Wicklow Hospice 10k/half marathon
On the 25th of February the annual fundraiser took place in the walkways of Avondale House and some of the surrounding roads.
Tadhg Henderson (1:53:14) & Enda O'Sullivan (2:03:50) both ran the Half marathon distance.
Louise Henderson (1:05:05) ran the 10k distance.
Well done to the three of you.
Blackwater GAA 10k
Blackwater GAA hosted a 10k run around the roads of the village this morning with our own Eamonn Foley coming home in 24th place in a time of 49:25.
Well done Eamonn.
Mr. Oil Novice Road Race
The first in the Wexford Athletics Mr Oil road race series took place in a sunny but cool Kilmore village today. The Novice was 4k for ladies & 6k for men on a 3k loop around the village. A huge effort was made to increase entry numbers and as a club we certainly played our part with 9 in the ladies race and 13 in the mens race and 8 of those running a county race for the first time.
As is customary the ladies race was first with the whistle blowing at 11.30 to begin proceedings. Fantastic running from every one of our ladies was rewarded by a Team Bronze result with Helen, Ilze, Paula & Sarah scoring to secure the medals. Well done on a great achievement.
When the ladies race was complete it was the men's turn as they headed out on 2 loops of the 3k route. Each and every man pushing himself to perform as best he could saw all 13 very happy with their times.
As our club motto says 'Believe and Achieve' and today as a club we believed and we achieved. To have so many entrants was an achievement in itself and to instill a self belief into athletes to run these County races is a credit to our coaching team. Congratulations to all our athletes and in particular our bronze team medal winners. Thanks to our support team who encouraged all our athletes with their very vocal encouragement, our athletes did fully appreciate the atmosphere you created.
Well done to Wexford County Board and Kilmore AC who provided another great race. Looking forward to Intermediate in 4 weeks.
Finally thanks to our athletes who believed in themselves and competed, well done.
Ladies results:
7th Helen Wallace 18:02
8th Ilze Bedrite 18:05
13th Paula Gondard 18:52
23rd Sarah Bermingham 19:57
37th Louise Henderson 21:39
39th Mary Cronin 22:32
40th Carol Dowling 23:20
41st Gráinne Hayes 23:40
43rd Samantha Donegan 28:36
Men's results :
16th Tony Harpur 22:25
17th Brian Smyth 22:43
30th Dermot Foley 23:45
35th Jesse Kielty 24:54
42nd Fran Power 26:27
43rd Micheal Kinsella 27:05
44thPaul O'Meara 27:05
47th John Dier 27:52
48th Tadhg Henderson 29:21
49th Gareth Llloyd 29:50
50th David Clancy 31:54
51st Ollie Stack 32:17
52nd Liam Carroll 33:17
