RACE REPORT: Wild Wednesday

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Very busy Wednesday behind us. At 7 pm Barry O’Neill took on the grueling ‘Crone Caper’ mountain race finishing 74th out of 157 runners.

Barry summiting Maulin

Meanwhile 11 of our members represented the club in the Wicklow Road Championship for the fifth year running and it was a productive evening. Our men were led home by Richard Costelloe like in 2020 and packed well with Graeme, Paul, Rene and Angus following within 20 seconds of each other. Richard just finished outside the medals in the F45 category.

Our club has gained some great new members over the last year and it was good to see several making their ‘team debut’: Graeme Warren, Paul Duffy and Eoin Kennedy get the mention here.

Claire O’Callaghan had a terrific race in her ‘post-baby comeback’ getting Bronze in the Female Senior category with Donna and Aoife getting the silver and the bronze in the F40 category. Team results will be up later but it looks likely the ladies took the Team Silver in the FS category and thus bring the medal tally to 4 for the evening. (edit: the men’s Senior team finished 3rd bringing the tally to 5).

Claire on her way to 3rd place in the FS category

The Wicklow Road Championship doubled as the 6th round of our Glendalough Open Club Championship and here we allowed two ‘distance entrants’ with Richard Kieran and Aran Lynham running solo time trials earlier in the day as they could not make the evening’s event. Richard took his second win on the trot after this victory in the Glen 2 Glen Half-marathon. Angus Tyner and Donna Quinn hold on to their leads with 6 races to go: the Up/Down hill race, the trail race, the cross-country PaarLauf, the cross-country individual race, the Track time trial and the Hybrid Relay.

new member Eoin Kennedy in his first ‘official’ outing for the club

CRONE CAPER

  1. Barry Minnock, Tullamore Harriers 54:56

————-GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS———-

74. Barry O’Neill 1:12:45

Full results

WICKLOW ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS

  1. Derek Crammond, Parnell AC 15:48
  2. Sile O’Byrne, Parnell (1st lady) 17:34

—————-GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS———————

22. Richard Costelloe 18:14

40. Graeme Warren 19:14 (PB)

42. Paul Duffy 19:22

44. Rene Borg 19:33

45. Angus Tyner 19:34

53. Claire O’Callaghan 20:28 (3rd FS)

56. Donna Quinn 20:42 (2nd F40)

57. Anthony Breen 20:42

63. Eoin Kennedy 21:24

66. Aoife Joyce 21:34 (3rd F40)

74. Colm Kenna 22:09

Full results

GLENDALOUGH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP – ROUND 6 (5 KM ROAD RACE)

1. Richard Costelloe 18:14

2. Graeme Warren 19:14

3. Paul Duffy 19:22

4. Rene Borg 19:33

5. Angus Tyner 19:34

6. Aran Lynham 19:40

7. Claire O’Callaghan 20:28 (1st lady)

8. Donna Quinn 20:42 (2nd lady)

9. Anthony Breen 20:42

10. Eoin Kennedy 21:24

11. Aoife Joyce 21:34 (3rd lady)

12. Richard Kieran 22:01

13. Colm Kenna 22:09

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