United Striders 5k
The Greenway is more used to cyclists but on Friday evening it was flooded with 350 athletes as United Striders held their extremely popular 5k run. An A to B route athletes were bussed to the start although some jogged out as their warm up. Blessed with a lovely warm evening the athletes gathered with some watching Ms Adeleke race on stewards phones before the event started.
A very fast course resulted in elite athletes chasing times and PBs seemed to be broken by many on the night including our own Geoff and Fran.
Congratulations to United Striders Athletic Club on a hugely successful event and a welcoming cup of tea with goodies afterwards.
Brian Smyth 19:25
Rob Casey 20:40
Fran Power 21:28
Paul Harpur 22:10
Geoff Hoffheinz 23:43
John Dier 23:56
Darren O'Grady 28:20
Sharron Dier 38:29
Gaelforce Bray 10k
Ilze Bedrite took a drive to Bray on Saturday to run the Bray 10k. A tough 10k route as it involves trail for the most part with the going mostly either uphill or downhill and incluses the Little Sugarloaf. Ilze completed the course in 1:16:08 on the energy sapping route.
parkrun
A combination of no Wexford Racecourse Parkrun and the United Striders 5k on Friday evening saw a much smaller club crew running parkrun at the weekend. Well done to Ryan who had a great run dipping under 20 mins for the first time.
Ali Ashgar Khoyee was on pacing duty again this week in Corkagh Parkrun.
In JFK Ryan Ellard, Dermot & Martin Kelly ran the New Ross Parkrun.
Menapians League
Our club handicap league continued on Sunday with the short but challenging due to the surface beach course over 3 km on Carne Beach. Out and back saw everyone home within 19 minutes leaving plenty of time to take advantage of the good weather with some opting for a soak in the cool Irish sea and others heading to Our Lady’s Island for coffee in the sun. Well done everyone,
