Hell & Back

Well done to Enda O'Sullivan and Darren O'Grady who both took on the Hell & Back challenge in Kilruddery House on Saturday morning.

An early start as they were in the 9.15am wave so a coffee at 8am in the Applegreen Coynes Cross to kick start the day.

Lots of climbing, running and jumping as they made their way around the 7km route (turned out to be 7.8km) which included the famous ice baths 500m into the event and the lake 1km from the finish.

Toddy Moore, Kilmore AC 10k

The quite village of Kilmore was full of colour as 105 people entered the 10k race which headed towards Bridgetown and took the scenic route back to the village.

Amongst them 9 club athletes prepared to step to the start line on Saturday evening. Great to see clubs supporting each others events as members wore their colours with pride.

Well done to Kilmore AC as the race was extremely well organised and a nice route ensured everyone enjoyed it.

A mention to Ryan who took 5 minutes off his 10k PB and claimed 1st Junior, well done.

Ryan Midwinter 40:53
Donal Grant 41:23
Dave Midwinter 45:00
John Hyland 46:03
Micheál Kinsella 51:00
John Dier 52:56
Ollie Stack 55:15
Bridie McGuire 1:26:53
Sharron Dier 1:28:44

parkrun

A special mention this week to club member Niall Tyrell. Niall volunteers almost every week as timekeeper and his motivational encouragement is 2nd to none, fair play Niall.

Club participation was a little lower at Wexford Racecourse on Saturday due to members racing the Kilmore 10k later in the evening time. Rob continues to run with a buggy just to increase the difficulty.

However 12 members still got a 5k in and some then went on to Kilmore later in the evening.

Brian Smyth, Ryan Ellard, Rob Casey, Alex Parris, Sarah Bermingham, Helen Burrell, John Hyland, Mary Cronin, Michael Murphy, Ann Thomas, Sharron Dier & Bridie McGuire all completed the Racecourse event.

Further afield and Anthony Dowd ran the Brickfield Parkrun in Dublin on his way to the Irish Open Golf.