 Adrienne Jordan, Dee Ni Chearbhaill, Catherine Thornton, Niamh Corby, Caroline Crowley, Ilona McElroy, Orla Kennedy, Niamh Boland What a super day in Santry Demesne on Sunday for the Dublin Senior Cross Country men’s and women’s races! Our teams did us proud and although our men weren't able to produce a team result because unfortunately a knee injury to Michael Kiely reduced the number of runners to 5 with 6 needed for a team score, the remaining runners acquitted themselves well. The real glory on the day goes, however, to our 9-strong women’s team, who managed to come home with team silver. The two races took place on a breezy chilly day, but it’s fair to say the wind played only a limited role on the undulating, reasonably well-protected course. The ground was relatively hard and dry, so that the going was good. The women’s race of 32 runners involved 4 x 1500m loops to get to 6k on the familiar course and, on the first lap, our team clearly followed orders not to go out too hard. Indeed nearly all our runners were found at the back of the field for most of the first lap. This proved to be a significant advantage when it came to the later laps and our runners continued to pick off targets throughout the race, whilst one club in particular that was likely lying in a medal position at the time unfortunately lost a runner during the race possibly through having gone out too hard, depriving them of a competitive outcome. There was no doubt from before the start as to where the gold medal would go, with DSD packing its team with highly experienced elite runners, so the battle was always going to be for the minor places (and so it proved as DSD needed only 16 points to take the win). Nevertheless, with a result of 50 points, the four scorers of Caroline Crowley (10th) just coming back from injury, Adrienne Jordan (11th), Niamh Boland (13th) and Ilona McElroy (16th), secured 2nd place with distinction (ahead of Raheny on 72), but we had significant insurance from the remaining runners. Indeed, the next 4 finishers for the club had enough points to have taken 5th place, with Catherine Thornton (18th), running with the distraction of some barrier tape stuck to her spikes from the start, coming home only 6 seconds behind Ilona and Niamh Corby (19th) just 7 seconds further back, followed by Orla Kennedy (26th) and Lesley Ann Doughan (27th). In a quality field Dee Ni Chearbhaill (30th) also had an excellent race, picking off targets steadily and finishing strongly. It was clearly a great team effort as Adrienne and Niamh Boland pushed and pulled each other along for much of the race, as did Catherine and Niamh Corby and, likewise, Orla and Lesley Ann. It was fun to watch! The five remaining runners in the men’s tough 10k race (one short lap, followed by 6 normal loops) all ran well. Ciaran Diviney prepared himself appropriately for his upcoming international repeat by working his way through the 66-strong field to take 29th spot. Ciaran was followed by Rob Cross (38th) and John Mulvihill not too far behind (40th). Jason Kehoe was next in 45th place and our last runner across the line was Joe McDermott (59th) who had an excellent sprint finish to take another runner at the end. Before moving onto other results over the weekend, it is important to report on a couple of updates from last week’s results and both relate to the need to ensure that runners are declared appropriately for races. Karl Fahy crossed the line in last week’s Leinster Novices in 4th place behind race winner Ffion Buttner. It seems, however, that the DSD athlete had never been officially declared by his club and so his result has not stood. This means that Karl will now be entitled to an individual bronze in addition to his team and Dublin golds. Whilst he should be congratulated, it’s a bittersweet situation for Karl as individual medals at novice level have an impact on eligibility for future races (and Karl has suffered from this already!). The other update comes from the Dublin City marathon. The Cru M50 team of Pat Quill, James Cottle and Denis Murphy had thought they had been demoted to national bronze by virtue of coming in 2nd to a team from Rathfarnham in the Leinster and Dublin championships. It seems, however, that the rules are different between the separate championships, albeit within the same race. A team need not be declared for either Leinster or Dublin, but there was a deadline that Rathfarnham failed to observe for the nationals and meant that the club did not technically field a team. As a consequence, our team has been confirmed as national silver medal winners behind the Cork-based team of St. Finbarrs as well as us being, unusually, Leinster and Dublin silver medal winners, behind Rathfarnham. A lesson in planning! Back to the results. Joe Walsh and his wife Alma Hanevy of Donore headed to Galway for the weekend and took part in the Run for Mary 5K in aid of a local hospice in Peterswell. In a field of more than 260 runners, Alma won the women’s race, taking 6th place in 20:01, whilst Joe placed 4th in 18:54. Also on Saturday, fresh from his previous weekend’s run in the Dublin marathon (and one or two hard sessions since!), Brian O’Kelly joined in the Mo Run 10k (part of the Movember initiative) in the Phoenix Park, winning the race and finishing ahead of nearly 400 other contestants in a time of 35:00. There was another 10k on locally, this time in Clane. Neil Brown took part in that one, alongside more than 250 other runners, finishing in 32nd place with a PB time of 46:26. Kris Ryan and Leo Lundy continue to pile on the miles as they train for some bigger events later in the year. On Saturday they ran in the Balinasloe marathon organised by the Marathon Club of Ireland. In a modest field on a crisp but bright day around a rural bog road-based 10.5k loop, Kris had a solid 4:08 for 15th overall and first female home. Leo managed to take 8 minutes off his time in Dublin last week for 4:31 and 13th place. It looks also like Crusaders had a women's team in the Moonlight Challenge in Glendalough on Saturday evening. Kris, Kate Murray and Mairead Cashman were likely members of the team and results will be out shortly. We had 5 Crusaders running in the New York City Marathon. Conditions were somewhat strange. Warmish (11 to 16 degrees Celsius), with a headwind from the start, the race was relatively slow at the elite level regardless of the hilly second half which took its toll on many runners. The hills come from the many bridges in the race as well as Central Park towards the end. In the event, we had some good results. Federico Corradini pulled out another sub-3 finish, despite finding the second half tough, with a time of 2:57. Colm Kernan ran even splits to come home in 3:23. David Killion also found the going hard in the second half but was happy with his 3:40 and Gerald Hoare was not too far behind in 3:49. Joanna Langier, running with a strapped-up ankle after a recent fall, ran well to come in right on 4:00 and Bob Manson, in his second marathon in a week following Dublin, ran 4:22. Finally, we had a series of fine results in the parkruns on Saturday. Katie McElroy was a first female finisher in St. Anne’s (26th overall in 20:29) in a field of 416. Matt Cranley also ran, taking 108th in 23:50. Paul Flynn went head to head with Dave Carter in the hilly Cabinteely, with the former prevailing as first finisher in 19:02 and Dave coming second in 19:15. They were joined by nearly 130 other runners. Amy Brogan was another first finisher, in Porterstown. Amy placed 10th overall in a field of over 100 participants in a time of 21:19 and was followed by Kevin Flynn who ran 26:54 to place 48th. Our last first finisher, so to speak, was Fiona Shine who, with her sister Lisa, ran with nearly 300 other runners in Ballincollig in Cork. Fiona placed 7th overall in 20:16, whilst Lisa came home in 45th place, 5th female, in 22:59. We had solo runners in Malahide (with Mairin Shine who finished 227th in a field of 332, 72nd female, in 29:41), River Valley (with Darina Scully who probably walked for most of the 90-odd-strong event, finishing in 91st place overall, 37th female, in 50:31), Knocknacarra (with Fiona Bane who negotiated the tough and tricky course in 24:30, placing 30th overall out of nearly 100 runners, 6th female finisher), Bushy Dublin (with Mairead Cashman, who came home in 76th place overall out of a field of 112 and 26th female, in 29:17 and Tymon (with Sharon Woods, who placed 98th overall out of 153, 35th female, in 30:15). Lastly, in our “home” parkrun in Poolbeg, we had 8 participants. In a field of 186 runners, our contingent was led home by Tony Owens (10th in 19:52) and he was followed by David Timoney (13th in 20:14), Russell Murphy (36th in 22:36), Olwyn Dunne (42nd overall, 4th female, in 23:22), Aisling O’Connor (82nd overall, 14th female, in 25:46), Aoife Quinn (96th overall, 22nd female, in 26:37), Emma O’Mahony (112th overall, 33rd female, in 27:59) and by Mark Browne (185th in 42:41). Dublin Senior XC women (6k) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Ciara Durkan 1 00:20:27 Crusaders AC runners 10 Caroline Crowley 00:22:25 11 Adrienne Jordan 00:22:39 13 Niamh Boland 00:22:46 16 Ilona McElroy 00:23:24 18 Catherine Thornton 00:23:30 19 Niamh Corby 00:23:37 26 Orla Kennedy 00:24:19 27 Lesley Ann Doughan 00:24:34 30 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:25:08 Full results here: https://www.dublinathletics.com/attachments/article/486/Dublin%20Cross%20Country%20Championships%20Senior%20and%20Junior%20results%202017.pdf Dublin Senior XC men (10k) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Mick Clohisey 1 00:30:04 Crusaders AC runners 29 Ciaran Diviney 00:33:20 38 Rob Cross 00:33:52 40 John Mulvihill 00:34:21 45 Jason Kehoe 00:34:55 59 Joe McDermott 00:37:03 Full results here: https://www.dublinathletics.com/attachments/article/486/Dublin%20Cross%20Country%20Championships%20Senior%20and%20Junior%20results%202017.pdf Clane 10k Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Stephen Conroy 1 00:35:06 6 Michelle Cox 1 00:38:03 Crusaders AC runner 32 Neil Brown 00:46:26 (PB) Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/race-results/ Mo 10k Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Brian O’Kelly 1 00:35:00 15 Eimear O’Leary 1 00:42:07 Crusaders AC runner 1 Brian O’Kelly 00:35:00 Full results here: https://www.mo-running.com/dublin/results Run For Mary 5K Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 William Fitzgerald 1 00:17:32 6 Alma Hanevy 1 00:20:01 Crusaders AC runner 4 Joe Walsh 00:18:54 Full results here: https://www.facebook.com/Run4Mary/posts/1694049450614722 MCI Balinasloe Marathon Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Rock Pender 1 03:22:58 11 Kris Ryan 1 04:08:04 Crusaders AC runners 11 Kris Ryan 04:08:04 (1) 13 Leo Lundy 04:31:16 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/mci_ballinasloe/2451/results New York Marathon Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Geoffrey Kamworor 1 02:10:53 X Shalane Flanagan 1 02:26:53 Crusaders AC runners Federico Corradini 02:57:11 Colm Kernan 03:23:49 David Killion 03:40:52 Gerald Hoare 03:49:33 Joanna Langier 04:00:36 Bob Manson 04:22:34 Malahide Parkrun #261 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Gerard Redmond 1 00:17:16 2 Catherina McKiernan 1 00:17:17 Crusaders AC runner 227 Mairin Shine 00:29:41 (72) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/malahide/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=261 Cabinteely Parkrun #135 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Paul Flynn 1 00:19:02 12 Malika Hammani 1 00:21:38 Crusaders AC runners 1 Paul Flynn 00:19:02 2 Dave Carter 00:19:15 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=135 Ballincollig Parkrun #72 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Paul Pio O’Callaghan 1 00:18:20 7 Fiona Shine 1 00:20:16 Crusaders AC runners 7 Fiona Shine 00:20:16 (1) 45 Lisa Shine 00:22:59 (5) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/ballincollig/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=72 River Valley Parkrun #67 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Joseph Keane 1 00:18:42 3 Cecile Ollagnier 1 00:21:29 Crusaders AC runner 91 Darina Scully 00:50:31 (37) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/rivervalley/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=67 Bushy Dublin Parkrun #36 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Kevin Donagher 1 00:17:54 10 Christine Kinsella 1 00:21:31 Crusaders AC runner 76 Mairead Cashman 00:29:17 (26) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/bushydublin/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=36 St Anne’s Parkrun #206 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Tom McEnery 1 00:16:36 26 Katie McElroy 1 00:20:29 Crusaders AC runners 26 Katie McElroy 00:20:29 (1) 108 Matt Cranley 00:23:50 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=206 Poolbeg Parkrun #11 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Feidhlim Kelly 1 00:16:40 32 Paula Bradshaw 1 00:22:19 Crusaders AC runners 10 Anthony Owens 00:19:52 13 David Timoney 00:20:14 36 Russell Murphy 00:22:36 42 Olwyn Dunne 00:23:22 (4) 82 Aisling O’Connor 00:25:46 (14) 96 Aoife Quinn 00:26:37 (22) 112 Emma O’Mahony 00:27:59 (33) 185 Mark Browne 00:42:41 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/poolbeg/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=11 Porterstown Parkrun #107 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Gerard Donnelly 1 00:18:54 10 Amy Brogan 1 00:21:19 Crusaders AC runners 10 Amy Brogan 0:21:19 (1) 48 Kevin Flynn 00:26:54 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/porterstown/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=107 Knocknacarra Parkrun #177 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Brendan McNerney 1 00:18:21 16 Judith Campbell 1 00:22:03 Crusaders AC runner 30 Fiona Bane 00:24:30 (6) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/knocknacarra/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=177 Tymon Parkrun #176 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Niall McCarthy 1 00:17:06 11 Sharon Tighe 1 00:20:56 Crusaders AC runner 98 Sharon Woods 00:30:15 (35) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/tymon/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=176  Adrienne Jordan  Caroline Crowley  Catherine Thornton and Niamh Corby  Ciaran Diviney  Dee Ni Chearbhaill  Ilona McElroy  Jason Kehoe  Joe McDermott  Lesley Ann Doughan  Michael Kiely, Jason Kehoe and John Mulvihill  Niamh Boland  Niamh Corby  Orla Kennedy  Rob Cross and Ciaran Diviney  Caroline Crowley and Adrienne Jordan  Catherine Thornton and Niamh Corby  Ciaran Diviney  Dee Ni Chearbhaill  Ilona McElroy  Jason Kehoe and John Mulvihill  Joe McDermott  Lesley Ann Doughan  Michael Kiely and Jason Kehoe  Niamh Boland  Orla Kennedy and Lesley Ann Doughan  Rob Cross  Catherine Thornton and Niamh Corby  Rob Cross and Ciaran Diviney  Niamh Boland and Adrienne Jordan  Caroline Crowley  Adrienne Jordan, Dee Ni Chearbhaill, Catherine Thornton, Niamh Corby, Susan Walsh, Caroline Crowley, Ilona McElroy, Orla Kennedy, Niamh Boland, Lesley Ann Doughan Comments are closed.
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