Big focus on road races in this report with a slew of Club Records falling on the 4 mile and even the classical 10 km distance! A few of our runners also decided to skip the Moneystown 4 miler and head further south to the Annacurra Trail Race. Updated Club Records can be found here.
WICKLOW HOSPICE HALF
We had nine people in action at the annual Wicklow Hospice fund-raiser in Avondale. All copmeted in the half-marathon distance and Ben Lewis was our first man home with Nora Butler our first woman.
| RESULT |
| 1. Jason Reilly (Civil Service Harriers) 1:17:08 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 43. Ben Lewis 1:39:15 |
| 69. Nora Butler 1:42:38 (WW RC) |
| 71. Jack Moore 1:42:44 (WW RC) |
| 82. John Campbell 1:44:01 (WW RC) |
| 115. Brian Hendley 1:48:09 (WW RC) |
| 171. Julia Palma 1:53:19 (WW RC) |
| 172. Paul O’Riordan 1:53:20 (WW RC) |
| 200. Monica Timmins 1:57:23 |
| 330. Sam Fleming 2:12:04 (WW RC) |
MONEYSTOWN 4 MILE
In the Moneystown 4 Mile – the second counter in this year’s club championship – Catherine Devitt was our first runner home. She annihilated the existing 4 mile women’s record in the process lowering Rachel Wisdom’s ten year old 25:24 mark to 23:51 (a time also faster than Angus Tyner’s 24:02 men’s record – the first woman’s club record to be faster than a current men’s record) while lowering her own eight year old personal best. As if that was not enough it also constituted a new course record breaking Donna Quinn’s inaugural mark.
Catherine was followed home by Gavin Kennedy who also hugely improved his PB from 26:15 to 24:55. Richard Allen – next in 25:55 – set a new club m50 record breaking Fergal Olohan’s 30:01 from last year. Donna Quinn was next as 2nd woman overall followed by Aoife Joyce (1st F45) and Siobhan Brennan who both won the F50 category and lowered her own club F50 record by over a minute and a half. We had several more finishers – most in PBs – including co-organiser David Clancy who would have been delighted to see 255 finishers.
| RESULT |
| 1. Ed O’Connor (Brother’s Pearse AC) 0:20:31 (Course record) |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 15. Catherine Devitt 0:23:51 (1st woman, PB, Club Record, Course Record)) |
| 18. Gavin Kennedy 0:24:55 (PB) |
| 26. Richard Allan 0:25:55 (PB, Club M50 Record) – WW RC |
| 29. Donna Quinn 0:26:22 (2nd woman) |
| 44. Aoife Joyce 0:28:44 (1st F45) |
| 51. Rebecca Whineray 0:30:06 (PB) |
| 52. Colm Kenna 0:30:20 |
| 54. Siobhan Brennan 0:30:26 (1st F50, PB) |
| 64. David Clancy 0:31:42 (PB) |
| 71. Cari Burke 0:32:24 (PB) |
| 122. Ciara Flynn 0:38:54 (PB) |
| 123. Sile Keane 0:39:24 (PB) 130. Hilary Minch 0:40:21 (PB) 137. Aine Doyle 0:40:45 (PB) 138. Mary Doyle 0:41:59 (PB) 139. Maria Doyle 0:42:39 (PB) |
annacurra trail race
109 IMRA runners took the start in Annacurra on a fast course where Eoin Phelan kept building his early lead in the ‘most prolific’ and Becky Quinn was our first finisher and took the 1st F50 prize a day after collecting her Wicklow Star Award for her performances at the World Masters in Canfranc last year.
| RESULT |
| 1. Matthew McConnell () 0:37:45 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 23. Becky Quinn 0:49:59 (1st F50) – WW RC |
| 49. Eoin Phelan 0:57:17 – WW RC |
CARLINGFORD 10 KM
Paul O’Riordan had a terrific run at the Carlingford 10 km – finishing 4th overall in a field of 286. His time of 36:57 was not only a new personal best but also broke the overall and M35 club record’s breaking Richard Costelloe’s 37:08 (overall record) and Torben Dahl’s long-standing M35 record of 37:45. It also put’s places Paul joint 3rd on our ‘all-time ranking’ (times run by current club runners) with club coach Rene Borg with only Amidou Dembele’s all-time best of 36:31 and Torben Dahl’s 36:55 from 2015 faster.
| RESULT |
| 1. Noel McNally () 0:32:55 |
| ——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————- |
| 4. Paul O’Riordan 0:36:57 (PB, Club Record, Club M35 record) – WW RC |
Glendalough AC 