Tag: Races

REPORT: European Cross-country challenge and ‘To Hell with the Fairies’

by glendaloughac, posted in Cross-country running, Mountain running, Race reports

Despite the Dublin Marathon coming up and winter training in full swing for many, a few club runners still got a race in over the last two weekends – in this case our two Danes!

First up was Torben Dahl who finished 13th in ‘To Hell with the Fairies’ out of 101 runners over the testing half-marathon course with 650 m ascent.

This Sunday, Rene Borg ran the European Cross-Country Experience – a ‘relaxed’ cross-country races offering a glimpse at the European Championship course. He finished 28th out of the 496 participants.

To Hell with the Fairies (Dublin Mountain Half)

  1. Killian Mooney, DSD 1:38

———–GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS————

13. Torben Dahl 1:56:15

full results

European Cross-Country Experience

  1. Stephen Butler, Raheny Shamrocks 14:02

—————GLENDALOUGH AC RUNNERS—————–

28. René Borg 16:42

full results

https://www.imra.ie/events/details/id/1743/

REPORT: Wicklow Novice XC 2019

by glendaloughac, posted in Cross-country running, Race reports

After a one-year absence from Novice cross-country, we had a men’s team representing us last weekend for the county season opener in Roundwood. The men’s challenge was to run 6 x 1 km laps of a hilly field and combine the best four scorers in an attempt to win team medals.

Debutante Richard Costelloe had a storming run: going off boldly in the top half of the field and holding on for a fine 9th place. Behind him Barry O’Neill and René Borg packed for most of the race. Rene passed Barry on the 4th lap only to be repassed on the final half of the last lap. They finished 14th and 15th with 4 seconds between them. 

The last man is usually critical in cross-country and this proved the case again: Colm Kenna suffered a bit as the result of a too fast lap 1, but by toughing it out to the finish line he secured our silver medals. Had one of the two Bray Runners behind him not DNFed, we would likely have been consigned to the Bronze!

Kilcoole where run-away winners with 12 points (15 points clear of our crew) and the individual honours went to Inbhear Dee’s Robin Mooney.

This weekend another four-man team consisting of Anthony Breen, Barry O’Neill, Colm Kenna and René Borg will take on the Wicklow Intermediate in Avondale.

RESULTS

  1. Robin Mooney, Inbhear Dee 21:49

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9. Richard Costelloe 23:32

14. Barry O’Neill 24:37

15. René Borg 24:41

19. Colm Kenna 28:47