Grand Canal Half Marathon
Ryan Ellard was busy on Saturday morning as he was competing in the Grand Canal Half Marathon in West Dublin. In ideal running conditions Ryan finished in a great time of 1 hour 46 minutes.
Super stuff Ryan, well done.
Mr Oil County Novice Cross Country
J.F.K. Park was the venue as the counties athletes were eager to run cross country. The even age juvenile categories were eagerly contested with lots experiencing cross country for the first time.
Representing our club proudly in the ladies were Ilze Bedrite and Helen Sinnott over 4k and in the men's were Tadhg Henderson and Conor MacAogain over 6k.
Two very competitive races over the 1k loop marked out by the experienced hosts United Striders. Thank to Padraig Kelly and Siobhan Doyle who volunteered on the day.
Well done to Wexford County Board and United Striders on a great event this morning and hope to see everyone again next week in Wexford Racecourse for the Mr Oil Intermediate and uneven age Cross Country.
European Masters
Club member Anthony Dowd has travelled to Madeira to compete at the European Masters Athletics Championship.
Today he ran the 5000m on the track, not an easy task by any means. Anthony has put in very diligent preparation work before travelling and can regularly be seen at the Wexford Rasecourse Parkrun each Saturday morning.
He ran 18:44 in the B final of the M50 for an excellent 11th place, a fantastic result from Anthony.
Congratulations Anthony
parkrun
A perfect morning for a run, no breeze, just a touch of coolness in the air and lots of eager people ready to run a 5k.
2 milestones this week.
Michael Murphy hit his 300th parkrun and Dermot Foley hit his 200th, that's 500 between them a fairly impressive statistic.
Well done to you both .
Ryan Midwinter, John Hyland, Dave Midwinter, Dermot Foley , Eamonn Foley, Fean Power, John Dier, Oliver Stack, Rob Mehigan, Sarah Bermingham, Mary Cronin, Michael Murphy, Janette Mulvany, Geoff Hoffheinz, Peter Mulvany, Bridie McGuire and Anthony Dowd all completed the Wexford Racecourse.
Brian Smyth ran the Fethard Parkrun where he had the honour of being first to finish and Enda O'Sullivan ran the Knockancree Cloughjordan Parkrun both in County Tipperary.