Mr Oil County Masters Road Race
Club athletes from around the county raced home after work on Friday evening June 7th, grabbed their gear and headed to the middle of the County in Enniscorthy ready to do battle in the Masters Road Race.
A lot on offer in this race as their is the added bonus of age category medals on offer as well as the traditional 1,2,3 and team medals. This adds to the competitive edge to the Masters as every place counts even more importantly as athletes empty the tank in pursuit of the elusive County medals.
As is standard ladies were first up and their race was a testing 4k route as they started on the easier section before being faced with the long hill bringing them towards the finish.
Our 5 put in stellar performances pushing themselves every step to the finish line. Paula was our first member home, quickly followed by Catherine who had a challenging sprint finish, Ilze, Nora and Samantha completing the team.
Congratulations to Nora who won silver F60 and Paula was silver F55.
The men started out on the main road running approx 1km then had 1 full loop to complete their 6k route. As they passed the finish area heading out on a full loop our lads were trying to settle in and get the second wind as they went out on the full loop. Tony pushed every ounce of energy as our first man home, not far behind Brian & Dermot crossed the line with Rob, Micheál and John completing the team.
Congratulations to John who was 3rd in M60.
Club results:
Ladies
18th Paula Gondard 18:14 SILVER F55
27th Catherine O'Connor 19:34
28th Ilze Bedrite 20:06
30th Nora Boggan 21:58 SILVER F60
32nd Samantha Donegan 23:07
Men
24th Tony Harpur 22:13
35th Brian Smyth 23:42
36th Dermot Foley 23:46
44th Rob Casey 25:06
51st Micheál Kinsella 29:06
53rd John Dier 30:12 BRONZE M60
Words of thanks to our supporters who encouraged our athletes around and to Ilze, Darren & Padraig who stepped in to the entry and results role.
Another great night of club colours gracing the roads , thanks to the County Board and hosts Slaney Olympic for organising.
Leinster Combined
A huge well done to our 3 athletes who competed in the Leinster Combined events in Tullamore on Saturday.
Fiachra Mehigan finished 7th in the under 15 event. Maebh McCormack finished 6th in the under 16 and Orla Dolan 5th. These athletes are relatively new to the combined events pentathlon, having competed in the indoors earlier in the year so some great experience gained.
They compete over 5 events, hurdles, shot putt, long jump, high jump and an 800m to end the day.
Fiachra Megihan finished with a total of 1208 points, jumping well in the long jump and high jump. He had a 6th placing in the shot putt with a pb of 7.07m and finished off strongly in the 800 running 2:34.
Maebh McCormack's strongest event was the hurdles where she finished 6th. She jumped well in the long jump and had a best of 5.32m for the shot putt. She cleared 1.30m in the high jump and finished out the 800m with a total of 1337 points to take 6th place.
Orla Dolan finished on 1354 points to take 5th place. Orla’s best event was the long jump where she jumped 3.77m on her last jump.
Well done to Fiachra, Orla & Maebh who put a lot of effort into training for these events. Thanks to Padraig who officiated and Catherine for coaching and a Words of thanks to the parents for taking the time to bring the athletes to competition.
Portumna Half Marathon
Well done to Enda O'Sulllivan who on Saturday (June 8th) completed the Portumna Half Marathon in 2hr 10m.
A 4 loop course making it more of a mental challenge !
Mile Marker
In Danesfort County Kilkenny our running brothers Tony and Paul Harpur raced the 10 mile event. There was also a 5k and 5 mile event so lots on offer.
Tony ran 1:03:58 putting in a big effort after his Masters run on Friday evening and was rewarded with a well earned 7th place finish.
Paul Harpur also had a great run in 1:18:33 putting him in in 31st place.
Great running from the two lads, well done
parkrun
A nice unwelcome shower just before the run got everyone questioning getting up early but it quickly passed everyone was treated to weather which was a little nicer.
Special mention to Linda Leacey & John Hyland on their first outing as a club members.
At Wexford Racecourse Parkrun Eamonn Foley, Ryan Ellard, John Hyland, Gareth Lloyd,Brian Smyth, Dermot Foley, Fran Power, Helen Burrell, Jesse Kielthy, Ollie Stack, Rob Casey, Linda Leacey, Michael Murphy, Tony Harpur, Paul Harpur Sharron Dier, Bridie McGuire, Gráinne Hayes & Martin Kelly all completed their 5k.