Mr Oil County Masters Road Race.
Davidstown was the destination on a sunny and warm Friday evening for the counties club athletes. A popular and competitive race every year with age category medals added to the individual & team medals on offer.
Fantastic to see all the club colours on display.
A testing route awaited eager athletes and our 8 ladies & 6 men all ran very well on the night. The ladies as is the norm were first to race and their distance was 4k. A blistering pace from the whistle and Ilze Bedrite 13th was our first member over the line closely followed by Mary Gaynor 14th, Catherine O'Connor 15th, Helen Sinnott 20th, Louise Henderson 21st, Sharron Dier 25th, SamanthaDonegan 26th & Siobhan Doyle 27th. Ladies were 4th team overall.
Next up with a 6k distance were the men and Tony Harpur 18th was our first member over the line with Rob Casey 37th, Tadhg Henderson 43rd, Michael Kinsella 44th, John Dier 46th & Liam Carroll 47th all having good runs on the night. Men's team were in 7th place overall.
In the age categories we had the following medallists:
O50 Helen Sinnott silver, Samantha Donegan bronze.
O55 Mary Gaynor gold, Catherine O'Connor silver, Sharron Dier bronze
O60 Siobhan Doyle silver.
A super haul of medals, well done to each of you.
Thanks to County Board and hosts Slaney Olympic on another well organised county race and thanks to those who travelled to support our athletes.
Thanks to Aoife Lyng Photos and Sportsphoto Ireland for their photos which are posted on their respective pages.
Mile Marker Kilkenny.
Tony Harpur was in action again today as he competed in his 3rd weekend event in 3 days. Masters on Friday, Triathlon on Saturday and today he was running the 10 mile event in Kilkenny - Mile Marker. The event took place on the roads around Danesfort Co Kilkenny and Tony showed no signs of tiredness as he battled his way to 8th place overall in a fantastic time of 1:06:33 .
Congratulations Tony.
Portumna Forest Half Marathon
Enda O'Sullivan added another half marathon to his collection yesterday. He travelled up to Portumna to tackle the Portumna Forest Half Marathon , a very scenic route through the forest.
He completed it in 2:03 inching ever closer to the 2 hour mark, won't be long now Enda.
Congratulations.
Hook or by Crook Triathlon
3 of our club members took on a slightly different event today. All 3 were competing in the Hook or by Crook triathlon which took place in the sea and on the roads all around the beautiful Dunmore East.
Well done to Helen Wallace, Tony Harpur & Tadhg Henderson (Tony & Tadhg both also ran the Mr Oil Masters 6k the night before).
Athy Triathlon / Dublin Women’s Mini Marathon.
A busy weekend for Mr & Mrs Dier as they both took on 2 different events on 2 different days in 2 different counties.
Firstly on Saturday John was taking on a triathlon in Athy finishing with a great time of 1 hour 18 mins.
On to Sunday and it was Sharrons turn as she completed the VHI Dublin Women's mini marathon which she completed in 1 hour 7 minutes.
Well done to you both and enjoy the recovery.
Slaney Olympic My Sport Summer League. Ballagh 4 mile
A superbly sunny and warm evening for our 4 who took part in the 4 Mile as part of Slaney Olympic Athletic Club Summer League.
Well organised as always, many thanks to Slaney Olympic for organising these events.
Club results:
Tadhg Henderson 30.20
Michael Kinsella 33.49
Helen Sinnott 36.17
Louise Henderson 37.44
Leinster Junior/Senior/Masters Championships.
There was superb weather conditions over the weekends Leinster Championships which were held in the SETU Carlow campus. Our athletes were busy across a range of events with Tracey & Ilze competing at Leinster for the first time and impressing on their debut !
On Saturday Catherine O'Connor won the W55 1500m with a great run.
Martin Kelly shows age is no barrier with a win in the M65 1500m.
Roisín O'Reilly running under the UCD colours was impressive as she continues to show her class while winning the 1500m.
Day 2 on Sunday saw Roisín return to grab silver over 3000m.
Not to be outdone Catherine returned and won the W55 3000m, a great weekend for Mother & Daughter.
Ilze Bedrite doubled up for 200m & 800m as she made her Leinster debut, running W45 and finishing just outside medals with 5th over 200m & 4th over 800m.
Tracey Nolan also making her Leinster debut doubled up on discus & hammer. Throwing in W45 she was 3rd in hammer and also 3rd in discus.
Congratulations to all our athletes and thanks to everyone who travelled and officiated on both days.
Great to see these such performances put in, well done to each of you.
Photos courtesy of Perri Williams Photography
Leinster Schools.
Elijah Page Redmond competed for his school St Peter’s College in the Leinster schools Track & Field last Wednesday. He was competing in the Junior Javelin. He was in third position right up to the last round of throws where he unfortunately he was edged into 4th place.
A super result and so close to claiming a medal, well done to Elijah.