Our full report on the Dublin City Marathon for 2024 which hosted the first Wicklow Marathon Championship where we came away with three individual and three team medals. We had a record entry of 28 with 26 making the starting line (all finished). Grace Curham lowered Claire Thompson’s long-standing Female senior club marathon record to 3:27 with Christine Sweeney setting the new mark for F50 (3:48) and
Grace’s time was also the third fastest ever run by a female membeR of the club.
DUBLIN MARATHON / WICKLOW MARATHON CHAMPS
In the Wicklow Championship we secured six medals (three individual and three teams) winning the o50 team with Angus Tyner, Ross Thompson and Liam Sweeney and Angus taking individual Silver. the women’s team led home by Grace Curham (Silver in the F35 category) , Nora Butler (2nd in the F40 category) and Christine Sweeney took team silver as well.
Below is not a complete list of PBs as we could not gather full confirmation of who ran PBs and who didn’t but we had at least 11 PBs and likely quite a few more.
| RESULT |
| 1. Moses Kemei (Kenya) 2:08:47 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 1625. Louis Byrne 3:12:40 |
| 1734. Angus Tyner 3:13:53 (2nd M55, PB, Individual Silver, Team Silver) |
| 2484. Eoin Morton 3:22:52 |
| 2521. Neil Fusco 3:22:29 (PB) |
| 3078. Niall MacCague 3:27:00 |
| 3115. Grace Curham 3:27:17 (2nd FS, PB, Individual Silver, Team Silver) |
| 3130. Eoin Phelan 3:27:05 (PB) |
| 3207. Sebastian Slotwinski 3:26:17 |
| 3546. Kevin Ferguson 3:28:39 (PB) |
| 3581. Ben Lewis 3:28:47 (PB) |
| 3882. Nora Butler 3:33:21 (2nd F40, PB, Individual Gold, Team Silver) |
| 4379. Graham Kearns 3:36:19 |
| 4617. Chris willoughby 3:39:08 (PB) |
| 5319. Marcus Murphy 3:42:46 |
| 5490. Ben McGettigan 3:43:21 |
| 6043. Christine Sweeney 3:48:13 (PB, Team Silver) |
| 8254. Graham Wheeler 3:59:06 |
| 10155. Niall MacCarthy 4:12:50 |
| 11601. James McCarthy 4:23:32 |
| 11721. Ross Thompson 4:25:20 (Individual Silver, Team Silver) |
| 11890. Liam Sweeney 4:26:38 |
| 12334. Mark Willoughby 4:27:35 |
| 14051. Tom Kilbride 4:46:48 |
| 16450. James Heggie 5:32:59 |
SHANGANAGH, father collin’s and AVONDALE PARKRUNS
One week post marathon Angus Tyner was at it again running his fastest 5 km of the year at the Shanganagh ParkRun and he improved that further this weekend at Father Collins (a slight net downhill course – about 1.2% faster than flat) with 18:49 (his second best time as an M55).
Marcus Murphy and Claire Thompson went to Avondale for the ParkRun and Marcus clinched 3rd place in 20:20
Shanganagh (2/11)
| RESULT |
| 1. Eamonn Staunton () 0:17:13 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 9. Angus Tyner 0:19:23 |
Father Collins (9/11)
| RESULT |
| 1. Shaun Conaghan () 0:18:43 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 2. Angus Tyner 0:18:49 (1st M55) |
Avondale (9/11)
| RESULT |
| 1. Mick Byrne (Parnell AC) 0:19:30 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 3. Marcus Murphy 0:20:32 (3rd M40) |
| 19. Claire Thompson 0:24:40 |
GAELFORCE HOWTH 10K AND GAELFORCE CLARA VALE
We missed a result from mid-October where Edson Ferreira competed at the Gaelforce 10k at Howth (report of this weekend’s Gaelforce Clara Vale to follow next week).
| RESULT |
| 1. Mads Larsen () 0:42:06 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 128. Edson Ferreira 0:54:50 |
Glendalough AC 