Mr Oil County Masters Road Race
The counties athletes belatedly returned to the Mr Oil County Race series in Kilmore on Friday evening. The appointment of Mairead O'Neil from SBR as County Secretary made it possible to begin the race series so firstly congratulations to Mairead and a big thank you from all our athletes. A word of thanks to Kilmore AC for hosting and to the County Board officials who ran a seamless event.
The intense heat of the previous hot weather snap did drop slightly as the cloud cover cooled the air but not too much. It was still a warm evening for athletes but spectators had a different experience. Huge congratulations to our age category winners, a great reward for all your hard work.
19 Menapians athletes signed up to compete with a number running a County Race for the first time and some were rewarded with Age Category medals for the efforts. Well done to everyone, its great to see our athletes competing.
We had great support from club members around the course which gives athletes a lift during the race so thanks to all who travelled down.
Ladies 4k:
Sharon Martin 16:49 1st O35
Ilze Bedrite 19:40
Catherine O'Connor 20:22 1st O60
Paula Gondard 20:58 1st O55
Jennifer Kehoe 21:09
Ann Thomas 21:30 3rd O50
Nora Boggan 21:43 2nd O60
Louise Henderson 24:05
Siobhan Doyle 24:22 3rd O60
Sam Donegan 24:49
Helen Burrell 24:59
Men 6k:
Anthony Dowd 22:32
Brian Smyth 24:24 2nd O40
Dermot Foley 24:32
John Hyland 25:45 3rd O40
Fran Rea 25:51 3rd O55
Darren O'Grady 32:58
Michael Murphy 40:20
Men 4k:
Martin Kelly 16:43 1st O70
Burren Half Marathon
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Rob ran the Burren Half Marathon in 2:06 yesterday
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CBS School 5k
A bright morning unexpectedly brought showers as CBS Wexford held their fundraising 5k run. A testing route as approx the first 2k runs uphill before a few welcome downhill km's with a last litte hill to complete the fun !
Our members joined in as around 100 gathered at the start line.
Fiachra lead the members and he was our first to finish in 4th overall and was closely followed by Anthony, Brian and Donal. Nice to see Rob running with his 2 sons also.
Paula was our first lady home and overall won 2nd lady taking home a nice prize for herself, huge congratulations Paula.
Well done to all involved in organising the event. It's always good to support these local events if you can as they do great work with the funds raised.
Fiachra Mehigan 18:26 1st student
Anthony Dowd 18:27
Brian Smyth 19:54
Donald Grant 19:57
Gareth Lloyd 23:27
John Dier 24:18
Paula Gondard 25:42 2nd Lady
Rob Mehigan 27:28
Ann Thomas 28:13
Darragh Mehigan 28:26
Darren O'Grady 28:38
Dermot Foley 28:40
Sam Donegan 31:16
Bridie McGuire 39:09
Sharron Dier 40:02
IMRA Crotty’s Lake Comeragh Mountain
The IMRA series continued on Saturday morning in the Comeragh Mountains. After great runs at the Masters on Friday Sharon, Jennifer & Fran decided the best recovery was to run up and down a mountain and they were rewarded for their efforts with fantastic results.
Congratulations to the three of you
Sharon Martin 2nd Female
Jennifer Kehoe 4th Female
Fran Rea O50’s 3rd Male
FUNdamentals
Our FUNdamentals group finished up their training for the summer this evening, just before the rain.
A mini Olympics was held - Hurdles, Javelin, Shot, Long Jump and Relay with impressive performances by all our young Menapians. Training will resume in September.
A big thank you to all our coaches for their time and effort during the year and thanks also to the Presentation for allowing us use their facilities for training.
parkrun
Some had tired legs as they had run the County Masters the previous night so easy recovery runs were on the agenda.
A nice milestone for Eamon on Saturday as he clocked his 150th parkrun. Even finished with a smile. Dave notched up his 50th parkrun and just pipped Eamonn across the line.
Anthony Dowd, Dave Midwinter, Eamonn Foley, Ryan Ellard, Micheál Kinsella, Geoff Hoffheinz, John Hyland, Brian Smyth, Fiachra Mehigan, Rob Mehigan, Alex Parris, Ollie Stack, Sarah Bermingham, Martin Kelly, Helen Burrell, Mary Cronin, Michael Murphy, Bridie McGuire, Dave Clancy and Dermot Foley all completed the Wexford Racecourse Parkrun.
Peter & Janette Mulvany were up at Avondale House parkrun in Wicklow.