To begin the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Wednesday twenty first August, a bit of late resulting from Editor Robbie racing the Leadville 100 in Colorado).
In his second race in 4 days, Sean Tobin (Clonmel AC) was the winner of the Cork Metropolis 10km at Lee Street on Sunday (August 18) with a time of 29:49. Tobin was chased arduous by Ryan Creech (Leevale AC) who completed second in 29:53.Third in 31:09 was Gavin O’Rourke (Leevale AC) . Ending sixth in 31:45 was Eanna Ó Bradaigh of Dundrum South Dublin.
Ending ninth and first lady was Shona Heaslip (An Ríocht AC) in an excellent time of 32:27. Michelle Finn (Leevale AC) was second lady in 33:34 and Grace Lynch (Dundrum South Dublin) third in 34:22.
Hannah Steeds (Leevale AC) who has already completed sufficient to win the ladies’s prise within the collection completed fourth in 34.54. First W50 was Barbara Cleary (Donore Harriers) in 36:34.
Within the Peugeot Race Collection crew class, Leevale, led by Hannah Steeds, who’s already confirmed as ladies’s winner this yr, had been clear winners forward of Eagle AC and Togher AC. 2024. A complete of 18 blended groups, most of them native, had signed up. Dundrum South Dublin have already nailed down the general crew prize for the Peugeot Collection, with another race to go. The collection concludes with the Charleville Worldwide Half Marathon on September 15.
A day earlier for Armstrong & Harvey
A day earlier, Hugh Armstrong (Ballina AC) was the runaway winner of the Frank Duffy 10-Mile held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
Armstrong accomplished the course in 49 minutes 29 secs. By midway, which he went via in 24:38, he already had over a minute to spare on the chasers, led by Peter Somba (Ratoath AC) who completed in 52:03. A detailed third in 52:09 was David Glynn.
First lady in 56:32 was Caitlyn Harvey of the Belfast-based Roadrunners membership. Fiona Stack (Raheny Shamrock, W40) was second in 61:46 and Caroline Hassett (Templemore AC, W40) third in 62:05.
The race, spherical 3 of the Irish Life Dublin Marathon Race Collection, integrated the Dublin 10-Mile Championships, with Liam Naughton (Dublin Metropolis Harriers) who had completed fourth total in 53:03 taking the boys’s Dublin title and Fiona Stack first lady.
Successful the boys’s senior crew title was Brothers Pearse, adopted by Raheny Shamrock and Donore Harriers, with twenty-three groups entered. Better of the twenty senior ladies’s groups was Raheny Shamrock, adopted by Dundrum South Dublin and Tallaght.
Liffey Valley out in pressure
Members of Liffey Valley AC headed north in pressure for the Dromore 5km/10km in rural Tyrone on Saturday and did fairly nicely for themselves, with Conor Gavin successful the 5km in 16:47 adopted by his clubmate Mark Naylor only a second adrift. With over twenty travelling, the membership took six of the highest 9 locations within the race — and eight of the highest twenty locations!
Within the ladies’s race, gained by juvenile athlete Annabelle McKenzie of Enniskillen RC in 20:38, Liffey Valley’s Anne-Marie Gittens completed third in 21:29, adopted by Aoife Brady first W40 — and fairly a couple of extra Liffey Valley ladies.
The Dublin guests left the 10km (largely!) to extra locally-based athletes, with Danny Mooney of Letterkenny AC the winner in 33 :18 and Grainne O’Hagan (Knockmanny RC) first lady in 38:48. For Liffey Valley, Rebecca McLoughlin and Sergey Doehl completed collectively in 47:55.
Vinny Connolly (Mullingar Harriers) was the winner of the St Coca’s Kilcock 10 from 10, in Kilcock, Co Kildare on Sunday (August 18) in a time of 53:13. Cillian O’Leary (Raheny Shamrock AC, M40) was second in 54:19, Karl Nolan (Clonliffe Harriers, M40) third in 55:14 and Stephen Butler (Raheny Shamrock) fourth in 55:20. First lady in 60:10 was Faye Dervan (Dublin Metropolis Harriers). Sheila O’Byrne (Sli Cualann AC) was nearly a minute behind second in 61:09 and Caroline Donnellan (Edenderry AC,W40) third in 64:16.
Within the crew competitors, Raheny Shamrock’s quartet of O’Leary, Butler, Ronan Wogan and Graham Ahearne had been comfy winners of the boys’s prize. Blackrock AC, led by Fergus Collis in 14th place, completed fourth. Host membership St Coca’s, as the one ladies’s crew entered, duly gained the ladies’s crew prize.
In an exciting end to the Rathkenny 5km in Co Meath on Friday (August 16), Sean Doran (Clonliffe Harriers) out-sprinted Eoin Flynn (Rathfarnham WSAF, M40) for victory with the pair each given instances of 15:37. Third in 16:35 was Dunleer junior Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Aoife Parrella (Star of the Sea, W40) was first lady in 20:09; Teresa Gibney (North Westmeath AC, W40) was second in 20:40 and Karen Lavelle (Star of the Sea AC, W50) third in 20:43. Clonliffe’s trio of Doran, Patrick O’Grady and David Brady took the boys’s crew prize. Star of the Sea proved better of the ladies.
Sean Tobin (Clonmel AC) and Kevin Moore (Mullingar Harriers) battled it out all the best way to the road at the Streets of Thurles 5km, Co Tipperary, on Thursday (August 15). The pair got instances of 14:58 and 14:59. A detailed third in 15:03 was Mossy Bracken (Moycarkey Coolcroo AC).
Dymphna Ryan (Dundrum AC, W40) was first lady in 17:13, adopted by worldwide race walker Kate Veale (West Waterford AC) in 18:28 and Sharon Cantwell (Moyne AC) third in 18:46.
Daniel O’Brien of host membership Lusk AC made it a house win a in 25 minutes 16 secs the Man O’ Conflict Spherical 7km, in north Co Dublin. Second in 25:50 was Nigel Roy (Skerries AC) with Graeme O’Flaherty third in 26:33. Carmel Ward (Raheny Shamrock AC) was first lady in 29:35, with Emma Przymusinska (Lusk AC) second in 29:23 and Frances Joyce third in 30:33.
A Leevale double at the West Muskerry AC fortieth Anniversary 5km Macroom, Co Cork on Tuesday (August 13) noticed wins for Mark Walsh and Hannah Steeds.
Walsh, a son of legendary Leevale Olympian and long-time coach Donie Walsh, completed in 15:56, with Barry Minnock (Tullamore Harriers) second in 16:34 and Darren Coleman third in 17:05. Steeds completed in 17:49, adopted by two junior athletes — Saoirse Twomey (West Muskerry AC) in 18:55 and Hannah Smith (Leevale ) in 19:07.
They’re off! Run the Ridge 10k – Glendalough AC runners to the fore
Off the roads
Barry Minnock (Tullamore Harriers M45), a former Irish mountain working worldwide, who had warmed up by racing in Macroom 4 days earlier, recoded an emphatic victory at the Run the Ridge 10km on the Derrybawn woodland path in Laragh, Co Wicklow on Saturday (August 18) The race integrated he Wicklow Athletics Path Championships.
On an ideal morning for working. Minnock, completed nicely away from the chasers in 39 minutes 34 secs. Second in 39:59 was Matthew Walker (unatt) whereas third and winner of the Wicklow Path Championships title was Liam Mooney (Lakeshore Striders, M40) in 41:17. A formidable seventh and first M60 was Jeffrey Walker in 45:34.
First lady and in addition Wicklow champion was Sheila O’Byrne (Parnell AC) in 47:17. Niamh Brophy (Lakeshore Striders, W35) was second in 47:22 and Catherine Devitt (Glendalough AC, W40) third in 48:17. Within the males’s crew competitors, Parnell AC, led by brothers Ben and Patrick Kinsella, backed up by Tim Ivers, got here out on prime of the senior rankings, forward of host membership Glendalough AC, with St Benedict’s successful the M35 title and Glendlough greatest within the M50 age group.
Making it a senior double, Parnell additionally gained the ladies’s title forward of Glendalough and Lakeshore Striders, with Lakeshore first W35 crew and Parnell AC first W50 crew.
Paul McKenna (Bray Runners) second and Sean Meehan (Cherry Orchard RC) third within the Run the Ridge 20km
In the 20km race which was restricted to 100 runners, Gavin Kelly (Clane AC, M45) was the winner in 89 minutes 40 secs. Paul McKenna (Bray Runners, M35) was second in 93:09 and extremely runner Sean Meehan (Cherry Orchard AC, M35) third in 94:14.
Ending seventh total and first lady in 99:39 was Louise Murray, which was a brand new report time for the course by two minutes. Clare Lyons (St Coca’s AC, W45) was second in 1:48.52 adopted intently by Muireann McDonnell third in 1:48.54.
Winners of the juvenile 3km had been Scott Hannon and Lara Buck, each Parnell AC.
Jared Martin (Ballydrain Harriers) was the winner of the Scrabo hill race at Scrabo Nation Park, Newtownards, on Thursday (August 15). Martin accomplished the 7.2km course with 356m of climb in 27 minutes 28 secs. Virtually a minute behind for second was in 28:21 was Ashley Crutchley (Newcastle and District) , whereas third in 29:17 was Keith Johnston (Armagh AC) .
First junior and fourth total was Rudy Maine (Loughview AC) in 30:33. Prolific racer Karen Wilton (Jog Lisburn RC, W50) was first lady in 35:15 adopted by Louise Jones (W40) in 37:33 and Sarah Brady in 37:53.
Rian McCaffrey was the winner of the Longford 5km Path Collection Day 2 at Corlea Lavatory on Wednesday (August 14) together with his time of 17 min 26 secs placing him over a minute away from the chasers. Fifth and first lady in 19:33 was Gemma Kenny.
Extremely working
Dylan Kehoe (Marathon Membership of Eire was a transparent winner of the Connemara ‘100’ clocking a time of 16 hrs 22 minutes 22 secs. Final Could, Kehoe gained the Burren Marathon in 3:13.35.
Barry Drohan (Carrick-on-Suir Roadrunners), a Connemara common, was second in 17:39.50 and Richie Energy third in 19:24.55. Entry for the race this yr was restricted to 25. No ladies entered.
