To begin the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Monday twentieth January).
Newly-crowned Dublin masters champion Fiona Roche (Raheny Shamrock, W40) added one other title to her assortment when successful the ladies’s race at the Leinster Grasp Cross-Nation Championships, held in Kilcormac, Co Offaly on Saturday (January 18).
Roche gained the race in a time of 14 minutes 24 secs with Karen Costello (Dunleer AC, W45) second in 14:30, Noreen Brouder (Sportsworld, W45) third in 14:39 and ultra-running specialist Sorcha Loughnane (Donore Harriers W45) fourth in 14:43.
Sportsworld had been clear W35 staff winners forward of Donore Harriers and Dunboyne AC. Better of the W50 groups was Raheny Shamrock, with Mullingar Harriers second and Rathfarnham WSAF third, Successful the lads’s race in 22 minutes 50 secs was Pierce Geoghegan (Liffey Valley AC, M40). Harry Lupton (Ballyskenach AC, M35) was second in 23.08 and Mick Gogarty (Ferbane AC, M45) third in 23:12.
Drogheda and District, led by Colin Leonard in fourth place, was the successful M35 staff, with Raheny Shamrock AC second and Ballyskenach AC third. Liffey Valley AC was fourth. Croghan AC gained the M50 staff title by simply three factors from Raheny Shamrock, with Metro St Brigid’s third. Within the M65 race, Liam Lenehan (Sportsworld AC) was the winner in 14:51, with Tommy Payne (Tinryland AC) an in depth second in 14:55 and Conor Nolan (Kilcoole AC) third in 15:23. No membership groups accomplished the race.
The successful didn’t finish there
Additionally happening had been the Leinster Intermediate championships, with Evelyn Coughlan (Tullamore Harriers) a cushty winner of the ladies’s race in 17:58. Aoife Carroll (Sportsworld AC) was second in 18:30, Susan Glennon (Mullingar Harriers) third in 18:40 and Elaine Kennedy (Sportsworld AC) fourth in 19:01.
With 4 within the prime twelve, Sportsworld gained the staff title from Mullingar Harriers, with Liffey Valley third.
Kevin Minnock (Tullamore Harriers) gained the lads’s race in 27:03, adopted by Mark Naylor (Liffey Valley AC) in 27:15 and James Keegan (Mullingar Harriers) in 27:19. Mullingar Harriers was first staff, with Liffey Valley second and Tullamore Harriers third.
Total, Dublin made a clear sweep of the eight county titles on supply — in the over 35, 50 and 60/65 women and men’s masters age teams and the 2 inter races.
Liz Arkins exhibiting off her vintage 30-year previous ’spikes” – which she wore in the Garda St Raphael’s BHAA Cross-Nation race! Photograph: Lindie Naughton
Much more cross nation
Templemore Sports activities Advanced in Co Derry was the venue for the NI and Ulster Masters and Intermediate Cross-Nation, additionally on Saturday.
Within the males’s masters race, Eoin Mullan (Omagh Harriers, M40) was the winner in 25 minutes 24 secs, adopted by John Joe Doherty (Finn Valley, M35) in 25:43 and Conán McCaughey (North Belfast Harriers, M35) third in 25:46. Seventh and first M50 in 27:10 was Declan Reed (Metropolis of Derry Spartans).
Ending 14th and first M55 was the ageless Pauric McKinney (Inishowen) in 28:50. First M60 was Eamonn Monaghan (Enniskillen RC) in 31:55. North Belfast Harriers had been clear winer of the M35 staff title, forward of Foyle Valley and Metropolis of Derry Spartans. Spartans gained the M50 staff title with Inishowen AC second and Annadale Striders third.
Successful the M65 race was Norman Mawhinney (Scrabo Striders) in 15:19. Martin Kerr (Milford AC) was first M70 and Michael Smith (Laragh AC) first M75 inn 20:38. North Belfast Harriers was the successful M65 staff, with Metropolis of Derry Spartans second and Tir Chonaill third.
Extra age classes than time itself
Sarah McNutt (North Belfast Harriers, W35) gained the ladies’s masters race in 14:22 beating Helen McCready (Rosses AC, W40) second in 14:27 and Leoni Cooke (Finn Valley, W35) third in 14:52. Fourth and first W50 was Karen Wilson (Jog Lisburn) in 15:39. Fifth and first W45 was Fionnuala Diver (Rosses AC) in 15:50. Fiona Prue (Springwell AC) was first W55, Kay Byrne (Finn Valley) first W60 and June McMinn (North Down AC) first W65.
Successful the W35 staff title was North Belfast Harriers with Rosses AC simply three factors behind for second and Finn Valley third. Metropolis of Derry Spartans took a closely-fought W50 staff title forward of North Down.
Annadale Striders dominated the ladies’s inter race with Catriona Edington the winner in 14:55, adopted by her clubmate Lucy Backus in 14:58 and Kirsty Downey (Inishowen AC) third in 16:06. With Zoe Trimble fifth and Deborah Gilliland ninth, Annadale had been clear winners of the staff title. Preserve ‘er Lit was second and Inishowen third.
Mark Carberry (North Down AC) raced away for a simple win within the males’s inter race, with a time of 26:40. Hugo Reilly-Stewart (North Belfast Harriers) was second in 27:18 and Ashley Dixon (North Down AC) third in 27:24. With six within the prime ten, North Down gained the staff title. Armagh AC was a distant second and North Belfast Harriers third.
Photograph: Lindie Naughton
Final, however not least, BHAA cross nation
BHAA ‘regulars’ Laura McDonnell and Sean Doran had been the winners at the Garda St Raphael’s BHAA Cross-Nation, held on the ‘Munich hills’ course on the Phoenix Park on Sunday (January 19).
First off had been the ladies, with McDonnell pushing the tempo from the beginning regardless of sturdy opposition from Caroline Crowley and Julie McGrath. They completed in that order. Income took the staff prize with Academics second.
Within the males’s race, Doran proved the category of the sector successful by over fifty seconds from Thomas Sherlock with Marc Fitzachery ending third and first M45. ESB was first staff in division 1 and Eir the winners in division 2.
Photograph: Lindie Naughton
Roads
Main house 356 finishers at the Cork BHAA IFF 5km at Little Island on Sunday (January 19) was Ben Leen Smith in a time of 15 minutes 4 secs. Mark Walsh was second in 15:15 and Tadhg O’Sullivan third in 15:20.
First lady in 17:38 was Michelle Kenny who was additionally first W45. Linda O’Connor was second and first W50 in 18:17, and Breeda McGinn third and first W40 in 19:04. Within the staff competitors. Division of Training gained each grade A women and men’s races. The Eli Lilly males and the HSE girls gained in grade B , with the Apple males and Fit4Life girls finest in grade C.
At the Nice Heath GAA 10km in Co Laois, additionally on Sunday, Andrew O’Brien in 34:14 and Sharon Kiely in 41:36 got here out on prime, whereas on the Limerick Race Collection 5km in Castleconnell, David Meehan in 15 minutes 50 and Dee Collins in 17:51 had been the winners.
Indoors
At the BMC Sheffield Grand Prix, additionally on Sunday, Sean Tobin (Clonmel AC) completed second the the lads’s A grade 3000m with a time of seven:51.39
Jonas Stafford (UCD AC) completed fifth within the 1500m A race with a time of three:48.73.
Amy O’Donoghue (Dundrum South Dublin) was additionally fifth in her girls’s A graded 1500m, clocking a time of 4:19.19.
Andrew Milligan (North Belfast Harriers) clocked 8:15.44 for second place within the grade C 1500m. Within the girls’s A grade 3000m, Niamh Kearney (Raheny Shamrock) completed fifth in 9:17.40.
In the NIA, Abbotstown, at Monitor & Area Dwell No 4, NIA, Abbotstown, Dublin on Wednesday (January 15), Edel Monaghan (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) gained the ladies’s mile in 4:46.37. Grasp athlete Fiona Gettings (Longford AC) was second in 5:02.00 and Amy Inexperienced (Finn Valley AC/DCU) third in 5:08.332. Emma Moore (DCU) gained the ladies’s 800m in a private finest 2:05.94. Cian McPhillips (Longford AC), winner of the 1500m on the European U20 Championships of 2021, gained the 600m in 1:17.52.
All flying over the pond
At the Houston Half Marathon, Peter Lynch (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) ran a private finest 61:15 to completed nineteenth. His earlier finest time of 63:22 was run in Houston two years in the past. Final October. Lynch clocked a time of two:17.40 on the Chicago Marathon.
Simply seven seconds behind Lynch with a time of 61:22 was Barry Keane (Waterford AC), who completed twenty seventh. That point improved on the 62:35 Keane had run in Boston final November. Ending second M45 was Karl O’Reilly a former senior footballer from Co Meath, with a time of 74:01.
Shay McEvoy (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) has joined the unique sub-4 minute milers membership when he clocked 3:58.48 for third place within the mile at the Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville on Friday (January 17) the place he was representing his school, Tulsa Oklahoma. He turns into the third Kilkenny athlete to run a sub 4-minute mile becoming a member of Eoin Everard and Cathal O’Reilly in that unique membership.
On the identical meet, McEvoy ran a time of 8:13.46 to complete sixth within the 3000m. Oisin Spillane (Tralee Harriers) additionally ran 3000m, clocking a private finest 8:34.04, whereas within the girls’s 1,000m, Sarah Hosey (Emeald AC) ran a private finest 2:51.17.
In Seattle, Maebh Richardson (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) improved her PB to 9 minutes 22.77 secs when ending fifteenth within the girls’s 3000m at the UW Preview meet held on January 17-18 on an ‘outsized’ observe. Within the males’s mile, Ronan McMahon-Staggs (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) ran a time of three:51.85 for third place, whereas within the heats, Mark Milner (Tullamore Harriers) clocked 3:56.90 for seventh place general. Each instances had been private bests.
Finn Boyle (Crusaders) was operating in Ithaca, New York on Saturday the place he ran a PB 2:27.38 for 1,000m, whereas in Philadelphia, Charlie O’Donovan (Leevale AC) gained a 3000m race in 8:05.85, nicely off his finest of seven:46.57 courting again to 2023.
Additionally on Saturday, in Iowa Metropolis, Roisin Treacy from Co Wicklow ran a private better of 4:51.45 when ending sixth within the girls’s mile.
