Juvenile County Championships
Day 3
Day Three of County Championships saw a sun soaked track at the Sports Hub in Day Three of County Championships saw a sun soaked track in Enniscorthy for Friday evenings event.
Eve Marcus U11 competed in her first County Championships. Eve participated in 80 metres sprint, long jump and turbo javelin. Eve performed really well in her various events.
Benny Lonergan U11 competed in 80 metres sprint, 600m middle distance, long jump and turbo javelin. Another athlete competing well across the events.
Danny Fortune U9 also competed in his first County Championships. Danny competed in 60 metres sprint, 300 metres middle distance, long jump and turbo javelin. Danny also competing well in the different events.
Well done to all athletes involved. Great to young athletes enjoying themselves on the track and putting their training to good use.
Thanks to all coaches and officials without whom these events cannot happen.
Day 4
The sun remained shining for Day 4 of the Mr Oil Wexford County Championships at EnniscorthyTrack. First event of the day was the hurdles and first on the track was Fionn Murphy competing at U12. Fionn competing for the first time in this event. Emmet Marcus U13 another first time competitor along with Sonny Lowney U13 also competed. Fiachra Mehigan claimed silver in the U15 hurdles followed closely by his team mate Rory Henderson who took bronze. U16 girls hurdles saw Orla Dolan take silver and her training partner Maebh Mccormack take bronze. Next up was the boys U16 hurdles with Josh Nolan, Alex Lonergan Lorcan Carroll, and Elijah Page Redmond competing. Elijah claimed bronze in this event. Next event was sprints. Fionn Murphy U12 was first on track again competing in this 60 metres event narrowly missing a placing. At U13 80 metres Emmet Marcus came first in his heat. Sonny Lowney also competed at U13. Estelle Lonergan ran in the U13 girls event. At U15 200 metres Fiachra Mehigan took 3 rd place. His training partner Rory Henderson also competed. U16 200 metres saw Alex Lonergan, Josh Nolan, and Elijah Page Redmond all compete with Elijah gaining a podium spot with third placing. U16 Girls 200 metres sprint saw Maebh Mccormack and Ciara Dolan running with Maebh claiming a bronze medal. At U 18 Lucas Page Redmond took gold in the 200 metres sprint event. Middle Distance events saw Fiachra Mehigan place 3rd in U15 800 metres distance and Alex Lonergan came third at the same distance in U16. The next event up was race walking with Alex Lonergan competing for his first time and taking gold in this 2km event. The final track event saw the U16 4x100m boys relay team of Lorcan Carroll, Alex Lonergan, Josh Nolan and Elijah Page Redmond take gold.
Next up the field events. U12 saw Fionn Murphy compete in long jump and shot putt. U13 high jump saw Emmet Marcus and Sonny Lowney compete with Sonny just missing out on a placing. Estelle Lonergan also competing in the girls high jump U13. U15 boys high jump saw Rory Henderson and Fiachra Mehigan competing and Fiachra took silver in this event. U16 boys high jump saw Lorcan Carroll and Josh Nolan competing with Josh taking bronze in this event. U16 Girls high jump saw Maebh McCormack and Orla Dolan competing with Maebh taking 2nd place and Orla taking 3rd place. Lucas Page Redmond took gold in his high jump event.
A very successful day for all Menapians athletes on the track and field.
As always a huge thank you to all officials and coaches from the club who volunteered their time : Ellen Cullimore, Padraig Kelly, Liam Carroll, Helen Sinnott, Louise Henderson, Tracey Nolan & Catherine O’Connor.
Thank you Ellen for the report and Tracey for the photos
Helsinki City Running Day 2024.
A conversation at training earlier in the year lead to a plan to travel to Helsinki in Finland for the weekend and compete in the City running day festival. They offered a Marathon, Half Marathon, 10k & 5k distance so a wonderfully inclusive event for all.
Our own Famous Five of Ilze, Samantha, Tadhg, Enda & Brendan left Wexford on Friday to travel over and the event took place on Saturday. They were blessed with good running weather as the 5k took place in the morning with Sam & Ilze lining up. The Half was in the afternoon with Tadhg, Enda and Brendan lining up with this distance finishing in the Helinsinki Olympic Stadium which held the 1952 Olympics and a certain Eamonn Coughlan won his World Championship medal.
Great memories for the Famous Five, enjoy the sightseeing.
Helsinki 5k
Ilze Bedrite 27:09
Sam Donegan 30:14
Helsinki Half Marathon
Tadhg Henderson 1:57:40
Enda O'Sullivan 2:09:42
Brendan Broderick 2:16:39
Wexford CBS 5K
Wexford CBS hosted their popular 5k race this morning. It serves as an important fundraiser for their Autism unit bringing in valuable funding to help the unit continue to offer services.
7 of our club members signed up and all ran good races on a warm and sunny morning ad they completed the course.
Well done to all involved in the organisation and glad it went well.
Brian Smyth 19:35
Dermot Foley 19:42
Gareth Lloyd 24:24
John Dier 24;:47
Carol Dowling 30:22
Sharron Dier 39:38
Bridie McGuire 41:12
Wexford Festival of Running
Wexford Marathon Club held their Festival of Running in the picturesque grounds of Johnstown Castle over the weekend. An event for the die hards started at midday on Saturday with a 24hr run. Next at midnight the 12hr run began. These were followed at 6am on Sunday by the 6hr, 9am for the 3hr and finally the 1hr run beginning at 11am.
The Club had two ladies and 1 gent running in the 1hour event, both ladies only joined the club this year. They all had excellent runs with Jamie Jordan running 6 laps, Ann Thomas & Jesse Kielthy running 7 laps each.
Well done to Wexford Marathon Club on their organisation of such an event.
parkrun
A lovely sunny and warm day greeted everyone on Saturday as the Racecourse basked in the warm sunshine.
At Wexford Racecourse Parkrun Fiachra Mehigan, Eamonn Foley, Paul Harpur, Gareth Lloyd, Rob Mehigan, Sarah Bermingham, Fran Power, Brian Smyth, Tony Harpur, Michael Murphy, Sharron Dier, Bridie McGuire, Gráinne Hayes, Ollie Stack, Dermot Foley, Darren O'Grady & Martin Kelly all completed the 5k distance.
There is NO parkrun in Wexford Racecourse next Saturday 18th May but fear not as it returns on 25th May when our members will be taking up all the volunteer roles in our first Parkrun Takeover so we are looking forward to seeing you all there.