To begin the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Monday twenty seventh Might).
Street efficiency of the week got here on Tuesday (Might 21) when Pierre Murchan (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) made it 4 wins from 4 outings within the Peugeot Sequence when profitable the Bob Heffernan and Mary Hanley 5km, in Enfield, Co Meath,
Though he should have felt barely weary after his victory in the Tullamore spherical of the sequence simply two days earlier, Murchan, already winner of Sequence 1, nonetheless nailed down a stable victory in 14 minutes 27 secs. He was taking residence the highest prize of €1,500 with a race to spare Conor Duffy (Glaslough Harriers) was second in 14.41 – simply making the road forward of Aaron Hanlon (Drogheda and District AC) who was given the identical time in third place.
First girl was junior athlete Emma McEvoy of Dundrum South Dublin in 16 minutes precisely McEvoy, just lately returned from damage, held off the problem of her membership mate Grace Lynch, second in 16:08 . Subsequent got here Tullamore Harriers sisters, Nadine and Danielle Donegan who completed in 16: 12 and 16:13 respectively. Within the crew competitors, DSD gained each the women and men’s classes in addition to the general combined class for the sequence.
* The Dunshaughlin 10km (bought out!) is the ultimate race in Sequence 1. After that, the distances get longer for the following 4 races.
Some runaway winners
David Rooney (Raheny Shamrock AC) was the winner of the LSA Peninsula 4-Mile in Donabate, Co Dublin, on Sunday (Might 26).
Rooney completed effectively away from the sector in 20 minutes 15 secs. Second in 21:59 was Anthony Brady (Coolock RC) whereas third in 22:16 was Pearse Ryan (Donore Harriers). First girl in 26:45 was Katie Halpin (Clonliffe Harriers) . Geraldine McHale (Lusk AC) was second in 27:08 and Aneta Maher third in 27:46.
Runaway winner of the Wilkinstown 5km in Co Meath was Peter Somba (Ratoath AC) in a time of 15 minutes 32 secs. Second and first girl in 17:40 was Nicola Sheridan, whereas third in 18:12 was Evan Scully.
In Co Meath, Tom Feely (Trim AC, M40) in 27:17 and U16 athlete Emily Fagan in 34:27 have been the winners at the Culmullen Run 5-Mile.
Louis McCarthy (Rathfarnham WSAF AC, M40) was the winner of the Newry Metropolis 10km in a time of 32 minutes 32 secs. First girl in 38:07 was Kate Mulholland (St Peter’s AC). Within the half marathon the winners have been Andy Nevin in 71:22 and Sinead Murtagh (Newcastle AC, W40) in 87:29.
Winners of the Marconi 5-Mile have been Stephen McAuley (Ballycastle Runners AC) in 27:12 and Veronica Nellins (Ballymena and Antrim AC, W40) in 35:33.
ESB BHAA Seaside 5km – winner Aidan Jones, Photograph- Lindie Naughton
And listed below are some we ran earlier…
On an ideal night for the race, Aidan Jones made it a house win for organising membership ESB at the annual ESB BHAA Seaside 5km, on Dublin’s Sandymount strand, the place the going was comparatively agency.
Jones, who led the race from early on, completed in 17 minutes 3 secs. Second and first girl was Laura McDonnell in 17:48 whereas third in 18:05 was Colm Murray of the Media crew. Within the crew classes, ESB gained each Grades 1 and a couple of.
Many super-veteran stalwarts of BHAA working had signed up for the run – amongst them Davey Byrne, Irene Walsh, Eileen O’Brien, Joe Delaney, June Comiskey, Mary Kelly, Ciaran McGrath and Matt Cooley; all of them over 60 – at the least! – and an inspiration to the remainder of us!
Subsequent BHAA race is the Dunboyne 10km on Tuesday Might 28.
Junior athlete Diarmuid Fagan (Mullingar Harriers) was a cushty winner on the remaining spherical of the Pat Finnerty 5km Woodland Path League held at Belvedere Home, close to Mullingar on Wednesday (Might 22). His time was 15:43. Fourth and first girl in 16:39 was Laura Kincaid.
General winners of the sequence have been James Keegan and Sinead Whitelaw each of them members of the native membership, Mullingar Harriers.
Declan Ferry in 15:09 and Bernie Boyle in 18:56, each of them members of Rosses AC, have been the winners at the Ayr Hill NS 5km in Ramelton, Co Donegal, on Thursday (Might 23).
Declan Moore, winner of the Kilmallock highway race, receiving the Jim Hogan Perpetual Cup from Mary Murphy, sister of the late Jim. Additionally pictured is Mary’s husband Donal. Photograph: John Walshe
Racing the roads of Munster (by John Walshe)
On Friday evening, on the week that Kilmallock welcomed the riders on the primary stage of this yr’s Rás Tailteann, the native athletic membership staged its annual four-mile highway race.
In supreme circumstances, Declan Moore (Bilboa AC) was a powerful winner, along with his time of 19:31 giving him over a minute on runner-up, Karl Lenihan (West Limerick) who completed in 20:41), with Killian Lynch from the identical membership third in 20:49.
Making it a Bilboa double was Pamela Kirby, who was first girl’s race in 24:41 adopted by Dooneen pair Sinead McDermott second in 27:28 and Louise Matthews third in 27:55.
Alongside along with his prize, Moore obtained the Jim Hogan Perpetual Cup in reminiscence of the locally-born runner who famously gained the 1966 European Marathon whereas representing Nice Britain.
Presenting the cup was Mary Murphy, a sprightly 92-year-old sister of the late Jim.
Additionally on Friday, the Ardmore 5-mile recorded the second-highest turnout in its 27-year historical past with a complete of 226 runners. A repeat of the Cheetah Run 5km the week earlier than noticed the honours going to Sergiu Ciobanu (Clonliffe Harriers) and Kealy Tideswell (Clonmel).
Ciobanu had 12 seconds to spare over Mark Walsh (Leevale AC) when profitable in 25:06 with Pat Fitzgerald (Waterford AC) third in 25:59.
Tideswell continued her profitable methods along with her 28:34 time over two minutes faster than Sarah Mulcahy (St Catherine’s AC) who completed in 31:37. Third went to unattached runner Emma Leahy in 32:17.
On a busy night, Friday additionally noticed the Partitions of Fethard 5km happening in Tipperary, with Mossy Bracken (Moycarkey-Coolcroo AC) in 15:17 having an in depth win over native Emmet McNamara, in 15:20, with third going to Dermot Gorman (Carrick-on-Suir) in 15:57.
Dympna Ryan ( Bilboa AC) , fifth total, was the ladies’s winner in 17:11 from Sharon Kiely (Thurles-Crokes), 18:18, with Ruby Carroll (Clonmel) third in 19:47.
File turnout for the BHAA
There was a file turnout of over a thousand finishers for the annual John Buckley Sports activities Cork BHAA 5km held on its conventional Tuesday night (Might 21) and now on the go for over thirty years. With 24 breaking 16 minutes, the usual was additionally excessive.
Two runners recent from setting 1500m PBs took the honours, with victories going to Darragh Mulcahy and Holly Carroll. Whereas Mulcahy – who ran 4:00.82 at Santry within the Crusaders meet – has additionally been to the fore on the highway with a victory on the Pfizer six-mile, Carroll was considerably of a shock winner.
The 20-year-old Blarney-Inniscarra athlete set her 1500m better of 4:26.71 at Belfast earlier within the month and her time on the Marina course of 16:38 noticed her cross the road with 20 seconds to spare over Sinead O’Connor who was making a welcome return to competitors.
Nonetheless, since Carroll wasn’t registered with Cork BHAA for the race, it was O’Connor (Dept of Schooling) who obtained the primary prize. Michelle Kenny, additionally Dept of Schooling, maintained her constant kind to complete third in 17:31 with Nadine Forde (Cork UH) in fourth receiving the third prize.
The highest three males have been all inside quarter-hour with Mulcahy (Pfizer) first in 14:46 from Jeremiah Sheehan (Dept of Schooling), 14:51, and Shane Collins (Apple) 14:59.
Photograph: James Rhodes
Irish athletes on tour!
Ciara Mageean (Metropolis of Lisburn AC) improved her her personal Irish 800m file when working a time of 1:58.51 for second place at the BMC Meet in Manchester on Saturday (Might 25). Forward of her was 17 yr outdated Phoebe Gill who ran a sub -55 sec first lap and held on to complete in 1:58.08.
Simply two weeks earlier, Gill had run 1:57.86 in Belfast. Ending fourth behind the pair of them was Sarah Healy with a private greatest time of two:00.86. Not a foul begin to the out of doors season for each Mageean and Healy.
A big Irish contingent travelled to Belgium for the annual IFAM Outdoor in Brussels over the weekend, the place on Saturday, John Travers (Donore Harriers) ran a time of 13:43.21 for third in his 5,000m warmth. Pierre Murchan (DCH AC) ran a private greatest 13:45.36 to complete sixth behind Travers and Callum Morgan (CNDR) a PB 13:46.55 for eighth place.
Cathal Doyle (Clonliffe Harriers) completed second in his males’s 1500m warmth in in 3:36.14;Nick Griggs (CNDR) was ninth in 3:38.46. Doyle ha
Throughout the Atlantic Ocean, Sophie O’Sullivan (Ballinamore Cobh AC) clocked a time of 4:09.61 for 1500m at the NCAA West qualifiers in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday (Might 25). In the NCAA East qualifiers, in Lexington, Kentucky Laura Nicholson (Bandon AC) ran a PB 4:11.49 for 1500, additionally on Saturday, whereas Charlie O’Donovan (Leevale AC) completed seventh within the males’s 1500m in 3:39.99.
Earlier within the week, in Castellón, Spain, Mark English (Finn Valley AC) gained the boys’s 800m in a season’s greatest time of 1:45.85 on Tuesday (Might 22) . On Friday, Georgie Hartigan (DSD AC) completed fifth within the 800m with a time of two:03.85 at a meet in Gorzów Wielkopolski.
At the Assembly Stanislas in Tomblaine, France, on Saturday (Might 25) Luke McCann (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) completed ninth in a closely-fought 1500m with a time of three:37.27 .It was his opening race of the season. Six Irish athletes have run occasions of underneath 3 minutes 40 secs to this point this season.
Dublin Graded Meet, – 10,000m champion David Troy (Lucan Harriers). Photograph: Lindie Naughton
Native observe and area
At the Leinster Monitor and Subject Championships held in Carlow on Saturday (Might 25), Sadhbh Mohan (Metro St Brigid’sAC) gained an exhilarating ladies’s senior 1500m in 4:40.72, holding off the problem of her sister Aisling who completed second in 4:41.03, with Aoife Coffey (Lucan Harriers) third in 4:41.03 and Kate McDonald (Ballyroan and District) fourth in 4:42.07.
Successful the boys’s 1500m was Jack McMahon (Ballyroan and District) in 4:09.33.
David Troy (Lucan Harriers) struck out early and was rewarded with a Dublin Championships for the ten,000m which was held as a part of the third Dublin Graded Monitor meet of the season on Wednesday night (Might 22).
Troy completed in a persoanl greatest 31:9.35 seconds. Second in 33:46.05 was Geoffrey Alexandre (Liffey Valley) with Daniel O’Brien (Lusk AC) an in depth third in 33:46.75. The pair had run collectively for a lot of the race.
Additionally happening have been mile races with Clonliffe clubmates Niall Carbery and Sean Heaslip Owens battling it out within the quickest of the races. Carbery completed in 4:36.65 with Owens clocked at 4:36.6. Quickest of the ladies was Karen Hayes (Ratoath AC ) in 5:32.07.
Hills
Seán Quirke (Bilboa, M45) was the winner of the Slievenamon mountain race in Co Tipperary on Sunday (Might 26) clocking a time of 43 minutes 14 secs for the 8km race with 580m of climb. First girl was Kealey Tideswell (Clonmel AC,W40) in 46.19.
In Co Wicklow on the identical day, Peter Bell (Kilcoole AC, M40) clocked a time of two hrs 59 minutes 6 secs for the Circuit of Avonbeg, the place the race distance was 25.5km with 1,345m of climb.
Brian Furey (Brothers Pearse M40) was second in 2:59.59 and John Bell (Slí Cualann, M45) third in 3:00.12. First girl was Becky Quinn (W50) in 3:24.11. Orla McEvoy (W40) was second in 3:55.34 and Ivana Kolaric (W40) third in 4:14.37.
A day earlier within the Mournes, Tom Crudgingham (Newcastle and District AC) gained the Pat Dunbar Memorial (Leitrim Lodge) mountain race with a time of 67 minutes precisely for the 13km race with 682m of climb. Second in 67.25 was Keith Johnston (Armagh AC) whereas third in 68:24 was Ashley Crutchley (Newcastle and District AC).
First girl was Esther Dickson in 82 minutes 27 secs, adopted by Tanya Cummings (Newcastle and District AC, W40) in 83:43 and Ciara Ryan (W45) 94:56. The race was spherical seven of the NI Mountain Operating Affiliation Championships.
