Phew! What a Weekend Scorcher

25/8/2019

Italo Giancaterina, Seamus Moore, Rob Browne, Paul Dempsey and Ciaran Diviney

There is a good chance that we walked away on Saturday with a good bit of brass from the Frank Duffy 10 mile race, incorporating the Dublin 10-mile Championships, with both our men’s and women’s senior and men’s O/35 teams well in the mix for medals. We also picked up several individual medals in the race that was held on its traditional hilly 2 loop (one major, one minor) course taking in most of the roads in the park in what for Ireland was the warmest of conditions. There was a nice refreshing breeze in places, notably running along the southern wall of the park taking in the Military Road and the Wellesley Monument in the 2nd mile and then again in the 7th mile coming down Chesterfield Ave, but overall it was a toughish day in the office. Still, there was a super atmosphere with nearly 4000 competitors and as usual Crusaders supporters were brilliantly vocal and well placed to help us along when we needed it. It was a super turnout from the club with nearly 50 runners finishing the race, well-noted by the race organisers who thanked us for our participation.

The race was won by Yared Derese in 49:05 and he more or less led from the gun, with Mick Clohisey finishing about 30 seconds back, at least with the satisfaction of having beaten last year’s winner, Welshman Josh Griffiths, into 3rd place. Breege Connolly won the women’s race, her second of this year’s Dublin Race Series. First across the line for the club was Brendan Murphy, in preparation, like many of us in the race, for the Dublin marathon, his first. Brendan took 14th place and silver O/35 medal in a super time of 55:40. He was followed by the ever-dependable Italo Giancaterina (17th in 56:10) who seems to win a medal every time he competes! Along with Ciaran Diviney (33rd and 3rd M45 overall, but 2nd in the age category in Dublin, in 58:26) and Rob Cross alongside in the same time (34th and 4th M45 overall, but, like Ciaran, a medallist (bronze) in the age category in Dublin), our first 4 runners brought home the senior team bronze medal (3 of them being masters). Our next 3 runners, Warren Swords (39th in a PB time of 59:17), Joe McDermott (52nd in 60:09) and Seamus Moore (64th in a PB time of 61:34 and likely 4th M40 in Dublin), all of whom are masters, picked up the O/35 team silver medal. Next over the line came Paul Dempsey (70th in 62:00), followed by Dee Lawlor (73rd in 62:05), Rob Browne (83rd in a PB time of 62:31) and Joe Walsh (90th in 62:47) to complete a total of 11 runners in the top 100 male finishers. Graham Crowley also had a super race, his first 10-miler, placing 117th in 64:02 and following a steady pace strategy, and he was followed by Karl Walsh (150th in 66:04). The first of our female runners was next. Kiera Roche ran extremely well, taking up the pace in the second half of the race and storming through the field to place 186th overall, 10th woman finisher and 2nd senior in the Dublin Championships. Behind Kiera came James Cottle who enjoyed an epic battle with Brendan Ryan of Tallaght over the first seven miles, the lead for the M60 age category changing hands several times. James eventually had to settle for 2nd place overall in the age category (and 2nd in Dublin), coming home in 199th place in 68:08. Just behind James came Paul McNamara, like Graham another debutant at the distance and also, like Graham and others, training for the marathon. Paul placed 201st in 68:10. Catherine Thornton was our next female runner across the line in 212th place overall, nursing a couple of niggles but still managing to place 12th in the women’s race and pick up senior individual bronze in the Dublin Championships. With Grainne Regan (524th overall and 52nd female finisher in 74:35) and Alma Hanevy (538th overall and 55th woman in 75:37), our first 4 women finishers picked up the senior team silver in Dublin. There were PBs for Cormac McGuire (394th in 72:47) and Paul F. Kelly (515th in 74:46), whose wife, Aoife, was everywhere on the course, and Alessandro Nappi (704th in 77:35, his first 10 miler). Other notable places in the Dublin Championships were earned by Kate Murray (823rd overall, 118th woman and likely 4th F45, in 79:46), Olwyn Dunne (909th and 173rd and likewise likely 4th F50, in 80:47) and Triona Quill (1,041st overall and 173rd and likely 5th F50 in 82:33), who unfortunately suffered from an upset stomach for most of the race. Top 250 places in the women’s race went also to Dee Ni Chearbhaill (645th and 72nd in 77:05), Ciara Lynch (807th and 114th in 78:53), Jemma Lyons (827th and 120th in 79:08), Maria del Carmen Jimenez Campos (867th and 129th in 78:27), Isabelle Cairns (895th and 132nd in 80:23), Susie Keeling (1159th and 207th in 82:29), Joanne Carey (1168th and 212th in 83:47) and Miriam Logan (1260th and 235th in 84:57) who made the race part of her long run in her marathon training.

On Sunday, Maurice Kelter, another marathoner in training, returned to his native Kerry where he took part in the Rose of Tralee 10k. In a field of 479, Maurice placed 11th in a PB time of 38:25 on the back of little sleep. Also on Sunday we had several participants in the various races on offer in Longford, principally the marathon, the half marathon and the marathon relay. In warm and humid conditions as experienced all around the country, we had at least 2 runners in the marathon. Kenan Furlong placed 41st in 3:16:36, whilst Gian Piero Allerta took 74th place in 3;38:31. The field totalled 218 runners. Then, in the half marathon we had at least 5 runners in a field of 489 finishers. Ger Forde led our contingent home in 6th place in a PB time of 1:15:09 and he was also 3rd in his age category, whilst John Mulvihill followed closely behind in 7th place also with a PB in 1:15:52 (an improvement from his recent PB at the Rock and Roll half). Bob Cahill was next, in 36th place with a time of 1:29:45 and he was followed by the husband and wife team of John Lohan and Tara Murphy, with John taking 71st spot in 1:34:50 and Tara, 190th overall (38th female and 3rd F50) in 1:49:34. We also had runners in the relay. The first of the teams finished 3rd overall in 3:20:07 and included John Thuillier. Next, Lisa Shine's team finished 5th overall in 3:22:08. Patrick Saunders' and Paul Kelly’s team finished 6th in 3:27:05. Orlaith de Burca and Mari Hansen ran on the team that finished 7th in 3:31:04. Finally, Fiona, Anna and Mairin Shine's team finished 13th in 3:50:12.

Members will be interested to hear that Sean Murphy, the United Strider athlete who trains with us, and who is in marathon training, came home in 3rd place in a field of 176 in the Oylegate Half Marathon in Theoil Co. Wexford on Sunday. Sean's time was a decent 1:22:00. he was joined by his wife, Dee Ni Chearbhaill, who used the race as a training long run following Saturday's 10-miler. In hot and humid conditions and despite taking it handy, Dee came home in 99th place overall (17th female finisher and 5th in her age cat) in a time of 1:53:39. Also, Dublin Front Runners' Lydia Bigley who trains with us and is currently working in Berlin, ran in the Berlin half marathon on Sunday, recording a PB time of 1:45:55 and 9th in her age category in conditions that were even warmer than Ireland's (around 27 degrees).

Brian O’Kelly continued his winning ways on Saturday morning, albeit in a more leisurely way than usual, when he was first finisher in the Fairview parkrun in 18:47. Stephen Hurley also finished first in Poolbeg in 17:46 and he was followed home by at least 12 other members of the club on a day when participation was lower than usual, possibly because of the Frank Duffy. Podium places went to Barry O’Mahony in Enniskillen where he placed 3rd in 19:12, and to Peter O’Toole who also placed 3rd in Waterworks in Belfast in 18:05. In the Antipodes, our Australian exile Kris Ryan took 3rd place (24th overall in a field of 236) in Paradise Point, Queensland. Elsewhere, Brian Scanlan paced in Malahide, finishing in 30th place in 21:35, whilst Jonathan Sykes took 71st spot in Marlay in 22:43. Emer Kenny celebrate her birthday by running in St Anne’s where she placed 146th overall, 16th woman, in 24:58. Further afield, we had two runners in Scotland. Aidan Hudner ran in Pollok Park in Glasgow where n a field of 452 he placed 54th in 23:18, whilst Andrej Kujikis ran in Edinburgh with 793 other runners, placing 345th in 25:41. Mairead Cashman ran in Bushy Park where she placed 128th and 32nd in 30:02, whilst in Longford we had several runners preparing for Sunday’s marathon relay race. Lisa Shine placed 34th and 7th in 27:53, followed by Orlaith de Burca (43rd and 13th in 29:40) and Mairin Shine (74th and 28th in 36:24). Finally, those runners who followed Steven home in Poolbeg were: David Timoney (10th in 20:01), Zlatko Kulic (11th in 20:30), Diarmuid Byrne (38th in 22:53), Fiona Bane (64th and 12th in 24:31), Ali May Hann (70th and 13th in 24:51), Sharon Woods (71st and 14th in the same time), Maria Pertl (84th and 18th in 25;59), Aoife Clarke (85th and 19th in 26:00), Darina Scully (95th and 23rd in 26;370, Cathal Murphy (100th in 26:49), Karla Woods (130th and 43rd in 29:27) and Mari Hansen (134th and 47th in 30:01).

Frank Duffy (Dublin Championships) 10 mile (3930)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Yared Derese 1 00:49:05
36 Breege Connolly 1 00:58:29
Crusaders AC runners
14 Brendan Murphy 00:55:40
17 Italo Giancaterina 00:56:10
33 Ciaran Diviney 00:58:26
34 Rob Cross 00:58:28
39 Warren Swords 00:59:17 (PB)
52 Joe McDermott 01:00:09
64 Seamus Moore 01:01:34 (PB)
70 Paul Dempsey 01:02:00
72 James Moran 01:01:56
73 Dee Lawlor 01:02:05
83 Rob Browne 01:02:31 (PB)
90 Joe Walsh 01:02:47
117 Graham Crowley 01:04:02 (PB)
150 Karl Walsh 01:06:04
186 Kiera Roche 01:07:38 (10)
199 James Cottle 01:08:08
201 Paul McNamara 01:08:10 (PB)
212 Catherine Thornton 01:08:41 (12)
394 Cormac McGuire 01:12:47 (PB)
404 Kevin Lambe 01:12:41
476 Dave Carter 01:14:17
504 Mark Swan 01:14:46
515 Paul F. Kelly 01:14:46 (PB)
524 Grainne Regan 01:14:35 (52)
538 Alma Hanevy 01:15:37 (55)
625 Damien Fitzgibbon 01:16:11
645 Dee Ni Chearbhaill 01:17:05 (72)
684 Robbie Moore 01:17:35
704 Alessandro Nappi 01:17:35 (PB)
775 Joe Dunne 01:19:10
807 Ciara Lynch 01:18:53 (114)
823 Kate Murray 01:19:46 (118)
827 Jemma Lyons 01:19:08 (120)
849 Phelim Murray 01:14:56
867 Maria del Carmen Jimenez Campos 01:18:27 (129)
895 Isabelle Cairns 01:20:23 (132)
909 Olwyn Dunne 01:20:47 (137)
984 Dave Tuohy 01:16:27
1041 Triona Quill 01:22:33 (173)
1159 Susie Keeling 01:22:29 (207)
1168 Joanne Carey 01:23:47 (212)
1260 Miriam Logan 01:24:57 (235)
1412 Donal Foley 01:26:30
1584 Paul Bradshaw 01:23:36 (PB) (345)
1695 Russell Murphy 01:30:12
1826 Colin Maguire 01:27:02
2965 Lucy Collender 01:46:55 (1025)
3241 Lakshmi Prasad Venkatarame Gowda 01:04:46
3561 Iseult Ni Chuinneagain 01:15:12 (1432)
Full results here: https://www.tdleventservices.co.uk/event-results/events
Longford Marathon (218)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Barry Sheil 1 02:36:27
32 Niamh Kiernan 03:12:28
Crusaders AC runners
41 Kenan Furlong 03:16:36
74 Gian Piero Allerta 03:38:31
Full results here: http://longfordmarathon.com/results/
Longford Half Marathon (489)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Brendan Conway 1 01:11:44
17 Adrianna Mulligan 1 01:22:54
Crusaders AC runners
6 Ger Forde 01:15:09 (PB)
7 John Mulvihill 01:15:52 (PB)
36 Bob Cahill 01:29:45
71 John Lohan 01:34:50
190 Tara Murphy 01:49:34 (38)
Full results here: http://longfordmarathon.com/results/?year=2019&marathon=half&gender=&category=
Rose of Tralee 10k (479)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Conor O'Mahony 1 00:32:51
22 Deirdre Nagle 1 00:39:43
Crusaders AC runner
11 Maurice Kelter 00:38:25 (PB)
Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/rose_of_tralee_10k/3128/results
IMRA Mountain Rescue Benefit (96)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Guntime
1 Killian Mooney 1 00:30:31
8 Harriette Robinson 00:37:17
Crusaders AC runners
88 Berndt Heim 01:00:24
89 Emily Glen 01:00:27 (25)
Full results here: https://www.imra.ie/events/view/id/1795
Waterworks Belfast Parkrun #463 (212)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Joe McAlister 1 00:16:43
15 Geraldine McCotter 1 00:20:42
Crusaders AC runner
3 Peter O’Toole 00:18:05
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/waterworks/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=463
Marlay Parkrun #316 (506)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Eoghan Keaney 1 00:17:05
12 Harriette Robinson 1 00:19:17
Crusaders AC runner
71 Jonathan Sykes 00:22:43
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=316
Bushy Dublin Parkrun #131 (204)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Ciaran O Meachair 1 00:19:12
11 Eimear O’Brien 1 00:21:11
Crusaders AC runner
128 Mairead Cashman 00:30:02 (32)
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/bushydublin/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=131
Fairview Parkrun #108 (107)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Brian O’Kelly 1 00:18:47
14 Mairead O’Doherty 1 00:23:22
Crusaders AC runner
1 Brian O’Kelly 00:18:47
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/fairview/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=108
Poolbeg Parkrun #105 (177)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Stephen Hurley 1 00:17:46
24 Emer O’Connell 1 00:21:30
Crusaders AC runners
1 Stephen Hurley 00:17:46
10 David Timoney 00:20:01
11 Zlatko Kulic 00:20:30
38 Diarmuid Byrne 00:22:53
64 Fiona Bane 00:24:31 (12)
70 Ali May Hann 00:24:51 (13)
71 Sharon Woods 00:24:51 (14)
84 Maria Pertl 00:25:59 (18)
85 Aoife Clarke 00:26:00 (19)
95 Darina Scully 00:26:37 (23)
100 Cathal Murphy 00:26:49
130 Karla Woods 00:29:27 (43)
134 Mari Hansen 00:30:01 (47)
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/poolbeg/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=105
Malahide Parkrun #355 (338)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Paul Gleeson 1 00:17:43
23 Jo Ryder 1 00:20:30
Crusaders AC runner
30 Brian Scanlan 00:21:35
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/malahide/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=355
Enniskillen Parkrun #319 (99)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Dave Slater 1 00:18:34
14 Irene Clements 1 00:21:35
Crusaders AC runner
3 Barry O’Mahony 00:19:12
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/enniskillen/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=319
St. Anne’s Parkrun #296 (489)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Alan Maher 1 00:17:12
34 Eileen O’Toole 1 00:20:59
Crusaders AC runner
146 Emer Kenny 00:24:58 (16)
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=296
Longford Parkrun #171 (95)
Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime
1 Shane Grehan 1 00:19:36
11 Karen Farry 1 00:24:30
Crusaders AC runners
34 Lisa Shine 00:27:53
43 Orlaith de Burca 00:29:40 (13)
74 Mairin Shine 00:36:24 (28)
Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/longford/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=171

Brendan Murphy

Catherine Thornton

Ciaran Diviney

Paula Bradshaw, Maria del Carmen Jimenez Campos, Mark Swan, Olwyn Dunne, Kevin Lambe, Grainne Regan, Paul McNamara, Joanne Carey, Gerry Nolan, Miriam Logan and Joe Dunne