REPORT: Gaelforce Belmont 10k / Ballineddan

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

A quick report before the Athletics Wicklow Off-Road Championship will occupy most of our hands and minds for the next few days!

This weekend saw mainly action on trail and hills. Firstly, three of our ‘Wicklow Wolfers’ took part in the large (523) field at the popular Gaelforce Bray 10 km which for the second year had moved into the Belmont demesne due to the ongoing repair of the Bray Cliff Path.

GAELFORCE BRAY 10K

Edson Ferreira showed good form ahead of his county championship debut coming up this weekend being first over the line followed by Brian Howard and Britta Luebbert.

RESULT
1. Joe Roche () 0:43:44
——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-
33. Edson Ferreira 0:57:05 – WW RC
299. Brian Howard 1:18:07 – WW RC
504. Britta Luebbert 2:16:15 – WW RC

BALLINEDDAN

The new Leinster Championship up Lugnacoille via Slieve Maan and Ballineddan was the second hill counter in our Club Championship with normalised results being combined into one score where Graham Bush took the win – finishing first club runner on both occasions in nearly identical times (72 minutes for both 10.5 km routes).

Ballineddan is the easier of the two – slightly more runnable and less technical than the traditional Camarahill approach. Behind Graham (in impressive 8th place) was Angus Tyner and Alan Kennedy who together swept the M55 podium. Eoin Phelan was next in his 34th race of the year as 3rd M35 followed by Joe Lalor (1st M70) and James Heggie (1st M50).

35 attended a route that probably deserved a bigger turn-out!

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP – AFTER ROUND 11

With 11 of 16 rounds completed Graham Bush is the big mover going into 5th spot with only 3 counters. Winning the next two will put him within striking distance of leader Paul Duffy. One trail counter (the Off-road counter), three cross-country races and 1 road race (Dublin Marathon) remain for runners to get the minimum 5 to complete the championship.

RankNameRaces#Best 5Wins
1Paul Duffy6500.05
2Gavin Kennedy5481.62
3Kevin Ferguson5448.90
4Eoin Phelan7411.10
5Graham Bushe3396.32
6René Borg4379.00
7Alan Kennedy4349.10
8Aoife Joyce4321.50
9Mark Willoughby5313.20
10Aran Lynham3279.90
11Angus Tyner3270.70
12James Heggie4259.10
13Colm Kenna3247.00
14Chris willoughby2232.10
15Richard Allan2189.51
16Anthony Breen2180.30
17Catherine Devitt2179.40
18Loraine Creane2177.50
19Kevin Doherty2169.60
20Jeff Swords2164.50
21Donall Flanagan1152.00
22Claire Thompson2144.80
23Andy Walker2130.60
24Rebecca Whineray2127.20
25Gerard O’Rourke2122.50
26Joe Lalor1107.60
27Graeme Warren1100.01
28Diarmuid Kavanagh196.20
29Torben Dahl195.60
30Marcus Murphy195.50
31Blaise Kinsella194.60
32Rachel Wisdom187.40
33Graham Kearns186.80
34Philip O’Brien186.60
35Donna Quinn186.20
36Ben Lewis183.40
37Grace Curham181.60
38Corrie Adams177.60
39Niall MacCarthy176.90
40fergal Olohan176.40
41Neil Fusco171.80
42Richard Kieran164.20
43Brendan Farrell163.50
44Sam Fleming154.00
45Aaron Kedward148.90
46Tadeusz Cantwell16.70

with none of our women competing in rounds 8, 9, 10 and 11 over the summer, the status quo remains locked where it was after race 7 with Aoife ahead on four races with most sitting on only 2 and needing to do at least 3 of the last 5 to complete.

RankNameRaces#Best 5
1Aoife Joyce4367.2
2Catherine Devitt2200.0
5Loraine Creane2200.0
7Rebecca Whineray2188.0
3Claire Thompson2162.9
6Rachel Wisdom199.5
4Donna Quinn198.4
8Grace Curham185.8

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