Runners enjoyed quite cool conditions without too much wind for the 10-mile national road championships held on Sunday in the Phoenix Park in conjunction with the Irish Runner 10-mile race, and the club came away with some notable medals among our masters athletes.
Firstly, though, we start in Lucan, on the track and infield, where the 7th Dublin graded meet of the season took place on Wednesday evening. We had 7 athletes involved in the evening’s events. Harry Moylan won the shot put with a throw of 11.52m, his 4th of 6 efforts. Also, Claire Mooney ably paced the women’s 800m grade A race, which produced some excellent times. Kathryn Gibbons ran well to place 4th in the women’s grade B 3000m, with a time of 10:57.91, whilst Enda Clarke took 2nd spot in the men’s equivalent race over the same distance, in an excellent time of 9:35.73. Joe McDermott took 13th place in the same event in 10:07.60. Then, in the grade D race, Brendan Glynn placed 9th in 13:17.37, and, finally, Paul E. Kelly finished up the field in 8th spot in heat 3 of the men’s 800m in a time of 3:17.89. There is one more graded meet to come. On Tuesday evening, the BHAA and North Clondalkin Running Club organised a race in Dodder Valley Park in Firhouse under the auspices of South Dublin County Council. The 5k race attracted 132 runners, among them at least 5 Crusaders. The contingent was led home by Karl Walsh (12th in 18:28) and he was followed across the line by Clare Sullivan (in the first of her successes this week) who placed 19th and 2nd female finisher in 18:55. Clare was followed by Robbie Moore (55th in 22:15) and by Sharon Woods (67th, 13th and 2nd F55 in 23:15), with Mairead Cashman completing the contingent (120th and 46th in 29:08). On Saturday morning, Tim O’Donnell took part in the GAA-organised Dessie McGann Kiltale 10k in Co. Meath. On a hilly course, Tim finished in 15th place in the field of 161, with a time of 41:13. Then, on Sunday, we had a least 17 clubmates run in the Biofreeze Irish Runner 10-miler that incorporated the National 10-mile championships. There had been some confusion in the lead up to the race as certain bodies, including councils, had been given free entries to distribute, ostensibly to encourage new runners into the sport. However, the initiative backfired somewhat in that the receiving entities handed some of the entries to clubs (confusingly with specific club-linked references). The upshot of this was that those athletes who availed of the offer (10 per club) were then apparently not entered into the Athletics Ireland Championships. This was only made known a couple of days before the race and some, but not all, of those athletes who had taken up the offer, hurriedly had to pay Athletics Ireland €15 to remedy the issue. The race, held on a challenging twisty course in the Phoenix Park, involving a visit to the Furry Glen, a climb along the Military Road from a descent on the Khyber Pass and then a return up the Upper Glen Road to the finish on Chesterfield to the north of the Phoenix Monument via the Ordnance Survey Road, enjoyed a field of 1778 finishers and was held in coolish conditions (14 degrees or so), with little wind. Our contingent was led across the line by Ciarain Kelly in 43rd place in 57:00, alongside the women’s race winner Grace Lynch, having run in a bunch throughout the event. Ciarain was followed by men’s captain Joe McDermott who surprisingly managed a 3 seconds PB improvement in placing 61st in 58:44. Joe was followed by Dee Lawlor who placed 72nd in 59:16, and the three men, as a masters team, collected the bronze O/35 medal, placing 3rd, behind Raheny in first place and 9 seconds behind Rathfarnham WSAF in second in a competition involving 29 teams. Behind Dee came Rob Browne who placed 101st in 61:39, and further back came our first female finisher, Clare Sullivan, who took the F40 individual bronze medal (since Fiona Roche of Raheny had finished in 3rd place overall in the women’s race) in placing 175th and 15th in 66:19. The following two female runners, Nina Holmes and Aoife Quigley, combined with Clare to win the O/35 gold medal ahead of Sportsworld and Mullingar in the masters team competition involving 22 clubs. Nina placed 233rd and 28th in 69:32, whilst Aoife took 245th and 32nd spots in 70:16. Many congrats to all our medal winners. Karl Walsh finished in 207th place in 68:19 and behind Karl, Nina and Aoife came Ciara Lynch who did not produce a chiptime (likely around 320th overall in 72:53) and Orla O’Flynn (360th and 54th in 74:08). Orla was followed by Miriam Logan (370th and 59th in 72:18), treating the race as a training run and starting quite far back in the field. Dee Ni Chearbhaill was next (388th and 63rd in 75:14) and she was followed by Robbie Moore (423rd in 76:24) and by Noel Carr (514th in 77:30) with yet another PB time. Tony Hackett came in next (617th in 79:38) and he was followed across the line by Brendan Glynn (677th in 83:23), Kevin Kenny (890th in 86:06) and Lisa Branigan (1285th and 356th in 98:08). Further afield, Donatas Jocius headed back to his native Lithuania, where he competed in a 14k trail race, finishing in 2nd place in just over an hour. The rainy weather on Saturday morning seemed to deter a lot of parkrunners nearly everywhere, but still we had an excellent turnout of Crusaders in the events in which we participated and we were not disappointed with the outcomes. Seoirse McGrath marked a comeback from injury with a first finisher place in the 350-strong field in Marlay Park, the one parkrun which seemed to buck the trend of lower turnouts this week. Seoirse ran 19:00 for 8th place overall and she was followed home by Barry O’Neill (67th in 24:06). Another first finisher was Dee Lawlor who led the entire field of 224 in Shanganagh across the line in a time of 17:44. Also, first to finish was Áine Kenny in Oughterard where she was first across the line ahead of a field of 24 in a time of 23:06. Not to be outdone, Katie Rogers was 16th overall and a first finisher in the Centennial parkrun in Sydney, Australia, with its field of 383. Our exile there ran 19:17 and she was followed home by another of our exiles, Deirdre Kennedy, who ran 27:35 for 194th place overall and 40th female finisher. Mary Donnelly was our final first finisher, placing 26th overall in a field of 212 in a time of 22:43. Mary was preceded by Kev Moore (7th in 19:50) and followed home by Cynthia Perucca (168th and 50th in 31:47). We had 14 runners in Poolbeg, where Ross Neill led our contingent home in the field of 182 in a time of 17:17. Ross was followed closely by Stephen Hurley (3rd in 17:22) and by Kenan Furlong (5th in 17:41). Next came Adrian Groarke (13th in 19:43) who was followed by Piarais Neary (20th in 21:12). Jeanie Watson, in her last parkrun in Ireland for the time being before ending her secondment to the Department of Finance and returning to the UK this week, ran 21:29 for 25th and 4th places, and Jeanie was followed by Sharon Woods (39th and 5th in 23:14), Josie Ward (43rd and 7th in 23:34), Kevin Lambe (52nd in 24:19), Kate Healy (69th and 18th in 25:22), Anna Hernick (118th and 41st in 29:21), Maureen McGinley (131st and 49th in 30:53), Siobhan Russell (140th and 53rd in 32:09) and Mari Hansen (158th and 64th in 37:02). We had a super turnout in Tolka Valley Park in the lashing rain and strong winds to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Ilona McElroy and Paul Fleming. The Rathfarnham WSAF runner, Paul, finished ahead of the field of 45 in 17:38, with Ilona placing 5th overall and 2nnd female finisher in 20:00. Ilona was followed by Sean Murphy, who trains with us (6th in 20:46), and then by Aoife Quigley (7th and 3rd in 21:18) alongside Clare Sullivan (8th and 4th in the same time) enjoying a bunched sprint for the line with James Cottle (9th in 21:19). Next came Caroline Crowley (18th and 7th in 26:20), alongside Miriam Logan (19th and 8th in 26:21) ad Louise Dobbyn (20th and 9th enjoying the same time as Miriam). The contingent was completed by Orla Kennedy (24th and 12th) and Irene Gorman (25th and 13th) recording the same time of 27:49. Elsewhere, Olwyn Dunne joined Lisa Shine and 87 other participants in Athlone RSC, where she placed 20th and 6th in 24:07, with Lisa tailwalking. Darina Scully ran once again in Avondale Forest, where she placed 32nd and 7th in a time of 25:31, in a field of 105, whilst, in Naas, with its field of 91, Karl Walsh placed 17th in 22:17. Further afield, two of our London-based exiles, Rob Glascott and Thom Martini took part in parkruns on Saturday morning. Thom ran in Gunnersbury where he placed 164th in a field of 598 in a time of 24:40, whilst Rob ran 20:41 for 51st place in the 831-strong field on Clapham Common. Brendan Glynn took 23rd spot running alongside 136 other participants in Donabate, where his time was 23:22, whilst Emer Kenny ran once again in Father Collins, where, in a field of 183, she placed 117th and 43rd in 30:19. In Cabinteely, with its field of 129, Máirín Shine took 82nd and 25th spots in 31:35, followed by Carina Davidson and Fiona Shine, tailwalking. Finally, Aitor Arribas Velasco ran on Narin Beach where, in a field of 54, he ran 24:33 for 15th place. Biofreeze Irish Runner 10 mile (national championships) (1778) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Keelan Kilrehill 1 00:49:56 42 Grace Lynch 1 00:56:58 Crusaders AC runners 43 Ciarain Kelly 00:57:00 61 Joe McDermott 00:58:44 (PB) 72 Derek Lawlor 00:59:16 101 Robert Browne 01:01:39 175 Clare Sullivan 01:06:19 (15) 207 Karl Walsh 01:08:19 233 Nina Holmes 01:09:32 (28) 245 Aoife Quigley 01:10:16 (32) 32X Ciara Lynch 01:12:53 360 Orla O’Flynn 01:14:08 (54) 370 Miriam Logan 01:12:18 (59) 388 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 01:15:14 (63) 423 Robbie Moore 01:16:24 514 Noel Carr 01:17:30 (PB) 617 Anthony Hackett 01:19:38 677 Brendan Glynn 01:23:23 890 Kevin Kenny 01:26:06 1285 Lisa Branigan 01:38:08 (356) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/biofreeze_irish_runner_10_mile_2024/4985/results BHAA SDDC 5k (132) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Sean Doran 1 00:15:57 6 Laura McDonnell 1 00:17:45 Crusaders AC runners 12 Karl Walsh 00:18:28 19 Clare Sullivan 00:18:55 (2) 55 Robbie Moore 00:22:15 67 Sharon Woods 00:23:15 (13) 120 Mairead Cashman 00:29:08 (46) Full results here: https://irp.cdn-website.com/15e8030f/files/uploaded/SDCC_5k_2024_Results_Final.pdf The Dessie McGann Kiltale 10k (161) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Sean Doran 1 00:33:31 23 Sarah Dempsey 1 00:44:11 Crusaders AC runner 15 Tim O’Donnell 00:41:13 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/the-dessie-mcgann-kiltale-10k/ Narin Beach Parkrun (54) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Eimear Marie English 1 00:19:50 2 Michael Mallon 1 00:20:25 Crusaders AC runner 15 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:24:33 Shanganagh Parkrun (224) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Derek Lawlor 1 00:17:44 13 Fiona Riordan 1 00:20:30 Crusaders AC runner 1 Derek Lawlor 00:17:44 Father Collins Parkrun (183) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Josh Moore 1 00:18:56 10 Annika Wolberg 1 00:21:18 Crusaders AC runner 117 Emer Kenny 00:30:19 (43) Poolbeg Parkrun (182) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ashley Hayes 1 00:17:14 9 Rosa Donaldson 1 00:18:49 Crusaders AC runners 2 Ross Neill 00:17:17 3 Stephen Hurley 00:17:22 5 Kenan Furlong 00:17:41 13 Adrian Groarke 00:19:43 20 Piarais Neary 00:21:12 25 Jeanie Watson 00:21:29 (4) 39 Sharon Woods 00:23:14 (5) 43 Josie Ward 00:23:34 (7) 69 Kate Healy 00:25:22 (18) 118 Anna Hernick 00:29:21 (41) 131 Maureen McGinley 00:30:53 (49) 140 Siobhan Russell 00:32:09 (53) 158 Mari Hansen 00:37:02 (64) Oughterard Parkrun (24) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Áine Kenny 1 00:23:06 2 Ben Patterson Kyne 1 00:23:22 Crusaders AC runner 1 Áine Kenny 00:23:06 (1) Bushy Parkrun (212) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 David Weit 1 00:18:56 26 Mary Donnelly 1 00:22:43 Crusaders AC runners 7 Kev Moore 00:19:50 26 Mary Donnelly 00:22:43 168 Cynthia Perucca 00:31:47 (50) Cabinteely Parkrun (129) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Byron Edwards 1 00:18:19 20 Rachel Jones 1 00:23:47 Crusaders AC runners 82 Máirin Shine 00:31:35 (25) 118 Carina Davidson 00:44:05 (54) 121 Fiona Shine 01:02:48 (57) Naas Parkrun (91) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Rob O’Brien 1 00:18:44 5 Niamh O’Boyle 1 00:20:00 Crusaders AC runner 17 Karl Walsh 00:22:17 Athlone RSC Parkrun (89) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Michael Moran 1 00:19:12 2 Anna Marie O’Dowd 1 00:21:10 Crusaders AC runners 20 Olwyn Dunne 00:24:07 (6) 87 Lisa Shine 00:49:32 (41) Donabate Parkrun (137) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 David Rooney 1 00:15:54 16 Geraldine McHale 1 00:21:55 Crusaders AC runner 23 Brendan Glynn 00:23:22 Avondale Forest Parkrun (105) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Eoghan Gribbin 1 00:19:19 4 Lara Buck 1 00:21:03 Crusaders AC runner 32 Darina Scully 00:25:31 (7) Marlay Parkrun (350) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Barry McCartin 1 00:17:35 8 Seoirse McGrath 1 00:19:00 Crusaders AC runners 8 Seoirse McGrath 00:19:00 (1) 67 Barry O’Neill 00:24:06 Tolka Valley Parkrun (45) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Paul Fleming 1 00:17:38 2 Núria Vizcaino Estrada 1 00:19:17 Crusaders AC runners 5 Ilona McElroy 00:20:00 (2) 7 Aoife Quigley 00:21:18 (3) 8 Clare Sullivan 00:21:18 (4) 9 James Cottle 00:21:19 18 Caroline Crowley 00:26:20 (7) 19 Miriam Logan 00:26:21 (8) 20 Louise Dobbyn 00:26:21 (9) 24 Orla Kennedy 00:27:49 (12) 25 Irene Gorman 00:27:49 (13) ![]() It was a big week for the club, involving many of our members racing, but also being involved in the club’s annual fund-raising, the Docklands 5k, which took place on Thursday evening. The club is eternally grateful for the efforts put in by so many of our membership in making the Docklands race so successful, and last week’s event, the 8th running of the race organised by Crusaders, with its second highest field since 2015, was possibly its most momentous yet in being a sell-out. The race has now established an excellent reputation and hopefully will continue to attract corporate teams and individual runners on what is probably the flattest and fastest 5k course in Dublin. We start as usual, with results from the track. On Wednesday evening, one of our members, Paul E. Kelly ran in one of a series of BHAA-organised track races in Lucan, where, in the 26-30 standard 1 mile, he placed 2nd in a time of 7:41. Then, over the weekend, Hugo Magee ran in heat 1 of the men’s 400m the AAI Games held in the Morton Stadium in Santry, where he placed 2nd in a time of 47.43, this after having paced in the 800m on Friday night at this year’s Morton Games at the same venue. Colm Parnell and Annie Hughes also participated over the weekend, with Colm taking 6th place in heat 2 of the 1500m in a time of 4:07.36, whilst Annie placed 11th in the women’s 800m in 2:25.08. Back to the roads and, firstly, the Docklands 5k. On a dry but breezy evening once again, we had 1703 finishers, among them many Crusaders, listed below, several of them providing pacing duties and others running with their work colleagues. We also had a good number of participants from our Couch to 5k programme involved, running a 5k for the first time and being supported by other members of the club. The event, with its by now famous after-race party at Capital Dock, received a good deal of positive feedback from participants, particularly in relation to the enthusiasm and support that came from all our stewards, and we will hope to repeat such enjoyment again next year. The course records at 14:30 (men) and 16:12 (women) were not broken on Thursday, but remain a tantalising challenge for elite runners! On Saturday morning, Kev Moore and Mary Donnelly took part in the Glenbeigh 10k, one of a series of races on the day held in Co. Kerry. Kev reported that it was downhill for much of the first 6k, a welcome relief, and, in the field of 111 finishers, Kev placed 7th in 40:54, with Mary taking 21st place overall, 7th female finisher, in 45:57. On the same day, further afield, new member Eimear Lynch, sister of Ciara, ran in the 100k Ultra marathon Race to the Stones in the UK, where she completed the distance, in one of the UK's oldest trail races on the Ridgeway crossing the North Wessex Downs and the Chilterns, in 13:50:08. Also, in the UK, Kate O’Malley, one of our UK-based exiles, ran in a 5k trail race on the Gower Peninsula, where she was the first woman home in a time of 22:47. Then on Sunday, we had Crusaders involved in at least two events on Irish roads. In another event in the Peugeot Race Series, Will Holton took part in the Frank Kilrane Edenderry 10-miler, where, in a field of 348, he placed 101st in a time of 72:34. Finally, we had nearly 30 runners in the 2nd race of the Irish Life Race Series building up to the Dublin Marathon in October. This was the Fingal 10k, conducted on roads around Swords. The start this year was slightly altered, giving a downhill trajectory from the gun to the first corner after about 150m, but then the course continued on its normal route, along a dual carriageway and then onto country roads, before finishing in the town once again. The race enjoyed a field of 2,676 finishers, and we all found it extremely warm and humid, with little wind to cool us down. This did not, however, prevent a few of our number recording PB times, including Noel Carr (434th in 44:34), Florian Mormont (556th in 46:14) and Paul E. Kelly, with a 6-minute improvement (1346th in 53:56). Also, 7 of the 8 pacers in the race were provided by Crusaders, with ex-Crusader Catherine Thornton joining Clare Sullivan to pace the 45 minutes finishers. Several had performed the same duties in the Docklands 5k three days earlier. Robert Browne led our contingent home in 36:34 for 45th place and he was followed by Paul Cowhie (51st and 1st M60 in 36:49), Karl Walsh (114th in 40:36), and Eddie Nugent (117th in 38:52). Nina Holmes was first female finisher with a super run in 40:52, placing 213th, 16th female and 4th F40, and she was followed by James Cottle (246th and 2nd M65 in 41:33). James found the going tough, particularly in the second half of the race having spotted the eventual winner of the age category up ahead at 6k, but then suffering from the effort of trying further to reel him in over the remaining kilometres, finishing 15 seconds apart at the end. James was followed by Oisin Browne (252nd in 41:41) and then by Miriam Logan who started with the 45 minutes pacers but feeling good pressed on, finishing in 43:14 for 348th and 34th places. Miriam was followed by Ciara Regan, under physio’s orders (381st and 40th in 43:40) and then by Kabir Sala (392nd in 43:57). Next came Dee Ni Chearbhaill (424th and 47th in 44:26), whose husband Sean Murphy had placed 236th in 41:18, followed, after Noel, by Chris Bannon (507th in 45:46), Florian, Tomás Dunne (636th in 46:56), Sharon Woods (who ran 47:14), Luz Estevan (723rd and 111th in 47:21), Jimmy Murphy (898th in 49:06), Bo Chicoine (1093rd in 51:45), Emily Glen (1094th and 217th in 51:18), Laura O’Malley (1229th and 270th in 52:34), Kevin Kenny (1327th in 54:04), Paul, Aoife Cowhie (1363rd in 328th in 55:11), Louise Lanaud (2110th and 1369th in 62:26) and Faeed Faeedi (2388th in 68:56). The pacers, Clare and Catherine (45 minutes), Joanne Carey and Olwyn Dunne (50 minutes), Paula Bradshaw and Tanja Narancic (55 minutes) and Joe Dunne and Aitor Arribas Velasco (60 minutes), all performed admirably for the club, as many of them had done in Docklands on Thursday evening. Members may interested to hear that Conor Greenan, a Crusader who moved to Kilkenny, now running for St. Joseph’s, also ran, placing 82nd in 38:20. He sent his well wishes to those who knew him, and he and ex-Crusader Léan Ní Chiobháin, who he met though the club, are now parents. Members may also be interested to learn that Toby Benham and Louise O’Riordan competed in the Cork Triathlon over the weekend, with Toby completing the slightly short 5k run element in 17:35 and Louise, 22:07. The parkruns this week saw a lot of Crusaders out on Saturday morning, among them at least 3 first finishers. Caroline Crowley ran in Corkagh with 215 other runners, placing 4th and 1st in 19:55, whilst Áine Kenny joined 31 other participants in Mountbellew Forest where she placed 4th and 1st in 24:06. Meanwhile, Kathryn Tomkins placed 5th and 1st in the 168-strong field in Gorey in a time of 20:47. Podium places were filled by Stephen Hurley and Kenan Furlong in Poolnbeg, where Stephen placed 2nd in 17:42 and Kenan finished in 3rd place in 17:52. In the field of 204, they were followed by Ross Neill (4th in 17:57) and then by Adrian Groarke (16th in 19:48), Gerard Moore (18th in 19:50), Piarais Neary (39th in 21:53), Sharon Woods (53rd and 8th in 23:25), Tanja Narancic (78th and 16th in 25:15), Ciara Regan (87th and 20th in 25:41), Kate Healy (102nd and 28th in 26:52), Iseult Ni Chuinneagain (104th and 29th in 27:05), Djinn Von Noorden (112th and 34th in 28:07) and Kevin Kenny (125th in 28:34). Anna Gallo’s father, Marco, also ran, placing 116th in 28:34. Derek Lawlor crossed the line in 7th place in a time of 18:59 in the 249-strong field in Shanganagh. He was followed by Jill Nason (144th and 35th in 28:10) and Cynthia Perucca (207th and 75th in 32:59). Barry O’Mahony placed 8th in Cabinteely with its field of 173. Barry’s time was 20:46 and he was followed by Ronan Moynihan (12th in 21:16) and Louise Dobbyn (22nd and 5th in 23:19). John O’Donnell joined 58 other runners in Claremorris where he placed 4th in 20:27, whilst Garret Connolly finished in 5th place in Fairview in 20:35 in a field of 168. Aoife Kelly ran in Poppintree once again. In a field of 185 she placed 74th and 15th in 28:23, whilst, in Donabate, Brendan Glynn took 21st spot in 23:34 in a field of 157. We had 5 runners among the 188 who ran in Avondale Forest. The contingent was led home by Darina Scully (28th and 6th in 25:46) and Darina was followed by Carina Davidson in her 100th parkrun (34th and 8th in 27:03), Anna Shine (46th and 15th in 29:20), Máirín Shine (51st and 18th in 30:40) and Lisa Shine (98th and 45th in 50:54). Helena O’Keeffe ran in Tramore Valley, Cork, where, in a field of 177, she placed 69th and 13th in 26:02, whilst, Ballincollig, Aitor Arribas Velasco placed 51st in 24:06. The field there measured 215. Martina White placed 53rd and 15th in 29:55 in the 103-strong field in Porterstown, whilst Barry O’Neill placed 83rd in the 24:29 in the 333-strong field in Marlay Park. Brendan Kieran took 5th place in the field of 44 in a time of 21:53 in the Sports Ireland Campus parkrun, whilst Mairead Cashman placed 174th and 56th in the 263-strong field in Bushy Park, where her time was 30:41. Phelim Murray and Sarah Ltons ran in Tolka Valley park, where, amongst 63 other runners, Phelim placed 21st in 26:36 and a pregnant Sarah placed 24th and 9th in 27:22. Finally, further afield, Rob Glascott placed 62nd in 21:20 in the 794-strong field in Clapham Common in, whilst Jeanie Watson ran 23:06 to place 120th and 16th in the 595-strong field in Highbury Fields, both in London, whilst Aidan Hudner took 59th spot in 24:19 in the field of 346 in Pollok, Glasgow and Maureen McGinley ran in Westpark, Munich, where she placed 142nd and 41st in a field of 208. Irish Life Fingal 10k (2676) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Hugh Armstrong 1 00:29:39 17 Michelle Finn 1 00:34 Crusaders AC runners 45 Robert Browne 00:36:34 51 Paul Cowhie 00:36:49 114 Karl Walsh 00:40:36 117 Eddie Nugent 00:38:52 213 Nina Holmes 00:40:52 (16) 246 James Cottle 00:41:33 252 Oisin Browne 00:41:41 348 Miriam Logan 00:43:14 (34) 381 Ciara Regan 00:43:40 (40) 392 Kabir Sala 00:43:57 424 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 00:44:26 (47) 431 Clare Sullivan 00:44:32 (50) PACER 434 Noel Carr 00:44:34 (PB) 507 Chris Bannon 00:45:46 556 Florian Mormont 00:46:14 (PB) 636 Tomás Dunne 00:46:56 XXX Sharon Woods 00:47:14 723 Luz Estevan 00:47:21 (111) 784 Sean Brady 00:48:27 898 Jimmy Murphy 00:49:06 929 Joanne Carey 00:49:45 (163) PACER 934 Olwyn Dunne 00:49:45 (166) PACER 1093 Bo Chicoine 00:51:45 1094 Emily Glen 00:51:18 (217) 1229 Laura O’Malley 00:52:34 (270) 1327 Kevin Kenny 00:54:04 1346 Paul E. Kelly 00:53.56 (PB) 1363 Aoife Cowhie 00:55:11 (328) 1386 Paula Bradshaw 00:54:15 (345) PACER 1413 Tanja Narancic 00:54:36 (357) PACER 1907 Joe Dunne 00:59:45 PACER 1908 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:59:46 PACER 2110 Louise Lanaud 01:02:26 (1369) 2388 Faeed Faeedi 01:08:56 Full results here: https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/en/results-embed.php?event=4040 Frank Kilrane Edenderry 10-mile race (348) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Conor Duffy 1 00:50:28 26 Heather Murphy 1 00:59:35 Crusaders AC runner 101 Will Holton 01:12:34 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/frank-kilrane-edenderry-10-mile-2024/ Glenbeigh 10k (111) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Marcus O’Shea 1 00:37:20 3 Lily Riordan 1 00:39:40 Crusaders AC runners 7 Kev Moore 00:40:54 21 Mary Donnelly 00:45:57 (7) Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/glenbeigh_glencar_marathon_half_marathon_10k_and_5k_/4827/results Docklands 5k (1703) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Peter Somba 1 00:15:02 29 Ciara Wilson 1 00:16:46 Crusaders AC runners 16 Alex Ainsworth 00:16:24 67 Jim Stagg 00:18:02 90 Simon Kenny 00:18:28 111 Kevin O’Sullivan 00:18:52 186 Patrick Conlon 00:19:44 PACER 197 Peter O’Toole 00:19:48 PACER 200 Kevin Fitzgibbon 00:19:50 PACER 214 Felipe De Sousa 00:20:10 278 Marcus Phelan 00:20:51 288 Diarmuid Fahey 00:21:06 303 Luke Haran 00:21:07 421 Shivananda Pukhrem 00:22:20 434 Gavan Doherty 00:22:15 689 Aoife Quigley 00:24:36 PACER 706 Miriam Logan 00:24:45 PACER 715 Emer Kenny 00:24:48 PACER 828 Natasha Bain 00:25:49 (161) 832 Sharon Woods 00:25:50 (162) PACER 881 Sarah Lyons 00:25:33 (180) 1139 Jessica Higgins 00:28:52 (300) 1211 Maria Fitzgerald 00:28:55 (340) 1216 Chris Bethe 00:29:00 1238 Catriona McDonnell 00:29:14 (360) 1255 Emily Glen 00:30:14 PACER 1258 Tanja Narancic 00:30:17 PACER 1266 Sarah Jameson 00:29:39 (372) 1415 Caitriona Kellehan 00:31:56 (462) 1418 Paula Bradshaw 00:31:58 (464) PACER 1419 Claire Sheridan 00:31:56 (465) 1467 Isabella Ryan 00:32:50 (496) 1471 Aisling Allan 00:33:00 (500) 1499 Cloda Victory 00:33:53 (518) 1543 Darren Kelly 00:35:00 1544 Paul Campbell 00:35:03 PACER 1648 Niamh Bradshaw 00:38:53 (614) 1653 Lynn Betson 00:39:12 (616) 1654 Julia Cleto 00:39:12 (617) 1655 Harriet Ryan 00:39:12 (618) 1656 Richard Kavanagh 00:39:27 PACER Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/docklands_5k_2024/5068/results Tramore Valley, Cork Parkrun (177) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Cian Kelly 1 00:17:41 9 Laura Pompa 1 00:19:36 Crusaders AC runner 69 Helena O’Keeffe 00:26:02 (13) Shanganagh Parkrun (249) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Finn O’Driscoll 1 00:17:14 22 Eileen O’Toole 1 00:20:34 Crusaders AC runner 7 Derek Lawlor 00:18:59 144 Jill Nason 00:28:10 (35) 207 Cynthia Perucca 00:32:59 (75) Fairview Parkrun (168) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daniel Toal 1 00:18:08 23 Mairéad Grace 1 00:22:51 Crusaders AC runner 5 Garret Connolly 00:20:35 Poolbeg Parkrun (204) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Malcolm O’Connell 1 00:17:12 7 Dearbhla Cox 1 00:18:19 Crusaders AC runners 2 Stephen Hurley 00:17:42 3 Kenan Furlong 00:17:52 4 Ross Neill 00:17:57 16 Adrian Groarke 00:19:48 18 Gerard Moore 00:19:50 39 Piarais Neary 00:21:53 53 Sharon Woods 00:23:25 (8) 78 Tanja Narancic 00:25:15 (16) 87 Ciara Regan 00:25:41 (20) 102 Kate Healy 00:26:52 (28) 104 Iseult Ni Chuinneagain 00:27:05 (29) 112 Djinn Von Noorden 00:28:07 (34) 125 Kevin Kenny 00:29:01 Mountbellew Forest Parkrun (32) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Alan Conway 1 00:20:30 4 Áine Kenny 1 00:24:06 Crusaders AC runner 4 Áine Kenny 00:24:06 (1) Bushy Parkrun (263) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Seán Cahill 1 00:18:19 16 Sinead Staunton 1 00:21:53 Crusaders AC runner 174 Mairead Cashman 00:30:41 (56) Cabinteely Parkrun (173) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ewan McLean 1 00:19:42 4 Robyn Kennedy 1 00:20:18 Crusaders AC runners 8 Barry O’Mahony 00:20:46 12 Ronan Moynihan 00:21:16 22 Louise Dobbyn 00:23:19 (5) Ballincollig Parkrun (215) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 4 Fionn Neville 1 00:18:15 29 Cherie Turner 1 00:22:34 Crusaders AC runner 51 Aitor Arribas Velasco 00:24:06 Corkagh Parkrun (216) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Stephen Armour 1 00:17:23 4 Caroline Crowley 1 00:19:55 Crusaders AC runner 4 Caroline Crowley 00:19:55 (1) Donabate Parkrun (157) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Reuben Capocci 1 00:18:21 8 Sheila Bourke 1 00:20:19 Crusaders AC runner 21 Brendan Glynn 00:23:34 Avondale Forest Parkrun (118) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Fintan Conway 1 00:19:10 13 Judith Kerins 1 00:22:27 Crusaders AC runners 28 Darina Scully 00:25:46 (6) 34 Carina Davidson 00:27:03 (8) 46 Anna Shine 00:29:20 (15) 51 Máirín Shine 00:30:40 (18) 98 Lisa Shine 00:50:54 (45) Claremorris Parkrun (59) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Tom Forde 1 00:18:21 13 Hilary Bond 1 00:23:49 Crusaders AC runner 4 John O’Donnell 00:20:27 Sport Ireland Campus Parkrun (44) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Sean Mac Seoin 1 00:20:00 2 Bonnie McFeat 1 00:20:28 Crusaders AC runner 5 Brendan Kieran 00:21:53 Marlay Parkrun (333) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ethan Bramhill 1 00:16:52 15 Sarah Lewis 1 00:20:42 Crusaders AC runner 83 Barry O’Neill 00:24:29 Tolka Valley Parkrun (64) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Brian Fay 1 00:19:29 5 Orla Cox 1 00:22:25 Crusaders AC runners 21 Phelim Murray 00:26:36 24 Sarah Lyons 00:27:22 (9) Porterstown Parkrun (103) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Fearghal Desmond 1 00:17:11 7 Patricia McLoughlin 1 00:20:48 Crusaders AC runner 53 Martina White 00:29:55 (15) Gorey Parkrun (168) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Jason O’Byrne 1 00:18:37 5 Kathryn Sweeney 1 00:20:47 Crusaders AC runner 5 Kathryn Sweeney 00:20:47 (1) Poppintree Parkrun (185) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Bobby Bedford 1 00:18:27 13 Peigi Allen 1 00:21:39 Crusaders AC runner 74 Aoife Kelly 00:28:23 (15) ![]() Members of the club were involved in events all across the island over the weekend as well as abroad, with some excellent results. As usual, however, we kick off the report on the track, with the results of last week’s 6th Dublin graded meet that took place on Wednesday evening in windy conditions on the DCU track at Santry’s Morton Stadium. Tessa O’Neill won the women’s 400m grade D race in 65.18, whilst we had 5 runners take part in various grades of the men’s 1500m. In the grade A race heat 1 (of 2) Colm Parnell placed 5th in 4:04.73. Then, in the grade B event, Chris Russell placed 3rd in 4:11.45. Henry Griffin and Patrick Conlon ran in heat 1 of 2 of the grade C races, with Henry taking 3rd spot in 4:25.00, followed by Patrick in 8th in 4:31.08. Meanwhile, Joe McDermott finished in 9th place in heat 1 of 2 in the grade D series. Joe’s time was 4:50.64. Finally, in the field, we had major success in the shot put, with Conor Quinn taking the win with a throw of 15.53m. Conor was followed by Shane Lynch in 2nd place with a throw of 12.64m and then 4th place was taken by Henry Moylan with a throw of 11.00m. The road races in which we featured this week began on Friday night with the Sliabh Buidhe Rovers AC-organised Mick Memorial 5k held down in Co. Wexford. The anti-clockwise one loop race along country roads undulates a bit and has a notable uphill finish over the final kilometre. Margaret Foley was our sole competitor, placing 61st overall in a field of 173 and 6th female finisher in a time of 20:31. The following morning, we had runners in both the half marathon and 5-mile races in Clontarf and also in the half marathon and 10k events on the island of Achill. There were 3,158 finishers in the Clontarf Half, conducted largely out and back along the bike paths on the estuary coast. New member Rory O’Kennedy, who is beginning his training for the Dublin marathon, placed 6th in an excellent time of 82:14 and he was followed by John O’Donnell, with similar intentions but carrying a slight injury (103rd in 91:53) and so dialled it back a bit in the second half. Next came another marathoner, Adrian Groarke (203rd in 96:04) and Adrian was followed by David Healy (369th in 1:40:38), James Bradshaw (383rd in a PB time of 1:41:03) and by Will Holton (478th in 1:41:11). Aitor Arribas Velasco also ran, placing 1,213th in 1:57:54. We had at least two runners in the 5-mile event, both finishing on the podium. Stephen Hurley placed 2nd in 28:23, just 5 seconds off the win, with Michael Kiely not too far back in 3rd place with a time of 28:58. The field measured 1,162 finishers. We had a participant in each of the races held in Achill on Saturday morning. In a field of 626 finishers, Edel Doherty placed 267th and 65th in 1:58:34, whilst, in the 10k, Louise O’Riordan joined 546 other runners, finishing in 32nd overall and 3rd place in the women’s race in a time of 46:47 on the hilly course. Further afield, our Italian exile, Italo Giancaterina, was in action again, and once again won his race. This was the XVII Edizione D’Lumont, where he ran 33:02 over a distance of about 10.2k, finishing 3 minutes ahead of the field of around 400 runners. Richard Phelan ran in the 110km UTMB Val D’Aran, which was paused at 94km because of a storm. Richie finished the full race with its climb of 6,300m in 26:33:06. Then, on Sunday morning, in Australia, Maurice Kelter once again improved both his half and full marathon PBs. Maurice ran in the Gold Coast marathon, finishing in a superb overall time of 2:35:50. Of interest to members, we had clubmates take part in the Ring of Kerry 173k cycle. They included Áine Kenny, Karl Walsh and Tomás Bradley. Also, Isabelle Cairns ran the 5k leg of the Two Provinces triathlon in a time of 21:21 and Maria Kennedy ran the 5k of the Kilkenny triathlon in a time of 26:04. There were at least two races in the Irish mountains last week with Crusader participation. On Saturday, Donatas Jocius won the Croghan Half marathon down near Gorey in Co. Wexford in a time of 1:46:53 and he was followed by Becky Quinn who won the women's race in 1:59:00, placing 10th in the field of 88 in the process. Meanwhile, last Wednesday, we had at least 5 participants in the IMRA-organised Ballinastoe 11k held near Roundwood in Co. Wicklow on an out-and-back course with a large anti-clockwise loop around White Mountain and involving a climb of 504m. Once again, Becky Quinn won the women’s race in the Leinster League in a time of 61:38, placing 29th overall in the field of 172. Ahead of Becky came Donatas Jocius who placed 10th in 55:12, and they were followed by Clare Sullivan (47th overall, 3rd woman finisher and 1st F40 in 64:55), Brian McGuckin (64th and 4th M55 in 71:09) and Kathryn Gibbons (87th and 14th in 75:20). Toby Benham and Mary Donnelly saved our blushes this week, by finishing as first finishers in parkruns on Saturday morning. Toby headed the 81-strong field in Carlow Town, completing the event in 19:48, whilst Mary placed 16th overall in the field of 233 in Bushy Park in a time of 22:48. Kev Moore also ran there, where he placed 5th in 20:24. Podium finishes were recorded by several others. Kevin Lambe placed 3rd in 20:41 in the 86-strong field in Athlone RSC, whilst Ilona McElroy placed 2nd overall and 2nd female finisher in Falcarragh alongside 100 other participants. Ilona’s time was 20:36. Mark Culleton finished in 2nd place in a time of 20:04 in the modest field of 19, whilst Kathryn Tomkins (née Sweeney) also placed 2nd (9th overall) in a time of 21:40 in Omagh with its field of 102. In Uditore in Italy, Lorraine McMahon took 17th and 2nd in a field of 43 in 32:37, whilst, in New Ross, Aoife Kelly finished just behind husband Paul in a time of 24:49 for 23rd and 2nd places. In the field of 79, Paul placed 22nd in 24:48. Finally, Louise Dobbyn placed 21st and 3rd in 23:46 in Cabinteely. In the field of 143 Louise was joined by Stephen Mulligan (36th in 25:46), Barry O’Neill (39th in 25:12), Carina Davidson (121st and 48th in 37:37) and Olwyn Dunne (125th and 51st in 38:23), who took it handy having donated blood the previous day. Ross Neill ran once again in Ormeau Park in Belfast, where he placed 5th in 18:01 in a field of 403, whilst Darina Scully took 26th and 5th places in the 104-strong field of River Valley Park in a time of 26:29. Luke Haran crossed the line in 6th place in 21:43 in Mungret Park in a field of 75, whilst we had a smaller contingent than usual in Poolbeg in a field of 175. They were led home by Zlatko Kulic (16th in 21:46) and he was followed by Michael Fitzsimons just behind (17th in 21:48) with Sharon Woods (36th and 5th in 23:35) further back. Next came Josie Ward, running her 200th parkrun, in 37th and 6th places in a time of 23:44, followed by Russell Murphy (45th in 24:26), Kate Healy (76th and 21st in 26:36) and Anna Hernick (119th and 51st in 31:07). Eoghan Corrigan joined 254 other runners in Shanganagh where he placed 22nd in 21:17, whilst we had 4 participants in Malahide. The contingent was led home by Emer Kenny (85th and 16th in 25:03), celebrating her 100th parkrun, and Emer was followed in the field of 258, by Anna Shine (223rd in 34:01), Máirín Shine (224th and 89th in 34:02) and Lisa Shine, tailwalking. Brendan Glynn joined 191 other runners in Donabate, where he placed 28th in 23:43, whilst, in Tramore Valley, Cork, Mairead Cashman took 102nd and 22nd in 29:45 running with 157 other participants. Kevin Flynn and Martina White joined 110 other runners in Porterstown, where Kevin placed 86th in 37:43 and Martina took 90th and 38th spots in38:42, whilst, in Fairview, Garret Connolly finished in 44th place in 25:29 in a field of 114. Finally, over in the UK, Thom Martini ran once again in Wormwood Scrubs Prison where, in a field of 55, he placed 47th in 33:50, whilst, in Pollok in Glasgow, Aidan Hudner placed 76th in 24:12 in a field of 343. Clontarf Half marathon (3158) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Wayne Waldron 1 01:14:57 32 Claire Talty 1 01:26:35 Crusaders AC runners 6 Rory O’Kennedy 01:22:14 103 John O’Donnell 01:31:53 203 Adrian Groarke 01:36:04 369 David Healy 01:40:38 383 James Bradshaw 01:41:03 (PB) 478 Will Holton 01:41:11 1213 Aitor Arribas Velasco 01:57:54 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/joe_duffy_bmw_clontarf_5_mile__half_marathon_july_2024/5035/results Clontarf 5-miler (1162) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Eoin Maguire 1 00:28:18 11 Eimear O’Neill 1 00:31:48 Crusaders AC runners 2 Stephen Hurley 00:28:23 3 Michael Kiely 00:28:58 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/joe_duffy_bmw_clontarf_5_mile__half_marathon_july_2024/5035/results Mick Murphy Memorial 5k (173) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Andrew Connick 1 00:16:01 16 Sheila O’Byrne 1 00:17:16 Crusaders AC runner 61 Margaret Foley 00:20:31 (6) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/mick-murphy-memorial-5k-2024/ Achill Half marathon (626) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Tudor Moldovan 1 01:11:30 18 Theresa Hughes 1 01:27:16 Crusaders AC runner 267 Edel Doherty 01:58:34 (65) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/achill-half-marathon-10k-2024/#2_9D70EA Achill 10k (547) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Anthony Mannix 1 00:33:27 18 Laura O’Connor 1 00:44:31 Crusaders AC runner 32 Louise O’Riordan 00:46:47 (3) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/achill-half-marathon-10k-2024/#2_9D70EA IMRA Ballinastoe 11k (172) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daire Finn 1 00:52:19 29 Becky Quinn 1 01:01:38 Crusaders AC runners 10 Donatas Jocius 00:55:12 29 Becky Quinn 01:01:38 (1) 47 Clare Sullivan 01:04:55 (3) 64 Brian McGuckin 01:11:09 87 Kathryn Gibbons 01:15:20 (14) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2505 IMRA Croghan Half marathon (88) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Donatas Jocius 1 01:46:53 10 Becky Quinn 1 01:59:00 Crusaders AC runners 1 Donatas Jocius 01:46:53 10 Becky Quinn 01:59:00 (1) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2521 Tramore Valley, Cork Parkrun (158) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Briain Madden 1 00:17:27 5 Teresa Murphy 1 00:19:50 Crusaders AC runner 102 Mairead Cashman 00:29:45 (22) Shanganagh Parkrun (255) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Paul McKenna 1 00:17:26 15 Lynne Hennessy 1 00:20:08 Crusaders AC runner 22 Eoghan Corrigan 00:21:17 Fairview Parkrun (114) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Koffi Kpoglo 1 00:19:13 10 Faye Kearney 1 00:22:11 Crusaders AC runner 44 Garret Connolly 00:25:29 Poolbeg Parkrun (175) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Dimitri Jeannon 1 00:16:24 20 Caitriona Costello 1 00:21:58 Crusaders AC runners 16 Zlatko Kulic 00:21:46 17 Michael Fitzsimons 00:21:48 36 Sharon Woods 00:23:35 (5) 37 Josie Ward 00:23:44 (6) 45 Russell Murphy 00:24:26 76 Kate Healy 00:26:36 (21) 119 Anna Hernick 00:31:07 (51) Falcarragh Parkrun (101) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Roseann Spence 1 00:19:52 3 Scott McIntosh 1 00:21:20 Crusaders AC runner 2 Ilona McElroy 00:20:36 (2) Bushy Parkrun (253) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Matthew Kenny 1 00:19:11 16 Mary Donnelly 1 00:22:48 Crusaders AC runners 5 Kev Moore 00:20:24 16 Mary Donnelly 00:22:48 (1) Cabinteely Parkrun (143) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ethan Bramhill 1 00:17:45 8 Malika Hammani 1 00:21:07 Crusaders AC runners 21 Louise Dobbyn 00:23:46 (3) 36 Stephen Mulligan 00:25:46 39 Barry O’Neill 00:25:52 121 Carina Davidson 00:37:37 (48) 125 Olwyn Dunne 00:38:23 (51) New Ross Parkrun (79) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ciaran Doherty 1 00:19:34 20 Niamh Cleary 1 000:24:33 Crusaders AC runners 22 Paul F. Kelly 00:24:48 23 Aoife Kelly 00:24:49 (2) Sligo Parkrun (84) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Peter Gallagher 1 00:17:47 11 Courtney Randall 1 00:24:22 Crusaders AC runner 2 Ross Neill 00:17:54 Donabate Parkrun (192) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Jim McCafferty 1 00:18:49 13 Geraldine McHale 1 00:21:51 Crusaders AC runner 28 Brendan Glynn 00:23:43 Malahide Parkrun (258) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Arthur Ansell 1 00:17:47 15 Annette Kealy 1 00:19:16 Crusaders AC runners 85 Emer Kenny 00:25:03 (16) 223 Anna Shine 00:34:01 (88) 224 Máirín Shine 00:34:02 (89) 256 Lisa Shine 00:50:23 Athlone RSC Parkrun (86) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Liam Holleran 1 00:19:17 9 Christina Griffith 1 00:22:45 Crusaders AC runner 3 Kevin Lambe 00:20:41 Carlow Town Parkrun (81) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Toby Benham 1 00:19:48 19 Kerrie Evans 1 00:26:34 Crusaders AC runner 1 Toby Benham 00:19:48 River Valley Parkrun (104) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:18:17 6 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:22:54 Crusaders AC runner 26 Darina Scully 00:26:29 (5) Ormeau Parkrun (403) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 2 Chris Anderson 1 00:16:31 12 Catriona Burns 1 00:19:47 Crusaders AC runner 5 Ross Neill 00:18:01 Porterstown Parkrun (112) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Niall Sherlock 1 00:17:44 9 Marta Smolen 1 00:21:52 Crusaders AC runners 86 Kevin Flynn 00:37:43 90 Martina White 00:38:42 (38) Portumna Parkrun (19) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Joe Dervan 1 00:19:22 4 Ciara Hutchinson 1 00:26:18 Crusaders AC runner 2 Mark Culleton 00:20:04 Mungret Parkrun (75) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Colm Costello 1 00:18:03 10 Róisín Kelly 1 00:23:16 Crusaders AC runner 6 Luke Haran 00:21:43 Omagh Parkrun (81) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Aidan Molloy 1 00:18:26 2 Cora Scullion 1 00:19:33 Crusaders AC runner 9 Kathryn Sweeney 00:21:40 (2) ![]() What a great spectacle we witnessed over the weekend at the National Senior Track and Field Championships in Santry! There was some fantastic racing across the board, and we had several athletes who played their part, with the club coming away with two bronze medals, in the senior women’s 4 x 400m relay and the men’s 110mH. We also did well in a couple of road races last week. We start with the T&F championships. On a rainy Saturday, perennial podium placer Matt Behan marked a return home from his new home in Australia with 3rd place in the men’s 110mH straight final, where he recorded a time of 14.90. On the same day, Leo Gormley placed 7th in heat 4 of the 200m heats in 24.39, but unfortunately failed to progress. Likewise, Hugo Magee placed 3rd in heart 3 of the 400m in 48.06, but did not qualify for the next round. On the other hand, Charlotte Myers placed 5th in heat 1 (of 2) in the 800m and qualified as a fast finisher in 2:11.13, taking some decent scalps in the process and progressing to the final on Sunday, where she placed 8th in 2:12.39. Also, on Saturday, Colm Parnell and Chris Russell ran in heats 2 and 4 of the men’s 1500m, where Colm placed 10th in 4:10.68 and Chris placed 13th in 4:14.39 However, neither progressed further. In the men’s 5000m B final, with a time of 15:30.13 for 15th place, Andrea Rondina recorded a PB. On Sunday, in altogether much drier and pleasanter conditions, there was a straight final for the women’s 400mH where Irantzu Gárate Muro took 6th place in 1:04.12, and, then, we had 3 athletes take part in heats of the men’s 100m. Victor Michalak ran in heat 2 where he placed 8th in 12.94, followed by Sean Owens who placed 3rd in heat 5 in 10.99 and by Luke Timlin who placed 4th in heat 6 in a time of 11.10. Sean qualified automatically for the second heat of the semi-finals where he placed 7th in 11.00, whilst Luke was a fast finisher, placing 10th in the third semi-final race in 11.11. Neither, unfortunately, progressed to the final. It is not surprising that with Charlotte and Irantzu in the women’s 4 x 400m relay team, we would perform well. Add to that, the presence of Claire Mooney and Annie Hughes, we were able to field a really strong team in the straight final involving 6 clubs. Coming into the anchor leg, the team was lying in 4th place in a ding-dong battle with MSB, but Claire was able to overtake the MSB runner in the dying stages and come across the line in bronze medal position, beating the other club by just 6 tenths of a second in a great time of 3:57:31, behind Ratoath and UCD, (the latter whose anchor leg was ex-Crusader Mary Horgan who had just been pipped for a place in the 800m final by Charlotte the day before). Many congrats to the team and to Matt on their well-deserved medals. In terms of road-racing, there were two quality events that took place last week. The first, on Thursday night, was the Clonee 10k held on an out-and-back largely flat course with a loop half way through and in windy conditions. The wind was in runners’ faces on the way home. In a field of 415, we had at least 6 runners. They were led home by Gerard White in 19th place in a time of 36:26. Gerard was followed across the line by Karl Walsh (52nd in 38:54), Adrienne Jordan (62nd overall, 6th female finisher and 3rd F45 in a time of 39:42). Next came Tim O’Donnell with what may have been a PB time of 40:30 (for 75th spot) and he was followed by Robbie Moore (150th in 45:37) and by Kate Murray (223rd, 43rd and 6th F50 in 49:06). Conditions on Friday evening for the Kilcock 5k were materially different from the evening before. There was much less of a breeze and it was warmer on what is also considered a fast and relatively flat course that always seems to produce fast times with fields of high quality. This year, the start was even better organised than usual (particularly as there is a sharp turn within the first 250m of the race) and the starting places were well marshalled. Six of the first seven of our runners each recorded a PB on Friday, the only one who didn’t being John Mulvihill with a 16:20 run for 48th place in a field of 516. The ones who did record PBs were Kevin Fitzgibbon (21st in 15:51), Kevin Kavanagh (40th in 16:11), just ahead of Ciarain Kelly (42nd in 16:12), Patrick Conlon (44th in 16:15), Henry Griffin (53rd in 16:31, a 50-seconds improvement) and Brian Regan (69th in 16:47). Next came Joe McDermott (80th in 16:57), followed by Rory Goldsmith (159th in 17:56), Kathryn Gibbons (196th and 25th in a PB time of 18:34, a 10-seconds improvement), Miriam Logan (284th and 45th in a great time of 19:49) and Joe Dunne (393rd in 22:31), just ahead of his wife, Olwyn (401st and 96th in 22:38). Olwyn was listed as an F50, but if there was an F55 age category, she won it. The 14-athlete contingent was completed by Paul E. Kelly who placed 465 in 25:42. The men’s team may well have placed 3rd, once Kevin Kavanagh’s result is included. Members may also be interested to read that Kieran Little, a recent long-time Crusader, now with Blackrock, placed 21st in 16:01. Further afield, Fanny Trébouet travelled to Bretagne in France, where on a 32k coastal trail ending in Vannes, on a warm and sunny day on Sunday, ran in the Ronde des Douaniers – Ultra Marin, completing the distance and challenging conditions in 3h52m. There were 3 races in the mountains last week. On Wednesday evening, 136 runners took part in the IMRA Howth Summer race, covering a distance of 8.7k with a climb of 308m on moderate terrain. The race was the latest in the Leinster League. Amongst those running was Becky Quinn who placed 18th and 3rd in a time of 48:19 and she was followed by Aitor Arribas Velasco (117th in 70:38) and Berndt Heim (134th in 83:39). Then, over the weekend Becky took part in two races in Co. Mayo constituting the All-Ireland and Connacht Championships. The first, of 10.7k around Mweelrea with a climb of 766m, enjoyed a field of 39 and the second, of 5.5k with a climb of 730m, was conducted around Nephin with a field of 27. Becky placed 13th and 12th, winning the women’s race both times. Congrats to her. We did well in the parkruns this weekend. Ilona McElroy and her fiancé, Paul Fleming of Rathfarnham WSAF, were both first finishers in Tolka Valley In a field of 38, Ilona placed 3rd overall in 20:29. In Poolbeg, in placing 10th in a field of 170, Emma Rowe was a first female finisher in a time of 20:05. We had a decent number of Crusaders in the event as usual. Kenan Furlong placed 5th in 18:11, followed by Adrian Groarke (9th in 19:53), after Emma, Piarais Neary (16th in 20:59), Jeanie Watson (22nd and 2nd in 21:21), David Timoney (28th in 22:17), John Lohan (29th in 22:31), Michael Fitzsimons (32nd in 22:46), Tanja Narancic (46th and 6th in 23:34), Josie Ward (53rd and 9th in 24:10), with one parkrun to go before she hits the 200 mark recorded by Sharon Woods on Saturday who came in just behind Josie (55th and 10th in 24:10), Kevin Kenny (61st in 24:46), Fiona Bane (68th and 14th in 25:23), Iseult Ni Chuinneagain (79th and 20th in 26:23), Laura O’Malley (87th and 25th in 26:44), Tara Murphy (93rd and 29th in 27:15), Louise O’Riordan (94th and 30th in 27:36), Aisling O’Riordan (114th and 41st in 28:39), Maureen McGinley (119th and 43rd in 29:14), Una McCullagh (129th and 51st in 29:51) and Lucy Collender (136th and 57th in 30:41). Our final first finisher was Caroline Crowley, in Bushy Park, where, in a field of 247, she placed 9th overall in 20:18. Just ahead came Kev Moore (8th in 20:04) and Caroline was followed by Mary Donnelly (34th and 4th in 23:18). In Shanganagh, Rory Goldsmith took 3rd spot, in a field of 232, in 18:46 and he was followed by Máirin Shine (159th and 56th in 29:33) and by Lisa and Fiona Shine who were tailwalking. Ross Neill placed 2nd in the 84-strong field in Sligo in a time of 17:54, whilst Maria Kennedy ran alongside 159 other participants in Kilkenny, placing 43rd and 5th in 26:32. Over in the UK, Phelim Murray and Sarah Lyons took part in the 229-strong field in Aylesbury, where Phelim placed 31st in 22:32 and Sarah crossed the line in 74th and 14th in 26:20. Also there, our London exile Thom Martini ran in Wormwood Scrubs prison where, in a field of 135, he placed 70th in a time of 27:36, whilst Rob Glascott, recently exiled, placed 11th in a field of 957 and in a time of 22:04 in the Clapham Common parkrun. Aoife Cowhie joined 235 other runners in Malahide where she placed 109th and 26th in 25:51, whilst Paul and Aoife Kelly took on Poppintree, where, in a field of 144, Paul placed 35th in 24:33 and Aoife placed 54th and 9th in 27:19. Mairead Cashman placed 52nd and 19th in 32:04 in Glen River, Cork, with its field of 70, whilst Carina Davidson placed 59th and 11th in 27:06 in Cabinteely, with its field of 150. Andy Deuser ran in Fairview with its field of 143, where he placed 42nd in 24:12, followed by Garret Connolly (70th in 28:05) pushing a buggy, whilst, further afield, in Italy, Lorraine McMahon ran in the 38-stong field in Uditore, where she placed 34th and 4th in 23:18. Clonee 10k (415) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime1 Peter Somba 1 00:31:25 16 Faye Dervan 1 00:35:40 Crusaders AC runners 19 Gerard White 00:36:26 52 Karl Walsh 00:38:54 62 Adrienne Jordan 00:39:42 (6) 75 Tim O’Donnell 00:40:30 150 Robbie Moore 00:45:37 223 Kate Murray 00:49:06 (43) Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/clonee_10k_2024/5050/results St. Coca’s Kilcock 5k (516) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Tadgh Donnelly 1 00:14:34 27 Michelle Finn 1 00:16:01 Crusaders AC runners 17 Kevin Fitzgibbon 00:15:44 (PB) 40 Kevin Kavanagh 00:16:11 (PB) 42 Ciarain Kelly 00:16:12 (PB) 44 Patrick Conlon 00:16:15 (PB) 48 John Mulvihill 00:16:20 53 Henry Griffin 00:16:31 (PB) 69 Brian Regan 00:16:47 (PB) 80 Joe McDermott 00:16:57 159 Rory Goldsmith 00:17:56 196 Kathryn Gibbons 00:18:34 (25) 284 Miriam Logan 00:19:49 (45) 393 Joe Dunne 00:22:31 40 Olwyn Dunne 00:22:38 (96) 465 Paul E. Kelly 00:25:42 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/st_cocas_kilcock_5k_2024/4971/results IMRA Mweelrea 10.7k (39) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Matthew McConnell 1 00:59:49 13 Becky Quinn 1 01:20:19 Crusaders AC runner 13 Becky Quinn 01:20:19 (1) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2487 IMRA Nephin 5.4k (27) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Matthew McConnell 1 00:50:40 12 Becky Quinn 1 01:11:15 Crusaders AC runner 12 Becky Quinn 01:11:15 (1) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2569 IMRA Howth Summer 8.7k (136) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daire Finn 1 00:41:04 9 Sinead Farrell 1 00:46:53 Crusaders AC runners 18 Becky Quinn 00:48:19 (3) 117 Aitor Arribas Velasco 01:10:38 134 Berndt Heim 01:23:39 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2506 Glen River Parkrun (70) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ken Ince 1 00:18:26 13 Mary Pappin 1 00:24:40 Crusaders AC runner 52 Mairead Cashman 00:32:04 (19) Shanganagh Parkrun (232) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Niall Murphy 1 00:18:31 15 Madelyn Wilson Patterson 1 00:20:48 Crusaders AC runners 3 Rory Goldsmith 00:18:46 159 Máirín Shine 00:29:33 (56) 229 Lisa Shine 00:50:38 230 Lisa Shine 00:50:38 Fairview Parkrun (143) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Koffi Kpoglo 1 00:18:28 16 Ciara Brady 1 00:21:33 Crusaders AC runners 42 Andy Deuser 00:24:12 70 Garret Connolly 00:28:05 Poolbeg Parkrun (170) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oliver Walker 1 00:17:30 10 Emma Rowe 1 00:20:05 Crusaders AC runners 5 Kenan Furlong 00:18:11 9 Adrian Groarke 000:19:53 10 Emma Rowe 00:20:05 (1) 16 Piarais Neary 00:20:59 22 Jeanie Watson 00:21:21 (2) 28 David Timoney 00:22:17 29 John Lohan 00:22:31 32 Michael Fitzsimons 00:22:46 46 Tanja Narancic 00:23:34 (6) 53 Josie Ward 00:24:00 (9) 55 Sharon Woods 00:24:10 (10) 61 Kevin Kenny 00:24:46 68 Fiona Bane 00:25:23 (14) 79 Iseult Ni Chuinneagain 00:26:23 (20) 87 Laura O’Malley 00:26:44 (25) 93 Tara Murphy 00:27:15 (29) 94 Louise O’Riordan 00:27:36 (30) 114 Aisling O’Riordan 00:28:39 (41) 119 Maureen McGinley 00:29:14 (43) 129 Una McCullagh 00:29:51 (51) 136 Lucy Collender 00:30:41 (57) Malahide Castle Parkrun (236) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Robert Frewen 1 00:16:38 19 Aine Crimin 1 00:20:05 Crusaders AC runner 109 Aoife Cowhie 00:25:51 (26) Bushy Parkrun (247) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Seán Cahill 1 00:18:39 9 Caroline Crowley 1 00:20:18 Crusaders AC runners 8 Kev Moore 00:20:04 9 Caroline Crowley 00:20:18 (1) 34 Mary Donnelly 00:23:18 (4) Cabinteely Parkrun (150) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Alan McAndrew 1 00:19:30 14 Fiona Kavanagh 1 00:23:03 (1) Crusaders AC runner 59 Carina Davidson 00:27:06 (11) Poppintree Parkrun (144) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Fiachra O’Donovan 1 00:19:17 9 Peigi Allen 1 00:20:43 Crusaders AC runners 35 Paul F. Kelly 00:24:33 54 Aoife Kelly 00:27:19 (9) Sligo Parkrun (84) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Peter Gallagher 1 00:17:47 11 Courtney Randall 1 00:24:22 Crusaders AC runner 2 Ross Neill 00:17:54 Kilkenny Parkrun (160) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 David McCoy 1 00:19:20 13 Katie Dillon Keane 1 00:23:06 Crusaders AC runner 43 Maria Kennedy 00:26:32 (5) Sport Ireland Campus Parkrun (31) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Declan Creedon 1 00:23:35 3 Mary Gavin 1 00:25:29 Crusaders AC runners 9 Anna Shine 00:29:44 (3) 11 Máirín Shine 00:30:34 (5) 30 Lisa Shine 00:49:11 Claremorris Parkrun (44) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 John O’Donnell 1 00:19:50 11 Niamh Conroy 1 00:25:00 Crusaders AC runner 1 John O’Donnell 00:19:50 Tolka Valley Parkrun (57) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oisin Tyrrell 1 00:20:00 8 Grace Haughey 1 00:23:50 Crusaders AC runner 7 Diarmuid Byrne 00:22:54 River Valley Parkrun (154) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:17:55 9 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:21:44 Crusaders AC runner 81 Darina Scully 00:31:03 (22) ![]() We had some excellent results this week from the numerous events that our athletes were able to select. In some cases, we had runners run in two or more races, performing well. We start, as usual, on the track, where we had 3 of our clubmates take part as competitors in the midweek meet on UCD’s track, an event organised by UCD’s track club. In heat 1 of the women’s 800m Charlotte Myers placed 8th in 2:12.71 (just behind ex-Crusader Mary Horgan who now runs for UCD who placed 6th in 2:10.86). In heat 2, Annie Hughes placed 9th in 2:22.03. Then, in the men’s 1500m, Colm Parnell took 11th place in a time of 4:06.42. Moving on now to road racing, we start on Friday night with the annual Front Runners’-organised Dublin Pride 5k, which in reality takes part on two loops of the bicycle path around the Acres in the Phoenix Park, a course familiar to many Crusaders. Using local knowledge (it does undulate after all!), Dee Ni Chearbhaill placed 88th overall in the field of 1328 finishers and 3rd female finisher in a time of 21:15. Ahead of her came Karl Walsh, in the first of 3 events which he completed over the weekend on successive days, placing 16th in 18:53. Further back came David McEvoy (150th in 21:52), followed by Lydia Bigley (359th and 39th), back to racing after her recent admirable stab at getting into local politics. On Saturday evening, we had runners in the 42nd edition of the Micheal Manning Memorial Dunshaughlin 10k, an event which rarely disappoints. It also happened to be the 5th race in Peugeot Race Series, so attracted a quality field. Among the 963 finishers, we had at least 7 Crusaders take part. They were led home by Vinnie McGuinness in a great time of 33:31 for 33rd place (and 5th M40), closely followed by Ger Forde (39th and 1st M45 in 33:39) with Joe McDermott a little further back (73rd in 35:07). Unsurprisingly, in placing 134th in 37:20, Paul Cowhie won the M60 age category, and he was followed by Ollie McGrath (208th in 39:15), just ahead of Kathryn Gibbons (229th and 25th female finisher in 39:49). The contingent was completed by Ciara Regan (283rd and 33rd in 41:06). The fine weather over the weekend brought out loads of runners to race, and on Sunday 1658 athletes competed in the Biofreeze Irish Runner 5-mile road race in the Phoenix Park, which took place on a familiar clockwise loop of Chesterfield Avenue, the Ordnance Survey Road, the Upper Glen Road (descent), around under St. Mary’s Hospital and back up to the Acres Road and then a further climb up Chesterfield onto the Ordnance Survey Road again with a sharp lefthand turn onto Furze Road and the finish line. The race also doubled up as the National 5-mile Championships. We had at least 11 clubmates take part and they were led home by Clare Sullivan (122nd overall, 13th female finisher and 1st F40, her second prize-winning run of the week) and Clare was followed by Karl Walsh (his 2nd race of the week) who placed 196th in 33:23. Karl was followed by Ciara Lynch (281st and 61st in 35:19), David O’Donnell (295th in 35:38), Noel Carr with a PB time of 35:45 (for 303rd place), Neil Brown (324th in 36:11), Robbie Moore (350th in 36:33), newcomer Chris Bannon (380th in 36:59), Kevin Kenny (565th in 39:38), Kelly Brown (649th and 165th in 41:27) and Jade Murphy who must have started at the back of the field (727th and 198th in 37:43). On the same morning, we had two Crusaders involved in two of the races in the Viking Waterford Marathon festival. Usually, on her birthday, Olwyn Dunne runs the distance of her age. Over the years, as one can imagine, this has become increasingly challenging, particularly as Olwyn will be 58 in a couple of weeks. Perhaps to make it easier, Olwyn participated in the full marathon in Waterford, to have some company, having added the 16 or so kilometres before the race. Amazingly, she placed 2nd in her age category, running a splendid time of 3:51:34 for the race and placing 122nd overall, 15th female finisher in a field of 192 finishers. Emily Quinlan took part in the Quarter Marathon, where, in a substantial field of 704, she placed 28th overall, 8th female finisher in a super time of 43:13. Also, on Sunday, inveterate racer Lisa Branigan ran in Co. Westmeath in a 5-mile road race, one of two events which also included a 10-miler, organised by a friend. In a field of 97 in the Derravaragh race, Lisa placed 31st and 10th in a time of 43:07. Further afield, Andrea Rondina ran in the Notturna di San Giovanni in Florence where he recorded a time of 33:24 for the 10k distance, placing 11th overall. Also, in Italy, our exile there, Italo Giancaterina ran in the Trofeo AVIS Spinetoli-Pagliare 10k in Spinetoli, where, with a time of 31:52 he placed 2nd, 7 seconds behind the winner. One of our French exiles in France, Valentin Akdim, ran in the 22k Patoutrail -Skyrace in the Pyrneees near the border with Andorra, finishing in a time of 3:09, whilst our two Spanish exiles, Cristia Vilchez Ceballos and Esther Requena Ferri, ran in the Nocturna Corre Tu Historia in Velez-Malaga. Esther won the women’s 5k in 22:33, whilst Cristian ran in a time of 19:34. Finally, our exile in Hamburg, Johannes Frederking, took part in the Vabali Mittsommerlauf in Glinde in Germany, where he completed the 11.7k race in 49:30. Closer to home, Eoghan Kerins took part in the Banner Backyard Ultra in Co. Clare, where he completed the 100k distance in 10:42:38. There were three races organised by IMRA this week, involving Crusaders. We do not currently have results for the amazing Coast to Coast Relay (also involving the Dublin Mountain Running Club) which started on Saturday morning, involving a total distance of 600km, as of yet. When the results are published the report will be updated. We are aware, however, that Donatas Jocius took part in the event on Saturday evening and on his leg of 42.5k from Graiguenamanagh to Lukeswell he recorded a time of 4:09. Then on Sunday he ran nearly 27k in Co. Kilkenny for another leg from Lukeswell to Carrick-on-Suir, completing the distance in 3:12. Earlier in the week, we had runners take part in the usual Wednesday evening offering. This latest was a new event, the Wobbly Bridge 8k in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. It was described as perfect for novices and involved a climb of 180m on a jiggly route which did involve a wobbly rope bridge with planks. Clare Sullivan distinguished herself, placing 19th and 2nd in a time of 34:31 in the field of 186 finishers. Clare was followed by Sam McArdle (27th in 35:36), Brian McGuckin (45th in 38:18), Kathryn Gibbons (49th and 10th in 38:57), Ian Clifford (85th in 41:20) and Berndt Heim (175th in 53:25). On Sunday, Becky Quinn was our lone contestant in the Southeast League Tinahely 14.5k in Co. Wicklow where, in a field of 55, she placed 9th and 2nd female finisher in a time of 86:14. The event involved a climb of 720m on easy terrain. In terms of first finishers in Saturday’s parkruns, our bacon was saved by John O’Donnell and Rory Goldsmith who both headed their respective fields. Rory ran 19:32 ahead of 43 runners in Knocknacarra, whilst John ran in Claremorris and ran 19:50 ahead of the same number of participants there. We also had some podium finishes. David Carter placed 3rd in the 192-strong field in Cabinteely in a time of 20:14, followed by Louise Dobbyn who ran 23:20 for 25th and 2nd places. They were joined by James Donlon (45th in 25:16) and Carina Davidson (143rd and 54th in 34:42). Anna Shine placed 9th and 3rd in 29:44 in the 31-strong field on the Sport Ireland Campus. She was followed by Máirin Shine (11th and 5th in 30:34) and by sister Lisa who tailwalked. Toby Benham ran in southern England, where, in the Bevendean Down parkrun, he placed 3rd in 20:41. Gillian Earley also got onto the podium, in Naas. In a field of 113 and finishing just behind Karl Walsh (10th in 20:29), Gill ran 21:03 for 14th and 2nd places. It looks like there was quite a battle among Crusaders in Poolbeg. In the field of 195, we had 4 members in the first 5 to finish. Kenan Furlong led our contingent home in 2nd place (17:57), ahead of Stephen Hurley (3rd in 18:06), Michael Wycherley (4th in 18:08) who was just head of Ross Neill (5th in 18:08). A little further back came Luke Corcoran (7th in 19:27) and Gerard Moore (12th in 20:06). Next came Piarais Neary (19th in 20:39) and he was followed by Luke Haran (42nd in 22:04), Josie Ward (60th and 7th in 23:55), Tanja Narancic (75th and 11th in 25:07), Fiona Bane (97th and 23rd in 26:46), Maureen McGinley (118th and 34th in 29:01), Anna Hernick (158th and 58th in 31:44) and Cynthia Perucca (160th and 60th in 31:47). Maria Kennedy ran once again in Kilkenny, where, among 147 other runners, she placed 59th and 7th in 27:09, whilst Paul F. Kennedy also placed 7th in Poppintree, where, in a field of 210, he recorded a time of 20:06. Paul was followed by Aoife Kelly in 106th and 24th places in 30:13. In Bushy Park, with a field of 260, Kev Moore placed 13th in 21:39, followed by Mary Donnelly who finished in 39th and 4th spots in 24:20. Emer Kenny ran once again in Father Collins where, among 93 other runners, she placed 31st and 5th in 26:05, whilst Diarmuid Byrne joined 56 other participants in Tolka Valley where he crossed the line in 7th spot in 22:54. Irene Gorman tailwalked in the 401-strong field in St. Anne’s, whilst Darina Scully tried out a new running buggy in River Valley, placing 81st and 22nd in 31:03, in a field of 154. Andy Deuser was also a sole runner in Fairview where, among a total field of 171, he placed 21st in 22:40. Dee Ni Chearbhaill and Mairead Cashman joined 264 other runners in Malahide, where, the morning after the Pride Run, Dee placed 84th and 19th in 24:17 and Mairead took 198th and 63rd spot in a time of 30:39. Olwyn Dunne prepared for her Waterford run in Shanganagh where, in a field of 260, she placed 134th and 40th in 28:34, whilst, in Griffeen Park, Colm Foley placed 67th in 26:00 in a field of 206. Finally, our exiles in the UK, Aidan Hudner and Thom Martini ran, respectively in Pollok in Glasgow and Gunnersbury in London. Aidan joined 361 other runners where he placed 75th in 24:40, whilst Thom placed 322nd in 29:33 in a field of 589. Dublin Pride 5k (1328) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 James Moran 1 00:16:42 31 Deirdre Lyons 1 00:19:33 Crusaders AC runners 16 Karl Walsh 00:18:53 88 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 00:21:15 (3) 150 David McEvoy 00:21:52 359 Lydia Bigley 00:25:26 (39) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/dublin_pride_run_2024/5062/results Dunshaughlin 10k (963) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 William Fitzgerald 1 00:30:09 51 Danielle Donegan 1 00:34:15 Crusaders AC runners 33 Vincent McGuinness 00:33:31 39 Ger Forde 00:33:39 73 Joe McDermott 00:35:07 134 Paul Cowhie 00:37:20 208 Ollie McGrath 00:39:15 229 Kathryn Gibbons 00:39:49 (25) 283 Ciara Regan 00:41:06 (33) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/micheal-manning-memorial-dunshaughlin-10k-2024/#1_DB603C Biofreeze Irish Runner (National Championships) 5-mile (1658) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Kieran Kelly 1 00:24:11 31 Ciara Wilson 1 00:27:24 Crusaders AC runners 122 Clare Sullivan 00:31:17 (13) 196 Karl Walsh 00:33:23 281 Ciara Lynch 00:35:19 (61) 295 David O’Donnell 00:35:38 303 Noel Carr 00:35:45 (PB) 324 Neil Brown 00:36:11 350 Robbie Moore 00:36:33 380 Chris Bannon 00:36:59 565 Kevin Kenny 00:39:38 649 Kelly Brown 00:41:27 727 Jade Murphy 00:37:43 (198) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/biofreeze_irish_runner_5_mile_2024/4984/results Waterford Marathon (192) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Alexander Wallace 1 02:26:59 32 Beth O’Connor 1 03:14:19 Crusaders AC runner 122 Olwyn Dunne 03:51:34 (15) Full results here: https://my.raceresult.com/294110/results Waterford Quarter Marathon (704) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Andrew Connick 1 00:33:06 5 Kealey Tideswell 1 00:35:54 Crusaders AC runner 28 Emily Quinlan 00:43:13 (8) Full results here: https://my.raceresult.com/294110/results Derravaragh 5-mile (97) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Andrew Nevin 1 00:27:47 10 Aoife Kinehan 1 00:36:17 Crusaders AC runner 31 Lisa Branigan 00:43:07 (10) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/derravaragh_5__10_mile_2024/4937/results IMRA Wobbly Bridge Rathdrum 8k (186) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daire Finn 1 00:28:26 11 Sarah Flanagan 1 00:32:54 Crusaders AC runners 19 Clare Sullivan 00:34:31 (2) 27 Samuel McArdle 00:35:36 45 Brian McGuckin 00:38:18 49 Kathryn Gibbons 00:38:57 (10) 85 Ian Clifford 00:41:20 175 Berndt Heim 00:53:25 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2490 IMRA Tinahely 14.5k (55) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Liam Mooney 1 01:19:55 8 Sarah Flanagan 1 01:25:01 Crusaders AC runner 9 Becky Quinn 01:26:14 (2) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2476 St. Anne’s Parkrun (401) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Paddy Murphy 1 00:17:30 42 Caitriona Costello 1 00:21:52 Crusaders AC runner 400 Irene Gorman 01:01:14 Knocknacarra Parkrun (44) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Rory Goldsmith 1 00:19:32 3 Leza Milligan 1 00:21:25 Crusaders AC runner 1 Rory Goldsmith 00:19:32 Shanganagh Parkrun (260) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Philip Simpson 1 00:17:00 8 Ruth Wilson 1 00:19:59 Crusaders AC runner 134 Olwyn Dunne 00:28:34 (40) Fairview Parkrun (171) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daniel Toal 1 00:17:39 14 Becky Richardson 1 00:21:55 Crusaders AC runner 21 Andy Deuser 00:22:40 Poolbeg Parkrun (195) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Malcolm O’Connell 1 00:17:29 21 Rachel Calvey 1 00:20:43 Crusaders AC runners 2 Kenan Furlong 00:17:57 3 Stephen Hurley 00:18:06 4 Michael Wycherley 00:18:07 5 Ross Neill 00:18:08 7 Luke Corcoran 00:19:27 12 Gerard Moore 00:20:06 19 Piarais Neary 00:20:39 42 Luke Haran 00:22:04 60 Josie Ward 00:23:55 (7) 75 Tanja Narancic 00:25:07 (11) 97 Fiona Bane 00:26:46 (23) 118 Maureen McGinley 00:29:01 (34) 158 Anna Hernick 00:31:44 (58) 160 Cynthia Perucca 00:31:47 (60) Malahide Castle Parkrun (266) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Anthony Dorran 1 00:17:50 25 Frances Joyce 1 00:21:10 Crusaders AC runners 84 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 00:24:17 (19) 198 Mairead Cashman 00:30:39 (63) Bushy Parkrun (260) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Seán Cahill 1 00:18:24 17 Aisling MC 1 00:21:48 Crusaders AC runners 13 Kev Moore 00:21:39 39 Mary Donnelly 00:24:20 (4) Father Collins Parkrun (94) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 David Richards 1 00:19:20 13 Ciara Motherway 1 00:23:00 Crusaders AC runner 31 Emer Kenny 00:26:05 (5) Cabinteely Parkrun (192) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Sean Terek 1 00:19:55 15 Malika Hammani 1 00:21:48 Crusaders AC runners 3 David Carter 00:20:14 25 Louise Dobbyn 00:23:20 (2) 45 James Donlon 00:25:16 143 Carina Davidson 00:34:42 (54) Poppintree Parkrun (210) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 David Branock 1 00:17:35 15 Sarah Flanagan 1 00:21:55 Crusaders AC runners 7 Paul F. Kelly 00:20:06 106 Aoife Kelly 00:30:13 (24) Griffeen Parkrun (206) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Michal Gil 1 00:17:00 26 Louise McSweeney 1 00:22:39 Crusaders AC runner 67 Colm Foley 00:26:00 Naas Parkrun (113) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Rob O’Brian 1 00:17:37 13 Leanne Nolan 1 00:20:57 Crusaders AC runners 10 Karl Walsh 00:20:29 14 Gillian Earley 00:21:03 (2) Kilkenny Parkrun (148) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Anthony Dowd 1 00:18:49 11 Claire Tonry 1 00:21:31 Crusaders AC runner 59 Maria Kennedy 00:27:09 (7) Sport Ireland Campus Parkrun (31) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Declan Creedon 1 00:23:35 3 Mary Gavin 1 00:25:29 Crusaders AC runners 9 Anna Shine 00:29:44 (3) 11 Máirín Shine 00:30:34 (5) 30 Lisa Shine 00:49:11 Claremorris Parkrun (44) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 John O’Donnell 1 00:19:50 11 Niamh Conroy 1 00:25:00 Crusaders AC runner 1 John O’Donnell 00:19:50 Tolka Valley Parkrun (57) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oisin Tyrrell 1 00:20:00 8 Grace Haughey 1 00:23:50 Crusaders AC runner 7 Diarmuid Byrne 00:22:54 River Valley Parkrun (154) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:17:55 9 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:21:44 Crusaders AC runner 81 Darina Scully 00:31:03 (22 ![]() There were two locations on Saturday for our athletes to try out their track and field skills. Several made the journey up to Belfast to run on the Mary Peters track in a British Milers Club event. Kevin Woods placed 1st in the men’s 800m C graded race, where he recorded a super time of 1:52.71. Then, in the G grade of the same distance, Henry Griffin ran 2:07.26 for 3rd place. In the women’s 800m B event, Charlotte Myers took 5th place in a time of 2:11.48, whilst Annie Hughes ran in the 1500m B race, where she recorded a time of 5:00.25 in placing 11th. Finally, there, we had two runners in the mile. In the men’s D grade Colm Parnell placed 9th in 4:23.07, whilst, in the E grade race, Alex Ainsworth ran 4:32.72, also for 9th place in his event. Further south, in DSD’s facility in Tibradden, we had at least 9 participants in the 5th round of the Dublin Athletics Graded meets. In the women’s 800m C event, Rachael Yorke placed 3rd in 2:29.73, followed by Amy McGuinness (5th in 2:30.48) and Aoife Quigley (7th in 2:33.42). In the men’s D event of the same distance, Paul E. Kelly placed 8th in a time of 3:15.79. Victor Michalak took 4th spot in the men’s 200m grade in a time of 25.95. Then, we had 3 runners take part in two of the men’s 3000m races. Ciarain Kelly ran in the A grade event where he placed 17th in 9:39.72, whilst Enda Clarke and Joe McDermott ran in the B grade race. The former placed 6th in 9:36.08 and the latter took 18th spot in 10:08.54. Finally, Jonathan Bell took part in the 2kg discus competition where he placed 3rd with his 5th throw of 34.83m. Last Tuesday, we had at least 5 runners in the BHAA-organised OPW 5k trail run, alongside the western side of Chesterfield Avenue and the cricket pitches in the Phoenix Park. Our contingent was led home by Karl Walsh in 13th place in a time of 19:54. In the 139-strong overall field, Karl was followed by Neil Brown (48th and 4th M55 in 22:22) and by David O’Donnell (54th and 5th M55 in 22:53). Further back came Kate Murray (68th overall, 16th female finisher and 3rd F50 in a time of 23:56) and Tony Hackett (124th in 29:51). Members may be interested to know that Sean Murphy, who trains with us, placed 20th in 20:13. Over the weekend, there were a couple of races of interest to members. In the 10th running of the Castleknock 5k on Sunday morning, the field of 1,660 runners included 4 Crusaders. Brian Regan placed 14th in 16:59, and he was followed by Carolyn O’Reilly who finished in 79th spot overall, 6th female across the line (on guntime) in 19:44 and by fiancé Oisin Browne (86th in 19:51). Later, across the line came Gerard White who looks to have walked the course in 44:07 for 1,519th spot. On the same day, Felipe De Sousa joined 73 other runners in the Kildare-based Dick Whelan Memorial 10k where he placed 41st in 51:50. Other miscellaneous results include Italo Giancaterina winning a race around country roads in San Demetico ne’ Vestini. Our Italian exile was taking part in the 2nd Trofeo Grotte di Stiffe 10k which he ran in 34:03. In Ironman Austria, Kim Hickey completed the event in 10:28, placing 2nd in her age category and impressively running the marathon element in 3:35. Closer to home, Louise O’Riordan took part in the Tri An Mhi triathlon, where she placed 2nd female finisher and also ran the 5k element in 22:49. There were two IMRA-organised events in the mountains this week. On Wednesday evening, 181 runners took to racing in Co. Wicklow to the top of Djouce and back. In an event with a distance of 11.45k and involving a climb of 642m, Warren Swords placed 19th and 3rd M45 in 66:06 and he was followed by Paul Flynn (29th in 68:08) and Gavan Doherty (147th in 96:30). On Saturday there was a 32k race in Tipperary involving at least one Crusader. The event was called the Galty Crossing and Donatas Jocius placed 5th in a time of 3:50:26 in a field of 71. We enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in terms of first finishers and podium places this week in Saturday’s parkruns. In Bushy Park, Luke Corcoran led the field of 299 home across the line in 19:21 and he was followed by Julie McGrath who placed 10th overall and first woman home in 20:35. It was great to see Daniel Lowe out running again as he placed 24th in a time of 21:57. Dee Lawlor was first across the line in Cabinteely. In a field of 188, Dee ran 19:07. Ciara Regan was also a first finisher in the Tubbercurry Trail parkrun where she finished in overall first place in a time of 20:21. The field there measured 75 in total. Another notable finish was recorded by Ronan Moynihan (3rd in a time of 21:26 in a field of 53 in Mallow Castle). We had a good turnout in Shanganagh, where, in a field of 264, Dave Carter led our contingent of 8 across the line in 6th spot. He was followed by Miriam Logan (20th and 3rd in 20:55), Olwyn Dunne (62nd and 9th in 24:06), Orlaith de Burca (134th and 37th in 28:07), Máirín Shine (154th and 46th in 29:15), Jill Nason (175th and 57th in 30:06) and Fiona and Lisa Shine, tailwalking. Elsewhere, we had at least 26 Crusaders in Poolbeg with its field of 219. Stephen Hurley took 4th spot in 17:46 and he was followed home by Kenan Furlong (5th in 17:51), Ross Neill (7th in 18:01), Eddie Nugent (10th in 19:07), Adrian Groarke (17th in 20:00), Piarais Neary (33rd in 21:20), Cian Coughlan (47th in 23:07), Franky Keane (57th in 23:49), John Lohan (58th in 23:51), Josie Ward (69th and 11th in 24:26), Russell Murphy (71st in 24:27), Tara Murphy (96th and 21st in 26:25), Iseult Ni Chuinneagain (100th and 23rd in 26:44), Áine Crotty (120th and 29th in 27:58), Tanja Narancic (121st and 30th in the same time), Rebecca Fleming (122nd and 31st in 27:59), Maureen McGinley (135th and 38th in 28:52), Lorraine McMahon (155th and 53rd in 30:19), Evelyn Neary (156th and 54th in 30:28), Michael Fitzsimons (157th in 30:29), Siobhan Russell (159th and 55th in 30:49), Anna Hernick (160th and 56th in 30:53), Cynthia Perucca (172nd and 64th in 32:39), Niamh Trihy (182nd and 70th in 35:17), Kevin Kenny alongside (183rd in 35:18) and Mari Hansen (187th and 74th in 36:37). We had several of our clubmates running in UK-based parkruns on Saturday morning, half an hour ahead of those in Ireland. Phelim Murray and Sarah Lyons ran in the 204-strong field in Eastbourne. Sarah, who is pregnant, was running her 100th parkrun and placed 179th and 59th in 37:24, behind Phelim who placed 81st in 26:53. Michael Wycherley took 3rd place in a wet and windy parkrun on the Isle of wight, the Medina, with a field of 229. Michael’s time was 19:11. Then in Poole, again on the south coast, Toby Benham placed 184th in 24:25 alongside 691 other participants. Further north, Thom Martini, our London exile, placed 551st out of 589 in a time of 39:33, whilst, in the midlands, Karl Walsh ran in the oddly-named Wammy Parkrun in Newcastle -under-Lyme. The field there measured 328 and Karl placed 20th in 20:23. Back home, Andy Deuser and Garret Connolly (the latter with a buggy) were to be seen in Fairview, with its field of 151, where Andy placed 21st in 22:55 and Garret took 107th place in 31:50. Another runner with a buggy was Darina Scully who ran in Father Collins Park, where, in a field of 131, she placed 113th and 41st in 33:47. Emer Kenny joined 385 other runners in St. Anne’s Raheny where she placed 179th and 48th in 28:19, whilst, in Poppintree, Paul and Aoife Kelly joined 176 other participants. Paul ran 24:15 for 33rd spot, whilst Aoife ran 31:47 for 106th and 40th places. BHAA OPW 5k Trail race (139) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Robert Frewen 1 00:16:59 14 Karla Doran 1 00:19:57 Crusaders AC runners 13 Karl Walsh 00:19:54 48 Neil Brown 00:22:22 54 David O’Donnell 00:22:53 68 Kate Murray 00:23:56 (16) 124 Anthony Hackett 00:29:51 Full results here: https://irp.cdn-website.com/15e8030f/files/uploaded/OPW_5k_Trail_Race_2024.pdf Castleknock 5k (1660) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Hugh Armstrong 1 00:14:29 22 Nicola Sheridan 1 00:17:20 Crusaders AC runners 14 Brian Regan 00:16:59 79 Carolyn O’Reilly 00:19:44 (6) 86 Oisin Browne 00:19:51 1519 Gerard White 00:44:07 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/castleknock-5km-2024/ Dick Whelan Memorial 10k (74) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Gavin Kelly 1 00:33:22 11 Jane Ann Healy 1 00:38:12 Crusaders AC runner 41 Felipe De Sousa 00:51:50 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/the-dick-whelan-10km-2024/#2_9D70EA IMRA Galty Crossing 32k (71) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1Brian Mullins 1 03:21:53 8 Aoife Courtney 1 04:07:22 Crusaders AC runner 5 Donatas Jocius 03:50:26 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2499 IMRA Djouce – the Ayling Abyss 11.45k (181) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Zak Hanna 1 00:51:36 26 Sarah Flanagan 1 01:07:52 Crusaders AC runners 19 Warren Swords 01:06:06 29 Paul Flynn 01:08:18 147 Gavan Doherty 01:36:30 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2504 St. Anne’s Parkrun (386) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Charlie O’Neill 1 00:17:14 10 Helen Marshall 1 00:19:40 Crusaders AC runner 179 Emer Kenny 00:28:19 (48) Tubbercurry Trail Parkrun (75) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ciara Regan 1 00:20:21 2 Brendan Murray 1 00:21:08 Crusaders AC runner 1 Ciara Regan 00:20:21 (1) Shanganagh Parkrun (264) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Nickolas Colyn 1 00:15:27 14 Eileen O’Toole 1 00:20:27 Crusaders AC runners 6 David Carter 00:19:44 20 Miriam Logan 00:20:55 (3) 62 Olwyn Dunne 00:24:06 (9) 134 Orlaith de Burca 00:28:07 (37) 154 Máirín Shine 00:29:15 (46) 175 Jill Nason 00:30:06 (57) 262 Lisa Shine 00:51:14 263 Fiona Shine 00:51:14 Fairview Parkrun (151) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oliver Grady 1 00:18:35 40 Hannah Coleman 1 00:24:31 Crusaders AC runners 21 Andy Deuser 00:22:55 107 Garret Connolly 00:31:50 Poolbeg Parkrun (219) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Matthew Edgar 1 00:17:16 21 Ingrid Storm 1 00:20:41 Crusaders AC runners 4 Stephen Hurley 00:17:46 5 Kenan Furlong 00:17:51 7 Ross Neill 00:18:01 10 Eddie Nugent 00:19:07 17 Adrian Groarke 00:20:00 33 Piarais Neary 00:21:20 47 Cian Coughlan 00:23:07 57 Franky Keane 00:23:49 58 John Lohan 00:23;51 69 Josie Ward 00:24;26 (11) 71 Russell Murphy 00:24:27 96 Tara Murphy 00:26:25 (21) 100 Iseult Ni Chuineagain 00:26:44 (23) 120 Áine Crotty 00:27:58 (29) 121 Tanja Narancic 00:27:58 (30) 122 Rebecca Fleming 00:27:59 (31) 135 Maureen McGinley 00:28:52 (38) 155 Lorraine McMahon 00:30:19 (53) 156 Evelyn Neary 00:30:28 (54) 157 Michael Fitzsimons 00:30:29 159 Siobhan Russell 00:30:49 (55) 160 Anna Hernick 00:30:53 (56) 172 Cynthia Perucca 00:32:39 (64) 182 Niamh Trihy 00:35:17 (70) 183 Kevin Kenny 00:35:18 187 Mari Hansen 00:36:37 (74) Mallow Castle Parkrun (53) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Cathal Dwane 1 00:20:39 5 Norleen Kenny 1 00:22:34 Crusaders AC runner 3 Ronan Moynihan 00:21:16 Bushy Parkrun (299) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Luke Corcoran 1 00:19:21 10 Julie McGrath 1 00:20:35 Crusaders AC runners 1 Luke Corcoran 00:19:21 10 Julie McGrath 00:20:35 (1) 24 Daniel Lowe 00:21:57 Father Collins Parkrun (131) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Rob Martin 1 00:17:48 8 Grainne Egan 1 00:20:56 Crusaders AC runner 113 Darina Scully 00:33:47 (41) Cabinteely Parkrun (188) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Derek Lawlor 1 00:19:07 4 Anna-Lucie Sablayrolles 1 00:20:08 Crusaders AC runner 1 Derek Lawlor 00:19:07 Poppintree Parkrun (178) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Mark Carolan 1 00:18:29 11 Peigi Allen 1 00:21:17 Crusaders AC runners 33 Paul F. Kelly 00:24:15 106 Aoife Kelly 00:31:47 (40) ![]() There was much to talk about this week, with some racing towards the end of the weekend no doubt inspired by Irish success in the European Athletics Championships in Rome. We start as usual with reporting from the Dublin Athletics 4th graded meet in Tallaght Stadium on Wednesday evening. In somewhat chilly conditions, we had runners in 3 races on the night. Enda Clarke won heat 1 of the men’s grade C 800m in a time of 2:06.55, whilst Henry Griffin ran in heat 2 of the same grade, placing 8th in 2:06.13. Then, in the D grade of the same distance, Paul E. Kelly placed 9th in heat 3 in 3:30.61. Moving on then to road and trail racing, on Saturday we had one runner in the Run Killarney half marathon and another in the 10k. In the half, with a field of 1152 finishers, Fergal Carroll ran 1:53:03 for 360th place, whilst in the 10k, Colm Foley, on his birthday weekend, ran 49:38 for 169th in a field of 1147 finishers. On the same morning we had runners take part in a plethora of events in Portumna Forest. Tara Murphy ran in the 50k where, in a field of 79, she placed 56th overall and 10th female across the line in a time of 5:44:13. Emily Glen had Paul Campbell for company running the full marathon, where she recorded a PB time of 3:41:11 to place 15th and 3rd in a field of 59. Paul placed 16th in recording a time of 3:42:04. In the 198-strong half marathon we had 3 runners. They were led home by Franky Keane (21st in 1:38:51), followed by Gillian Curran (78th and 26th in 1:55:56) and Cliodhna O’Reilly (129th and 51st in 2:05:54). Finally, Tara Gavin won the women’s race in the 10k. In a field of 255, Tara placed 6th overall in a time of 45:37 and she was followed across the line by Paula Bradshaw (17th and 4th in 48:26) and by Mary Dolan (93rd and 43rd in 58:06). Congrats to all. Sunday also saw some road races. We had two clubmates take part in the Bohermeen 5k. In a field of 343, Joe McDermott finished in 34th spot in a time of 17:05, followed by Paul Cowhie who placed 57th overall and 1st M60 in a time of 17:53. Then, in Corkagh Park, The Dublin marathon organisers held the first race of the Irish Life Race Series, the 5-miler. In a field of 1376 Alby Allan was the first Crusader across the line with a PB time of 29:59. He was followed by John O’Donnell who was pacing the 35-minute finishers. John ran 34:52 for 138th place, and he was followed by Olwyn Dunne (234th overall, 26th female finisher and 2nd F55 in 37:22). Behind Olwyn came another runner with a PB. This was Noel Carr who placed 251st in 37:03 and he was followed by Tomás Dunne (271st in 37:39) and by Amy O’Donoghue (461st overall, 77th female finisher and 2nd FJ finisher in 41:36). Again, congrats! Some super results. Members may be interested to hear that Kieran Little, who recently transferred to Blackrock, placed 7th and 1st M35 in 26:59. Further afield over the weekend, one of our Italian exiles, Italo Giancaterina won a trail race in Rocca Santa Maria in Italy. The race, described as 11k, but in reality measuring 9.5k, was the 3rd Trofeo Monti Della Lage and was won by Italo in a time of 33:03. Meanwhile, Lukasz Batruch ran in a trail race in Zumikon, Switzerland (the ZKB Zumiker Lauf) on a course of 11.8k which he completed in 50:51. Finally, Valentin Akdim, our French exile now living in Bordeaux, took part in the Raid Arpois Bedous in the western Pyrenees. Valentin covered the distance of 58.7k in 9:08:00. Closer to home, we had several members compete in the Wicklow 100km cycle race (Phelim Murray, Conor Macguinness and Karl Walsh among them) and also in the Hell and Back event, which included Emma Rowe and possibly others. Then, in Northern Ireland, Louise O’Riordan took part in the Crooked Lake triathlon, taking place halfway between Belleek and Newry. Louise completed the 5.24k run element in 24:57. There were three more races organised in the mountains last week, the third of which does not have any published results as of yet. When they are published, the report will be updated. It was the Dublin Mountains trail running festival involving two distances, 25k and 50k. Donatas Jocius apparently placed 3rd in the 25k race. The first was held on Wednesday evening around Scalp in the Dublin Mountains and organised by IMRA. The race distance was 7.2k and conducted on a 3-loop course (one large and two smaller) on moderate terrain with a climb of 217m. We had at least 10 runners in the event. Once again, Becky Quinn won the women’s race, placing 23rd overall in a field of 209 in a time of 41:52. She was headed across the line by Jason Kehoe (7th in 39:09) and by Warren Swords (17th in 40:15). Further back came Clare Sullivan (52nd and 4th and 1st F40 in 44;24) , Brian McGuckin (52nd and 3rd M55 in 46:40), Caoimhe Dempsey (56th and 6th in 47:31), Gareth Phelan (85th in 50:50), Ian Clifford (90th in 51:26), Gavan Doherty (140th in 58:26) and by Berndt Heim (201st in 60:29). Then, on Saturday, Becky Quinn won yet another long distance race. The event was the IMRA Trooperstown and Clara Vale Loop 21.5k in Co. Wicklow. It involved a climb of 750m and Becky placed 20th overall in a time of 2:02:11 in a field of 102. Miriam Logan saved the day with the sole first finish among Crusaders in parkruns on Saturday morning. Miriam was running in Shanganagh, where, in a field of 210, she placed 7th overall. Miriam was followed there by Orlaith de Burca (105th and 25th in 27:58) and by Niamh Quinn (169th and 66th in 31:25). We did, nonetheless, have a few podium results. Kate Murray took 2nd place (15th overall) in the 97-strong field in Mullingar in a time of 22:53, whilst John Lohan placed 2nd in 24:39 in the 18-strong field in Knockanacree Woods. Further afield Áine Kenny ran in Ekebergsletta in Norway, where, in a field of 84, she placed 22nd and 3rd in 22:22. Also, abroad, Mary Donnelly and Kev Moore ran in the Roma Pineto parkrun in Italy, with mary placing 27th and 3rd in 25:02 and Kev placing 12th in 21:02. The field measured 76 and conditions were described as extremely hot! Diarmuid Byrne ran in Tolka Valley, where, in a field of 68, he placed 4th in 21:01, whilst Darina Scully ran in Avondale Forest where she placed 25th and 4th in a time of 25:42, with the field measuring 88. Eoghan Corrigan placed 6th, running alongside 96 other participants in Waterstown. Eoghan’s time was 21)1, whilst Karl Walsh placed 7th in a time of 18:57 in a field of 139 in Naas. Our largest contingent as usual was in Poolbeg. Kenan Furlong took 5th spot in 18:15, followed in the field of 237 by Michael Wycherley (7th in 18:30), Jessica Norris (50th and 4th in 23:01), Áine Crotty (63rd and 8th in 23:39), Josie Ward (64th and 9th in 23:40) just behind, Cian Coughlan (65th in 23:43), Kate Healy (101st and 28th in 25:54), Tanja Narancic (103rd and 29th in 26:02), Luke Corcoran (126th in 27:26), Olwyn Dunne (131st and 41st in 27:55), Maureen McGinley (149th and 52nd in 29:05) and Fiona Bane, tailwalking. The first female finisher was actually ex-Crusader Catherine Thornton. However, her finishing time of 19:49 and 16th overall place was not recorded as she did not have her barcode with her. Our UK exile Thom Martini ran once again in Gunnersbury where, in a field of 635, he placed 106th in 23:36, whilst Phil Sykes placed 70th in 23:20 in the 469-strong field in Marlay Park. He was followed by Mairead Cashman (277th and 80th in 29:48). Carina Davidson ran in the 148-strong field in Cabinteely, where she placed 121st and 52nd in 37:55, whilst Kevin Flynn placed 83rd running alongside 104 other runners in Porterstown. Kevin’s time was 35:52. Kevin Kenny’s visit to Montréal in Canada involved running in the Frédéric Back parkrun there. In a field of 96, Kevin ran 25:31 for 39th spot. Meanwhile, we had 4 runners in Fairview. Andy Deuser was our first runner home in the field of 205, placing 28th in 22:42. Andy was followed by Aoife Kelly (82nd and 12th in 26:18), Paul F. Kelly (84th in 26:22) and Hannah Jones (101st and 17th in 27:39). Finally, we had 4 runners also in Bushy Park. Anna Shine placed 86th and 24th in 29:01, followed by Máirín Shine (116th and 42nd in 30:47), Cynthia Perucca (124th and 45th in 31:35) and Lisa Shine, tailwalking in a field of 176. Portumna Forest 50k (79) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Louis Coyne 1 03:30:57 6 Sinead Egan 1 04:08:47 Crusaders AC runner 56 Tara Murphy 05:44:13 (10) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/portumna_forest_marathon/5277/results Portumna Forest marathon (59) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Darren Flanagan 1 02:55:07 4 Deirdre Martin 1 03:08:38 Crusaders AC runners 15 Emily Glen 03:41:11 (3) 16 Paul Campbell 03:42:04 Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/portumna_forest_marathon/5277/results Portumna Forest half marathon (198) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Shane Begley 1 01:22:06 8 Colette Tuohy 1 01:32:50 Crusaders AC runners 21 Franky Keane 01:38:51 78 Gillian Curran 01:55:56 (26) 129 Cliodhna O’Reilly 02:05:54 (51) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/portumna_forest_marathon/5277/results Portumna Forest 10k (255) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Juan Francisco Ortigosa Felipe 1 00:35:49 6 Tara Gavin 1 00:45:37 Crusaders AC runners 6 Tara Gavin 00:45:37 (1) 17 Paula Bradshaw 00:48:26 (4) 93 Mary Dolan 00:58:06 (43) Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/portumna_forest_marathon/5277/results Run Killarney half marathon (1152) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Maurice Feehan 1 01:17:16 10 Jennifer Martin 1 01:24:58 Crusaders AC runner 360 Fergal Carroll 01:53:03 Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/run_killarney_10k__half_marathon_2024/5032/results Run Killarney 10k (1147) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Vinny Connolly 1 00:31:02 15 Siobhán Hoare 1 00:38:11 Crusaders AC runner 169 Colm Foley 00:49:38 Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/run_killarney_10k__half_marathon_2024/5032/results Dublin Race Series Irish Life Corkagh 5 miler (1376) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Hugh Armstrong 1 00:24:01 22 Faye Dervan 1 00:29:02 Crusaders AC runners 33 Alby Allan 00:29:59 (PB) 138 John O’Donnell 00:34:52 (PACER) 234 Olwyn Dunne 00:37:22 (26) 251 Noel Carr 00:37:03 (PB) 271 Tomás Dunne 00:37:39 461 Amy O’Donoghue 00:41:36 (77) Full results here: https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/en/results-embed.php?event=4021#0_1EE2F1 Bohermeen 5k (343) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Ian Guiden 1 00:14:37 26 Ciara Hickey 1 00:16:42 Crusaders AC runners 34 Joe McDermott 00:17:05 57 Paul Cowhie 00:17:53 Full results here: https://myrunresults.com/events/patrick_bell__nicky_philips_5k_bohermeen_ac/5031/results IMRA Scalp 7.2k (209) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daire Finn 1 00:33:00 23 Becky Quinn 1 00:41:52 Crusaders AC runners 7 Jason Kehoe 00:39:09 17 Warren Swords 00:40:15 23 Becky Quinn 00:41:52 (1) 33 Clare Sullivan 00:44:24 (4) 52 Brian McGuckin 00:46:40 56 Caoimhe Dempsey 00:47:31 (6) 85 Gareth Phelan 00:50:50 90 Ian Clifford 00:51:26 140 Gavan Doherty 00:58:26 201 Berndt Heim 01:00:29 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2503 IMRA Trooperstown and Clara Vale Loop 21.5k (102) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daire Finn 1 01:30:54 20 Becky Quinn 1 02:02:11 Crusaders AC runner 20 Becky Quinn 02:02:11 (1) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2574 Avondale Forest Parkrun (88) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Bobby Cullen 1 00:19:17 9 Ailbhe Kelly 1 00:22:40 Crusaders AC runner 25 Darina Scully 00:25:42 (4) Knockanacree Woods Parkrun (18) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Vincent Croker 1 00:22:54 10 Antonia O’Keeffe 1 00:33:59 Crusaders AC runner 2 John Lohan 00:24:39 Shanganagh Parkrun (210) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Chris Lauder 1 00:18:25 7 Miriam Logan 1 00:20:41 Crusaders AC runners 7 Miriam Logan 00:20:41 (1) 105 Orlaith de Burca 00:27:58 (25) 169 Niamh Quinn 00:31:25 (66) Fairview Parkrun (205) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Damien McHugh 1 00:18:37 8 Ciara Brady 1 00:20:44 Crusaders AC runners 28 Andy Deuser 00:22:42 82 Aoife Kelly 00:26:18 (12) 84 Paul F. Kelly 00:26:22 101 Hannah Jones 00:27:39 (17) Poolbeg Parkrun (237) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Dimitri Jeannon 1 00:16:09 30 Ruth Comerford 1 00:21:20 Crusaders AC runners 5 Kenan Furlong 00:18:15 7 Michael Wycherley 00:18:30 50 Jessica Norris 00:23:01 (4) 63 Áine Crotty 00:23:39 (8) 64 Josie Ward 00:23:40 (9) 65 Cian Coughlan 00:23:43 101 Kate Healy 00:25:54 (28) 103 Tanja Narancic 00:26:02 (29) 126 Luke Corcoran 00:27:26 131 Olwyn Dunne 00:27:55 (41) 149 Maureen McGinley 00:29:05 (52) 237 Fiona Bane 00:52:18 Marlay Parkrun (469) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ethan Bramhill 1 00:16:56 18 Claire Curtin 1 00:20:18 Crusaders AC runners 70 Phil Sykes 00:23:20 277 Mairead Cashman 00:29:48 (80) Bushy Parkrun (176) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Seán Cahill 1 00:18:55 2 Emer Perkins 1 00:19:32 Crusaders AC runners 86 Anna Shine 00:29:01 (24) 116 Máirín Shine 00:30:47 (42) 124 Cynthia Perucca 00:31:35 (45) 172 Lisa Shine 00:49:13 (77) Waterstown Parkrun (97) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Mark Conlon 1 00:19:28 19 Eve O’Connor 1 00:26:32 Crusaders AC runner 6 Eoghan Corrigan 00:21:01 Naas Parkrun (139) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Terence Shanley 1 00:17:37 4 Kate McDonald 1 00:17:52 Crusaders AC runner 7 Karl Walsh 00:18:57 Tolka Valley Parkrun (68) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ross Dolan 1 00:18:40 7 Caitriona Costello 1 00:21:48 Crusaders AC runner 4 Diarmuid Byrne 00:21:01 Mullingar Parkrun (97) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oisin Quinn 1 00:18:53 8 Joan Hickson 1 00:21:32 Crusaders AC runner 15 Kate Murray 00:22:53 (2) Cabinteely Parkrun (148) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 John Golden 1 00:18:48 11 Aoife Molloy 1 00:21:52 Crusaders AC runner 121 Carina Davidson 00:37:55 (52) Porterstown Parkrun (105) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Niall Sherlock 1 00:17:47 5 Gráinne Quinn 1 00:21:39 Crusaders AC runner 83 Kevin Flynn 00:35:52 Poppintree Parkrun (181) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Paddy Quinn 1 00:18:23 14 Maura Matthews 1 00:21:21 Crusaders AC runners 42 Paul F. Kelly 00:24:21 51 Diarmuid Byrne 00:25:16 123 Maria Pertl 00:32:29 (37) Griffeen Parkrun (222) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oliver Warren 1 00:18:13 25 Niamh Murphy 1 00:22:24 Crusaders AC runner 49 Colm Foley 00:23:54 ![]() Looking back over the last week or so, it really was to some extent a noteworthy time for the women in the club, on the roads and in the mountains. From winning IMRA races to participating in the Women’s mini-marathon and also in some long-distance events both here and abroad. We start with the women’s mini-marathon that took place on the Sunday of the June bank holiday in conditions to which we have yet to become acclimatised. It was extremely warm, accentuated by the midday start, and not really much of a refreshing breeze except in parts of the second half. The course involves a start in Fitzwilliam Square in the city centre working its way through Donnybrook up to UCD where it turns for home and then down Nutley to the Merrion Road, veering off at Pembroke Road toward the finish on Baggot Street. The field, though much reduced from its heyday of 40,000 runners, and purporting at the time to be the biggest 10k women‘s-only race in the world, still exceeded 20,000 participants, among them at least 26 Crusaders to finish the race. The winner of the event, Ide Nic Dhomhnaill won by a country mile, at least 90 seconds ahead of Meghan Ryan who finished just ahead of the two sisters from Kilkenny who placed second and third in our Docklands 5k race last year (Maebh and Grace Richardson), although they reversed the finishing order in the WMM. The race used to incorporate the women’s national and regional 10k championships, but for a second year in a row this was not the case. Our contingent was led home by Ciara Regan in 29th place in a super chip-time in the circumstances of 41:21, with Ella Quinn (53rd in 43:03) and Emily Quinlan (54th in 43:7) not too far behind. Next came Cría Dowling (60th in 43:24) with Tara Gavin hard on her heels (62nd in 43:32). Dee Ni Chearbhaill worked her way through the field to place 72nd in 44:21, followed by Rachael Yorke (76th in 44:28), who unfortunately experienced a continuous stitch throughout the race. Next across the line came Joanne Carey (89th in 45:13), with newcomer Tilde Martensen from Norway not too far behind (106th in 46:00). Further back came Paula Bradshaw (162nd in 47:22), with Olwyn Dunne not too far behind (193rd in 47:52) and Louise Dobbyn (309th in 49:24). Stepping in at the last minute, Aoife Quigley gamely managed to pace the sub-40 minutes runners for the first half of the race. Our next cohort of runners was led by Caoimhe O’Halloran (459th in 50:56), who was followed by Kelly Brown (551st in 51:47) and Clare Bradley (589th in 52:04). Darina Scully was also not too far behind, running 53:17 for 774th place. Fanny Trébouet, who is preparing for a 34k trail run shortly, enjoyed a PB run of 55:08 for 1,150th place, ahead of Gabriel Segura (1,638th in 57:08) and Amy O’Donoghue (1,940th in 58:07). Those who ran beyond the hour mark (unsurprising given the numbers) were led across the finishing line by Marie-Claire Daly (5,750th in 68:14) who was accompanied by Luz Estevan (5,755th in 68:15) and then followed by Nialeen Tully (6,248th in 69:31), just ahead of Ellen McHugh (6,281st in 69:35), with Cynthia Perucca slightly further back (6,715th in 70:42). Máirín Shine was next (11,961st in 89:51), pacing the 90-minute finishers. Not given an overall finishing position in the results, Niamh Trihy nonetheless placed 3rd in the visually impaired competition. Ably guided by Emer Kenny, Niamh completed the event in a gun-time of 74:01. Hats off to them. On the same day, we had several runners in both the full and half marathons in Cork, enjoying similar conditions, although the marathon did start much earlier at 08:15. In a race where the defending champion, Pawel Kosek, won again, along with Aoife Cooke who won the women’s race this year, we had four athletes taking part. They were headed by Mark Culleton who managed to place 180th in a total field of 1,856 finishers and followed by Sarah Diamond who placed 242nd overall and 14th female finisher in a time of 3:26:56. Our third runner was Lisa Branigan in her umpteenth event (681st and 75th in 3:56:38). Aitor Arribas Velasco completed the first half in 2:02:29, but did not continue after that point. Members may be interested to hear that Shane Collins, a one-time Crusader, now with Leevale, placed 9th overall in 2:32:20. We had at least 5 club-mates taking part in the half marathon in Cork, that started later in the morning and won by William Maunsell ahead of Peter Somba with Niamh Moore leading the women across the line. Emma Rowe was our first runner home, placing 186th and 22nd in a field of nearly 3,500 finishers and in a time of 1:34:45. Ciara Lynch was not too far behind, in 213th and 26th places in a time of 1:35:46. Next came Julie McGrath (270th and 35th in 1:37:55), followed by Diarmuid Fahey (376th in 1:41:22) and Daniel Cullen (532nd in 1:44:45). Earlier in the week, the BHAA made its annual visit to Dunboyne to organise the Govt. Services Group 5 miler. The field, which this year involved only 177 runners, was joined by at least 8 Crusaders. Men’s captain Joe McDermott, recently returned from warm weather training in Portugal, placed 10th on the flat course in a time of 28:08. He also placed 2nd M40 in the process. Joe was followed by Ollie McGrath (37th in 31:01), Eddie Nugent (49th in 31:45), David O’Donnell (88th in 35:52), Neil Brown (89th in 35:56), Robbie Moore (95th in 36:22) and Kelly Brown (130th and 33rd in 40:52). Members may be interested to learn that Sean Murphy, who trains with us, ran 31:28 for 42nd place. Further afield, on Saturday morning Áine Kenny found herself running in what would be considered unusually balmy conditions (around 8 degrees) in the Spitsbergen marathon on the Norwegian island of Svalbard inside the Arctic Circle. On a course that required runners to climb a sharply steep hill of about 120m twice during the race, all the time keeping an eye out for polar bears (spectators carried rifles!), Áine, the only Irish person in the race, placed 17th and 3rd in a time of 3:39:21 in an otherwise international field. The prize for her podium effort was a large clock! Also, over the weekend, Zlatko Kulic ran in the Gracanica Trail 22km race in Bosnia-Herzogovina, finishing in a time of 2:17, whilst Markus Rossel, who now lives in Sweden, ran 3:13 in the Stockholm marathon. In Italy, one of our exiles there, Italo Giancaterina, ran on Sunday in the Corri Marruvium 8k in San Benedetto dei Marsi, winning the street race ahead of 95 other runners in a time of 24:59. There were two races last week, involving Crusaders. The first, in the Leinster League, and directed by Brian McGuckin with help from Warren Swords, Clare Sullivan and Donatas Jocius among others, took place on Wednesday evening on a course around Prince William’s Seat in Co. Wicklow. The looped course involved a climb of 405m over a distance of 9.4k and the women’s race was won by Becky Quinn in 63:13, finishing in 21st place overall in a field of 184. Becky was followed by Ian Clifford (85th in 76:23) and by Gavan Doherty (114th in 84:12), running in his 400th IMRA race. There was a second race over the weekend involving at least two Crusaders, Donatas Jocius and Jason Kehoe and taking place near Mount Leinster on John’s Hill, Killbrannish, Co. Carlow. The race enjoyed a climb of 500m over a distance of 9k along forested trails on two loops, one large and one slightly smaller. With a time of 44:37, Donatas crossed the line in first place ahead of 39 other runners. Well done to him and to Jason Kehoe who placed 5th in a time of 46:45. The club’s success in recording first finishes in parkruns was maintained on Saturday morning by Caroline Crowley in Avondale Forest with its field of 123 runners. Caroline placed 3rd overall in 20:19, followed by husband Eoghan Corrigan who placed 11th in 21:10. We also had several podium finishes. Kieran Martin ran in Tolka Valley, where, alongside 62 other participants, he placed 2nd in a time of 18:39. Then, in the SETU Arena in Waterford, with a field of 50 runners, Gemma Cooper placed 7th overall and 2nd female finisher in 24:59. Down in Limerick, Kev Moore and Mary Donnelly ran in Mungret Park, where, in a field of 85, Kev placed 3rd in 19:36, followed by Mary who placed 12th and 3rd in 22:32. Closer to home, Miriam Logan placed 24th and 3rd in the 276-strong field in Shanganagh. Miriam’s time was 20:59 and she followed David Carter who placed 9th in 19:28, with Orlaith de Burca (186th and 64th in 30:11) and Niamh Quinn (208th and 77th in 311:32), further back. Elsewhere, Piarais Neary took 5th place in a field of 83 in New Ross in a time of 22:03, whilst Emer Kenny ran in Father Collins Park, where, among 163 other runners, she placed 46th and 6th in 25:21. We had 13 runners in Poolbeg, with its field of 151, led home by Kenan Furlong in 4th place in a time of 18:08, just ahead of a resurgent Michael Wycherley (5th in 18:34). Next came Tim O’Donnell (12th in 20:18), followed by Michael Fitzsimons, getting back to form (25th in 22:06), Josie Ward (41st and 5th in 23:40), Franky Keane (53rd in 25:33), Kate Healy (55th and 10th in 25:44), Áine Crotty (74th and 19th in 26:55), Rebecca Fleming (75th and 20th in 27:00), Evelyn Neary (100th and 36th in 29:28), Maureen McGinley (107th and 41st in 29:58), Siobhan Russell (121st and 50th in 33:10) and Mari Hansen with a buggy (130th and 56th in 36:14). Elsewhere, we had 4 runners in Marlay Park. Olwyn Dunne placed 291st and 85th in 30:00, followed by Anna Shine (305th and 97th in 30:34), Mairín Shine (440th and 180th in 44:27) and Lisa Shine (442nd and 181st in 44:50). The field there measured 479. Meanwhile, in Bushy Park in London, our exile there, Thom Martini, ran 30:57 for 1,227th place in a huge field of 1,921, whilst in Dublin’s Bushy Park, Luke Corcoran joined 154 other participants, placing 45th in 25:28. Brendan Glynn ran in Donabate with 155 other runners, where he took 33rd spot in a time of 23:49, whilst, in Griffeen Park, Colm Foley ran alongside 221 other participants, where he placed 49th in 23:54. In Poppintree, with its field of 181, Paul F. Kelly placed 42nd in 24:21, followed by Diarmuid Byrne (51st in 25;16) and Maria Pertl (123rd and 37th in 32:29), whilst, in Fairview, in a 207-strong field, Andy Deuser ran 22>54 for 29th place. Finally, Carina Davidson took 123rd and 39th spots in the 152-strong field in Cabinteely. Carina’s time was 36:20. VHI Women’s mini marathon (20800) Overall place Name Chiptime 1 Ide Nic Dhomhnaill 00:33:22 Crusaders AC runners 29 Ciara Regan 00:41:21 53 Ella Quinn 00:43:03 54 Emily Quinlan 00:43:07 60 Cría Dowling 00:43:24 62 Tara Gavin 00:43:32 72 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 00:44:21 76 Rachael Yorke 00:44:28 89 Joanne Carey 00:45:13 106 Tilde Martinsen 00:46:00 162 Paula Bradshaw 00:47:22 193 Olwyn Dunne 00:47:52 309 Louise Dobbyn 00:49:24 459 Caoimhe O’Halloran 00:50:56 551 Kelly Brown 00:51:47 589 Clare Bradley 00:52:04 774 Darina Scully 00:53:17 1150 Fanny Trébouet 00:55:08 (PB) 1638 Gabriela Segura 00:57:08 1940 Amy O’Donoghue 00:58:07 5750 Marie-Claire Daly 01:08:14 5755 Luz Esteran 01:08:16 6248 Ellen McHugh 01:09:35 6715 Cynthia Perucca 01:10:42 XXX Niamh Trihy 01:14:01 (guntime, visually impaired) XXX Emer Kenny 01:14:01 (guide) 11961 Máirín Shine 01:29:51 (pacer) Full results here: https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/en/results-embed.php?event=4015 BHAA Government Services Group Dunboyne 5-miler (177) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ieuan Hopkins 1 00:25:10 31 Glenda Shaw 1 00:30:44 Crusaders AC runners 10 Joe McDermott 00:28:08 18 Karl Walsh 00:29:25 37 Ollie McGrath 00:31:01 49 Eddie Nugent 00:31:45 88 David O’Donnell 00:35:52 89 Neil Brown 00:35:56 95 Robbie Moore 00:36:22 130 Kelly Brown 00:40:52 (33) Full results here: https://irp.cdn-website.com/15e8030f/files/uploaded/Government_Services_5m_2024_Results.pdf Cork City Marathon (1856) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Pawel Kosek 1 02:23:54 50 Aoife Cooke 1 02:56:33 Crusaders AC runners 242 Sarah Diamond 03:26:56 (14) 180 Mark Culleton 03:19:45 681 Lisa Branigan 03:56:38 (75) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/cork-city-marathon-2024/#1_AFF7BC Cork City Half marathon (72) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 William Maunsell 1 01:08:13 18 Niamh Moore 1 01:21:21 Crusaders AC runners 186 Emma Rowe 01:34:45 (22) 213 Ciara Lynch 01:35:46 (26) 270 Julie McGrath 01:37:55 (35) 376 Diarmuid Fahey 01:41:22 532 Daniel Cullen 01:44:45 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/cork-city-marathon-2024/#2_2513D5 IMRA Prince William’s Seat 9.4k (184) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Mark McAdden 1 00:54:32 21 Becky Quinn 1 01:03:13 Crusaders AC runners 21 Becky Quinn 01:03:13 85 Ian Clifford 01:16:23 114 Gavan Doherty 01:24:12 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2502 IMRA John’s Hill Killbrannish 9k (40) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1Donatas Jocius 1 00:44:37 16 Katie O'Brien 1 00:57:12 Crusaders AC runners 1 Donatas Jocius 00:44:37 5 Jason Kehoe 00:46:45 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2475 Avondale Forest Parkrun (123) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Karl Milligan 1 00:19:51 3 Caroline Crowley 1 00:20:19 Crusaders AC runners 3 Caroline Crowley 00:20:19 (1) 11 Eoghan Corrigan 00:21:10 SETU Arena Parkrun (50) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 David Halligan 1 00:19:12 5 Ciara Losty 1 00:23:08 Crusaders AC runners 7 Gemma Cooper 00:24:59 (2) Shanganagh Parkrun (276) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Conor Downes 1 00:18:07 11 Sarah Baryga 1 00:19:30 Crusaders AC runners 9 David Carter 00:19:28 24 Miriam Logan 00:20:59 (3) 186 Orlaith de Burca 00:30:11 (64) 208 Niamh Quinn 00:31:32 (77) Fairview Parkrun (207) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Andrew Patterson 1 00:18:14 69 Lorna St. Ledger 1 00:25:11 Crusaders AC runner 29 Andy Deuser 00:22:54 Poolbeg Parkrun (151) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Malcolm O’Connell 1 00:17:38 28 Anne Marie Guiney 1 00:22:31 Crusaders AC runners 4 Kenan Furlong 00:18:08 5 Michael Wycherley 00:18:34 12 Tim O’Donnell 00:20:18 25 Michael Fitzsimons 00:22:06 41 Josie Ward 00:23:40 (5) 53 Franky Keane 00:25:33 55 Kate Healy 00:25:44 (10) 74 Áine Crotty 00:26:55 (19) 75 Rebecca Fleming 00:27:00 (20) 100 Evelyn Neary 00:29:28 (36) 107 Maureen McGinley 00:29:58 (41) 121 Siobhan Russell 00:33:10 (50) 130 Mari Hansen 00:36:14 (56) Marlay Parkrun (479) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Jevae St. Lewis 1 00:17:11 51 Alison Clarke 1 00:21:40 Crusaders AC runners 291 Olwyn Dunne 00:30:00 (85) 305 Anna Shine 00:30:34 (97) 440 Máirín Shine 00:44:27 (180) 442 Lisa Shine 00:44:50 (181) Bushy Parkrun (155) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Seán Cahill 1 00:18:43 2 Emer Perkins 1 00:19:34 Crusaders AC runner 45 Luke Corcoran 00:25:28 New Ross Parkrun (83) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ian Kennedy 1 00:19:16 15 Emma Somers 1 00:24:03 Crusaders AC runner 5 Piarais Neary 00:22:03 Donabate Parkrun (156) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Al O’Dowd 1 00:19:46 32 Aoife Kelly 1 00:23:48 Crusaders AC runner 33 Brendan Glynn 00:23:49 Tolka Valley Parkrun (63) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Niall Sherlock 1 00:18:22 16 Laura O’Malley 1 00:26:02 Crusaders AC runner 2 Kieran Martin 00:18:39 Father Collins Parkrun (164) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Arnaud Benjacar 1 00:17:11 13 Grainne Egan 1 00:20:35 Crusaders AC runner 46 Emer Kenny 00:25:21 (6) Cabinteely Parkrun (152) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Eoin Healy 1 00:16:56 20 Rachel Murdock 1 00:22:56 Crusaders AC runner 123 Carina Davidson 00:36:20 (39) Mungret Parkrun (85) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Seamus McCarthy 1 00:18:28 11 Clare Coleman 1 00:20:17 Crusaders AC runners 3 Kev Moore 00:19:36 12 Mary Donnelly 00:22:32 (3) Poppintree Parkrun (181) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Paddy Quinn 1 00:18:23 14 Maura Matthews 1 00:21:21 Crusaders AC runners 42 Paul F. Kelly 00:24:21 51 Diarmuid Byrne 00:25:16 123 Maria Pertl 00:32:29 (37) Griffeen Parkrun (222) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Oliver Warren 1 00:18:13 25 Niamh Murphy 1 00:22:24 Crusaders AC runner 49 Colm Foley 00:23:54 ![]() Get ready for an evening of fun with our much-anticipated Quiz Night, taking place on Tuesday, 18 June! For just €15 per person, join us for the ultimate quiz experience. The Table Quiz is always a lot of fun and a great way to meet other members from the club. Your ticket will include a meal and teams will be mixed on the night so don't worry if you come along solo. There'll also be some prizes up for grabs for the winning teams. It will be a club members only night and we ask you to please book your ticket as soon as possible. Secure your tickets now and let the countdown to Quiz Night begin! See you there! ![]() It was another busy week of racing on all surfaces and from short to long distance, involving many of our clubmates. As usual, we start with activity on the track, which this week was all about the 3rd graded meet of the season in Dublin, on Wednesday evening held in Tallaght. In windy conditions, Amy McGuinness tackled her first competitive 400m, placing 6th in the grade B event in a time of 67.60, whilst Aoife Quigley was also taking on the mile for the first time in a competitive environment. Because several of the runners failed to make the start line, the race was an amalgam of A, B, C, and D grades, and Aoife’s result reflected her decision to have declared for the B race as she placed 2nd in the race behind the A graded runner and first B graded runner in a time of 5:43.39. We also had 3 male runners compete on the night. Charlie Bastow placed 2nd in a time of 51.61 in the men’s 400m grade B race, whilst Jan Manschot took 4th spot in the grade D mile event in a time of 5:22.12, with Paul E. Kelly in 10th place in the same race in a time of 7:42.78. At the weekend, we had a couple of athletes involved in the Leinster masters and U20 track and field championships held in SETU in Carlow. In the U20 competition Emily Lyne placed 3rd in the 400mH in a time of 69.43, whilst Sean Owens ran in both series 1 and 2 of the U20 men’s 110mH, where he placed 2nd on each occasion, in times of 14.46 and 14.23. The BHAA held its annual 5k beach race on Sandymount Strand on Tuesday evening. In an event that measured slightly short there were 94 runners in the two looped race. Karl Walsh placed 5th in 18:20 and he was followed by Ollie McGrath (7th in 18:38). Further back came Philip Matthews (33rd in 21:42), just ahead of Robbie Moore (34th in 21:45). On the same night, the 4th race in the Peugeot Race Series was held in Co. Meath, the Bob Heffernan and Mary Hanley 5k. We had at least 3 runners in the event which saw 200 runners break 18 minutes and 375 break 20 minutes. In a field of 743 participants Vinnie McGuinness placed 41st in 16:06, followed not too far behind by Ciarain Kelly (65th in 16:26) and then by Dee Ni Chearbhaill (454th and 84th in 21:01). Another race that took place on the same evening took place down in Co. Cork, under the auspices of the Cork BHAA. The John Buckley 5k involved a field in excess of 1,000 runners and involved at least two Crusaders. Toby Benham placed 60th in 16:58, followed by Gian Piero Allerta who placed 542 in 24:10. Members may be interested to know that Colm Parnell’s mother, Carmel, placed 472nd, but more importantly 1st F65, in a time of 23:04. Later in the week, on Friday evening, Ger Forde took part in the Naas AC 5-miler. On a reasonably flat course Ger placed 3rd with a PB time of 26.57. Over the weekend, there were plenty of road races on offer. Noel Carr ran a PB time of 1:44:36 in placing 14th in the 72-strong field in the North Clondalkin half marathon, whilst Brendan Glynn placed 111th in the 3rd running of the LSA 4-mile road race that took place on a scenic course in Donabate. Brendan’s time was 31:24 and he was accompanied by 368 other runners. Then, in Newry, Ciara Regan ran in the half marathon there where she placed 82nd and 3rd in a super PB time of 1:30:25 in a field of 704 participants. The annual lawyers’ races, the 6k and 10k events making up the Calcutta Run, took place on Saturday morning on courses involving Blackhall and the Phoenix Park. The 6k event, involving 621 runners, was won by Patrick W. Conlon in 19:54, followed by Stephen Hurley in 2nd place in 20:20. There may have been other Crusaders running, but results were listed by employer and so it was difficult to see if this might have been the case. The same goes for the 10k which involved 454 finishers. Diarmuid Fahey placed 70th in 45:31 in this race and Brendan Glynn crossed the line in 166th place in 51:23. Aoibhin O'Connor also ran in the 10k and her time was likely 45:17. Unfortunately, her result appears to have been placed in the 6k race by mistake and so her place was likely around 70th overall, but cannot be verified at this time. Further afield, on Friday evening Lukasz Batruch participated in the ZKB Hasli night run in Switzerland, where he completed the hilly (the race involved a climb and a descent) and muddy 10k in 40:36. Then, on Saturday, Dee Lawlor reported that he took part in an extremely tough 50k trail race in Transylvania in Romania, completing the event, which involved a climb of nearly 2,500m in around 8h42m. Our exiles in Spain, Esther Requena Ferri and Cristian Vilchez Ceballos ran in the Carrera de Algarrobo la Mayora in Algarrobo, southern Spain. The hilly trail race measuring about 8.4k was completed by Cristian in 33:36, whilst Esther placed 2nd in the women’s race in 35:41. We also had runners take part in both the half and full marathons held in association with the Edinburgh Marathon festival, on Sunday. Our exile in Edinburgh, Andrej Kujikis, ran 1:24:37 in the half marathon, and he was followed by Mark Browne in 1:50:14 and by Amy O’Donoghue, whose 1:56:14 was a 4-minute PB. In the full marathon, our Italian exile, Alessandro Nappi, ran 5:04:07. Finally, Kevin Kenny ran his 3rd marathon of the year whilst on a tour of North America. This time it was in Ottawa and Kevin completed it in 4:23. There were 2 races in the local mountains this week. On Wednesday evening 174 runners completed a circuit of Brockagh mountain near Glendalough in Co. Wicklow, in a 9.9k race in the Leinster League. In windy conditions, Becky Quinn was the first female across the line in 21st place overall and in a time of 52:49. Becky was followed by Ollie McGrath (31st and 4th M45 in 54:54) and then by Brian McGuckin (46th in 56:46), Ian Clifford (82nd in 62:59), Gavan Doherty (108th in 67:17) and Berndt Heim (172nd in 89:50). Amazingly, Becky won the women’s race again at the weekend in 25.5km event in the Leinster Championship. The race, the Circuit of Avonbeg, in Co. Wicklow,involved a loop of the Glenmalure Valley, taking in Clohernagh, Lugnachoille, Camenabologue, Lugduff and Mullacor. It was described as extreme, with a climb of 1,345m. In conditions which were at times hot and humid and then misty (with lots of midges), Becky placed 11th overall in a field of 28 in the championship. Despite all the races taking place over this period, involving Crusaders, there was still a good representation from the club in parkruns around the country. Ross Neill headed once again up to Belfast where, in the Ormeau parkrun, he placed 1st in 17:06 ahead of a field totalling 526. Then, Dee Ni Chearbhaill ran down in husband Sean Murphy’s native New Ross and they both headed their respective genders. Sean crossed the line first in 20:06 ahead of 73 other runners, with Dee placing first woman home, 4th overall, in 22:27. Elsewhere, Maria Kennedy ran once again in Kilkenny where, alongside 152 other participants, she placed 48th and 5th in 25:37, whilst Eoghan Corrigan also placed 5th in 20:30 in Corkagh Park with its field of 214. Not to be outdone, Mary Donnelly also placed 31st and 5th in 23:09 in the 200-strong field in Bushy Park. Our largest showing, not unexpectedly, was in Poolbeg, where we fielded at least 13 runners among the 236 who ran there. They were led home in 10th place by Mark Culleton, enjoying a last-minute shakeout before the Cork marathon next weekend. Mark ran 19:28, and he was followed by Adrian Groarke (14th in 20:02), Ronan Walsh (22nd in 20:42), Franky Keane (34th in 22:03), John Lohan (41st in 22:43), newcomer Claire Reidy (63rd and 8th in 24:02), Josie Ward (70th and 10th in 24:14), Gillian Curran (96th and 20th in 25:58), Piarais Neary (106th in 26:28), Fiona Bane (118th and 32nd in 27:52), Una McCullagh (145th and 50th in 29:55), Evelyn Neary (159th and 60th in 31:03) and Michael Fitzsimons (160th in 31:04). Shanganagh also enjoyed a decent Crusader presence. In a field of 212, the contingent was led home in 16th place by Padraig Walsh, running 21:34. Padraig was followed by Anna Shine (93rd and 22nd in 28:03), Fiona Shine (179th and 77th in 34:34), Máirín Shine (193rd and 86th in 44:33) and Orlaith de Burca, tailwalking. Darina Scully pushed her buggy once again around River Valley Park where, in a field of 156, she placed 73rd and 16th in 28:07, whilst, in Fairview Park, Hannah Jones placed 103rd and 17th in 28:52 in a field of 184 runners. Toby Benham headed to Cardiff where he placed 24th in a field of 674 and in a time of 19:18, whilst Paul F. and Aoife Kelly ran in Mile End in London, where, in a field of 466, Paul placed 112th in 23:14 and Aoife placed 243rd and 44th in 27:09. Also, in London, in Hoddesdon, Lisa Shine joined 122 other participants where she tailwalked. Back home, Diarmuid Byrne ran in the 174-strong field in Poppintree where he placed 54th in 27:00, whilst, in Killarney House, Maureen McGinley joined 143 other runners, placing 109th and 40th in 29:51. Meanwhile, Kevin Flynn placed 104th in 36:33 in the 128-strong field in Porterstown, whilst Phil Sykes took 51st spot in the 441-strong field in Marlay Park. Phil’s time was 22:30. Finally, Carina Davidson ran in Cabinteely alongside 152 other runners, where she placed 127th and 55th in 38:44. Bob Heffernan & Mary Hanley 5k (743) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Pierre Murchan 1 00:14:26 36 Emma McEvoy 1 00:15:59 Crusaders AC runners 41 Vinnie McGuinness 00:16:06 65 Ciarain Kelly 00:16:26 454 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 00:21:01 (84) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/bob-heffernan-mary-hanley-5k-road-race-2024/ Cork BHAA John Buckley 5k (1016) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Darragh Mulcahy 1 00:14:46 61 Sinead O’Connor 1 00:16:58 Crusaders AC runners 60 Toby Benham 00:16:58 542 Gian Piero Allerta 00:24:10 Full results here: https://www.corkbhaa.com/2024/05/21/john-buckley-5k-results-2024/ BHAA ESB 5k Beach race (94) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Aidan Jones 1 00:17:03 2 Laura McDonnell 1 00:17:48 Crusaders AC runners 5 Karl Walsh 00:18:20 7 Ollie McGrath 00:18:38 33 Philip Matthews 00:21:42 34 Robbie Moore 00:21:45 Full results here: https://irp.cdn-website.com/15e8030f/files/uploaded/ESB_5k_2024_Results.pdf North Clondalkin Half marathon (72) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Bernard Geraghty 1 01:22:25 16 Faye Johnston 1 01:45:02 Crusaders AC runner 14 Noel Carr 01:44:36 (PB) Full results here: https://justrunsevents.ie/event-results/north-clondalkin-half-&-10k_results-half_2024-05-25 Calcutta Run 6k (621) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Patrick Conlon 1 00:19:54 8 Katie Nugent 1 00:24:05 Crusaders AC runners 1 Patrick Conlon 00:19:54 2 Stephen Hurley 00:20:20 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/calcutta-run-2024/ Calcutta Run 10k (454) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Karl Fitzmaurice 1 00:32:58 22 Karla Doran 1 00:40:26 Crusaders AC runners XX Aoibhin O'Connor 00:45:17 70 Diarmuid Fahey 00:45:31 166 Brendan Glynn 00:51:23 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/calcutta-run-2024/ Naas AC 5-miler (240) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Matthew Shirran 1 00:26:46 9 Niamh O’Connor 1 00:27:49 Crusaders AC runner 3 Ger Forde 00:26:57 (PB) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race/naas-ac-5-miler-centenary-edition/ LSA Peninsula 4-mile road race (369) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 David Rooney 1 00:20:15 29 Katie Halpin 100:26:45 Crusaders AC runner 111 Brendan Glynn 00:31:24 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/lsa_peninsula_4_mile_road_race_2024/5061/results Newry AC Half Marathon (704) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Andy Nevin 1 01:11:22 47 Sinead Murtagh 1 01:27:27 Crusaders AC runner 82 Ciara Regan 01:30:25 (PB) (3) Full results here: https://www.championchipireland.com/index.html#results IMRA Brockagh 9.9k (174) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Daire Finn 1 00:42:40 21 Becky Quinn 1 00:52:49 Crusaders AC runners 21 Becky Quinn 00:52:49 (1) 31 Ollie McGrath 00:56:46 46 Brian McGuckin 00:54:54 40 Brian McGuckin 00:59:37 82 Ian Clifford 01:02:59 108 Gavan Doherty 01:07:17 172 Berndt Heim 01:29:50 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2501 IMRA Circuit of Avonbeg 25.5k (28) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Peter Bell 1 02:59:06 11 Becky Quinn 1 03:24:11 Crusaders AC runner 11 Becky Quinn 03:24:11 (1) Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/2516 Kilkenny Parkrun (153) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Joe Bollard 1 00:19:28 8 Claire Phelan 1 00:22:07 Crusaders AC runner 48 Maria Kennedy 00:25:37 (5) Corkagh Parkrun (214) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Andrew Dunphy 1 00:18:46 23 Ciara Du Toit 1 00:23:51 Crusaders AC runners 5 Eoghan Corrigan 00:20:30 Shanganagh Parkrun (212) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Noel Mannion 1 00:18:07 13 Donna Quinn 1 00:21:03 Crusaders AC runners 16 Padraig Walsh 00:21:34 93 Anna Shine 00:28:03 (22) 179 Fiona Shine 00:34:34 (77) 193 Mairín Shine 00:44:33 (86) 212 Orlaith de Burca 00:58:31 Fairview Parkrun (184) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Scott McNally 1 00:19:35 19 Betty Bohane 1 00:21:39 Crusaders AC runner 103 Hannah Jones 00:28:52 (17) Poolbeg Parkrun (236) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Mark Hanlon 1 00:17:15 18 Ava Rose Clarke 1 00:20:24 Crusaders AC runners 10 Mark Culleton 00:19:28 14 Adrian Groarke 00:20:02 22 Ronan Walsh 00:20:42 34 Franky Keane 00:22:03 41 John Lohan 00:22:43 63 Claire Reidy 00:24:02 (8) 70 Josie Ward 00:24:14 (10) 96 Gillian Curran 00:25:58 106 Piarais Neary 00:26:28 118 Fiona Bane 00:27:52 (32) 145 Una McCullagh 00:29:55 (50) 159 Evelyn Neary 00:31:03 (60) 160 Michael Fitzsimons 00:31:04 Marlay Parkrun (441) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Matthew Meagan 1 00:17:31 15 Leah O’Neill 00:19:47 Crusaders AC runner 51 Phil Sykes 00:22:30 Bushy Parkrun (200) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Faye Dervan 1 00:18:24 2 Sean Savage 1 00:18:58 Crusaders AC runner 31 Mary Donnelly 00:23:09 (5) New Ross Parkrun (74) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Sean Murphy 1 00:20:06 4 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 1 00:22:27 Crusaders AC runner 4 Deirdre Ni Chearbhaill 00:22:27 (1) Porterstown Parkrun (128) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Padraig MacCriostail 1 00:18:16 4 Siobhan Nugent 1 00:20:32 Crusaders AC runner 104 Kevin Flynn 00:36:13 River Valley Parkrun (156) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Viktoras Kuzminas 1 00:18:10 10 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:21:53 Crusaders AC runner 73 Darina Scully 00:28:07(16) Ormeau Parkrun (526) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Ross Neill 1 00:17:06 2 Dearbhla Cox 1 00:17:14 Crusaders AC runner 1 Ross Neill 00:17:06 Cabinteely Parkrun (153) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Neil Browne 1 00:18:42 26 Marie Therese McCoy 1 00:25:15 Crusaders AC runner 127 Carina Davidson 00:38:44 (55) Killarney Parkrun (144) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Yevhen Kurbanov 1 00:18:10 7 Rachel Hawker 1 00:20:05 Crusaders AC runner 109 Maureen McGinley 00:29:51 (40) Poppintree Parkrun (174) Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Nicholas Gold 1 00:19:09 15 Aoife Begley 1 00:22:24 Crusaders AC runner 54 Diarmuid Byrne 00:27:00 |