St.Senans Open Cross Country
St Senans held their every popular Open Cross Country meet at the weekend. A nice sunny day making it warmer than expected but an enjoyable day for our three athletes Catherine O'Connor, Roisín O'Reilly & Mary Gaynor. Catherine and Mary had great runs finishing 4th & 3rd respectivly in the Masters. Roisín had a excellent run in the Senior event winning the race showing great confidence by taking the lead at the start and holding 1st place all the way through the race.
Well done ladies.
Parkrun
Shout out to our parkrun runners this weekend. The 2nd running since covid and another good turnout at the event in Wexford Racecoure with 91 this week showing the popularity of running and of parkrun
Club members Paul Donovan (4th finisher), EndaO'Sullivan, Louise Henderson, Rory Henderson & Sharron Dier all completed the weekly free 5k this weekend.
Good to see so many out exercising and taking part.
Belfast Invitational Meet
Athletes from across Northern Ireland, Ireland, UK and Europe took part in the Belfast International Meet at the Mary Peters Track on Saturday 11th September, as a fitting end to the track and field season for many.
Leon Reid represented us proudly wearing his club vest as he competed in the 100m event finishing in 10.47 seconds clinching 2nd place to Danish athlete Fredrik Schou-Nielsen by a hundredth of a second.
He commented afterwards “I wanted to come here though it’s very late in the season. I missed my plane here because of a train fatality in London. I really enjoyed the Olympics though I would have liked more preparation time. I’m aiming for the Birmingham Games “
A fitting end to his season after the highs of reaching the semi final of the 200m at the Toyko Olympics.
National Masters Championships 2021
Sunday is normally a day of rest but not for our Martin Kelly who today won a silver in m65 1500m today at the Irish Life Health National Masters Championships.
When I grow up I want to be Martin Kelly
County Championships 2021
The Mr. Oil County County Track & Field Championships took place over 2 nights at the Enniscorthy Sports Hub last week. A well organised event on both nights and special thanks must be given to County Board and all who helped on both nights under covid guidlines to ensure the smooth running.
It was great to see so many attend and it gave a lot of athletes a chance to tackle different events and quite a few picked up medals in the process. The weather was kind on both nights and a mix of all ages was great to see. There was a full selection of events from the 100m up to 5000m, long jump, triple jump to the not as popular pole vault and steeplechase events which made their debut.
A lot of athletes were tasting Track running possibly for the first time and threw themselves into events they never thought they would enjoy.
A full list of our results :
*Sprint Hurdles
U18 Girls
2nd Eimear Halpin,
3rd Anoushka Nolan,
Senior Women
3rd Eimear Halpin,
*800 Metres
U17 Girls 2nd Ailbhe White,
U18 Girls 2nd Eimear Halpin, 3rd Anouskha Nolan,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 1stRóisín O’Reilly,
Masters Women O50 1st Catherine O’Connor ,
Masters Men O35 2nd David Nolan,
O50 Men 2nd Martin Kelly,
*200 Metres
U17 Girls 1st Ailbhe White, 2nd Grace White,
U18 Girls 2nd Eimear Halpin, 3rd Anoushka Nolan,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 1st Ailbhe White, 3rdEimear Halpin,
O35 Men 1st David Nolan
*Javelin
U17 Girls 1st Ailbhe White,
U18 Girls 2nd Eimear Halpin,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
*3000 Metres
U18 Girls 3rd Eimear Halpin,
O50 Women 1stCatherine O Connor,
*400m Hurdles
U18 Girls 1st Eimear Halpin, 3rd Anouska Nolan,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 1st Eimear Halpin, 3rd Ciara Dolan,
*Walks
U17 Girls 2ndGrace White, 3rd Ailbhe White,
U18 Girls 1st Eimear Halpin, 2nd Anoushka Nolan,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 1st Roisin O Reilly, 2nd Eimear Halpin, 3rd Anoushka Nolan,
Senior Men , 2bd Adam Leahy,
*100m
U17 Girls 2nd Ailbhe White,
U18 Girls 2nd Eimear Halpin,
Senior Women 2nd Eimear Halpin,
O35 Men 1st David Nolan,
O50 Men 2nd Jimmy O’Neill,
*Shot Putt
O35 Men 2nd David Nolan,
U18 Girls 1st Eimear Halpin,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 2nd Eimear Halpin,
*1500 Metres
U18 Girls 3rd Eimear Halpin,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
O50 Women 1st Catherine O’Connor,
O35 Men 1st Tony Harpur , 2nd Donal Grant,
*400 Metres
U17 Girls 1st Ailbhe White,
U18 Girls 1st Eimear Halpin,
Senior Women 1st Eimear Halpin,
O50 Women 1st Catherine O’Connor,
Senior Men 3rd Tony Harpur,
O35 Men 1st Tony Harpur, 2nd Donal Grant , 3rd Micheal Kinsella,
*Triple Jump
U17 Girls 1st Ailbhe White,
U18 Girls 3rd Eimear Halpin,
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 3rd Eimear Halpin,
*3000 Metres Steeplechase
U19 Girls 1st Ciara Dolan,
Senior Women 1st Ciara Dolan,
*Relay 4×400 Metres
Women 1st Menapians AC
Men 2nd Menapians AC
*Relay 4×100 Metres
Women 1st Menapians AC
Oylegate 10k/Half Marathon 2021
The Oylegate 10k/ Half Marathon took place on a warm morning today. 4 of our athletes took advantage of the opportunity to race again.
Gavin Hayes ran the 10k route in 43.08 coming home in 16th place.
The half marathon was a 2 loop route of the 10k and Donal Grant 1.36.08 , Finbarr Bradley 1.39.07 & Fran Power in 1.55.28 all ran really well and did not let the warm morning effect their running. A few P.B. times thrown in for good measure.
Well done gents
Olympics 2020 Leon Reid
Olympic Athlete Update
Now that the dust has settled and everyone has returned home from Japan it seems an appropriate time to post about club member Leon Reids exploits St the Toyko Olympic Games.
Leon lined up to race the 200m in Toyko making his way through his heat into the semi finals. Unfortunately he bowed out at semi final stage but as he indicated himself there is more to come from him in the years ahead.
A fantastic experience for any athlete to compete at the Olympics and compete against the best in the world. He did himself and our club proud in Toyko.
Well done.
National Juvenile Championships
The Irish Life Health National Juvenile Championships took place across the weekend in the fantastic venue that is Tullamore. Again the Menapians athletes took to the road and competed with pride for their Club.
Friday evening saw the start of competition and in what can only be described as a huge downpour in the U18 final Eimear Halpin ran a super race to claim 4th over 400m hurdles in 1:11.11. On Saturday Triini Jurisoo again took her place in the throwing cage and in a tough U18 competition finished a well earned 5th place in the hammer throwing a best of 31.51.
Jack Halpin competed on Sunday in the U16 discuss and finished a creditable 10th place in a strong competitive field of throwers.
Our final competitor at the Irish Life National Juvenile was Ruby Reynolds who was racing U16 girls 80m hurdles.
Ruby has put in very dedicated training to get there and ran Heat 1 12.93 finishing 3rd and taking an automatic qualifying spot for the final.
Unfortunately Ruby suffered every athletes dread and was disqualified in the final for a false start. This was a stroke of bad luck but she took it in her stride and we are sure she will bounce right back after a break.
Special mention to our coaches for their efforts working with these states having them competition ready.
Masters Road Race august 2021
The Mr. Oil Masters Road Race took place on Friday evening in Ferns with again a good crew from the club taking part. The Masters section of the club has been growing in recent years and it is great to see our athletes taking part in these races. Well done to the Co. Board for their work in getting the 2021 races on under the Covid-19 guidlines. Thanks to both host clubs this year Slaney Olympic & S.B.R.
Shout out to Louise Henderson who also competed but unfortunately took a wrong turn at an unmanned junction during the ladies race.
Club results below :
Mr. Oil LadiesMasters Individual
13th Sinéad Morris O40 17.51
17th Catherine O'Connor O55 18.07
23rd Mary Gaynor O55 19.01
29th Sharron Dier O50 25.43
Mr. Oil Men's Masters Individual
28th Tony Harper O45 23
48th Gavin Hayes O45 25.02
50th Paul Donovan O40 25.4
52nd Martin Kelly O65 26.41
54th Tadhg Henderson O45 28.21
55th Micheál Kinsella O45 28.21
57th John Dier O55 30.02
59th Darren O'Grady 30.24
