April '24 Round Up

Upcoming Races in April 24 that our members might be interested in ☺

Waterford Mon 1st Apr (11:30am)... Aglish 5k & 10k Fun Run... €donation...

Cork Sun 7th Apr (10:30am)... Sonia O'Sullivan Cobh 10-mile road race... €27.65... Proceeds to Ballymore Cobh AC & Breakthrough Cancer Research... info...

Cork Wed 10th Apr (7:30pm)... Cork BHAA PwC 5k... €5 reg/€10 non-reg ... Albert Quay in Cork City... info...

Cork Sun 14th Apr (10:45am)... Bantry Flying 5m... €20... Bantry AC...

Cork Thurs 18th Apr (8pm)... Ballintotis 4-mile... €15... info...

Cork Sat 20th Apr (11am)... The Grocers Fun Run 5k & 10k... €26.75... Mallow racecourse...

Cork Sat 20th Apr (?pm)... Barry O'Sullivan Memorial 5km... €15... Dromahane...

Cork Sun 21st Apr (?am)... Great Railway Run 25k... €40... Cork City to Carrigaline... limit of 500... info...

Cork Thurs 25th Apr (7:30pm)... Bandon AC 5k... €15...new race... proceeds towards development of new 400m athletics track... info..

Cork Thurs 25th Apr (7:30pm)... Shandrum 5km... €15...

Waterford Fri 26th Apr (6:45pm)... Splashworld 5k... €10... Tramore...

Cork Sat 27th Apr (9am)... Rosscarbery Surf Turf 'n' Tar Half-Marathon... €45 & fees...

Cork Sun 28th Apr (11am)... IMRA Gougane Barra 9.7km trail race... €?*... 470m ascent... *annual IMRA membership costing €10 required...

April 7, 2024

Massive well done to the 4 fabulous Youghal AC athletes who travelled the short distance to windy Cobh today for the Sonia O Sullivan 10 miler.

Donal Sheahan. 1:18:37

Brian O Connell. 1:19:44

Lisa O Connell. 1:32:29

Maurice O Mahony. 1:40:50

Super running guys. Well done.

April 14, 2024 (Weekly Round Up)

Last Tuesday some of our members had a lovely run in Ballintotis trialing the route for Thursday nights Ballintotis 4 mile road race. Well done to you all.

On Wednesday night the PwC BHAA Anthony Reidy memorial 5km race too place in Cork. 4 Youghal AC athletes travelled up to take part. Well done to you all. The results are as follows:

Celia O Regan 28:05

George Bulman 23:37

David Mc Carthy 23:02

Eddie O Regan 22:20

On Saturday the McFarlands took a trip to Spike Island to run the 5km. Kates early morning 14km warm up stood to her and they both had fantastic runs.

Paul McFarland 24:45

Kate McFarland 25:48

Super running from everyone 👏

Well done to all of our juvenile athletes that travelled to Clonmel on Sunday to take part in day one of the East Corks. Everyone had a fantastic day out and the icing on the cake was the medal haul that was brought back to Youghal with them. Congratulations and well done to each and everyone of you.

April 18, 2024 (Ballintotis 4mile)

Well done to our fifty six (yes 56) athletes who headed for Ballintotis on Thursday night to tackle the 4 miles around the lake for the County Road Championships. What a night of running

See Youghal AC results in the photos..

Well done to Keith Kelly (1st M45 and 3rd Novice Men), Ian Murphy (2nd M55), Noel Curtin (2nd M60), Eddie O’ Regan (3rd M65) and Deirdre Ansbro (3rd F45), our category prize winners on the night.

A special mention to our members securing PB’s on the night, and Trish Curtin, Mike McMahon and Ryan Skehan who all took 3-4 minutes off their times from last year.

Here’s looking forward to the next evening races in Carrig Na Bhfear (5km) on Wednesday 1st May and Midleton (5m) on Thursday 2nd May

Best of luck to our juvenile athletes taking part in Day 2 of the East Cork Championships in Tower Park tomorrow 21st April, be sure to pop along if you have some free time as it promises to be a lovely day. Also, best of luck to our members taking part in the Great Railway 25km in Carrigaline tomorrow

April 21, 2024 (East Corks - Day 2024 @ Tower Park)

Huge well done to all of our juvenile athletes today at day 2 at the East Cork Championships in Tower Park. The sun shone and there were medals aplenty. Thanks to all the parents for your support.