Category: Road running

WEEKEND ROUND-UP: Clara, Avondale, Enniscorthy

by glendaloughac, posted in Club races / events, Race reports, Road running, Winter League

Last week’s National Masters cross-country marked the end of the cross-country season for most of our runners. But the action continues…

Parkrun

Our weekend running began at 9 am in Avondale where Angus Tyner finished 6th in the ParkRun in 22:12. Not long after the smallest crowd yet assembled for our penultimate Winter League race (perhaps the weather deterred?) on the crown jewel of the six courses in the league: Clara Vale.

RESULTS

  1. Cormac Conroy, Parnell AC 18:48

———GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS——–

6. Angus Tyner 22:12

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Winter League

The League has come down to a three-way battle between Aoife Joyce, Flora McKnight and coahc René Borg. All would have to better their handicap by 2 minutes or more to have a chance to stay in contention. Flora duly lowered her 29 minute handicap to 27 min and Aoife took her 30 minute mark down to 26 min. René had to improve his handicap of 42 minutes for the longer course to 40 minutes to stay within reach and just about scraped it with 39:44 – lowering Barry O’Neill’s course-record by 10 seconds in the process. All now comes down to Brockagh Woods next weekend where Aoife starts the day as the heavy favourite – her fate is in her own hands.

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Aoife at the Enniscorthy 10k. Photo: John Busher

Enniscorthy 10 km

Aoife returned to Enniscorthy for the first time in 12 years looking to improve on her 46 minute mark set in Inch in July. Storm Dennis meant this task was a bit more onerous than expected but she still came home in a chip time of 44:48. Mission accomplished.

  1. Ger Forde, Slaney Olympic 33:10

————–GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS

99. Aoife Joyce 44:48

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Brockagh Burst (belated)

We also spotted – a bit late – that Lillian Deegan ran Brockagh Burst where she finished 180th.

  1. Killian Mooney 27:14

————–GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS———–

180. Lillian Deegan 1:07:36

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REPORT: Dublin Marathon 2019

by glendaloughac, posted in Race reports, Road running

Donna Quinn took full advantage of the perfect Dublin conditions to knock nearly 13 minutes off her marathon PB to record 3:27:25 and finish 66th in her age category. This is a new club record for the ladies section of our club  – so well done Donna, tremendous reward for your hard work and commitment to your training.

Not to be completely outshone in the local household, husband William Belton had his marathon debut, always a tricky proposition, and came home in 4:09:32. Enjoy the recuperation in the Belton/Quinn household!

RESULTS

  1. Ousmane El Goumri 2:08:06 (CR)

     30. Motu Gedefa 2:27:48 (ladies winner)

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS———————–

2644. Donna Quinn 3:27:25 (PB / LADIES CLUB RECORD)

8697. William Belton 4:09:32 (PB / DEBUT)

Full results

Weekend RACE UPDATES: Dublin Race Series 10 Mile & IMRA Sliabh Bui

by glendaloughac, posted in Race reports, Road running, Trail running

We had several runners racing over the hot-weather August weekend, both on the Dublin roads and Wexford mountain trails.

Donna Quinn, Colm Kenna and William Belton competed at Phoenix Park for the Dublin Race Series 10 Mile. Donna finished the race in a time of 1:14.04, placing an impressive 12th out of 339 in her gender/age group. Not far behind, Colm finished the run in 1:24.16, and William followed up in 1:30.15. By all reports it was a hot day on the tarmac!

Meanwhile in Wexford Barry O’Neill ran the IMRA Sliabh Bui Southeast League race. This hilly course was a mix of single track, forest trail and fast fire roads, totalling just over 13km with 360m of climbs. No official results have yet been published, but Barry completed the course in a respectable time of 1:10.04.

MORE RACE UPDATES: Blaney 10 Mile and Malahide Castle 10k

by glendaloughac, posted in Race reports, Road running

We missed a few results in our round-up from yesterday. We stated (wrongly) that our runners did the South Dublin 10k this weekend but it was in fact the weekend prior. This weekend Donna Quinn was in action in Monaghan running the Blaney 10 mile and finishing 1st F35 in 71 minutes – her third best mark over the distance.

Richard Costelloe bagged himself a second 10k PB within a week at the Malahide Castle 10k, finishing in 14th place and lowering his time by 19 seconds to 41:31.

BLANEY 10 MILE

  1. Giden Komosop, 1zero1 51:09

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS——-

53. Donna Quinn (1st F35) 1:11:41

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Summer Series Malahide Castle 10k

  1. Shane Gavin 38:17

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS——-

14. Richard Costelloe 41:31

WEEK SUM-UP: Brockagh, South Dublin and Never Give Up 10ks

by glendaloughac, posted in Mountain running, Race reports, Road running

Lots of action last week for our runners.

BROCKAGH

First in action this week was Colm Kenna  – doing his warm-up for the Frank Duffy 10 km 4 days later on the slopes of Brockagh. Newcastle AC’s Luke McMullan’s win meant Northern honours prevailed on the race. Colm came home in 72:13 for 103rd place in a mid-size field of 162.

  1. Luke McMullan 48:03

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-

103. Colm Kenna 72:13

https://www.imra.ie/events/results/id/1730/

AYLING ABYSS

A ‘hang-over’ from last weeks result must also be mentioned as Torben Dahl took on the technical route up and down Djouce – dubbed the ‘Ayling’ Abyss after inventor Alan Ayling. Perhaps still feeling the Tucker Trail 80k in his legs Torben swooped across the finish line in 27th – a bit down on his usual placings in the league. The next day he could celebrate his 41st birthday – congratulations from everyone in Glendalough AC!

RESULTS

  1. Barry Cronin 52:40

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-

27. Torben Dahl 63:55

South Dublin 10k

Yesterday’s big Saturday fixture is the South Dublin 10k – part of the Dublin race series – where Richard Costelloe, Colm and William Belton were in action. Richard had a particularly good run setting a new PB of 41:50.

RESULTS

  1. Paul Pollock, Annadelle Striders 29:28

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-

259. Richard Costelloe 41:50 (PB)

696. Colm Kenna 47:46

840. William Belton 49:24

With three club runners in action, this race becomes an automatic counter in the club championship. Richard’s win here means he now leads the championship as although Torben Dahl and Barry O’Neill can still overtake him if they ‘win’ their ‘run in hand’.

NeverGiveUp 10k

Aoife Joyce capped off the weekend action in Inch at the NeverGiveUp 10k, her first race on the distance for nearly 6 years. Her time of 46:06 sufficed in securing third lady’s spot and 2nd F40.

  1. Brian Kirwan, St. Laurence O’Toole 36:28

————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————-

28. Aoife Joyce 46:06 (2nd F40, 3rd Female)

Never Give Up 5k/10k
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REPORT; Wicklow Road Championship 2019

by glendaloughac, posted in Race reports, Road running
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While our seven representatives at the Wicklow Road Championship this year was our smallest contingent yet, they still brought home two individual and two team medals.

Rachel Wisdom and Donna Quinn took 1st and 2nd in the ladies O35 category and combined with Aoife Joyce, back for her first race in 4 years, to take the team gold in the women’s masters o35-49 category.

Due to injury and late drop-offs we only fielded one men’s team: a masters team and not a senior team as well as in previous years. Here Torben Dahl was first home in 17:52 followed by Barry O’Neill and Richard Costelloe who arrived close together and Colm Kenna as the fourth man to count.

Also a big thank you to the organisers and to our own volunteers who stepped up: Yvonne Brennan and Angus Tyner.

RESULTS

  1. Brian Geraghty 15:53 , Greystones and District

———————–GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS—————

21. Torben Dahl 17:52 (team Bronze 35-49)

41. Barry O’Neill 18:50 (team Bronze 35-49)

42. Richard Costelloe 18:54 (team Bronze 35-49)

50. Rachel Wisdom 20:17 (Individual Gold 35-49, Team Gold 35-49)

65. Donna Quinn 21:03 (Individual Silver 35-49, Team Gold 35-49)

80. Aoife Joyce 22:15 (Team Gold 35-49)

81. Colm Kenna 22:16 (team Bronze 35-49)

REPORT: Belated half-marathon news

by glendaloughac, posted in Half-marathon, Lough Boora, Master's Record, Race reports, Road running, road running, Season Best, Torben Dahl

Torben Dahl ran 79:13 at the scenic and fast Lough Boora half-marathon in Offaly on 7th April. He cleverly kept this hidden perhaps to modestly draw attention away from this being a season’s best time for the club (across all distances) and the 4th best time ever run in the club jersey. Torben holds the current club record of 78:33 but his new mark is an over-40ies record for us (his PB is 77:30 set in 2011).

RESULTS

  1. Colin Maher, Ballyfin AC, 70:33

————–GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS———–

5. Torben Dahl 79:13

RESULTS

REPORT: Richard battles at Clontarf

by glendaloughac, posted in Race reports, Road running

A millennium and some loose change since Brodir ran into Brian Boru’s tent and slew the old king, it was Richard’s time to do the running as he secured himself a 10 mile PB at the Leinster 10 mile championship at Clontarf. Performance wise it was another big step up from his half-marathon in February so Richard seems to be hitting form coming into the summer!

RESULTS

  1. Kieran Little, Crusaders AC 54:17

———–GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————

136. Richard Costelloe 72:51 (PB)

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