To start out the week Lindie Naughton brings us all of the Irish endurance motion and information from the weekend simply gone (Monday twenty seventh January).
Hiko Tonosa (Dundrum South Dublin AC) equalled Efrem Gidey’s Irish half marathon document when he ran a time of 60 minutes 51 secs on a humid morning in Seville on Sunday (January 26).
The time knocked off his earlier better of 62:23 run in Larne in August 2023.
Final August Tonosa ran 62:46 in the identical race and in October broke John Treacy’s long-held Irish document for the marathon when ending first Irish athlete on the Dublin Marathon final October in 2 hrs 9 min 42 secs..
His subsequent goal is the Rotterdam Marathon on Sunday April 12, which suggests he is not going to be out there for the Irish group on the European Street Working Championships, in Brussels, Belgium which features a 10km, half marathon and marathon. The qualifying time for the half marathon in 62:33.
Already comfortably inside that point are Peter Lynch (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) and Barry Keane (Waterford AC) with occasions of 61:15 and 61:22 on the current Houston Half Marathon. Keane, who will make his marathon debut in Boston on Monday April 21, is unlikely to make himself out there.
Others eligible for choice are Efrem Gidey (Clonliffe Harriers) due to his Irish document breaking time of 60:51 run in Copenhagen final September, and Fearghal Curtain (Youghal AC) the one different Irishman to have damaged 62 minutes. With the qualification interval for Brussels courting again to 1 January 2024 for all three distances, Curtin who ran 61:45 in the 2024 Houston Half Marathon can also be eligible for choice, though he hasn’t raced a lot prior to now yr. The group can be introduced on March 24.
Photograph: Clonliffe Harriers
Native roads
Clonliffe’s Efrem Gidey defied the moist blustery circumstances and a last-minute change after all to win the AXA forty first Raheny 5-Mile on Sunday (January 26) in a time of twenty-two minutes 47 secs
It was the quickest time since Hiko Tonosa’s successful time of twenty-two:40 in 2020 and it implies that Gidey joins a choose group of simply 4 males to have damaged 23 minutes in this race, first held forty years in the past in 1985. Two years later, in 1987, the course document of twenty-two:39 was set by Gerry Curtis (Donore Harriers), and tin 1995 Cormac Finnerty (Mullingar Harriers) equalled that point. Tonosa’s 2020 time was an agonising one second off the document.
On Sunday, Gidey sprinted house over a minute away from the chasers led by mountain working specialist Killian Mooney of Dundrum South Dublin AC who completed in 23:51. Third and first M40 in 24:05 was Colm Rooney (Clonliffe Harriers), the recently-crowned Dublin Masters cross-country champion. First junior was Danny Nugent (ACE AC) in 25.00.
As traditional, the race was nicely supported by Northern Eire golf equipment and first girl was Hannah Gilliland of Annadale Striders in 26:34. Second in 26:47 was Ide Nic Dhomhnaill (West Limerick AC), with Jessica Craig (North Down AC) third in 27:13.
Within the group competitors, Clonliffe Harriers with three within the prime ten had been clear winners of the lads’s senior title on simply 14 factors. Host membership Raheny Shamrock with 22 factors was second and Dublin Metropolis Harriers a distant third on 88 factors. Better of the ladies’s groups with 24 factors was Dublin Metropolis Harriers, adopted by Raheny Shamrock on 32 factors and Dundrum South Dublin with 59 factors.
Indoors within the heat
In Nantes, France, Mark English (Finn Valley AC) clocked a time of 1:46.48 for second place within the males’s 800m. His time was simply exterior the automated qualifying mark for the European Indoors, beginning in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on March 6.
Within the USA, Laura Nicolson (Bandon AC) gained the mile on an ‘outsized monitor’ at the Notre Dame Invitational in 4:35.61. Roisin Treacy from Wicklow ran a private finest 4:49.12 within the heats of the identical occasion. In the Armory New York on the Dr Sander Scorcher, Tadhg Donnelly (Drogheda and District AC) gained the lads’s 5000m in 13:52.34, whereas Grace Richardson (Kilkenny Metropolis Harriers) was simply off her private finest when clocking a time of 4:50.70 within the girls’s mile.
In Philadelphia, Charlie O’Donovan (Leevale AC) clocked 3:56.98 for eighth place within the mile and Finn Boyle (Crusaders AC) ran a private finest 1:51.55 for 800m.
Outdoors and off the roads
At the SEMA the Lengthy Means Spherical 15km within the Comeragh mountains close to Clonmel, Co Tipperary on Saturday night time (January 25), Emmet McNamara from Tullow was the clear winner in 67 minutes 2 seconds.
Fourth and first girl in 70:54 was Kealey Tideswell from Clogheen. A complete of 641 accomplished the space, with some taking near 4 hours for the extremely course.
All funds raised are going to the South Japanese Mountain Rescue Affiliation. The race had been postponed from final November due to unhealthy climate.
