September '24 Round Up

Weekly Round-Up 15/09/2024 

Where to start!? A busy weekend for our athletes near and far..

First up was our lone participant at the Medieval 30km in Kilkenny on Saturday morning, Thomas Cliffe put on a great display of running finishing in a time of 2:39:58. Great prep race for his upcoming Dublin Marathon at the end of October

On Sunday morning, as some of our senior athletes made their way to Charleville ½ Marathon and to the Kyle King of the Hill 5km, our juveniles made their way to East Cork Even Age Cross Country in Conna. They represented the club with aplomb and came away with many individual and team medals (* results to follow). Adam King flew the flag at the Ardmore AC junior athletics event in wet and windy conditions, throwing close to a PB in the turbo javelin event – also coming home with a medal….

Well done to Keith Kelly (1:16:36), Brendan Coleman, Anna (1:47:57) & Krzysztof Pawlik (1:46:58), Antoinette Keating 1:51:09), Donal Sheahan on great runs at the Charleville Half marathon. Kudos to James O’ Mahony (1:32:06) who wore the green and white singlet for the first time and to Trisha Curtin on an 11 min PB in 1:32:41

Well done also to our large group of athletes, young and not so young, who stayed local for the Kyle 5km. The weather cleared up nicely in time for race start and some great performances were recorded. Special mention to Tom O’ Neill and John Mason, who were second and third overall respectively and Susan Dineen was second female overall. First Male Junior was Jacob Walsh and First Female Junior was Sophie McCarthy, with Russell Cronin and Co coming in first family. Rob Moynihan was M35 1st with Maurice Walsh M35 2nd. Mike McMahon was M45 1st, Brian Landers M55 2nd, Eddie O’ Regan M65 1st and Seamus Stone M65 2nd. Emer Hannigan F45 2nd. Well done to Marie Trihy on her first ever race – first of many to come

Well done to our athletes who took part in the Moby Dick triathlon (*swim cancelled) on Saturday and to those out completing their long runs in preparation for upcoming marathon events over the coming months.