REPORT: Annacurra, Bundoran, Corkagh ParkRun

by glendaloughac, posted in Mountain running, Race reports, Road running, Trail running

Seven of our runners got their weekend race outings done and dusted on Saturday this weekend across 4 different races: the Annacurra IMRA Spring League mountain race, the Avondale and Corkagh Parkruns, and the Bundoran 10 miler all the way North in Donegal. We’ll go through them alphabetically.

James Heggie crosses the finishing mat at Annacurra

ANNACURRA

125 runners made their way down to south-east Wicklow for a new revised version of the Annacurra race – the penultimate counter in the IMRA Spring League including four of ‘our own’. First and last of our scorers were members of the ‘Wicklow Wolf’ division of the club – Alan Kennedy (leading our team home for the first time) and James Heggie. Sandwiched between them was Barry O’Neill (in his first race since November) and Colm Kenna (running his first race of the calendar year).

Alan Kennedy (in Wicklow Wolf tshirt) leading home the team at Annacurra
RESULT
1. Andrew O Donnghaile (NUIG) 0:49:02
——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-
57. Alan Kennedy 1:09:31
79. Barry O’Neill 1:15:49
83. Colm Kenna 1:16:43
112. James Heggie 1:28:05

AVONDALE PARKRUN

Donna Quinn ran the Avondale Parkrun and crossed the line as the first woman in 21:30. Unfortunately, she was missing bar code meaning she’s registered only as ‘unknown’ in the results.

RESULT
1. Finn Buck () 0:17:36
——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-
7. Donna Quinn 0:21:30 (1st woman)

CORKAGH PARKRUN

Aran Lynham meanwhile was recorded as running 20:02 in Corkagh Park for another ParkRun as he continues building back the running-specific fitness after a 2022 focused on GAA.

RESULT
1. Barry Whelan (Tallaght AC) 0:17:00
——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-
12. Aran Lynham 0:20:02

BUNDORAN 10 MILE

Much further North, Nora Butler ran well in the Bundoran 10 mile race attended by nearly 1200 runners. This was only the third 10 mile race run by a Glendalough AC female runner in our 9 year history and the first by an F40 setting up the club mark for that age category to beat.

RESULT
1. Jake O’Regan (St. John’s AC) 0:49:23
——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-
368. Nora Butler 1:17:57 (PB, F40 PB, F40 CLUB RECORD)

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