On Wednesday evening a fair number from the club headed over to Tallaght to participate in the 8th Graded meet of the season there. Alix Hughes took part in the women’s 100m (A, B&C) and placed 2nd in a time of 13.35, whilst in the same mixed grades for the 400m, Mary Horgan took first place in 60.27, followed by Lesley-Ann Doughan in 4th in a PB time of 64.59. Again, with combined A,B and C grades, Darina Scully and Kate Murray joined a dozen other athletes in the 3,000m, with Darina finishing in 11th in 11:56.65 and Kate in 13th in 12:20.57. A new 1 mile event was added to the programme and this attracted Fiona and Lisa Shine who ran in the combined grades event. Fiona took 3rd place in 5:32.72 and Lisa came home in 5th in 5:56.13. The men were well-represented too. In the first of 3 events in which he participated on the night, Frank Halligan ran in the 400m C race 2, placing 6th in 62.78, whilst Kieron Sexton placed 4th in the A race 2 in 52.49. Then, in the men’s 3000m combined B&C grades Frank placed 4th in 9:56.24, followed by Joe McDermott with a PB to place 6th in 10:10.23 and Brendan Glynn who also recorded a PB, coming home in 15th place in a time of 11:26.63. In the men’s A event for the same distance Brian O’Kelly ran 9:05.26 to place 4th, with Michael Kiely taking 11th spot in a time of 9:16.36. Finally, in the men’s mile event (B&C grades) Brian Carroll took first place in 5:03.17, followed home by Frank in 4th (5:10.65), Niall McGeorge, 7th (5:24.73) and Paul Kelly, 12th (7:42.80).
Over the weekend, Patrick Gilceava competed for Ireland in the Celtic Games International held at Morton Stadium, placing 3rd in the U18 long jump and then participating in the 2nd placed 4x100m relay team. Many congratulations to him. On Bank Holiday Monday morning at least a dozen Crusaders took on the DLR Bay 10k. The morning was bathed in sunshine, but it was quite windy, with the wind providing more refreshment probably than resistance on what is considered quite a challenging course with several climbs in the first half after a start in Sandycove, a long steep downhill section in the second half and an uphill finish along the seafront to the roundabout at Dun Laoghaire station. The race attracted nearly 1,250 runners and was won by John Coghlan (30:44) who gradually wore out Freddie Sittuk (31:16) in his 3rd race in as many days. In a race plagued by several attempts by car drivers to breach the barriers (one nearly came onto the course in front of John Coghlan just as he was turning onto the seafront at Sandycove and the driver was roundly verbally savaged by the lead Garda motorcyclist) Rob Cross was our first man home in a super 4th place behind another Limerick athlete Colm Turner, having enjoyed a good battle with Colm and Brian O’Kelly (33:43) who took 5th spot, well ahead of the 6th-place finisher (Raheny’s Brian Leahy). Both Rob and Brian are preparing for the Berlin marathon in September. Dominick Branigan, still testing out his ankle after being knocked off his bike a couple of weeks back and preparing for the Dublin marathon, enjoyed an excellent run (35th in 39:07) and he was followed by Dave Carter (71st in 41:26), working his way back to fitness (as evidenced a couple of days earlier in his improving parkrun form). Gian Piero Allerta, also a runner taking care after injury, took 97th spot in 43:14, and he was followed home by Russell Murphy (336th in 49:05). Olwyn Dunne was next on the back of a really long Sunday run (349th overall, 51st female, in 49:25), followed by Gavan Doherty (429th in 50:25), another in marathon training and having completed a decent long run on Sunday. Similarly, Stephen Mulligan, another long distance runner, was next (436th in 52:03), followed by Neil Brown (467th in 52:20), Siobhan Russell, another marathoner, (599th overall, 146th female, in a PB time of 55:14), John Fitzsimons (Jr) (797th in 58:52) and Jean Devlin, also in training for the marathon (823rd overall, 242nd female, in 59:39). The women’s race was particularly interesting, with the first 3 finishers (Michelle Cox, Aoife O’Leary and Zoe Quinn) separated by only 9 seconds, the winning time being 39:07. On the long distance front, (after participating again in the Coomera parkrun, running 24:08 and placing 32nd overall, 5th female, in the 100-strong event) Kris Ryan ran in the Brisbane marathon, coming home in 3:50, her fastest run for that particular event, whilst Leo Lundy ran in two races, the second of which, on the Monday, marked his 200th marathon. His 199th was in the EOI marathon held in Stapleton, Co. Kildare, which Leo described as slow and painful, followed by the 200th in the Celtic Warrior marathon in Co. Meath. Many congratulations to Leo on the achievement. Visually-impaired triathlete Donnacha McCarthy and his partner, Dave Tilly, excelled themselves over the weekend and, after an extremely tough swim and tandem bike ride they won the National Paratriathlon Championships. It was extremely well-deserved after their dedicated training together. In truly Irish weather conditions Federico Corradini, our Cru exile in Italy, took on the open standard of the World Mountain Running Championships in Premana in Northern Italy (the Giiri di Mont) over the weekend. On the 32km course, with a climb of more than 2.5km, Federico recorded a laudable time of 5:03. There was only one mountain race In Ireland during the week on which to report. On Wednesday evening Brian McGuckin travelled down to run Devil’s Glen near Ashford in Co. Wicklow to take part in a race of 8.5km on relatively easy terrain with a climb of under 300m. Brian placed 21st out of 129 runners in an event which was won by Liffey Valley’s Mike McCarthy (32:53). In the parkruns on Saturday, we had singleton runners in 7 of the 8 events in which our clubmates participated. The odd one out was St. Anne’s which saw John Fitzsimons, only 3 weeks before his 80th birthday, record a time of 27:00, placing 181st in the field of nearly 400 runners. John was followed by his daughter Lorraine (289th overall, 101st female, in 31:40) and Maria Pertl, another runner only weeks from a major milestone (!) (323rd overall, 118th female, in 34:23). So, elsewhere, Kate Murray placed 62nd (4th female) in 22:29 in the nearly 360-strong field in Marlay Park. Brendan Kieran continues to push his times lower in Hartstown. Brendan joined 73 other runners, to place 18th in 23:35. Dominick Branigan showed that he is in better shape than he thought, recording 18:38 to place first finisher in Sligo ahead of a field of 60 runners. Dave Carter, likewise, continues to push his times down, as he placed 6th in Cabinteely (20:35) in a field of 93 runners. Kevin Flynn jogged round Castlehaven, placing 34th out of nearly 60 runners in 32:02, whilst Denis Murphy took on Dungloe, finishing in 3rd place out of 50 in 21:08. Finally, newcomer Brian Scanlan, also ran well to place 2nd out of 80 runners in River Valley. Brian’s time was 19:21. DLR Bay 10K Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 John Coghlan 1 00:30:44 31 Michelle Cox 1 00:39:07 Crusaders AC runners 4 Rob Cross 00:33:36 5 Brian O’Kelly 00:33:43 35 Dominick Branigan 00:39:07 71 David Carter 00:41:26 97 Gian Piero Allerta 00:43:14 336 Russell Murphy 00:49:05 349 Olwyn Dunne 00:49:25 (51) 429 Gavan Doherty 00:50:25 436 Stephen Mulligan 00:52:03 467 Neil Brown 00:52:20 599 Siobhan Russell 00:55:14 (PB) (146) 797 John Fitzsimons 00:58:52 823 Jean Devlin 00:59:39 (242) Full results here: https://www.myrunresults.com/events/dlr_bay_10k/2147/results Marlay Parkrun #219 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Louis McCarthy 1 00:15:59 29 Sarah Baryga 1 00:20:35 Crusaders AC runner 62 Kate Murray 00:22:29 (4) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/marlay/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=219 Hartstown Parkrun #142 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 John Maguire 1 00:18:22 11 Elaine McLoughlin 1 00:21:45 Crusaders AC runner 18 Brendan Kieran 00:23:35 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/lhartstown/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=142 Sligo Parkrun #130 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Dominick Branigan 1 00:18:38 13 Aisling Layden 1 00:22:30 Crusaders AC runner 1 Dominick Branigan 00:18:38 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/sligo/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=130 St Anne’s Parkrun #193 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Bernard Roe 1 00:16:38 35 Adrienne Atkins 1 00:21:15 Crusaders AC runners 181 John Fitzsimons 00:27:00 289 Lorraine Fitzsimons 00:31:40 (101) 323 Maria Pertl 00:34:23 (118) Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/stannes/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=193 Cabinteely Parkrun #123 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 unknown 1 00:19:32 28 Ciara Brady 1 00:24:27 Crusaders AC runner 6 David Carter 00:20:35 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/cabinteely/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=123 Castlehaven Parkrun #82 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Tim Lunnon 1 00:19:46 7 Aine Dillon 1 00:24:33 Crusaders AC runner 34 Kevin Flynn 00:32:02 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/castlehaven/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=82 Dungloe Parkrun #75 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Mark McComish 1 00:19:10 2 Amy Greene 1 00:21:07 Crusaders AC runner 3 Denis Murphy 00:21:08 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/dungloe/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=75 River Valley Parkrun #54 Overall place Name Cat. Place Chiptime 1 Liam Roarty 1 00:17:28 13 Geraldine McGonagle 1 00:24:11 Crusaders AC runner 2 Brian Scanlan 00:19:21 Full results here: http://www.parkrun.ie/rivervalley/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=54 Comments are closed.
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