100m in a new PB time of - 12.6s and 2nd. Bakr Al-Akku ran a good 800m coming 3rd with - 2m 11.0s and threw the javelin - 21m 65 for 1st in B-String. Nathaniel ran a new PB in the 200m with - 25.9s and 4th and finished 1st in the long jump A-String. Simeon also came 1st in the B-String long jump, ran the 100m in - 12.5s and the 200m in - 25.2s. Elijah Collins was in action in the high jump clearing - 1m 50 for 4th and did the discus coming 4th with 15m 67. The 4x100m relay squad (Bakr, Gull Hassen, Nathaniel & Simeon) contested a very tight race and it was only decided at the last gasp where Ilford were piped at the post by Luton, there time was recorded at - 48.5s.