Mr Oil County Senior Road Race
The historic castle in Ferns Village overlooked the counties finest athletes as they went through their warm up routines. Ahead of them lay a challenge : 5k for ladies &10k for men.
As is customary ladies were first as they raced over 1 loop of the well known roads of Ferns returning to the village on the main road from Enniscorthy. The final slope up into the village a real test on tired legs.
In Menapians vests were Ilze Bedrite (25:55) and Jennifer Kehoe (25:46) who pushed on with grit and determination to the finish line.
When the ladies race was complete a huge group of men gathered to wait the starters gun and the race took off with incredible speed. The mens race was 2 loops of the route and our 3 showed tremendous character. Tony Harpur (40:30) , Paul Harpur (47:02) & Conor MacAogain (49:40) gave it everything as they completed the race.
Congratulations to our 5 athletes who each gave it everything.
Leinster U20, Senior & Masters Track & Field
Carlow was the destination for some club athletes as they headed to compete in Leinster Competition in the SETU Campus.
There was a Silver for Elijah Page Redmond in the U20 javelin. It was his first competition at junior level throwing the 800g javelin 36.77m
A 4th place for Lucas Page Redmond after some excellent jumps in U20 long jump. 5.73m was his best of the day.
Strong running from Siobhan Doyle in W60 100m with a 16.82 finish for 5th place.
There was Gold over 3000m in W60 in a time of 14:36.78and a 2nd place and Silver in the W60 1500m for Catherine O'Connor with a time of 6:54.10, impressive running as always.
Many thanks to Padraig Kelly who was our official at the event.
