There was a serious show of strength from the club over the weekend in the second leg of the National league Track and Field semi-final. Coming into the leg at the Mary Peters track in Belfast in 5th place after the first round and needing to be in the top 8 from the aggregate of the two pools, it looks as though the men’s team has qualified for the final on 20 August in style. In the 17 events, we had no fewer than 9 first place and 3 second place finishes, coming home with 128 points to win the session, ahead of Clonliffe (120), Raheny (105) and Donore (97).
Andrew Mellon took on the 100m and 200m, placing respectively 4th and 1st. Then Brian Murphy ran the 400m for the club, winning that event. Kevin Woods came home in 2nd in the 800m, whilst Karl Fahy, running his first 5K on the track in a while, placed 6th. Matt Behan duly took care of the competition in the 110mH, winning that well and Jason Harvey, likewise, did the same in the 400mH. Team captain, and veteran 3000m steeplechaser (!), Gary Park, put in a great effort to take 5th place in that event, as did James Kelly, who took 2nd place in the shot put. Colin Quirke delayed his return to the US, to win the discus and Ciaran Donnelly finished 2nd in the hammer. Oisin Taylor won the triple jump. Bob Lyne was another who nobly took on two events, placing 2nd in the 56lbs throw and 3rd in the walk, whilst Adam McMullen took on 3 events: placing 5th in the javelin with a PB, 1st in the long jump, then joining Nick Ennis, Matt and Andrew in the 4x100m relay where the team placed 1st. Our men’s relay teams are riding high at the moment and this was demonstrated even more clearly with a win for Nick, Kevin, Jason and Brian in the 4x400m. Off the track, we had some excellent road racing results over the past few days. On Thursday, Ger Forde took part in the Dublin Airport Central 5k along with 180 other runners. Ger placed 2nd in 17:57, behind race winner Freddie Sittuk (17:33). On the same day, we had 3 runners in the second annual running of the Carton House 6k trail race. In a field of more than 530 runners, Michael Maughan placed 32nd in a great time of 23:51, followed by Kate Murray (117th overall, 16th female and 4th in her age category, in 27:55) and Emma O’Mahony (154th overall, 27th female, in 29:14). Then, on Sunday, we had at least 10 Crusaders participate in the more than 120-strong BHAA Dublin Fire Brigade 5k which was held near the Brigade’s training centre on the Malahide Road. On a course that was described as undulating with 500m of climb towards the end and in blustery conditions, Ilona McElroy distinguished herself with a win in the women’s race (11th overall in 18:35), nearly a minute ahead of the woman in 2nd place. The leader of our pack was, however, Karl Walsh, who placed 6th in 17:50, followed by a resurgent John Thuillier (8th in 18:02), and, after Ilona, Barry McGuire (15th in 18:50). Next came Robbie Moore (38th in 20:49), followed by Neil Brown (57th in 22:26), Emer Kenny, running really well in 68th place overall, 10th woman, (22:54), Olwyn Dunne (95th overall, 22nd woman, 4th in her age category) in 24:34 and, finally, by Paul Kelly (106th in 26:02). There was quite a bit of action in the mountains last week. On Wednesday a trail race over 7.5k took place on Djouce. 134 runners headed for the hills, which involved a relatively easy 118m climb. We had 3 clubmates in the event. With the winner, Barry Murray, coming home in a time of 28:40, Colm Kernan was our first Crusader finisher, placing 20th in 31:45. Colm was followed by Brian McGuckin (24th in 32:04) and Gavan Doherty (43rd in 34:04). Gavan went on to join Jason Kehoe on Saturday afternoon in the 4th race of the 5 race series of the Irish Mountain Championships. This time the race was held in Log Na Coile, Co. Wicklow, with the moderate climb of 500m taking runners up Lugnaquillia Mountain. In the best 3 of 5 races to count and with 2 wins already under his belt, Jason Kehoe needed to beat Brian Furey to avoid having to take the series to a decider as Jason was sitting on 2 points, equal with Brian (who until Saturday had only run in one race and placed 2nd to Jason). In the event, Brian won the race on Saturday (in 54:30), with Jason taking 3rd place (55:25) behind Michael McCarthy (55:07) in 2nd place. So, as the smoke clears, it essentially means that Jason has to finish ahead of Brian in the last race in Galtymore on 13 August to take the national title again. The event will be a challenging one, involving a climb over 12km of 1.34km. In a field of 65 runners on Saturday, Gavan took 31st place in a time of 1:14:12. Leo Lundy reports that he took part in a 28.5 mile "Invader ultra" in Dorset over the weekend. The Roman-themed event took place in lashing rain on muddy hills which soon became a quagmire. A truly difficult challenge and Leo finished in 7:28:48, in 262nd place out of nearly 300 runners. As usual, there were a number of Crusaders taking part in parkruns on Saturday morning. Kris Ryan ran one in Coomera in Queensland, Australia. In a field of 121, Kris ran a sedate (for her) 32:23 to place 89th overall (25th female finisher). In Marlay Park, Kevin Lynch ran 19:06 to place 12th in a field of nearly 400 participants. 5 of our club mates ran in St. Anne’s, Raheny, among nearly 380 runners. Matt Cranley finished in 21st place (19:41), followed by Colm Kernan (55th in 21:35), Denis Murphy (149th in 24:55), Aoife Quinn (237th overall, 65th woman, in 28:21) and Ciara McElligott (318th overall, 116th woman, in 31:25). We had a few run in Bere Island, off Co. Cork for the first time. Fiona Shine was first female finisher in a field of 112 runners, placing 4th overall, in a time of 21:27. Orlaith de Burca was next in 28:13 (30th overall, 12th woman), followed by Fiona’s daughter, Mia (62nd overall, 22nd female finisher, in 40:57). Paul Flynn came home in 3rd place in Kilkenny. Paul’s time was 18:39 and there were nearly 180 runners in the event. In Hartstown, Brendan Kieran improved on his time last week with a 14th spot (in a field of 59) and a time of 24:18. Helena Walsh placed 11th overall, 4th woman, in a time of 21:52 among the 70-strong field in Limerick, whilst Kevin Flynn took 45th place out of 88 runners in a time of 28:03 in Porterstown. Finally, we had 5 runners in Cabinteely. Raghnall O’Donoghue led the contingent home in 6th place in a field of 134 participants. Raghnall’s time was 20:49 and he was followed by Tom Dunne (10th in 21:21), Dave Carter (11th in 21:28), Colm Foley (28th in 24:05) and Olwyn Dunne (97th overall, 24th woman, in 30:13). Thanks to Liam Behan, Eithne from the BHAA and Action Photography for the photos. BHAA Dublin Fire Brigade 5k Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Sean Doran 1 00:16:00 11 Ilona McElroy 1 00:18:35 Crusaders AC runners 6 Karl Walsh 00:17:50 8 John Thuillier 00:18:02 11 Ilona McElroy 00:18:35 (1) 15 Barry McGuire 00:18:50 38 Robbie Moore 00:20:49 57 Neil Brown 00:22:26 68 Emer Kenny 00:22:54 (10) 95 Olwyn Dunne 00:24:34 (22) 106 Paul Kelly 00:26:02 Full results here: https://bhaa.ie/results/ Dublin Airport Central 5k Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Freddie Sittuk 1 00:17:33 19 Cindy Kelly 1 00:21:30 Crusaders AC runner 2 Ger Forde 00:17:57 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/dublin_airport__central_5k/2370/results Carton House 6k trail race Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime 1 Kieran Jackson 1 00:20:09 27 Hannah Carroll 1 00:23:26 Crusaders AC runners 32 Michael Maughan 00:23:51 117 Kate Murray 00:27:55 (16) 154 Emma O’Mahony 00:29:14 (27) Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/carton_house_6k_trail_race/2208/results Marlay Parkrun #218 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 James Kelly 1 00:16:52 17 Sarah Baryga 1 00:19:59 Crusaders AC runner 12 Kevin Lynch 00:19:06 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=218 Hartstown Parkrun #141 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Owen Fletcher 1 00:18:34 13 Margaret O’Friel 1 00:24:17 Crusaders AC runner 14 Brendan Kieran 00:24:18 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/lhartstown/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=141 Porterstown Parkrun #93 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Niall Sherlock 1 00:18:43 7 Ann Horan 1 00:21:20 Crusaders AC runners 14 Donal Foley 00:22:36 44 Kevin Flynn 00:28:03 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/porterstown/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=93 St Anne’s Parkrun #192 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Bernard Roe 1 00:16:55 11 Zoe Quinn 1 00:18:42 Crusaders AC runners 21 Matt Cranley 00:19:41 55 Colm Kernan 00:21:35 149 Denis Murphy 00:24:55 237 Aoife Quinn 00:28:21 (65) 318 Ciara McElligott 00:31:25 (116) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=192 Cabinteely Parkrun #122 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Barry Thornton 1 00:18:12 26 Doireann Nash 1 00:23:56 Crusaders AC runners 6 Raghnall O’Donohue 00:20:49 10 Tomas Dunne 00:21:21 11 David Carter 00:21:28 28 Colm Foley 00:24:05 97 Olwyn Dunne 00:30:13 (24) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=122 Bere Island Parkrun #159 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Donal Murphy 1 00:20:41 4 Fiona Shine 1 00:21:27 Crusaders AC runners 4 Fiona Shine 00:21:27 (1) 30 Orlaith de Burca 00:28:13 (12) 62 Mia Shine 00:40:57 (22) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/bereisland/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=159 Limerick Parkrun #79 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Oisin Hughes 1 00:19:01 7 Tanya Cox 1 00:20:15 Crusaders AC runner 11 Helena Walsh 00:21:52 (4) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/limerick/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=79 Kilkenny Parkrun #144 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Chris Olley 1 00:15:19 2 Sarah Johnson 1 00:18:22 Crusaders AC runner 3 Paul Flynn 00:18:39 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/kilkenny/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=144 Comments are closed.
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