Ironman 70.3 Tallin
Ironman 70.3 Tallin
Super performance by club member Marie Casey-Breen who again won herself a podium finish in the Ironman 70.3 in Tallin at the weekend. Well done Marie!
Pink 5K Dublin
Well done to Marion Galvin who ran the Pink 5k in aid of Breast Cancer which took place in Leopardstown. She completed the 5k in 28:56 while running with friends & family.
Greenway Half Marathon
Rob Casey took on another half marathon , this time the Greenway Half Marathon on the scenic greenway from Kilmacthomas to Ballinroad. He finished the event with a time of 2 hours.
Well done Rob
Tullamore Harriers Half Marathon
Tullamore County Offaly was Jamie Jordan's destination as she took on the Bord na Mona Tullamore Harriers Half Marathon. A superbly organised event by athletes for athletes. Jamie finished strongly in a great time of 2:29:44
Congratulations Jamie.
Pink 8K Kilkenny
Bridie McGuire travelled to Kilkenny City and ran the 8k Pink Run for Breast Cancer. A great finish time of 1 hr 4 minutes.
Well done to you Bridie.
parkrun
It appears that this was a weekend of milestones so we have a few special mentions this weekend:
1 Brian clocked up his 250th Parkrun in Kilkenny
2 Michael clocked up his 250th Parkrun in Wexford
3 Martin clocked up his 200th Parkrun in Wexford
4 Fran clocked up his 150th Parkrun in Wexford
In Wexford Racecourse Parkrun Fiachra Mehigan, John Hyland, Ali Asghar Khoyee, Fran Power, Eamonn Foley, John Dier, Martin Kelly, Gareth Lloyd, Enda O'Sullivan, Rob Mehigan, Sarah Bermingham, Oliver Stack, Mary Cronin, Linda Leacy, Michael Murphy, Sharron Dier, Bridie McGuire, Sinead Ryan & Helen Burrell all completed their 5k.
Kilkenny Parkrun hosted Brian Smyth for his big 5k run.
Clonmel Half / Oilgate 10k & County Half Marathon / Antrim Coast Half / Tri the Hook / parkrun
Clonmel Half Marathon.
A few years back a group of club men travelled to Clonmel to run the half marathon there which incorporated the very scenic Blueway. Today they went again such was their enjoyment of the previous one with Ollie joining them. An early start to drive there but a well organised event with all the essentials - lots of water, a nice training top, a medal as a memento and some light refreshments afterwards.
Well done the the four guys on their results showing regular training pays.
Brian Smyth 1:36:54
Dermot Foley 1:38:04
Ollie Stack 2:05:50
Enda O'Sullivan 2:15:47
Oylegate Half Marathon & 10k
The roads around Oylegate village were awash with athletes on Sunday morning as a 10k loop awaited them with 2 laps for the half marathon and 1 lap for the 10k race.
The club was well represented with Ann, Nora, John, Gareth & Sharron in the 10k and Tadhg, Ciara & Eamon in the half. The rain cleared just in time resulting in a very pleasant morning with a nice cooling breeze at times. Some age category prizes were claimed with John 2nd in his cat, Ann and Nora were both 2nd in their age in the 10k race, well done everyone.
Ciara in her first run for the club was joined by Tadhg and Eamonn in the half with excellent performances from all 3.
Everyone put in great performances in this event and its great to see so many representing the club. Another well organised event which ticks the boxes for athletes around the county.
10k results:
John Dier 51:39
Gareth Lloyd 54:16
Nora Boggan 59:12
Ann Thomas 1:03:23
Sharron Dier 1:23:18
Half Marathon results:
Eamonn Foley 1:46;46
Tadhg Henderson 1:50:43
Ciara Maddock 2:03:50
Antrim Coast Half Marathon
In a third location for members running a half marathon in one day Ali Asghar Khoyee travelled all the way up North to run in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon as a pacer.
He was rewarded with a very scenic but challenging route which he got stuck into completing his run in 2:12:52
Well done Ali and enjoy the recovery.
Tri the Hook
Congratulations to club member Ryan Ellard who competed in the Tri the Hook at the weekend finishing 32nd in 1:25:32, and to club member Marion Galvin finishing in 1:42:20
parkrun
Special mention to Helen & Peter who recorded a new 5k PB for themselves. Also nice to see Martin returning to form.
Brendan Broderick was in his home county and ran the Listowel Parkrun while he was there.
Enda O'Sullivan ran in his home county completing the Knockancree Cloughjordan parkrun.
Peter Mulvany ran the Erris parkrun picking up a new PB time.
Brian Smyth was also back in his home county and ran the Clonmel parkrun.
And at Wexford Racecourse Parkrun John Hyland, Helen Wallace, Fran Power, Eamonn Foley, Martin Kelly, Rob Casey, Paul Harpur, Mary Cronin, Linda Leacy, Michael Murphy, Sharron Dier, Bridie McGuire & Gareth Lloyd all completed their 5k.
Irish Life Frank Duffy 10 Mile / Mr Oil County Road Relays / parkrun
Irish Life Frank Duffy 10 Mile
Ali Ashgar Khoyee has found a distance he likes and travelled to Dublin for this 10 mile event around Phoenix Park.
He had a super run improving on his last outing with a time of 1:16:32 setting a new PB for himself with an improvement of over 4 minutes.
Congratulations Ali, great running.
Mr Oil County Road Relays
The rearranged Road Relays took place at Wexford Racecourse on a very pleasant Sunday morning. Our call for Relay runners during the week was answered and we entered 1 Senior women's teams, 1 Senior men's teams, same again in Masters and finally 2 mixed Relay teams. A brilliant spectator event as the athletes can be seen for almost 3/4 of the loop so watching your club athletes whizz around the 1500m loop before handing over to the next athlete brings extra excitement to the event.
A super haul of medals was their reward for stepping outside their comfort zone and blitzing the laps one by one.
In the Mixed we were gold and silver medal winners.
In the senior ladies we were also gold medal winners and gold in Masters.
And in the senior men's we were silver medal winners and gold in Masters.
Congratulations to all our athletes.
Thanks to the management of Wexford Racecourse for use of the facility, Irish Red Cross for first aid, County board for their organisation, Tadhg who was on entry and result duty as well as running and all the club members who came out to support our runners as we hosted the event.
*Senior Ladies
Gold
Catherine O'Connor, Ann Thomas & Sarah Bermingham
*Senior Men
Silver
Ryan Ellard, Brian Smyth, John Hyland & Rob Casey
*Masters Ladies
Gold
Bridie McGuire, Sharron Dier & Sam Donegan
*Masters Men
Gold
Ali Asghar Khoyee, Ger Mulhall, John Dier & Tadhg Henderson
*Mixed Relay
Gold
Sharron Dier, Ann Thomas, Ryan Ellard & John Dier
Silver
Sarah Bermingham, Bridie McGuire, Ger Mulhall & Rob Casey
parkrun
Parkrun have recently changed there requirements and now each event needs a second Event Director. Our own Brian Smyth has been elected as the 2nd Event Director for Wexford Racecourse Parkrun joining John Dier. Congratulations Brian.
Fiachra us going from strength to strength as he continues to improve his times.
Enda O'Sullivan ran the Knockancree Cloughjordan parkrun.
At Wexford Racecourse Fiachra Mehigan, Micheál Kinsella, John Dier, Gareth Lloyd, John Hyland, Brian, Fran Power, Martin Kelly, Mary Cronin, Linda Leacy, Ollie Stack, Michael Murphy & Sharron Dier all completed their 5k.
United Striders 5k / Gaelforce Bray 10K / parkrun / Menapians League
United Striders 5k
The Greenway is more used to cyclists but on Friday evening it was flooded with 350 athletes as United Striders held their extremely popular 5k run. An A to B route athletes were bussed to the start although some jogged out as their warm up. Blessed with a lovely warm evening the athletes gathered with some watching Ms Adeleke race on stewards phones before the event started.
A very fast course resulted in elite athletes chasing times and PBs seemed to be broken by many on the night including our own Geoff and Fran.
Congratulations to United Striders Athletic Club on a hugely successful event and a welcoming cup of tea with goodies afterwards.
Brian Smyth 19:25
Rob Casey 20:40
Fran Power 21:28
Paul Harpur 22:10
Geoff Hoffheinz 23:43
John Dier 23:56
Darren O'Grady 28:20
Sharron Dier 38:29
Gaelforce Bray 10k
Ilze Bedrite took a drive to Bray on Saturday to run the Bray 10k. A tough 10k route as it involves trail for the most part with the going mostly either uphill or downhill and incluses the Little Sugarloaf. Ilze completed the course in 1:16:08 on the energy sapping route.
parkrun
A combination of no Wexford Racecourse Parkrun and the United Striders 5k on Friday evening saw a much smaller club crew running parkrun at the weekend. Well done to Ryan who had a great run dipping under 20 mins for the first time.
Ali Ashgar Khoyee was on pacing duty again this week in Corkagh Parkrun.
In JFK Ryan Ellard, Dermot & Martin Kelly ran the New Ross Parkrun.
Menapians League
Our club handicap league continued on Sunday with the short but challenging due to the surface beach course over 3 km on Carne Beach. Out and back saw everyone home within 19 minutes leaving plenty of time to take advantage of the good weather with some opting for a soak in the cool Irish sea and others heading to Our Lady’s Island for coffee in the sun. Well done everyone,
Masters Track & Field Tullamore / Leo Carthy 6k
Masters Track & Field Tullamore
A big round of applause please for Catherine O'Connor who yesterday ran the 1500m in the Masters.
She lined up in Heat 2 putting in her usual determined performance where she finished just outside the medals in her age category. She clocked a brilliant time of 6:32.66 for 4th place.
Congratulations Catherine.
Leo Carthy 6k
The Leo Carty 6k run took place on Bank Holiday Sunday morning as part of the weekend festival in Our Lady's Island.
Tony Harpur put in a super run battling for most of the race with another athlete before eventually taking 4th place. Also having very good runs were Ryan Ellard, John Dier & Sharron Dier.
A well organised event over 2 laps of the course and tea/coffee afterwards, what's not to like ?
Kilkee Half Marathon / National Juvenile Track & Field / parkrun
Run Kilkee Half Marathon
A half marathon on a Saturday, a road trip to the West and a nice morning for a run combined for Oliver Stack & Enda O'Sullivan as they lined up in the scenic Kilkee Co Clare overlooking the sea.
A very scenic route but not without its challenges they both embraced the event with both men grateful to the groupie cheering them on at the bottom of the hill as they neared the finish line.
Another box ticked, enjoy the celebrations tonight.
Well done to both Oliver and Enda.
Oliver 2:03:55
Enda 2:05:09
National Juvenile Track & Field Day 3
A great achievement making the Natio Championships and this weekend it was Josh Nolan U16 Javelin, Elijah Page Redmond U16 Javelin & Lucas Page Redmond U18 200m.
Rain was a factor for athletes, not what you would expect in July but not a thing you can do about that.
Elijah threw a best of 41.37m which saw him finish just outside the medals I fourth place.
Josh threw 36.32m which saw him finish a very creditable 9th place.
Lucas ran well in a tough lane in 24.08 for his 200m heats.
A proud day for the three competing at this level and valuable experience gained.
Well done gentlemen and thanks to Padraig and Tracey for travelling as official/coaches.
parkrun
Shout out to the weekends parkrunners.
Good man Peter who had his quickest 5k of the year, must be the benefit of signing up as a member recently !
John and Sharron Dier were at Westport Parkrun, the scene of their first ever parkrun before setting up the Wexford Parkrun.
Ann Thomas ran the New Ross Parkrun in JFK Park.
In Wexford Racecourse Parkrun Ryan Ellard, Fiachra Mehigan, Geoff Hoffheinz, Fran Power, Gareth Lloyd, John Hyland, Brian Smyth, Rob Mehigan, Helen Burrell, Mary Cronin, Martin Kelly, Peter Mulvany & Michael Murphy all completed their 5k.
Club Summer League
The club league continues to grow in popularity with a number of members enjoying the handicap format in the warm weather. The coffee afterwards was the reward to ensure everyone completed the fast 4km two lap course on Forth Mountain.
National Juvenile Track & Field / Irish Runner 10 mile / King of Greystones / parkrun
National Juvenile Track & Field Championships
Alex Lonergan travelled to Tullamore on Sunday where he had good weather as he competed at U16 hammer finishing 7th place overall in his first Nationals finals.
Fiachra Mehigan travelled up on Saturday for the National B Championships with his eyes focused on 2 events. On a wet day he performed well in the long jump pit for a 6th place finish then moved onto the track to compete in a very competitive 800m race finishing a very creditable 7th place.
Well done to both athletes.
Biofreeze Irish Runner 10 mile
Sunday morning in Phoenix Park was the destination for Ali & Ryan for the Irish Runner 10 mile. The event was run around the roads of the Phoenix park and it was Ali's first 10 mile race. Good to see Ali back after a few weeks break.
It was by no means an easy run but both men stuck to their training plans and finished well.
Congratulations gents.
Ryan Ellard 1:13:11
Ali Ashgar Khoyee 1:20:57
King of Greystones
Congratulations to John Dier & Sharron Dier who both completed the Gavin Glynn King of Greystones Triathlon last weekend.
parkrun
Shout out to the weekends parkrunners.
Another weekend with a few parkruns spread far and wide. Nice to see John dipping under 21 mins for the first time.
Brendan Broderick ran the Listowel Parkrun.
Tadhg Henderson ran the Osterly Park Parkrun in London.
Brian Smyth, John Hyland, Dermot Foley, Paul Harpur, Paul O'Meara, Mary Cronin, Martin Kelly, Helen Burrell Bridie McGuure Sharron Dier all ran the Wexford Racecourse Parkrun.
Senior & Masters Track & Field Day 2 / Never Give Up 5k & 10k / Noel Walsh memorial 5k / Menapians Summer League / parkrun
Senior & Masters Track & Field Day 2
Again Enniscorthy Sports Hub was the venue on Wednesday evening as the clubs of County Wexford gathered to compete St a variety of events in Track & Field . They were rewarded with one of the more pleasant evenings this Summer has offered. A very enjoyable event as athletes got to sample different events that they normally wouldn't even think of and hopefully has grabbed their attention for the future.
We had a number of podium places, with Helen in 1500m & Javelin, Ilze in the O35 100m, 1500m, 400m & Javelin, Nora in the O50 100m, 1500m, 400m & Javelin, Siobhan in O50 100m, Catherine in O50 1500m, 400m & Javelin and John in O35 Javelin.
Well done to our other competing athletes Ryan, Sharron and Sarah putting in good performances and enjoying every minute.
Thanks to Sharron Dier & Wexford Athletics for photos and also thanks to Louise, Senan , Paula, Helen & Siobhan for volunteering
Club results :
Senior Women 100m
5 Helen Wallace 16.32
6 Sarah Bermingham 20.47
O35 Women 100m
3 Ilze Bedrite 17.34
O50 Women 100m
2 Nora Boggan 17.97
3 Siobhan Doyle 18.43
5 Sharron Dier 25.46
O50 Men 100m
7 John Dier 17.36
Senior Women 1500m
3 Helen Wallace 5.45.40
4 Sarah Bermingham 7.30.86
O35 Women 1500m
1 Ilze Bedrite 6.58.55
O50 Women 1500m
2 Catherine O'Connor 7.03.28
3 Nora Boggan 7.45.17
Senior Men 1500m
4 Ryan Ellard 5.13.66
Senior Women 400m
7 Helen Wallace. 1.18.21
8 Sarah Bermingham 1.45.15
O35 Women 400m 7
2 Ilze Bedrite 1.25.62
O50 Women 400m
1 Catherine O'Connor 1.25.83
2 Nora Boggan 1.30.76
Senior Men 400m
5 Ryan Ellard 1.09.81
O50 Men 400m
5 John Dier 1.22.49
Women 4x100 Relay
4 Menapians A.C. 1.11.92
Senor Women Javelin
7 Helen Wallace 7.16
O35 Women Javelin
2 Ilze Bedrite 14.96m
O50 Women Javelin
2 Nora Boggan 12.97m
3 Catherine O'Connor 11.05m
4 Sharron Dier 5.62m
O35 Men Javelin
3 John Dier 15.81m
Never Give Up 5k/10k
In North County Wexford we had 3 members running in the #nevergiveup event. Perfect running conditions in Inch today
Ger Mulhall ran the 5k in 27:08, Eamonn Foley ran the 10k in 48:05 & Marion Galvin ran the 10k in 1:02:47
Well done to all three of you.
Noel Walsh memorial 5k
John & Sharron took a spin over to Terrarath on Sunday morning for the local 5k run in aid of New Ross Special Olympics and Terrarath Community Centre.
Well done guys.
Menapians Summer League
Event 2 of our inaugural club members’ summer league took place in the Raven forest Curracloe on Sunday morning. With 10 members in total in attendance the league is building momentum and all are enjoying the different format - this is a “handicap” league where all runners start at different times according to their predicted finish time. The theory is that everyone should finish around the same time and can battle it out on an even keel for position, times not recorded. It will be interesting to see how this develops over the course of the summer.
parkrun
With a horse race meeting taking place at Wexford Racecourse members had to put in an earlier start and hit the roads if they wanted their 5k fix on Saturday.
At New Ross Parkrun Dermot Foley, Fran Power, Paul Harpur, Helen Burrell & Martin Kelly ran their 5k.
At Shangannagh Parkrun Louise & Tadhg Henderson both ran their 5k.
At Tymon Park Parkrun Enda O'Sullivan ran his 5k.
At Gorey Parkrun Sharron & John Dier ran their 5k.
An unusual spread of venues visited on Saturday.
Mick Murphy 5K / Clontarf Half Marathon / National Juveniles Day 1 / parkrun
Mick Murphy Ferns 5k
Friday evening races, some hate them but it appears 173 people love them as they lined up in Ferns Square under the historic castle awaiting the starters gun. The expected rain showers held off just long enough thankfully. A superb atmosphere as many club colours were on display warming up in anticipation of what was a very competitive race as 13 athletes went under 17 minutes and 57 athletes dipped under 20 mins.
Our crew of 9 ran excellent with Samantha Donegan has a brilliant run breaking her PB time for 5k.
A big Happy 60th Birthday to Catherine O'connor who celebrated her birthday by running the race.
Well done to SBR AC on a well organised event and thanks to Sportsphoto Ireland for the photos.
Results,
Dermot Foley 19:30
Brian Smyth 19:59
Paula Gondard 23:55
Gareth Lloyd 24:12
Micheál Kinsella 24:23
Catherine O’Connor 24:40
John Dier 25:24
Samantha Donegan 29:24
Darren O'Grady 29:25
Clontarf Half Marathon
Ryan Ellard is a recent addition to our membership who joined up after befriending some of our members at parkrun. Today he took on his 2nd Half Marathon which took part in Clontarf, part of the Bear Races Trilogy which includes Wexford & Wicklow Half Marathons.
The Half has become a popular race distance among many and Ryan is certainly one of those.
Today he ran a great time of 1 hour 39 minuted which sets a new PB for himself. Fantastic stuff from a young man who only took up running 14 months ago.
Congratulations to you Ryan, enjoy the recovery.
123.ie National Juvenile Chammpionships Day 1
A fantastic achievement just to qualify to compete at the National Championships which took place in Tullamore today.
Two of our athletes were competing after qualifying from the Leinster Championships a few weeks ago.
Lucas Page Redmond had a tough day in the U18 long jump pit with a best jump of 5.37m which saw him finish in 12th place.
Elijah Page Redmond was on the throwing cage for U16 discus with a best of 31.85m which saw him finish in 9th place.
A special thank you to the boys grandmother who stepped in to drive the boys to Tullamore today.
Thanks to Catherine O'Connor for traveling as our club coach on the day.
parkrun
After the buzz of Friday evenings event in Ferns a big gang were up early on Saturday for their Parkrun fix.
At Wexford Racecourse Parkrun John Hyland, Brian Smyth, Fiachra Mehigan, Eamonn Foley Dermot Foley, Geoff Hoffheinz, Sarah Bermingham, Rob Mehigan, David Clancy, Mary Cronin, Linda Leacey, Helen Burrell, Martin Kelly, Michael Murphy, Sharron Dier, Bridie McGuire & Gareth Lloyd all completed their 5k runs.
Enda O'Sullivan ran his 5k up in Knockancree Cloughjordan Parkrun.
Slaney Olympic Summer League/ Pink Rock 10K / parkrun
Slaney Olympic Summer League
Congratulations to Tony Harpur and Paul Harpur who had great runs on Friday at the Slaney Olympic Athletic Club Summer League.
An impressive run by Tony saw him finish in 2nd place overall.
Pink Rock 10k
Not too far to travel on a Sunday morning this week as 6 of our gang headed to New Ross for the Pink Rock 10k.
A well organised race on a quiet course which runners of all abilities seem to enjoy. Well done to St Joseph's County Kilkenny on hosting their race which doubles as the County Race for Kilkenny.
Gareth Lloyd 50:48
John Dier 52:55
Helen Burrell 1:04:07
Sharron Dier 1:22:12
Bridie McGuire 1:24:57
Niall Tyrell 1:25:34
parkrun
Shout out to the weekends parkrunners.
Special mention to Ryan & Ali who both picked up PB runs on Saturday.
Enda O'Sullivan completed the Knockancree Cloughjordan Parkrun
Dermot Foley, Ryan Ellard, Ali Ahsgar Khoyee, Brian Smyth, John Hyland, Rob Casey, Alex Parris, Geoff Hoffheinz, Fran Power, Marion Galvin, Michael Murphy, Sharron Dier & Gareth Lloyd all completed their 5k at Wexford Racecourse Parkrun.