![]() Over the past few weeks runners have been spoiled for choice as to where they race. This last week was no exception and there were plenty of events from which to choose. On Wednesday evening for example, there was the usual mountain race as well as there being the traditional annual BHAA races on the grass track in Trinity around the cricket square. Then on Saturday, apart from the usual parkruns, there were several 5k races on offer. We start with the BHAA races. On an evening that threatened to be wet, but mercifully stayed dry, there were men’s and women’s races on to be run. At time of writing only of the results has been posted since, the women’s 800m, but it proved to have been one of our more successful outings. Irene Gorman won the standard 1-13 event convincingly in a time of 2:29, leading from the gun as usual and in 3rd place came Amy Wright in 2:37 in a dive for the line with Fiona Shine (4th in the same time). Rachael Yorke took 5th place in 2:41 not so far behind, with Dee Ni Chearbhaill in 7th in 2:55. In the 14-30 category, Emer Kenny placed 2nd in 2:49, followed by Sarah Lyons in 3rd in 2:52 and Fiona Lane in 20th in 3:57. The races were divided into different standards. In the men's 6-7, Philip Matthews came 6th in 2:49, just behind Sean Murphy of United Striders in 2:35. Then in 8-9, Karl Walsh came 2nd in 2:21, followed by Ollie McGrath in 4th in 2:31. Donnacha McCarthy took 9th place in 2:44 in 10-11, whilst in 12-13, Denis Murphy came home in 3rd place, followed by Tim O'Donnell (7th in 2:40), Phelim Murray (10th in 2:45) and Robbie Moore (20th in 3:00). Finally, to complete the 800m races, Paul Kelly placed 5th in standard 22-30 with a time of 3:25. Next came the mile races. Once again Irene won the standard 1-13 with an emphatic 5:30, followed by Fiona Shine in 3rd (5:56), Rachael 4th (5:56) and Amy (5th in 5:59). In 14-30, Dee won in a time of 6:20, followed by Emer in 2nd (6;23), Kate Murray (5th in 6:45), Sarah (7th in 6:51) and Fiona Lane (22nd in 8:30). In the men's races, Michael Wycherley was 4th in standard 6-7 with a time of 5:18, followed by Sean Murphy (6th in 5:32). Karl won 8-9 in 5:07, followed by Ollie (3rd in 5:32). Donnacha took 6th place in 10-11, followed by Noel Reilly (9th in 6:04). Then in 12-13, Tim took 4th in 6:05, followed by Denis (5th in 6:05) and Robbie (20th in 6:37). Phelim won 14-16 in 6:05 and Paul came 3rd in standard 22-30 in 8:08. On Saturday, the IMC met up in Le Cheile and Crusaders took part in 7 events, recording the following results: In the men's 3000m B race Frank Halligan placed 5th in a time of 10:00.94, whilst Michael Kiely came home in 13th place in the men's 1500 B race in a time of 4:29.65. Fearghal O'Hare took 5th spot in the men's 800m C event in 1:57.47, whilst Michael O'Conor came home in 2nd place in a time of 2:05.54 in the 800m E race. John O'Loughlin ran in 2 races, placing 5th in both recording 25.97 in the 200m mixed race and 58.64 in the 400m men's C race. Finally, Nick Ennis took 2nd place in the men's 400m B event. Staying with track and field, Matt Behan competed in the English U23 championships in Bedford on Sunday and after convincingly winning his heat in the 110m hurdles in 14:00, he went on to take the silver medal in the finals in 14:13 just 1/100th behind the English race winner who came through from behind when Matt hit the last hurdle. Still, it was a great outcome for our young hurdler. Last Wednesday saw another race in the IMRA Leinster League, this time on Scarr. The 8.25k race was won overall by the perennially fast master, Des Kennedy, in a time of 36:43, but we had Becky Quinn returning to the fray and she took the honours in the women’s race, placing 14th overall in a time of 43:53. Becky was followed by Brian McGuckin (31st in 47:07), Anthony O’Reilly (43rd in 48:34) and Gavan Doherty (49th in 50:00). We may also have had runners in the Leinster mountain championships on Saturday, but results are yet to be posted. There were numerous road and trail races available over the weekend and our best performances came in some of the longer ones. In the Wicklow Half marathon Niall Murphy ran with over 80 other competitors, placing 2nd in a time of 1:24:46, whilst in the Stone Mad Ultra (60km), run along the banks of the river Barrow in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, we had a winner among the 20 finishers who made the cut off time. Dominick Branigan, in training for the Berlin marathon, was the only runner to break 5 hours (4:48:58), finishing well ahead of the field in what he described as a mental as well as physical challenge, whilst Leo Lundy found the effort quite tough, eventually coming home in 20th place (ahead of the cut off) in 8:24:44. We had two runners in the flat and fast 5k Arthur’s Way race in Co. Kildare, organised by Ardclough GAA along the banks of a local canal and around the Lyons demesne. In a field of 385 runners, Helena Walsh placed 44th overall (5th woman) in a time of 22:15, followed by Aoife Quinn (60th overall, 14th woman, in 23:40). Three of our members took on the Castleknock 5k on Saturday. In a field of 673, Frank Hague placed 13th in 17:57, followed by Dee Ni Chearbhaill (53rd overall, 11th woman, in 21:14), who placed 3rd in her age category, and by Donal Foley (103rd in 23:12). Finally, we come to the parkruns. A lower turnout in every aspect generally this week, but some good runs all the same. In Darndale in a modest field Diarmuid Byrne placed first finisher (22:09) alongside Darina Scully (3rd overall in 23:45), with Maria Pertl 5th overall and 2nd woman home in 26:53. In coming home as first woman finisher Catherine Thornton placed 3rd overall in Knocknacarra, running at tempo pace and finishing in 19:57, whilst Fiona Bane did likewise in Tramore, placing 8th overall in 23:21.Kate Murray was 36th overall in Bushy Park (4th woman) in a time of 23:53 and Kate was followed by Mairead Cashman (99th overall, 21st woman, in 29:34) and Bob Lyne who no doubt walked it in 32:28 (120th). Mari Hansen took on Stavanger. In a field of 33 runners, Mari placed 17th overall, 5th woman finisher, in a time of 30:20. Also, outside the country, Aidan Hudner ran with 315 others in Glasgow, taking 60th spot in 22:27. Matt Cranley continues to push his buggy in aprkruns, this timein Father Collins, placing 6th in 20:37, whilst Luke Davis took 11th place in Marlay in a time of 18:44. We had two much larger contingents in Poolbeg and Cabinteely. In the former, Andrej Kujikis led our runners home in 3rd place in 19:15, followed by Kieran Finucane (5th in 19:37), David Timoney (9th in 19:58), Olwyn Dunne (31st overall, 4th woman, in 23:23), Sharon Woods (33rd overall, 5th woman, in 23:45), just behind. Then came Gillian Curran (53rd overall, 16th woman, in 26:17), followed by Ciara McElligott (78th overall, 30th woman, in 33:11). Lastly, in Cabinteely, Eddie Nugent took 4th place in 19:38 and he was followed by Orlaith de Burca (82nd overall, 25th woman, in 29:22). With the same time came Lisa Shine (83rd overall, 26th woman) and a second behind them came Paul Kelly (84th). Emma O’Mahony in her 2nd outing ran 34:32 for 107th place overall (41st woman), followed by Mairin Shine (112th overall, 44th woman, in 37:10). Castleknock 5k (673) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Peter Somba 1 00:15:25 13 Catherina McKiernan 1 00:17:51 Crusaders AC runners 13 Frank Hague 00:17:57 53 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 00:21:14 (11) 103 Donal Foley 00:23:12 Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/castleknock_5k_2018/2671/results Stone Mad 60k Ultra (20) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Dominick Branigan 1 04:48:58 8 Dawn Cassidy 1 05:53:44 Crusaders AC runners 1 Dominick Branigan 04:48:58 20 Leo Lundy 08:24:44 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/stonemad-2018/#0_67F2D5 Arthur’s Way 5k (385) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Mark Kenneally 1 00:15:51 16 Laura McDonnell 1 00:19:08 Crusaders AC runners 44 Helena Walsh 00:22:15 (5) 60 Aoife Quinn 00:23:40 (14) Full results here: http://www.popupraces.ie/arthurs-way-5k-2018/ Superhero Wicklow Half Marathon (82) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Eddie Garry 1 01:23:55 13 Suzanne Keane 1 01:47:18 Crusaders AC runner 2 Niall Murphy 01:24:46 Full results here: https://www.popupraces.ie/superhero-wicklow-5k-10k-run-walk-and-half-marathonfamily-fun-day-2018/ IMRA Scarr race (144) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Des Kennedy 1 00:36:43 14 Becky Quinn 1 00:43:53 Crusaders AC runners 14 Becky Quinn 00:43:53 (1) 31 Brian McGuckin 00:47:07 43 Anthony O’Reilly 00:48:34 49 Gavan Doherty 00:50:00 Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/1601/ Marlay Parkrun #262 (397) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Shane O’Neill 1 00:16:25 34 Mary Kate Burke 1 00:21:05 Crusaders AC runner 11 Luke Davis 00:18:44 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=262 Bushy Parkrun #68 (147) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 John Campbell 1 00:18:32 11 Niamh Shea 1 00:20:46 Crusaders AC runners 36 Kate Murray 00:23:53 (4) 99 Mairead Cashman 00:29:34 (21) 120 Bob Lyne 00:32:28 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/bushydublin/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=68 Poolbeg Parkrun #42 (85) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Ashley Hayes 1 00:18:35 12 Flora Henny 1 00:20:27 Crusaders AC runners 3 Andrej Kujikis 00:19:15 5 Kieran Finucane 00:19:37 9 David Timoney 00:19:58 31 Olwyn Dunne 00:23:23 (4) 33 Sharon Woods 00:23:45 (5) 53 Gillian Curran 00:26:17 (16) 78 Ciara McElligott 00:33:11 (30) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/poolbeg/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=42 Tramore Parkrun #126 (65) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chip time 1 Mick Moynihan 1 00:21:12 8 Fiona Bane 1 00:23:21 Crusaders AC runner 8 Fiona Bane 00:23:21 (1) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/tramore/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=126 Darndale Parkrun #23 (14) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chip time 1 Diarmuid Byrne 1 00:22:09 3 Darina Scully 1 00:23:45 Crusaders AC runners 1 Diarmuid Byrne 00:22:09 3 Darina Scully 00:23:45 (1) 5 Maria Pertl 00:26:53 (2) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/darndale/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=23 Cabinteely Parkrun #167 (118) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chip time 1 Ted Burke 1 00:19:08 18 Christine Hannelly 1 00:23:22 Crusaders AC runners 4 Eddie Nugent 00:19:38 82 Orlaith de Burca 00:29:22 (25) 83 Lisa Shine 00:29:22 (26) 84 Paul Kelly 00:29:23 107 Emma O’Mahony 00:34:32 (41) 112 Mairin Shine 00:37:10 (44) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=167 Father Collins Parkrun #143 (82) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Stephen Butler 1 00:17:07 11 Grainne Quinn 1 00:22:20 Crusaders AC runner 6 Matt Cranley 00:20:37 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/fathercollins/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=143 Knocknacarra Parkrun #207 (83) Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Conor Dolan 1 00:19:38 3 Catherine Thornton 1 00:19:57 Crusaders AC runner 3 Catherine Thornton 00:19:57 (1) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/knocknacarra/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=207 Comments are closed.
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