Two road marathons and two trail races in our backlog of reporting.
ROTTERDAM MARATHON
Report pride of place goes to Catherine Devitt whose fantastic 3:01:39 marathon debut in Rotterdam knocked 13 minutes off Donna Quinn’s overall and F40 club records.
RESULT
1. Geoffrey Kamworor (Kenya) 2:04:33
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919. Catherine Devitt 3:01:39 (PB, Club Record)
Brighton Marathon
David Murphy enjoyed good sunshine taking on the Brighton Marathon and reported: ‘Tough day, but got it done. 👍’
RESULT
1. Sam Cook () 2:26:47
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1622. David Murphy 3:41:55
Westport Marathons
Wind, sun and hills were on offer at the Westport marathon where Nora Butler ran well to secure 4th female spot overall on a day where the course record was lowered to 2:33 by Sean Hehir.
RESULT
1. Sean Hehir (Croghan AC) 2:33:22
——GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-
77. Nora Butler 3:35:57
WEXFORD 10K AND HALF-MARATHON
Before we turn to the trails, we had a few more road races – with Eoin Phelan building his lead in ‘Most Prolific’ racer to 11 running despite broken ribs in the half-marathon where new member Owen O’Connor ran in the 10k.
RESULT – 10 KM
1. Jack Butler () 0:35:04
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193. Owen O’Connor 0:53:22
RESULT – HALF-MARATHON
1. Adam O’Connnor (United Striders) 1:16:12
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575. Eoin Phelan 1:56:36
RESULT
1. Patsy O’Cualan (CG-258) 0:39:11
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36. Tivon Tyner 0:48:55
Inis Oirr 10 km
Tivon Tyner ran the Lee Road ParkRun with his father – long-term club member Angus Tyner – in 22:52 (Angus ran 20:10 for 3rd overall) and then headed over to run the very bump Inis Oirr 10 km race in 48:55 – a club best for men aged 18-19 years in our club.
RESULT
1. Patsy O’Cualan (CG-258) 0:39:11
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36. Tivon Tyner 0:48:55
STREETS OF KILKENNY 5K
The most recent result of our bunch where club secretary Donna Quinn had won tickets to the Streets of Kilkenny with daughter Lily (member of Parnell) to the Streets of Kilkenny 5k and ran a solid time while enjoying a night away!
RESULT
1. Cathal O’Reilly (Kilkenny City Harriers AC) 0:14:15
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338. Donna Quinn 0:21:12
Maurice Mullins 50k
Only three GMACers took on the Maurice Mullins this year and it was Philip O’Brien leading the team home ahead of Graham Bush and James Heggie.
RESULT
1. Enda Cloake (Slaney Olympic) 4:21:48
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66. Philip O’Brien 5:49:35
68. Graham Bushe 5:51:27
237. James Heggie 8:40:23
Strahahely Woods
Becky Quinn took yet another victory as she extends her women’s win record with IMRA with Graham Bush taking the M55 and Joe Lalor the M70 at Stranahelly where James Heggie DNFed.
Glendalough AC 