Clonakilty Half-marathon
The weekend’s action began in Clonakilty where Eoin Phelan – along with all others entered in the full marathon – was downgraded to the half-marathon due to road flooding. Expecting a different type of race, he cruised through a good 9 minutes below his PB on a slow day overall.
The race was won by the winner of our club fund-raiser – Tudor Mircea.
| RESULT |
| 1. Tudor Mircea (Clonliffe Harriers) 1:13:21 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 504. Eoin Phelan 2:01:09 |
Clontarf Half-marathon and 5 mile
Meanwhile further North three of our Wicklow Wolf Run Club members took on the traditionally windy half-marathon with it’s beach finish. Mark Lindsay and Conor Diamond competed in the half with Claire Harrington running in the 5 mile.
| RESULT |
| 1. Jesus Calle Arroyo (Raheny Shamrocks) 1:14:20 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 574. Mark Lindsay 1:47:41 |
| 1826. Conor Diamond 2:12:53 |
| RESULT |
| 1. Ian FitzGerald (Donore Harriers) 0:27:57 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 699. Claire Harrington 0:51:49 |
WICKLOW SENIOR CROSS-COUNTRY 2022
It’s no secret that cross-country doesn’t get the love it deserves: the discipline has interesting venues, great competition, fantastic physical development, the chance to run for a team (and yourself) and distils running to it’s essence: you against yourself first and you against the next guy/gal second.
So it was not entirely surprising that numbers at the frighteningly named ‘Wicklow Senior’ were somewhat low. Donna Quinn was outnumbered 7 to 1 by host’s Parnell as our lonely representative in the 5 km women’s race in Avondale yet still managed a Silver medal to continue to add shine to another great season.
Our men’s team lost two men to illness and another to injury on Saturday with another drop-out Sunday leaving ever-reliable Colm Kenna to step in and ensure the men had a full team. Paul Duffy led the cross-country team home for the third time in three outings followed by club coach Rene Borg and then Anthony and Colm. In a strong field, we finished fifth out of five teams.
WOMEN’S
| RESULT |
| 1. Catherine O’Connor (Parnell AC) |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 2. Donna Quinn 0:22:47 (2nd F40, Individual Silver) |
MEN’S
| RESULT |
| 1. Derek Crammond (Parnell AC) 0:37:40 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 15. Paul Duffy 0:44:31 |
| 17. René Borg 0:45:50 |
| 22. Anthony Breen 0:48:57 |
| 25. Colm Kenna 0:54:50 |
Clingandaelcross XC
Our team could have done with the strength of Richard Costelloe – currently residing in The Hague who finished 2nd in the M45 category at the Clingandaelcross race in the Netherlands.
| RESULT |
| 1. Jorrit Klinkeberg (Phanos) 0:27:02 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 19. Richard Costelloe 0:30:11 (2nd M45) |
Glendalough AC 