A bumper report follows from the World Mountain Masters Running Championship in Canfranc, the Dingle Half and Full marathon, the ‘2x Lakes’ races in Wicklow (Lakers 10k in Roundwood and The Lakes 10k in Blessington) spiced up with action from Ratoath, IMRA, and more! We have four medals, one podium and three PBs in today’s report….
we will start with the World Master’s and work our way back to some older results…
WORLD MASTERS MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIP
We had runners competing in all three of the races at the World Masters Mountain Running Championship in Canfranc that began with an uphill 6.5 km race on Friday.
UPHILL 6.5 K
Recent joinees Becky Quinn and Joe Lalor opened their World Master’s event at the Uphill with Becky securing an impressive Bronze medal in the women’s F50 category. Graham Bush was second home from the club and began his quest for three races in three days…
| RESULT |
| 1. Eduoard Hernandez (Spain M40 Team) 0:43:45 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 100. Becky Quinn 1:00:02 (3rd F50, Individual Bronze) |
| 166. Graham Bushe 1:04:41 |
| 294. Joe Lalor 1:20:59 |
LONG TRAIL 34K
aforementioned Graham Bush made it two races out of two and it looked briefly like he and the Irish M55 team had secured a Bronze medal but a disqualification for Vasiliy Neumerzhitskiy (for discarding his jacket before the finish) meant the Irish teams was bumped out of the medals! Becky Quinn unfortunately had to pull out after the first checkpoint.
| RESULT |
| 1. Thomas Roach (UK M40 Team) 3:06:30 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 135. Graham Bushe 4:35:56 |
UP/DOWN CLASSIC 17K
On the final day it was time for Paul Duffy and Kevin Doherty to join the fray and for Joe Lalor to have his second outing. Paul Duffy was our first man home and second scorer for the Irish M40 team that secured team Silver ahead of the Italians. As a funny anecdote three men from Baldoyle had an involvement – Ian Conroy (first man home), Paul, and Kevin Doherty (who just missed out on scoring – coming in fourth Irishman).
Joe Lalor was third scorer for the Irish M70 team who won gold and got their turn on the top part of the podium for the national anthem.
This put a fine finish to a successful championship yielding one individual and three team medals (one gold, one silver, two bronze).
| RESULT |
| 1. Andrew Douglas (UK M35 Team) 1:22:56 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 148. Paul Duffy 1:59:36 (Team Silver) |
| 186. Graham Bushe 2:05:01 (Team Bronze) |
| 225. Kevin Doherty 2:12:17 |
| 353. Joe Lalor 2:35:45 (Team Gold) |
DINGLe MARATHON
Aoife O’Brien raced along three other members including partner Aidan Redmond and secured and impressive podium on the tough marathon course in Dingle.
| RESULT |
| 1. Ian Vanderven () 2:44:08 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 51. Aoife O’Brien 3:36:09 (3rd woman) – WW RC |
| 51. Aidan Redmond 3:54:54 – WW RC |
| 286. Edson Ferreira 4:25:39 – WW RC |
| 330. Niall MacCarthy 4:35:05 – WW RC |
RATOATH HALF-MARATHON
Eoin Phelan clocked another race and another PB lowering his half-marathon best to 1:35.
| RESULT |
| 1. Peter Somba (Ratoath AC) 1:10:05 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 382. Eoin Phelan 1:35:41 (PB) – WW RC |
DRAGON’S BACK WALES
John Conway was on another adventure with wife Laura and friend from Parnell: Michael Dowling taking on the 6-day Dragon’s Back stage race event over some of the roughest terrain Wales’ has to offer. In the end Michael Dowling was the only finisher of the trio with Laura succumbing to injury and John having to throw in the towel after stomach issues after 3 days and just over 33 hours of running.
MEDIC HALF-MARATHON
Kevin Ferguson knocked 56 seconds off his PB to run 1:34:22 for the half-marathon at the Medic Half-marathon with wife Niamh knocking nearly 27 minutes off her own best.
| RESULT |
| 1. Kacper Czerpak () 1:16:13 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 20. Kevin Ferguson 1:34:22 (PB) |
NAV CHALLENGE 1 – BARRAVORE
Locally, Chris Willoughby tried his hands at the navigation challenge finishing 18th.
| RESULT |
| 1. John Bell (Sli Cualann AC) 2:26:00 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 18. Chris willoughby 4:18:00 (WW RC) |
CARLINGFORD FOX’S ROCK
Angus Tyner and Graham Bush went head to head at the northern Leinster Championship counter in Carlingford and Angus used his navigational skills to get himself home first in a fine 5th overall with Graham Bush two spots behind. despite the lofty finishes Bernard Fortune took the M55 with Angus and Graham 2nd and 3rd.
| RESULT |
| 1. Brian Furey (Brother’s Pearse AC) 1:47:16 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 5. Angus Tyner 1:58:45 |
| 7. Graham Bushe 2:08:30 |
THE LAKES 10 KM
The trio of Aoife, Colm and Donna travelled to Blessington to attend the always worthwhile Lakes 10k. While there were no PBs, Donna secured 2nd F40 with Aoife improving on last year’s time.
| RESULT |
| 1. Colm Turner (Brothers Pearse AC) 0:33:12 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 20. Donna Quinn 0:42:16 (2nd F40) |
| 40. Aoife Joyce 0:46:37 |
| 80. Colm Kenna 0:51:04 |
ROUNDWOOD ‘RUN FOR LAKERS’ 10 KM
Same day, same distance and nearly the same name – a runner could be forgiven if they turned up on the trails of Roundwood instead of the roads of Blessington but thankfully our only representative – Nora Butler was where she was meant to be and finished well up in 34th out over over 300 starters in a great time of 45:50.
| RESULT |
| 1. Charlie White () 0:35:17 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 34. Nora Butler 0:45:50 (WW RC) |
ZUIDERPARKRUN 5 KM
Meanwhile in Holland Richard Costelloe ran his second fastest 5 km of the season finishing 2nd in the Zuiderparkrun.
| RESULT |
| 1. Aaron McConkey (Saltaire Striders) 0:17:22 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 2. Richard Costelloe 0:17:42 |
Glendalough AC 