It was a great weekend of athletics, both indoors and outdoors, and the Cru took home some interesting prizes. We start with a result that was missed from last week’s report: the Munster masters indoor championships in Nenagh. Congratulations should go to Bob Lyne who won bronze in the M45 60m (9:06) and silver in the weight throwing and also to John O’Loughlin who won gold in both the M50 60m (8:28) and 200m (26:87). Several Crusaders took part in the National Junior and U23 indoor championships held in Athlone over the weekend. In the 60m hurdles Matthew Behan stormed to gold in the U23 final, with a PB time of 8:12. In the last event of the day, Kevin Woods also ran an excellent 800m to take U23 gold in a super time of 1:57:02. Shane Keane took 5th place in the junior long jump (6.19m), whilst James Kelly took silver in the U23 shot put. It was also reported that, in the all-Ireland U20 competition, Valentinos Goularos took silver, running the 60m in a time of 8.30 whilst Rhianna McCarthy and Emily Shields also competed, Rhianna in the 60m and 200m and Emily in the 400m with a PB of 61.5s. The major event over the weekend, as far as road-racing is concerned, was the Raheny 5 miler (now in its 33rd year) that took place on Sunday afternoon in cool, rainy conditions, but with no wind to speak of. The course remains the same as last year and is reasonably flat, giving rise to PB possibilities. It is a counter-clockwise route starting and finishing just outside of St. Anne’s Park, with a brief detour through the park at one point, allowing runners to see who is in front and behind for about 1.5k, taking in a slight climb after the initial 1K up onto the Howth Road and then turning off down towards the seafront only to break off after half way following the perimeter of the park. It’s a race with a super atmosphere and attracts a lot of interest, although so much so, there were at least 300 more runners than last year and this led to some frustrating congestion in the early stages of the race. The club fielded more than 70 runners in the event and was rewarded with some great results. With 70 finishers in the race (the 3rd largest club contingent in the event after Raheny and Brothers Pearse) it would take too long to list everyone’s achievements, but there are several PBs to report on as well as some age category placings. It also should be noted that once again the club excelled itself in the support that was provided around the course. It was a huge lift for the runners to be cheered on by our clubmates and they were everywhere, in some cases in more than one place. The overall race was won in a sprint finish by Mullingar’s Mark Christie in 23:45, 3 seconds ahead of defending champion and Olympian Mick Clohisey of Raheny, who with his teammates took the men’s senior team prize with 32 points. The currently indefatigable masters athlete, Barbara Cleary of Donore, won the women’s race and, likewise, helped her team to take 1st place (43 points) in the senior women’s team event. Nevertheless, Crusaders also featured on the podium in both senior team competitions, narrowly losing out on first place in the women’s event by only 2 points (43 to 45). We also podiumed in the men O/40 team competition. There were a few nice juicy cash rewards for the team winners, whilst those on the age category podiums received the usual (but unusual!) kitchen appliances for their efforts. Our first runner home in the field exceeding 3,300 finishers (including more than 1,500 women) was men’s captain Michael Kiely, as usual leading by example, with a PB time of 26:09. Indeed it was noticeable that each of the 3 scorers in the 3rd placed men’s team produced PB performances. Michael was followed by John Mulvihill whose PB took him to 33rd place in a time of 26:39, and John was followed by a now fully-fit Bram D'hoedt who placed 36th in a PB time of 26:40. It was an excellent achievement to place third out of 62 teams in total. Top 50 positions also went to Shane Collins (40th in 26:46) and to Rob Cross (41st in 26:49) who were in a good sprint finish together. In placing 5th M40, Rob led the O/40 men’s team to third place out of 36 teams, with the other two scorers both recording PBs: Joe Walsh broke 30 minutes for the first time, placing 151st in 29:27 and Eddie Nugent also recorded a PB with a time of 29:44 (164th). Top 150 placings among the men were recorded by John McAuley (119th in 29:01), Brian Carroll (120th in 28:55), Peter O’Toole (123rd in 29:09) and Joe McDermott with a PB time of 29:27 (145th). Other notable runs among the men came from Alan Sheehy (177th in 29:54) who ran extremely well despite a recurrence of a troubling back problem, Colm Kernan who ran a blistering second half to place 240th in 30:43 and James Cottle, who, as the consequence of running through some deep puddles at the start of the race, found a shoelace undone before he had even completed a kilometre. Worrying that he might lose contact with other club-mates who would help to pull him round (as in fact was the case), James decided not to stop and ran the remaining 7k trying to avoid close contact with anyone (including the odd wheelchair) who might step on his flying shoelace. In the event, he managed to run the exact same time as last year (equalling last year’s PB in the same event) in taking 272nd place in a time of 31:06. By so doing, he also won the O/60 age category by two seconds on guntime over an adversary from Cork. Neither runner knew the other was competing for the age category win. John Fitzsimons, the more senior of our two runners with the same name, took 3rd place in his M75 age category with a time of 48:35. This is amazing, given that John will turn 80 later this year. There were also PBs for Luke Haran (398th in 32:52) and Liam O’Brien (449th in 33:21). The women’s race was even more exciting, with our top 3 senior runners all recording PBs and taking an excellent second place (as mentioned above, narrowly missing out on first place) in the women’s team competition among a field of 43 teams The first of these was Irene Gorman, who only decided at the last minute to enter the race. Irene placed 228th overall (15th woman) in 30:39. 22 seconds later came Orla Kennedy, who’s flying right now, in 261st overall (16th woman) in 31:01, closely followed by an ever-improving Catherine Thornton (272nd overall, 16th woman, in 31:07), enjoying a sprint for the line with James Cottle and initially being given the same time. Grainne Regan was next, placing 500th overall (43rd woman) in a PB time of 34:02, followed closely behind by Niamh Aspell who also ran a PB and who started from further back (505th overall, 44th woman, in 33:23) and then by Dee Ni Chearbhaill (515th overall, 47th woman) in 34:05. Top 150 placings in the women's race also went to Edwina Quinlan (718th overall, 90th woman in 35:15), Amy Brogan (727th overall, 93rd woman, in 34:45), Kris Ryan (770th overall, 103rd woman, in 36:04), Olwyn Dunne (773rd overall, 105th woman and 6th in her age category, in 36:13), Emer Kenny (774th overall, 106th woman, in 36:17) (they all ran together!) and Kate Murray (823rd overall, 125th woman, in 36:13). There were other good efforts from Mary Fitzsimons (955th overall, 160th woman in 37:56), being paced by brother Michael, and both Darina Scully and Orlaith Burke recorded PBs for the event. Darina placed (967th overall, 162nd woman, in 37:58), whilst Orlaith ran 39:25 to place 1,221st overall, 269th woman. Lisa Shine (2109th overall, 693rd woman, in 46:07), who ran with her mother Mairin (2,111th overall, 694th woman and 8th in her age category, in 46:06), deserves an honourable mention having driven up from Cork during the morning, only to experience a tyre blow out which took forever to deal with. After having found some aid at a service station en route, Lisa eventually made it to the start line with less than 10 minutes to go. As can be expected, with a large contingent running Raheny on Sunday we had fewer participants in the parkruns on Saturday morning. Nevertheless, Kate Murray prepared for Raheny by running with nearly 700 other runners in Marlay park, placing 170th overall (20th female finisher) in 24:34. Kate was preceded by Padraig Walsh who placed 57th in 21:45. Aidan Hudner ran 21:12 to place 49th out of 336 runners in Glasgow. Orlaith Burke also prepared for Raheny by running 27:49 in Shanganagh. Orlaith placed 91st overall (26th female) among a field of nearly 200 runners. Meanwhile, in Cabinteely Tom Dunne placed 46th in 26:17 and Gemma Nagel came home in 48th spot overall (8th female) in a time of 26:36. The field measured nearly 170. In St Anne’s Denis murphy and Kris Ryan also prepared for raheny. Kris placed 56th overall (5th female) in 22:30, whilst Denis was 141st in 25:46. Lorriane Fitzsimons also ran with the more than 400 runners there. Lorraine placed 280th overall (100th female) in a time of 29:54. Finally, in Ballincollig in Cork, Lisa Shine warmed up for Raheny among 420 participants with a 22:54 finish to place 63rd overall, 5th female finisher. AXA Raheny 5 mile race Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Mark Christie 1 00:23:44 56 Barbara Cleary 1 00:27:34 Crusaders AC runners 22 Michael Kiely 00:26:09 (PB) 33 John Mulvihill 00:26:39 (PB) 36 Bram D'hoedt 00:26:40 (PB) 40 Shane Collins 00:26:46 41 Rob Cross 00:26:49 119 John McAuley 00:29:01 120 Brian Carroll 00:28:55 123 Peter O’Toole 00:29:09 145 Joe McDermott 00:29:27 (PB) 151 Joe Walsh 00:29:40 (PB) 164 Eddie Nugent 00:29:44 (PB) 177 Alan Sheehy 00:29:54 225 Pat Quill 00:30:33 228 Irene Gorman 00:30:39 (PB) (14) 240 Colm Kernan 00:30:43 249 Karl Walsh 00:29:46 252 Dave Carter 00:30:49 261 Orla Kennedy 00:31:01 (PB) (15) 271 James Cottle 00:31:06 (=PB) 272 Catherine Thornton 00:31:07 (PB) (16) 290 Luca Marchesotti 00:31:28 296 Brian Leonard 00:31:37 303 Philip Matthews 00:31:44 322 Phelim Murray 00:31:59 331 David Long 00:31:59 333 Alan Bermingham 00:31:34 333 Paul Flynn 00:31:53 378 David Killion 00:32:39 384 Sean Smith 00:32:40 394 Tom Clarke 00:32:03 398 Luke Haran 00:32:52 (PB) 411 Matt Cranley 00:33:00 421 Simon Kenny 00:32:50 422 Zlatko Kulic 00:33:16 449 Liam O’Brien 00:33:21 (PB) 500 Grainne Regan 00:34:02 (PB) (43) 505 Niamh Aspell 00:33:23 (PB) (44) 515 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:34:05 (47) 522 Gearoid Grogan 00:34:11 527 Denis Murphy 00:33:53 672 Robbie Moore 00:35:33 718 Edwina Quinlan 00:35:15 (90) 727 Amy Brogan 00:34:45 (93) 770 Kris Ryan 00:36:04 (103) 773 Olwyn Dunne 00:36:13 (105) 774 Emer Kenny 00:36:17 (106) 823 Kate Murray 00:36:13 (125) 826 Gerry Galligan 00:36:14 835 Brendan Glynn 00:37:03 953 Michael Fitzsimons 00:37:56 955 Mary Fitzsimons 00:37:57 (160) 967 Darina Scully 00:37:58 (PB) (162) 1016 Barry O’Neill 00:38:00 1049 Fiona Bane 00:38:23 (194) 1092 Triona Quill 00:37:05 (214) 1204 Geraldine Clements 00:39:14 (259) 1221 Orlaith Burke 00:39:25 (PB) (269) 1235 James Cahill 00:38:14 1246 Olan Callanan 00:37:48 1269 Carina Davidson 00:37:55 (288) 1315 Russell Murphy 00:38:02 1386 Niamh Quinn 00:38:54 1670 Deirdre McMahon 00:41:13 (455) 1763 Joanne Carey 00:42:01 (499) 1800 John Fitzsimons 00:43:01 1963 Rhona McGrath 00:43:16 (614) 2109 Lisa Shine 00:46:07 (693) 2111 Mairin Shine 00:46:06 (694) 2394 John Fitzsimons 00:48:35 2619 Derbhla Hynes 00:48:39 (1028) Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/axa_raheny_5mile_road_race/1884/results Marlay Parkrun #194 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Unknown 1 00:17:02 9 Una O’Farrell 1 00:21:45 Crusaders AC runners 57 Padraig Walsh 00:21:45 170 Kate Murray 00:24:34 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=194 Shanganagh Parkrun #97 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Liam Blackburn 1 00:18:22 3 Suzanne Foot 1 00:19:09 Crusaders AC runner 91 Orlaith Burke 00:27:49 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/shanganagh/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=96 Ballincollig Parkrun #33 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Shane Fitzgerald Foley 1 00:18:08 27 Mary Sweeney 1 00:20:57 Crusaders AC runner 63 Lisa Shine 00:22:54 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/ballincollig/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=33 St Anne’s Parkrun #168 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Unknown 1 00:18:25 46 Grainne Murphy 1 00:22:00 Crusaders AC runners 56 Kris Ryan 00:22:30 141 Denis Murphy 00:25:46 280 Lorraine Fitzsimons 00:29:54 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=168 Cabinteely Parkrun #96 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Paul O’Brien 1 00:18:40 11 Ciara Brady 1 00:21:07 Crusaders AC runners 46 Tom Dunne 00:26:17 48 Gemma Nagle 00:26:36 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=96 As with recent championships, because of the congested nature of the calendar, we were able to field only a small but strong team of men for the National Intermediates XC held in the Palace grounds in Tuam on Sunday. By all accounts it was an undulating course with little that was flat and was also quite muddy. The 8K race (which measured slightly longer than that at nearly 8.4k) involved one short loop of about 1k, followed by 5 laps just under 1.5k for the quality field of nearly 90 runners to negotiate. Because it was being held in Galway, there was a significant showing from clubs in the locality. Men’s captain Michael Kiely led our contingent to the finish line, taking 19th place in a time of 30:02 and he was followed some distance behind by a resurgent Michael O’Conor (25th in 31:14), who in turn was just ahead of Shane Collins, making a welcome return to competitive running after a long lay-off following a foot operation. Shane placed 30th in 31:30 and he was followed closely by Rob Cross, whose 32nd place in 31:36 was strong enough to confirm 4th scorer in the Dublin county gold medal-winning team. In his first competitive cross country championship, John Thuillier (58th in 33:07) was the 5th member of the team that came home in 4th place with 106 points just behind North Sligo (81) and the teams in gold and silver positions, Clonliffe (62) and North Belfast (66). East Cork were 5th out the 12 teams represented with 118 points. 37 runners in total turned out for the women’s BHAA 2 mile XC race on Saturday morning in Cherryfield. It’s a super race and the usual swampy and muddy conditions were improved by the crispy cold that morning, making the course (which is largely flat around playing fields but has a couple of hills) much firmer than has usually been experienced and no wind to worry about. Niamh Corby distinguished herself on the two lap course, placing 2nd in 12:18 and taking some decent scalps in the process. Dee Ni Chearbhaill placed 11th in 13:25 and winner of her age category, whilst our third runner, Susan Walsh, took 22nd spot in 15:05 (4th in her age category). The mixed 5 mile race with 160 runners was dominated by Lithuania's national marathon champion, Valdas Dopolskas, who also represented his country in the Rio Olympics. Valdas has recently arrived in this country and will likely be turning out for Balbriggan AC in days and weeks to come. He won in a super time of 25:01, more than 90 seconds ahead of Raheny’s Simon Ryan in 2nd place. Once again, Karl Fahy had to be content with 4th place (27:15) and some distance behind Karl came John McAuley in 31st (30:38). John was followed by Irene Gorman who ran brilliantly. Irene had hoped to run in the first race, the 2 miler, but arrived too late for the event. She wasn’t fazed by the experience, however, coming home in 41st place and a time of 31:22. Niall McGeorge was next in 51st place (32:10), followed by Tom Dunne (70th in 33:58), Mike McGovern (81st in 34:43) and Robbie Moore (84th in 35:03). In cold, but otherwise perfect, conditions in Lucan, Crusaders fielded a record 17 runners and 3 full teams in the 3rd race of the Women's Meet and Train Winter cross-country 4 race series. The course itself is a 2 mile, 2 loop course and is relatively flat with one hill, but has some tight spots given the high turnout of 144 runners on Sunday. In a competitive field, with lots of elbows flying, Fiona Shine had another fantastic race to lead the Crusaders A team home with individual 2nd place (12:54), overtaking the 3rd placed runner with about 600m to go. Fiona was followed home by Grainne Regan closely behind (9th in 12:59), Lisa Shine (19th in 13:35), Emily Ferghan (24th in13:48), Kate Murray (29th in 14:03), Darina Scully (32nd in 14:07), Geraldine Clements (38th in 14:24), Emer Kenny (39th in 14:26), Olwyn Dunne (59th in 14.55) and following a marathon the day before (!), Arwen Cusack (62nd in 15:02), Ailis Fagan (83rd in 15:37), Orlaith de Burca (87th in 15:53 in a fine elbow battle at the finish which she won, Rhona McGrath (101st in 16:35), Fiona Craven (111th in 17:03), Mairin Shine (119th in 17:27), Lorraine Fitzsimons (135th in 20:20) and Carina Davidson (136th in 20:30). At time of writing, team standings are awaited; Cru A and B were 4th and 5th after the last race in December. All the teams are looking forward to the 4th and final race in Swords on 5th February. Kris Ryan and Leo Lundy's aspirations of an Ultra back-to-back over the weekend went up in smoke before it started, literally, when engine failure caused the pilot of their flight to the UK on Friday night to reject the take-off, mid-manoeuvre. A frustrating night was then spent at Dublin airport while alternative arrangements were made. In fact, when the first race had started at 8am on Saturday morning the pair were still in Dublin. Eventually, a flight to Southampton was organised which left them 130 miles from the race start. A mad dash across the south of England them ensued with them arriving at the start line some 5 hours after the rest of the field had started. Undeterred, Kris and Leo started on the really hilly, extremely muddy, 4.4 miles loop trail around the Ranscombe Farm reserve just outside Rochester in North Kent in sub-zero temperatures. Leo managed 3 loops for 13.1 miles and Kris managed 4 loops for 17.5 miles before fading light closed the course. Day 2 was at the Hugin Ultra Challenge in Cliffsend, close to Ramsgate, right on the south coast of England. The race started at minus 7 degrees Celsius which was not forecast and which took the frankly under-prepared and under-dressed field by surprise. Keeping extremities and particularly the core warm and functional became a day long obsession for the runners. To make things worse, after an hour of running freezing fog rolled in and brought visibility down to 10m. As if there wasn’t enough to contend with ice began to form on hair and eye lashes and icicles began to drip off beards and eyebrows, which made the image of the race a cross between the Revenant and Frozen. Both ran well, however, with Leo managing 10 laps of the 3.25 mile trail loop for 32.5 miles and 6th overall out of 140 finishers, whilst Kris managed 11 loops for 36.1 miles for 2nd overall and 1st woman home. It wasn’t quite what was planned but it was an adventure all the same! On Saturday, as part of her training for the upcoming Donadea 50K, Olwyn Dunne participated in the East of Ireland series Staplestown marathon, taking 33rd place overall, 4th female, in 3:48:59. The temperature at the start was minus 5 but no wind, so conditions were actually good for marathon running. The field measured nearly 70 runners in total. Further afield, Rebecca Fleming was helping her new Maltese club-mates take first place in the Marsascala 5K road relay over the weekend. In preparation for his outing on Sunday with the men's team for the National Intermediates, Shane Collins joined Bob Cahill and James Cottle in a 5k charity run that took place at 7am on Thursday. The HQ for the race was Irishtown stadium and the race, which went out and back along the Strand Road from the entrance to Clanna Gael, was organised by A&L Goodbody in aid of Orbis, the eye charity. About 60 runners, mostly from the aviation finance community, took part in the race, with Shane coming home side by side with Rathfarnham’s Robert Murphy in about 17:30. Olympian Caitriona Jennings was third, with Bob placing 5th and further back in 6th around 20 minutes came James, about 30 seconds ahead of Sportsworld’s Ruth Kelly. It was great fun if a little nippy. The New Year’s commitment to park-running sees no sign of abating. Marlay for example had nearly 800 runners turn out on Saturday. St. Anne’s had in excess of 530 and Malahide, nearly 400. At least 21 of our club-mates participated in these events at the weekend, with some excellent results. We had first finishers in Navan, Ballincollig and Poppintree. In Navan, Dave Carter joined more than 200 other runners to place first in a time of 19:11, which was bolted onto a training run. Brian Carroll was also our only runner in Ballincollig and he was first to finish in a field of nearly 450 in a time of 18:40. In finishing first out of more than 170 runners in Poppintree, Diarmuid Byrne also recorded a super PB time of 18:11. One other Crusader, Ciaran Smyth, took part in the event and he finished in 4th spot in a time of 19:50. Natasha Murray placed 167th overall, 57th woman, in 38:20 in the 211-strong field in Tymon on Saturday morning, whilst Neil Brown and Orlaith Burke (who ran in the WM&T the following day) ran in Shanganagh. In a field of nearly 240 runners, Neil placed 60th in 25:10, whilst Orlaith placed 68th overall (14th woman) in 25:49. Lisa Shine and Kate Murray also prepared themselves for the WM&T with a parkrun. Kate placed 193rd overall (24th woman) in a time of 24:10 in Marlay, whilst Lisa placed 108th overall (37th woman) in 30:02 in Cabinteely. Mairin Shine also appears to have walked the same 217-strong event in Cabinteely in preparation for the WM&T, whilst, alongside Kate in Marlay, Killian Barry placed 13th in 19:22, followed by Edwina Quinlan (81st overall, 7th woman, in 22:10). Aidan Hudner placed 54th in the 326-strong field in Glasgow. Aidan was timed at 21:27, whilst in Albert park in Melbourne, Ian Kinsella took time off his holiday to place 11th in 18:10 in a field measuring nearly 430 runners. Interestingly the first finisher there came home in an impressive 15:56. Paul O’Meara was 6th in Malahide in a time of 18:45, with Suzanne Collins placing 228th overall (63rd woman) in 29:17 in the same event, and we had 4 runners in St. Anne’s. Recent new father Matt Cranley celebrated by running 20:04 and taking 26th place. He was followed by Colm Kernan and Denis Murphy, both of whom tacked long training runs onto their parkrun. Colm ran 23:36 and took 106th place, with Denis a second behind in 107th. Lorraine Fitzsimons, who also ran in the WM&T on Sunday, finished in 361st place overall (124th woman) in 30:24. Men’s National Intermediate XC Championship Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Niall Sheehan 1 00:27:53 Crusaders AC runners 19 Michael Kiely 00:30:02 25 Michael O’Conor 00:31:14 30 Shane Collins 00:31:30 32 Rob Cross 00:31:36 58 John Thuillier 00:33:07 Full results here: http://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/other/Mens_Results_intermediate.pdf BHAA Eir Women’s 2 miles XC Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Laura McDonnell 1 00:12:04 Crusaders AC runners 2 Niamh Corby 00:12:18 11 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:13:25 22 Susan Walsh 00:15:05 Full results here: https://bhaa.ie/events/eir-cc-2017/ BHAA Eir Mixed 5 miles XC Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Valdas Dopolskas 1 00:25:01 Crusaders AC runners 4 Karl Fahy 00:27:15 32 John McAuley 00:30:38 41 Irene Gorman 00:31:22 51 Niall McGeorge 00:32:10 70 Tom Dunne 00:33:58 81 Mike McGovern 00:34:43 84 Robbie Moore 00:35:03 Full results here: https://bhaa.ie/events/eir-cc-2017/ Naas Parkrun #147 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Gavin Kelly 1 00:16:59 30 Glynis Hanrahan 1 00:23:06 Crusaders AC runner 131 Ciara McElligott 00:31:40 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/naas/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=147 Poppintree Parkrun #116 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Diarmuid Byrne 1 00:18:11 17 Ciara McGrath 1 00:21:24 1 Crusaders AC runners 1 Diarmuid Byrne 00:18:11 (PB) 4 Ciaran Smyth 00:19:50 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/poppintree/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=116 Navan Parkrun #66 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 David Carter 1 00:19:11 22 Lorraine Mangan 1 00:23:50 Crusaders AC runner 1 David Carter 00:19:11 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/navan/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=66 Tymon Parkrun #135 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Unknown 1 00:18:43 32 Maura Ginty 1 00:23:02 Crusaders AC runner 167 Natasha Murray 00:38:20 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=135 Marlay Parkrun #193 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Jack Byrne 1 00:17:42 6 Sarah Baryga 1 00:18:35 Crusaders AC runners 13 Killian Barry 00:19:22 81 Edwina Quinlan 00:22:10 193 Kate Murray 00:24:10 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=193 Shanganagh Parkrun #96 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Liam Blackburn 1 00:17:59 8 Ashling Smith 1 00:19:42 Crusaders AC runners 60 Neil Brown 00:25:10 68 Orlaith Burke 00:25:49 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/shanganagh/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=96 Malahide Parkrun #220 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Eoin Callaghan 1 00:16:31 29 Amanda Maher Owen 1 00:21:00 Crusaders AC runners 6 Paul O’Meara 00:18:45 228 Suzanne Collins 00:29:17 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/malahide/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=220 Ballincollig Parkrun #32 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Brian Carroll 1 00:18:40 26 Mary Sweeney 1 00:21:18 Crusaders AC runner 1 Brian Carroll 00:18:40 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/ballincollig/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=32 St Anne’s Parkrun #167 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Aidan Jones 1 00:16:55 23 Fiona Victory 1 00:19:58 Crusaders AC runners 26 Matt Cranley 00:20:04 106 Colm Kernan 00:23:36 107 Denis Murphy 00:23:37 361 Lorraine Fitzsimons 00:30:24 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=167 Cabinteely Parkrun #95 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Caoimhin Kelly 1 00:18:06 12 Joanne Ryan 00:22:17 Crusaders AC runners 108 Lisa Shine 00:30:02 217 Mairin Shine 01:00:37 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=95 This year our Annual Dinner is on Saturday 18th of February in The Green House Function room of the Harbourmaster Pub and Restaurant IFSC
This year plans to the biggest yet, with music, food, entertainment and a bar extension until 1.30 on the night. It starts at 7.30pm and tickets are €20 each which includes the meal. There will be music, prizes and a few surprises, so make sure to get your ticket early. All members and non-members are welcome, So don't forget to bring your partner or friend. This is also a great opportunity for new members to get to know the rest of the club! We have lots of fun activities planned and some great prizes to give away. As well as our coveted Crusader of the year award being presented to this years recipient. Tickets can be bought online with PayPal or credit cards or Cash in person at the club. Note: You do not need to be a member of the club to go to the dinner. Also there is a transaction fee of €1 that applies to each ticket bought with the online payment methods. Because of the density of the XC calendar we were able to field only a small team of 6 women for the Leinster Intermediates on Sunday and we were not alone. In a consequentially smallish overall field of 32 runners there were, nevertheless, 5 clubs competing for the 3 team medals with some quality runners, several of whom having distinguished themselves already at county, provincial and national level, among them members of the currently difficult-to-beat Sportsworld women’s team (and so it proved, with 3 of their 4 scorers finishing in the top 10 places, including 1st and 2nd individual). The other teams to beat were Dunboyne with a strong showing (ultimately with their first two scorers coming home in 4th and 7th), Tullamore with the same size team as ours and Liffey Valley with 5 runners. In the event, Cru women brought home the team bronze in a super showing of gutsy running on a tough course. The day started with the two masters events with substantial fields (159 men and 76 women and both producing exciting sprint finishes for gold and silver), followed by the senior women’s race. So the ground was already churned up in certain areas of the course, most notably on the turns. It took place in the appropriately named Cowpark in Dunboyne. Essentially, Cowpark is a largely flat piece of common land just outside Dunboyne, and it seems that it experiences little grooming throughout the year. The grass tends to be quite long in places on slightly spongy ground, producing a surface that is strength-sapping. It’s a really good test of XC running, despite the lack of serious hills. The organisers have also put in quite a few corners that got progressively more muddy and slippery as the afternoon progressed. Conditions were otherwise perfect, with the air temperature around 10 degrees Celsius and little wind to concern the runners as the gun went. Catherine Thornton found herself briefly in 2nd place but the experienced athlete sensibly settled back quickly enough to put herself among the top 10 as the first of two laps in the 4k race unfolded. Niamh Aspell, running her first XC race and in borrowed spikes, took off perhaps a little too hard and found herself in the top 15 early on and throughout most of the first lap, but also settled back, generally holding a decent position, with Fiona Shine making steady inroads not too far behind. Dee Ni Chearbhaill and Lisa Shine were next, followed by Emer Kenny who found the going especially tough, but braved it out all the same. As the race unfolded, despite carrying a slight cold, Catherine reeled in several runners, including, towards the end, two athletes from Dunboyne and Liffey Valley, to finish the race in an impressive 6th place, taking a few decent scalps in the process. Our next scorer was Fiona Shine who continues to improve and who reeled in a lot of runners, including Niamh, to finish in 16th and likewise targeting those clubs who were meaningful competition in the team event. Niamh did really well to hold on in the last lap, to come home as 3rd scorer in 20th place, just ahead of a surging Lisa Shine (21st) and Dee Ni Chearbhaill (22nd), two runners who traded places throughout the race. Emer did well to hold on to take 30th place and it was noteworthy that every one of our athletes was able to come home ahead of runners representing the two clubs that were a threat for the team bronze. Once the smoke cleared, Sportsworld unsurprisingly took gold with 30 points. Dunboyne took silver with 41 and, with our 63 points, we finished ahead of Tullamore on 70 and Liffey Valley on 87. Three of our four scorers (Fiona, Niamh and Lisa) won cross country medals for the first time, whilst Catherine also found herself included in the gold-winning Dublin county team, coming in as 3rd scorer in the 4 women team. Apart from the cross country, little if any racing took place locally over the weekend. However, the numbers surged in the Parkruns on Saturday, presumably impacted by Operation Transformation. For example, Marlay Park saw nearly 750 runners, St. Anne’s nearly 500, Malahide in excess of 400 and Shanganagh nearly 250. The stand out run for Crusaders came from Alban Coghlan who was first finisher in Marlay Park, completing the course in 17:04. Mary Noelle Rohan was our other runner, placing 572nd overall (192nd woman) in 32:59. Jonathan Claridge, Ronan Reilly and Suzanne Collins ran in Malahide, with Jonathan placing 17th in 20:06, followed by Ronan (34th in 21:33) and Suzanne (264th overall, 88th woman, in 31:18). 8 members ran in St. Anne’s, led home by Leo Lundy who placed 80th in 22:49, followed by the ever-improving Fiona Bane (94th overall, 9th female finisher, in 23:18), Colm Kernan (138th in 24:34) and Denis Murphy (139th in 24;35), both of whom generally treat the parkruns as training sessions. Lorraine Fitzsimons was next in 337th overall (116th woman) in 31:07 and Lorraine was followed by Ciara McElligottt (436th overall, 174th woman, in 36:22). Mary and John Fitzsimons also participated in the parkrun, coming in well under 30 mins, but both forgot their barcodes. John is in great shape for the Raheny 5 coming up at the end of the month. Dave Carter placed 8th in a field of nearly 90 runners in Oldbridge with a time of 20:05 and, in Shanganagh, Neil Brown took 76th spot in a time of 25:57. Finally, in Cabinteely among nearly 150 runners, Olwyn Dunne, who is in training for the upcoming Donadea 50K ultra and is the overall coordinator for the parkrun event in Cabinteely, placed 82nd overall (26th woman) in 29:54. Olwyn was followed by Mairin Shine (90th overall, 31st woman) in 31:10 and by Lisa Shine, preparing herself for her sterling effort the following day, who took 93rd place overall (34th woman) in 31:16. A late update to the report: Warren Swords came 2nd in the Art O'Neill Challenge over the weekend. He covered the distance of over 50Km between Dublin Castle and Glenmalure Valley in 5:51, most of it in the hours of darkness. Leinster Intermediate Women’s XC Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Sinead Tangney 1 00:15:26 Crusaders AC runners 6 Catherine Thornton 00:16:18 16 Fiona Shine 00:17:10 20 Niamh Aspell 00:17:27 21 Lisa Shine 00:17:39 22 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:17:50 30 Emer Kenny 00:19:07 Full results here: http://www.myrunresults.com/events/leinster_inter__masters__juvenile_relays_c.c_/1935/results Malahide Parkrun #219 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Neil Callaghan 1 00:16:45 25 Erin McHugh 1 00:20:37 Crusaders AC runners 17 Jonathan Claridge 00:20:06 34 Ronan Reilly 00:21:33 264 Suzanne Collins 00:31:18 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/malahide/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=219 Oldbridge Parkrun #135 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Diarmuid McKeown 1 00:18:00 23 Ciara Lenihan 1 00:23:35 Crusaders AC runner 8 David Carter 00:20:05 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/oldbridge/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=135 Marlay Parkrun #192 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Alban Coghlan 1 00:17:04 10 Derval Devaney 1 00:19:05 Crusaders AC runner 1 Alban Coghlan 00:17:04 572 Mary Noelle Rohan 00:32:59 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=192 Shanganagh Parkrun #95 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Caoimhin Kelly 1 00:17:26 17 Zuleika O’Malley 1 00:21:16 Crusaders AC runner 75 Neil Brown 00:25:57 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/shanganagh/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=95 St Anne’s Parkrun #166 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Aidan Jones 1 00:17:14 32 Adrienne Atkins 1 00:20:43 Crusaders AC runners 80 Leo Lundy 00:22:49 94 Fiona Bane 00:23:18 138 Colm Kernan 00:24:34 139 Denis Murphy 00:24:35 337 Lorraine Fitzsimons 00:31:07 436 Ciara McElligott 00:36:22 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=166 Cabinteely Parkrun #94 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Mindaugas Igaris 1 00:19:55 5 Malika Hammani 1 00:21:20 Crusaders AC runners 82 Olwyn Dunne 00:29:54 90 Mairin Shine 00:31:10 93 Lisa Shine 00:31:16 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=94 We managed our largest showing of masters athletes in a long while on Sunday afternoon in the Dublin Masters XC championships. There were two races, a 3k for women and a 6k for men and in respective substantial fields (the largest for many a year) of 149 and 270 we fielded 11 women and 17 men, the latter in two teams of M35s and M50s. We also had a huge group of vocal supporters at every point around the course. The races as usual were held in a corner of St. Anne’s Park in Raheny and hosted by Raheny Shamrocks. The flat course used is approx. 1450m long of forest trail and edges of open field and the women ran round each loop twice, the men four times in an anti-clockwise direction. To get to the required distances, each race had to start on the edge of a rugby field about 200m from the start of the loop. Last year, we ran the event in incredibly muddy conditions, with images of bow waves being remembered as we ploughed through the quagmire. This year, the conditions were markedly drier for the bulk of the course, but there were several muddy patches, which got worse with each completed lap. The usual log obstacle across a narrow part of the forested path also caught out a few athletes with the odd tumble even among those at the thin end towards the top of the field. The races also started in the same swampy conditions that we’d experienced last year, having to stand at the start line with our shoes immersed. Thankfully, the day was quite mild and no wind. Otherwise we might have been frozen before we got going. The sun even came out just as the men’s race got underway. The women’s race went off first as would be expected and the eventual winner, Barbara Cleary, established a fierce pace from the gun. Behind for most of the first lap came a group of three or four athletes including our Niamh Boland and Adrienne Jordan. The Cru runners were able eventually to break away from the small group, however, and, although they were never going to catch the Donore athlete, they clearly separated themselves from the rest of the field with a commanding 2nd and 3rd place finish. With Niamh Corby, who found herself for most of the race on her own and who placed 10th, and Grainne Regan who came home in 31st spot, Crusaders were able to take the gold medal in the team event, believed to be our first, whilst Niamh and Adrienne took individual age category 1st and 2nd. The Cru team won with 46 points relegating Donore and Sportsworld to silver and bronze, both clubs scoring 63 and Donore getting the nod on countback. Closely behind Grainne came Dee Ni Chearbhaill in 41st and Dee was followed by Kate Murray (58th), Kris Ryan (66th), Olwyn Dunne (71st), Triona Quill (73rd) enjoying a baptism of fire in her first competitive event for the club, Geraldine Clements (79th) who stepped in at the last moment and Mairin Shine (146th) who also managed to take individual bronze in her age category. The men took part in a race nearly double the size of the women’s and the organisers admitted later they had not expected such huge numbers. Next year, one suspects that the first turn is going to have to be made wider to accommodate the runners as we found the going extremely congested for the first 400m or so and were down almost to a walk early on. This suited some of us who had determined not to go off too hard. However, it did necessitate a lot of hard work in the later stages to catch runners who had had the benefit of being further upfront at the gun. The backend of the race also experienced a few problems as the chute was slightly too short and one suspects that some of the later times attributed were not quite accurate as it took a while to move up the congested chute to the timer. Nevertheless, the race was a super experience for those of us who were able to finish it. Our men’s M35 team was initially given the bronze medal behind Raheny and Donore, but after the event it seems clear that there was an error in the additions and third place has likely gone to Rathfarnham, who might otherwise have won the event had not one of their runners in the lead up to the end of the third lap inadvertently miscalculated the distance and was forced to drop out. Our team is likely to be given 4th place, 7 points behind. We spotted the error and have informed the organisers. Still, we had plenty to cheer about. Ciaran Diviney, who is currently training for the Tokyo marathon in February and is in great shape, was our lead runner, taking 6th place, winning the gold medal in his age category by one second, followed by Vinnie McGuinness (28th), Ger Forde (35th) and Brian Carroll (46th). They were our 4 scorers and the rest of the M35 team was made up of Karl Walsh (56th), running his second race in two days, Eddie Nugent (63rd), newcomer Frank Hague (108th), Colm Kernan (129th) and Niall O’Connell, who unfortunately was forced to drop out with a calf injury. It was really rewarding to be able to field a substantial M50 team. Our 8 members were led by James Cottle (132nd) who made a lot of headway in the race, along with Colm who came past James with 600m to go, the two of them having reeled in loads of runners and James having picked off several targets in his age category, taking individual M60 gold by 4 seconds. James was followed by Pat Quill (146th) who mastered the conditions well despite in retrospect possibly not having the best footwear for the occasion, David Long (166th) who is just getting back from injury, Denis Murphy (211th), Robbie Moore (217th), who like Karl had run in the BHAA XC the day before, Gerry Galligan (238th) and Russell Murphy (239th) both running in an XC race for the first time. The team was complemented by Leo Lundy who came home in 260th place. There were two or three highlights of Saturday’s BHAA race in Tymon Park. The first was seeing Fiona Shine work her way through the field, taking at least 10 runners as she made her way into 8th place in the women’s 2-miler; the second was seeing Karl Fahy doing much the same thing to get to 4th place in the mixed 4 miler; and the third was witnessing a gutsy, spirited and determined sprint for the line by Paul Kelly, taking on another runner with 250m to go at the end of his particular race in the same event. It proved unsuccessful, not helped by a flailing elbow from his opponent and a wide turn at the end, but it was truly something to watch, a race within a race as so much of our running is all about. The first event was the ladies 2 miles XC on a course, with a few tweaks, but largely familiar to those of us who have run in BHAA events in that venue in the past. There was little mud on the course but the underfoot conditions were made challenging at times because of the length of the grass and the soft going, particularly on some of the slightly uphill drags. Fiona did make steady progress through the field on the two lap course and she finished off by taking her final quarry with 100m to go after being more than 50m behind her target with 400m left. It was a super tactical run, with her placing 8th in a small field of 36 runners. We had two other participants in the race. Ailis Fagan, who admitted afterwards that she is over 4 months pregnant, ran extremely well to place 22nd with Susan Walsh, running her first race as a Crusader, a few seconds behind in 23rd place and 3rd in her age category. In the mixed 4 mile race, with a field reduced from past years to 143 runners, we had a great showing from Karl Fahy to take 4th spot after having been in 11th place at the end of the first of 4 laps. Karl Walsh also ran well to take 22nd place (4th in his age category), just ahead of John McAuley (29th) and Phelim Murray (46th) who also worked his way through the field. Members will be interested to hear that recently transferred (for logistical reasons) ex-Crusader Eamonn McWalter, was next in 52nd and he was followed by Tom Dunne (54th), Michael McGovern (63rd), Robbie Moore (71st) and Paul Kelly (129th). Because of faulty timing equipment the times attributed may not be accurate (possibly too fast) and the BHAA is addressing this. Members will be interested to know that, on Sunday, Sean Murphy, who trains with the club, placed 11th in the Ferrycarrig 5 mile road race, won by Mick Clohisey a day after representing the European team in the Great Edinburgh Cross county run. Sean's time was 29:04. As usual, there was a good showing in the parkruns on Saturday, with several of our runners in the XC using the events as prep for the following day. Indeed, the parkrun numbers, perhaps unsurprisingly, seem to be swelling for the first month of the year. We had three participants in Marlay, led home by Killian Barry who took 19th spot among the huge field of nearly 700 runners out there, in a time of 19:55. Killian was followed by David Long in 101st in a time of 23:21 and then by Francis Furey (224th in 25:42). Five Crusaders took on St. Anne’s. Among the 450 runners there, Diarmuid Byrne placed 3rd in 18:41, followed by Denis Murphy (83rd in 23;16), Colm Kernan (85th in 23:17), Fiona Bane (96th overall, 4th female finisher, in 23:35) and Kris Ryan (312th overall, 96th female, in 30:03). In Glasgow Aidan Hudner took 56th place out of nearly 400 finishers in a time of 21:50, whilst, in Knocknacarra, Leo Lundy placed 34th out of a field of 119 runners in a time of 24:44. Natasha Murray was our lone participant in Tymon on Saturday. She placed 160th overall, 52nd woman, in 41:52 in a field of 187 runners, whilst Orlaith Burke took on Shanganagh, placing 86th overall, 17th woman, in a time of 26:31. The field was 173. Max Dunne joined 131 other runners in Cabinteely and placed 31st in a time of 24:32, whilst in Lough Key, Kevin Regan ran in a field of 215 participants, taking 16th spot in a time of 21:57. Finally, Lisa Shine, finished in 100th place overall (17th female finisher) in a time of 25:45 in the 361-strong field in Ballincollig. Dublin Masters Women’s XC Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Barbara Cleary 1 00:11:40 1 Crusaders AC runners 2 Niamh Boland 00:12:07 3 Adrienne Jordan 00:12:11 10 Niamh Corby 00:12:39 31 Grainne Regan 00:13:27 41 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:13:39 58 Kate Murray 00:14:18 66 Kris Ryan 00:14:27 71 Olwyn Dunne 00:14:35 73 Triona Quill 00:14:41 79 Geraldine Clements 00:15:00 146 Mairin Shine 00:18:06 Full results here: http://www.dublinathletics.com/ Dublin Masters Men’s XC Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 John Dunne 1 00:21:05 Crusaders AC runners 6 Ciaran Diviney 00:21:39 28 Vinnie McGuinness 00:22:56 35 Ger Forde 00:23:10 46 Brian Carroll 00:23:38 56 Karl Walsh 00:23:54 63 Eddie Nugent 00:24:09 108 Frank Hague 00:25:37 129 Colm Kernan 00:26:20 132 James Cottle 00:26:26 146 Pat Quill 00:26:51 166 David Long 00:27:32 211 Denis Murphy 00:29:10 217 Robbie Moore 00:29:28 238 Gerry Galligan 00:30:22 239 Russell Murphy 00:30:26 260 Leo Lundy 00:34:42 Full results here: http://www.dublinathletics.com/ BHAA Bank of Ireland XC women’s 2 miles Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Niamh Kearney 1 00:11:29 Crusaders AC runners 8 Fiona Shine 00:12:12 22 Ailis Fagan 00:13:55 23 Susan Walsh 00:14:13 Full results here: https://bhaa.ie/events/bank-of-ireland-cc-2017/ BHAA Bank of Ireland XC men’s 4 miles Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Simon Ryan 1 00:20:47 1 Crusaders AC runners 4 Karl Fahy 00:21:35 22 Karl Walsh 00:23:31 29 John McAuley 00:24:13 46 Phelim Murray 00:25:43 51 Niall McGeorge 00:26:13 54 Tom Dunne 00:26:50 63 Michael McGovern 00:27:28 71 Robbie Moore 00:28:07 139 Paul Kelly 00:36:46 Full results here: https://bhaa.ie/events/bank-of-ireland-cc-2017/ Knocknacarra Parkrun #136 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 David Carter 1 00:18:56 24 Cliodhna Ruane 1 00:23:13 Crusaders AC runner 34 Leo Lundy 00:24:44 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/knocknacarra/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=136 Tymon Parkrun #134 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Paul Martin 1 00:16:53 22 Aisling Coppinger 1 00:22:24 Crusaders AC runner 160 Natasha Murray 00:41:52 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=134 Marlay Parkrun #191 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 James Hunt 1 00:15:20 9 Sarah Baryga 1 00:19:04 Crusaders AC runners 19 Killian Barry 00:19:55 101 David Long 00:23:21 224 Francis Furey 00:25:42 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=191 Shanganagh Parkrun #94 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Stephen O’Kennedy 1 00:18:06 35 Shirley Casey 1 00:22:46 Crusaders AC runner 86 Orlaith Burke 00:26:31 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/shanganagh/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=94 Lough Key #35 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Graham Allen 1 00:19:07 20 Kathleen Horgan 1 00:22:36 Crusaders AC runner 16 Kevin Regan 00:21:57 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/loughkey/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=35 Ballincollig Parkrun #30 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Sean O’Brien 1 00:19:07 15 Jennifer Goggin Walsh 1 00:20:59 Crusaders AC runner 100 Lisa Shine 00:25:45 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/ballincollig/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=30 St Anne’s Parkrun #165 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Graham O’Dwyer 1 00:17:55 65 Melanie Markowitz 1 00:22:16 Crusaders AC runners 3 Diarmuid Byrne 00:18:41 83 Denis Murphy 00:23:16 85 Colm Kernan 00:23:17 96 Fiona Bane 00:23:35 312 Kris Ryan 00:30:03 450 Maria Pertl 00:53:06 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=165 Cabinteely Parkrun #93 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Matt Coughlan 1 00:19:12 11 Malika Hammani 1 00:20:59 Crusaders AC runner 31 Max Dunne 00:24;32 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=93 A new year, but, thankfully, more of the same. There has been some excellent running over the Christmas period and this has continued into the races that took place on New Year’s Day and since. There were two 5k races of note to start the New Year and both experienced a return of windy conditions. The first took place in the Phoenix Park on a two loop course taking in the Furze Road, Ordnance Survey Road and Chesterfield Avenue. It was the annual running of the Tom Brennan Memorial 5k, organized by Liffey Valley AC and this year including the first race in the Lord Mayor’s 5-Alive Challenge, which ensured that the numbers remained high with nearly 600 finishers. By all accounts it was a windy day with the wind behind the runners on Chesterfield Avenue but strongly in one’s face on the Furze Road. We had a decent turnout with at least 8 runners in the race, some taking part in the Lord Mayor’s Challenge. After her 4th place on Wednesday in the Christmas Cracker 5k in Santry, Niamh Boland produced a spirited effort to come home in 2nd place behind Donore’s Barbara Cleary in the women’s race in the Phoenix Park, shaving off a few more seconds to finish in 18:25 (a significant improvement over her 19:15 running in last year’s event) and 43rd overall, 1st in her age category. Just behind Niamh in 48th place came Eddie Nugent who ran the course in 18:43 (a 5 seconds improvement on last year) and Eddie was followed by our visually-impaired clubmate, Donnacha McCarthy, together with his running guide, who finished in 83rd position in a PB time of 20:37 after taking a tumble at one point. Dee Ni Chearbhaill was next, again with a slightly faster time than Santry but in tougher conditions, in 92nd place overall, 14th woman and 3rd in her age category. Together with Olwyn Dunne, who was running on the back of a Christmas marathon and who placed 134th overall, 24th woman, 2nd in her age category, Dee and Niamh took 2nd team prize in the club race behind Liffey Valley and ahead of Raheny. Our other runners in the race were Suzanne Collins (291st overall, 99th woman, in 28:29), John Fitzsimons (324th in 28:44), who was accompanied by Mary Fitzsimons around the course, and Sharon Woods (553rd overall, 311th woman, in 41:01). The second 5k of the day featuring club representation was the Allianz Resolution Run which was held at midday in windy conditions on a clockwise single loop in Galway City. Catherine Thornton, in her third race of the holidays, was our sole runner in the race (although members will be interested to know that ex-Crusader Michael Costello who now runs for Tuam also took part (as he had in Athenry earlier in the period) and he placed 14th in 18:31). In a race involving nearly 300 runners, Catherine acquitted herself well, with a 2nd place finish in the women’s race behind Kathryn Casserly, a well-known local runner with GCH. Catherine’s lack of familiarity with the course may have added a few seconds to her time as the finish was in a different place from the start. Nevertheless, the Spiddal native produced a decent 19:29 run to place 24th overall. Naturally, the inveterate long distance runner, Leo Lundy, has already found the time to run a marathon in the New Year. This time it was the Winchelsea Chase in East Sussex on bank holiday Monday on an extremely cold seaside course. His 32.6 miles in the allotted time (despite starting 20 mins late) made him 3rd overall out of around 80 finishers. Looking back to the end of the year, Leo also took part on Thursday in the Frozen Phoenix Ultra along the Thames from Walton-Upon-Thames. The temperature was minus 4 degrees Celsius at the start and didn’t warm up for the entire race. Leo’s 29.65 miles was good enough for 3rd overall out of some 80 finishers and for exactly 3000 total miles of running in 2016. He also indicated that his completion of 26 Ultras in 2016 is off being verified as an Irish record. Fingers crossed! On New Year’s Eve Kris Ryan took on, as a training run, the traditional "lock up the year" Marathon organised by the East of Ireland on the tow path along the Grand Canal near Le Cheile AC in Leixlip and Lucan. However, no results have yet been posted. Other races included the participation of one or two of our clubmates. Our London exile Maeve Curry took part in the Fanore Burren 10K in Co. Clare on Friday. No results have been published yet but, in a relatively modest field, Maeve reported that she came home in 2nd place in the women’s race after a tough first half involving a climb of 400 feet. Johannes Frederking, who has recently left Dublin for Hamburg, reported that he ran in the "Silvesterlauf Werl-Soest", thought to be Europe's largest New Year's Eve race, from the city of Werl to the city of Soest. Johannes finished the 15k in a PB time of 54:21 and 22nd place out of nearly 3,700 runners. Katie Eisenhauer, one of our Austalian exiles, reported that she ran in the Geelong Country Club Dawnbuster 5K on New Year's eve, completing the distance in 20:19. Finally, a round-up of the last parkruns of 2016: Paul O’Meara recorded a course PB time of 18:43, and that with a heavy cold, placing 10th out of 262 runners in Malahide. Suzanne Collins, preparing for the following day’s Tom Brennan 5k, also took part, coming home in 170th place overall, 48th woman, in 28:50. David Long ran in Marlay Park. In a field of more than 460 runners, David took it easily, placing 308th in a time of 29:09. In St. Anne’s Matt Cranley took 15th spot in a time of 19:55. Matt was followed by Peter O’Toole among the nearly 250 participants, placing 22nd in 20:16. Colm Kernan also took part, placing 96th in 24:22. Maria Pertl took 8th place overall, 2nd female finisher, in Poppintree. Among the 65 contestants, Maria ran a time of 21:44, whilst Orlaith Burke placed 63rd overall, 11th woman, in a time of 26:48, among a field of 124 runners in Shanganagh. Fiona Bane continued her parkrunning in Tramore, improving by 17 seconds on her previous time there the previous weekend, coming home in 24:43 and 16th overall (4th female finisher) out of 65 runners. Brian Carroll finished just behind Lizzie Lee in Cork’s Ballincollig parkrun. Brian took 5th spot in a field of nearly 230 runners, in a time of 18:47. In Cabinteely, the Shine and Dunne families represented the club. Lisa and Mairin placed, respectively, 32nd and 65th overall (9th and 29th female finishers) in times of 25:13 and 29:54, whilst Max placed 41st, Olwyn, 66th overall (30th woman), with respective times of 27:05 and 29:59. The field comprised 82 runners. Finally, we had runners in UK parkruns. Leo Lundy found the time to participate in the Basingstoke edition. In a field of more than 400, Leo came home in 113th position, in a time of 25:22, whilst Rebecca Fleming, on holiday in South London from her new home in Malta, ran in the Brockwell parkrun, finishing 5th woman, 48th overall (in a field of more than 200 runners) in a time of 22:08. Next up will be the BHAA XC 2 and 4 mile races in Tymon Park on Saturday morning, followed by the Dublin Masters XC championships in St. Anne’s Raheny on Sunday afternoon. Tom Brennan Memorial 5k Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Daire Bermingham 1 00:15:23 31 Barbara Cleary 1 00:17:20 Crusaders AC runners 43 Niamh Boland 00:18:25 48 Eddie Nugent 00:18:43 83 Donnacha McCarthy 00:20:37 (PB) 92 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:21:01 134 Olwyn Dunne 00:22:35 291 Suzanne Collins 00:28:29 324 John Fitzsimons 00:28:44 553 Sharon Woods 00:41:01 Full results here: http://www.myrunresults.com/events/tom_brennan_5k_road_race/1931/results Allianz Resolution Run 5k Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Keith Fallon 1 00:16:06 16 Kathryn Casserly 1 00:18:50 Crusaders AC runner 24 Catherine Thornton 00:19:29 Full results here: http://www.redtagtiming.com/results/ResolutionRun5km_2017.pdf MalahideParkrun #217 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Unknown 1 00:16:24 5 Catherina McKiernan 1 00:17:36 Crusaders AC runners 10 Paul O’Meara 00:18:43 170 Suzanne Collins 00:28:50 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/malahide/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=217 Poppintree Parkrun #113 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Anthony Dorran 1 00:18:53 7 Hilary McGee 1 00:21:14 Crusaders AC runner 8 Maria Pertl 00:21:44 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/poppintree/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=113 Marlay Parkrun #190 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Unknown 1 00:15:52 19 Bryony Treston 1 00:19:43 Crusaders AC runner 308 David Long 00:29:09 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=190 Shanganagh Parkrun #93 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Michael Nalty 1 00:18:37 28 Ciara Carter 1 00:23:03 Crusaders AC runner 63 Orlaith Burke 00:26:48 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/shanganagh/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=93 Cabinteely Parkrun #92 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Aidan Twomey 1 00:19:08 5 Malika Hammani 1 00:20:51 Crusaders AC runners 32 Lisa Shine 00:25:13 41 Max Dunne 00:27:05 65 Mairin Shine 00:29:54 66 Olwyn Dunne 00:29:59 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=92 St Anne’s Parkrun #163 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Colum O’Leary 1 00:16:59 7 Jenny Mulryq 1 00:18:57 Crusaders AC runners 15 Matt Cranley 00:19:55 22 Peter O’Toole 00:20:16 96 Colm Kernan 00:24:22 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=163 Tramore Parkrun #52 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Peter Francis 1 00:17:21 11 Sarah O’Donnell 1 00:24:18 Crusaders AC runner 16 Fiona Bane 00:24:43 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/tramore/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=52 Ballincollig Parkrun #29 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Conor Dolan 1 00:17:04 4 Lizzie Lee 1 00:18:47 Crusaders AC runner 5 Brian Carroll 00:18:47 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/ballincollig/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=29 |