Our women’s department is finishing off the year in style with medals at the seniors while Catherine continues winning in the Netherlands. Also a shout out to Dave Lawless who was ‘missed’ in the finisher roll for the Waterford Half-marathon in our last report.
MEIJENDELLOP AND ZUIDERPARKRUN
Catherine recorded her st victory of the and then followed it up with a solid 19:02 Parkrun win at Zuiderparkun the following Saturday.
| RESULT |
| 1. Brent Pietersee (Waassenar) 1:25:30 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 32. Catherine Devitt 1:42:47 (1st lady) |
WICKLOW SENIOR CROSS-COUNTRY
7 were rostered and 5 took the start line on the new course at Charlesland Golf Course for the Wicklow Senior Cross-country.
MEN’S RACE
Alan Kennedy and Neil Fusco became the 8th and 9th men to compete at this level for our club. Unfortunately, Neil had to pull the plug after 4 km leaving Alan as our only finisher in a very respectable 38th out of 44 and a good 7 minutes ahead of the last finisher.
| RESULT |
| 1. Richard Owens (Greystones AC) 0:20:39 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 38. Alan Kennedy 0:48:27 |
| 44. Neil Fusco DNF |
Women’s race
Loraine overtook Donna on the final few metres the women’s 5000m distance to lead the team home in 7th position. Combining with Donna and Nora this was enough to secure our first ever medals at senior level in Wicklow as the women’s team took Bronze ahead of Bray Runners and behind Parnell and Kilcoole.
this was the first time we had a women’s team in the senior cross-country – Donna having been our only runner in this event previously.
| RESULT |
| 1. Sile O’Byrne (Parnell AC) 0:20:39 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 7. Loraine Creane 0:22:47 |
| 8. Donna Quinn 0:22:48 |
| 14. Nora Butler 0:25:04 |
Glendalough AC 