Weekend Report
Date: 22/11/10
Togher athletes had a busy few days with athletes competing at a Mile Challenge at the Mardyke Track, at the Mizuno Feetfirst 5km road race in Killarney and at the Munster Masters Cross-Country championships in Dungarvan.
At the Mardyke on Friday, our young junior athletes took part in a mile challenge with 60 athletes taking part in total in 2 races. The 1st year race had 29 finishers with Ruairi Casey having a superb win in a time of 5.42 with James Gorton 2nd also 5.42 and Barry Forde 3rd. Other great runs came from Daniel Leahy, Alan Morgan, Aidan Desaulles and Evan Byrne all under 6 mins. In the senior race after a slow first lap Peter Hanrahan stretched out the field and won in 4.36 from Danny Mullins 4.38 and Emmet Bracken 4.43. This race was a good test for all those competing in the All-Ireland Cross-Country championships in Derry next weekend where the club has u14, u16, u18 and u20 teams in action.
At the Mizuno Feetfirst 5km road race in Killarney Eoin O Sullivan and Donal Coakley towed the line. Held in the beautiful surroundings of the Killarney national park, Eoin produced a fine run to finish 2nd in 15.55 with Donal also running very well to finish 4th in 16.11.
At the Munster Masters Cross-Country championships in Dungarvan Tony Kelleher produced a fine race to finish 2nd overall and 1st in the mens over 40 category. Congratulations Tony on a fine performance.
Finally Craig Murphy lines up tomorrow in Terre Haute Indiana at the NCAA Cross-Country championships with his team Iona. The races will be broadcast live on www.flotrack.org from 4.45pm Irish time on Monday with Craigs race starting at 5.45pm. Best of luck Craig from all at the club.
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Togher athletes had a busy few days with athletes competing at a Mile Challenge at the Mardyke Track, at the Mizuno Feetfirst 5km road race in Killarney and at the Munster Masters Cross-Country championships in Dungarvan.
At the Mardyke on Friday, our young junior athletes took part in a mile challenge with 60 athletes taking part in total in 2 races. The 1st year race had 29 finishers with Ruairi Casey having a superb win in a time of 5.42 with James Gorton 2nd also 5.42 and Barry Forde 3rd. Other great runs came from Daniel Leahy, Alan Morgan, Aidan Desaulles and Evan Byrne all under 6 mins. In the senior race after a slow first lap Peter Hanrahan stretched out the field and won in 4.36 from Danny Mullins 4.38 and Emmet Bracken 4.43. This race was a good test for all those competing in the All-Ireland Cross-Country championships in Derry next weekend where the club has u14, u16, u18 and u20 teams in action.
At the Mizuno Feetfirst 5km road race in Killarney Eoin O Sullivan and Donal Coakley towed the line. Held in the beautiful surroundings of the Killarney national park, Eoin produced a fine run to finish 2nd in 15.55 with Donal also running very well to finish 4th in 16.11.
At the Munster Masters Cross-Country championships in Dungarvan Tony Kelleher produced a fine race to finish 2nd overall and 1st in the mens over 40 category. Congratulations Tony on a fine performance.
Finally Craig Murphy lines up tomorrow in Terre Haute Indiana at the NCAA Cross-Country championships with his team Iona. The races will be broadcast live on www.flotrack.org from 4.45pm Irish time on Monday with Craigs race starting at 5.45pm. Best of luck Craig from all at the club.
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