This weekend saw us record three more race results to bring the club tally to 592 – eight more to get above 600 races for the first time.
QUEEN’S PARKRUN BELFAST AND SOME PARKRUN STATS
Angus Tyner ran his 12th Parkrun in 2024 – this time on the Northern side of the border and once again accompanied by son Tivon. This time he stayed just above 20 minutes but as so often before was the first home in his age category.
| RESULT |
| 1. Mike Boucher (Aldershot, Farnham & District AC) 0:18:47 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 4. Angus Tyner 0:20:09 (1st M55) |
Angus is the club’s most eager ParkRunner having raced 48 as a member of the club (of which we have record). Richard Costelloe and Catherine Devitt share 2nd place with 11 (mainly on their current ‘home turf’ in Zuiderpark in the Netherlands). In general our club is not the most Parkrun focused with only 123 Parkruns completed by 26 different members over our 10 year history.
| RESULT |
| 1. Vincent Kipkorir (Kenya) 2:08:06 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 4890. Monica Timmins 4:34:28 |
MALAGA MARATHON
New member Monica Timmins ran the Malaga Marathon alongside just under 6000 other competitors as part of her training for this year’s Art O’Neill Challenge (where Graeme Warren and Eoin Phelan are also planning to compete). Monica had run Dublin earlier this Autumn and her marathon result is the 40th recorded this year by our club – by some distance the most (we had 26 marathon results in 2023 and never more than 12 before.
This mean marathons were the third most popular distance this year after the 1/2 marathon (46) and 5 km (45 km). This was a big drop in popularity for the 5 km distance where we had 70 competing in 2023!
The 5 km distance remains far and away our most raced distance with 449 results (10 km is second with 190 results).
| RESULT |
| 1. Vincent Kipkorir (Kenya) 2:08:06 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 4890. Monica Timmins 4:34:28 |
GLANAGEENTY HALF-MARATHON AND THE RACE FOR ‘MOST PROLIFIC’ 2024
Eoin Phelan attended the Wicklow Wolf RC party and then was on the road the next morning at 5 am for the trip to Castleisland and the Glanageenty Trail running Festival.
As of this writing results are not yet available for the longest distance (the half-marathon) in which Eoin competed but he extended his record as ‘most prolific’ to 53 races and he is planning at least another 2 in 2024. He holds a 25 race lead over last year’s most prolific runner – James Heggie (currently on 28 which was the winning tally in 2023).
Despite being only a member for three years Eoin has moved up to 8th in the overall list of most races – a list led by Angus Tyner (138) and he now has 7th placed Rene Borg (80 races) in his sights. Most prolific woman in 2024 is Aoife Joyce with 13 races and the most prolific in club history is Donna Quinn with 112. Donna also holds the record for most races run by a woman in one season for the club at 26 races (in 2017).
It should be noted we do not count ParkRuns in this competition.
Glendalough AC 