Forth Mountain Trail Run
This event was held for the 2nd year last Saturday the 25th after a very successful event last year. Starting and finishing at the beautiful Barntown Church and taking in a large section of the well maintained trainls of Forth Mountain passing such well known landmarks as Drooping Rock, Skeeter Rock, Carrigfoyle Lake and the Battlefield site as runners completed a very scenic 13k route.
Well done to Mary Cronin, Gareth Lloyd and friend of the club Sinead Cleary who all put in an excellent effort on the day.
Mr. Oil County Intermediate Road Race
United Striders were the kind hosts yesterday as the County Board held the Mr. Oil Intermediate road race in Rathgarogue. The weather was as good as can be hoped for at this time of year as 6 ladies and 7 men from the club lined up to compete. A fair route was presented as ladies had 1 lap plus 1km and men had 2 laps plus 2km.
As is customary ladies were first up and our contingent of members Ilze, Mary, Catherine, Louise, Helen and Sharron each put in good runs showing their training is paying off.
Ilze Bedrite 15th 18.48
Mary Gaynor 18th 19.43
Catherine O'Connor 20th 19.48
Louise Henderson 30th 22.05
Helen Sinnott 31st 22.53
Sharron Dier 34th 26.01
Ladies were 4th team.
When the ladies race was complete the attention turned to the men's race where Tony, Brian, Dermot, Rob, Micheal, John and Darren all ran good races over the almost 3 lap route.
Tony Harpur 23rd 30.46
Brian Smyth 26th 31.45
Dermot Foley 34th 33.07
Rob Casey 41st 33.58
Micheal Kinsella 42nd 38.12
John Dier 48th 38.48
Darren O'Grady 49th 46.10
Men's were 8th team.
It was good to see so many club vests on the course today as we continue to build and encourage members into the County race series. Well done to all who competed.
Thanks to Siobhan, Fran & Liam for travelling up and it was good to see support from all clubs to all athletes, congratulations to all winners.
Finally thanks to the County Board and United Striders for their hospitality, another well organised event by all involved.
Team photos courtesy of Wexford Athletics.
Davy Fortune 5k
A staple on St Patrick's Day in Enniscorthy is the Davy Fortune 5k which takes place in the morning time as the Enniscorthy parade takes place in the afternoon. 2 members ran the 5k, Sharron Dier ran 34:26 & John Dier ran 25:52.
Well done to you both.
The Great Gorey Run / Leinster Indoors, National Indoor Arena Abbotstown.
The Great Gorey Run
There were two options this morning in Gorey 5km or 10 mile. Eamonn Foley, Rob Casey and Jesse Kielthy decided it was 10 miles for them and had superb runs to finish in 1:13:42 for Rob finishing position of 31st place and 1:14:33 for Jesse finishing in 35th place and Eamonn in 1:22:17 finishing in 69th place.
Well done Eamonn, Rob and Jesse who have trained consistently and showed steady improvements over the last year.
Leinster Indoors, National Indoor Arena Abbotstown.
A huge well done to all our athletes who were busy competing in Abbotstown at the Leinster Indoors over the weekend.
Our Senior 4x400m relay team of Helen Wallace, Ilze Bedrite, Mary Gaynor & Catherine O'Connor ran 5:36.65 and claimed the silver medal.
Catherine was also very busy competing in O55 weight for distance throwing 3.83m and claimed a Silver medal for herself and claimed gold in O55 1500m with a 6:29.73, well done.
Also congratulations to Sarah Louise Carr who was competing in the Junior ladies weight for distance and threw a number of pb's finally hitting 5.89m for another fantastic Silver medal. Congratulations Sarah.
On Sunday our U15 boys were running the 4x200m relay gaining some valuable track experience. The recently formed team of Elijah Page Redmond, Alex Lonergan, Josh Nolan, Lorcan Carroll & Rory Henderson had a good run in 1:58:02 and were unfortunate not to make the final missing out by 1 place. Well done boys.
Thanks to Padraig, Mick, Tracey and Catherine for their time officiating and coaching over the 2 days and thanks to the boys parents for taking the time to travel up.
International Women's Day
On the 8th of March International Women's Day is celebrated as we celebrate the fantastic women in our lives.
On the 7th of March we photographed some of our women who were about to begin their training session.
Celebrate the women in your life and the achievements they have accomplished.
Leinster Juvenile Indoors Championship
2 club athletes were in action across a number of events at the Leinster Juvenile Indoors which took place across two days of exciting competition at the weekend.
Saturday saw Elijah Page Redmond in action in the 60m sprint winning heat 3 in 8.04 seconds. Running a faster 7.86 seconds in the final saw him claim a Leinster bronze medal, congratulations Elijah.
On Sunday he was throwing Shot Putt and threw 11.09m to add another Leinster bronze to his one from Saturday just 6cm behind second place. Well done.
He was in action in High Jump to finish his weekend with a best jump of 1.30m.
Saturday saw Lucas Page Redmond in action as he ran the 400m u17 boys first which was a time trail finishing 7th overall in a PB of 57.17seconds.
Next up he tackled the 60m sprint running 7.75 in heat 1 which saw him through to the final. Another identical time saw him finish 8th overall.
On Sunday he lined up for the 200m but unfortunately suffered DQ.
Congratulations to both you men who put a lot of effort into their training. Thanks to their coaches also for their voluntary time
Wicklow Hospice 10k/half marathon / Blackwater GAA 10k / Mr. Oil Novice Road Race
Wicklow Hospice 10k/half marathon
On the 25th of February the annual fundraiser took place in the walkways of Avondale House and some of the surrounding roads.
Tadhg Henderson (1:53:14) & Enda O'Sullivan (2:03:50) both ran the Half marathon distance.
Louise Henderson (1:05:05) ran the 10k distance.
Well done to the three of you.
Blackwater GAA 10k
Blackwater GAA hosted a 10k run around the roads of the village this morning with our own Eamonn Foley coming home in 24th place in a time of 49:25.
Well done Eamonn.
Mr. Oil Novice Road Race
The first in the Wexford Athletics Mr Oil road race series took place in a sunny but cool Kilmore village today. The Novice was 4k for ladies & 6k for men on a 3k loop around the village. A huge effort was made to increase entry numbers and as a club we certainly played our part with 9 in the ladies race and 13 in the mens race and 8 of those running a county race for the first time.
As is customary the ladies race was first with the whistle blowing at 11.30 to begin proceedings. Fantastic running from every one of our ladies was rewarded by a Team Bronze result with Helen, Ilze, Paula & Sarah scoring to secure the medals. Well done on a great achievement.
When the ladies race was complete it was the men's turn as they headed out on 2 loops of the 3k route. Each and every man pushing himself to perform as best he could saw all 13 very happy with their times.
As our club motto says 'Believe and Achieve' and today as a club we believed and we achieved. To have so many entrants was an achievement in itself and to instill a self belief into athletes to run these County races is a credit to our coaching team. Congratulations to all our athletes and in particular our bronze team medal winners. Thanks to our support team who encouraged all our athletes with their very vocal encouragement, our athletes did fully appreciate the atmosphere you created.
Well done to Wexford County Board and Kilmore AC who provided another great race. Looking forward to Intermediate in 4 weeks.
Finally thanks to our athletes who believed in themselves and competed, well done.
Ladies results:
7th Helen Wallace 18:02
8th Ilze Bedrite 18:05
13th Paula Gondard 18:52
23rd Sarah Bermingham 19:57
37th Louise Henderson 21:39
39th Mary Cronin 22:32
40th Carol Dowling 23:20
41st Gráinne Hayes 23:40
43rd Samantha Donegan 28:36
Men's results :
16th Tony Harpur 22:25
17th Brian Smyth 22:43
30th Dermot Foley 23:45
35th Jesse Kielty 24:54
42nd Fran Power 26:27
43rd Micheal Kinsella 27:05
44thPaul O'Meara 27:05
47th John Dier 27:52
48th Tadhg Henderson 29:21
49th Gareth Llloyd 29:50
50th David Clancy 31:54
51st Ollie Stack 32:17
52nd Liam Carroll 33:17
123.ie National Senior Indoors.
Club thrower Sarah Louuse Carr was our sole representative at the 123.ie National Indoors. As we all now know her speciality is the Weight for Distance. Full of confidence in her ability after recent competitions she threw a PB of 5.63m for an impressive 6th place.
Congratulations Sarah Louise and thanks to Mick, Mags Steve, Cate & Padraig who on officiating over the weekend competition.
Enniscorthy 10k
A group of seven club members headed up to Enniscorthy in very favourable running conditions for the Enniscorthy 10k superbly hosted by Slaney Olympic AC. Over 200 entrants saw many athletes traveling from near & far to compete. Rob today earned the honour of first Menapian over the line. Nice to see everyone coming in with great finish times and special mention to Catriona in her first outing for the club.
Well done to our Magnificent 7 !
Rob Casey 44:10
Eamonn Foley 46:42
John Dier 47:27
Micheal Kinsella 47:49
Tadhg Henderson 49:18
Louise Henderson 58:59
Catriona Murphy 1:12:21
Photos from popupraces.
Wexford Credit Union Night Run
Thursday night was a busy night on the streets of Wexford Town as large numbers gathered to tackle the 5k route organised by Wexford Credit Union & friends. A well known route out the Rosslare Road and back along Wexfords historic Main Street finishing up at the doors of Wexford Credit Union. A lovely evening weather wise and a large group of club members young and old turned out.
Well done to Josh Nolan, Lucas & Elijah Page Redmond, Orla Dolan & Maebh McCormack who all entered the non timed juvenile section.
Adult results :
Brian Smyth 19:06
Dermot Foley 19:46
Rob Casey 20:42
Martin Kelly 21:52
Fran Power 21:57
Micheal Kinsella 22:51
John Dier 23:08
Helen Wallace 23:22
Mylor Perry 23:38
Paula Gondard 24:03
Gareth Lloyd 24:54
Mathew Perry 25:10
Enda O'Sullivan 25:43
David Clancy 25:51
Sarah Bermingham 26:09
Liam Carroll 28:40
Ollie Stack 29:32
Emma Perry 31:26
Sharron 34:59
Bridie McGuire 45:26
Race photos available on sportsphoto ireland facebook page.
