There was some excellent performances from our athletes at today's Raheny 5ml. Gerry Curtis has held the course record, 22.39 for over 25 years now and still nobody can get near to it. Todays winner Martin Fagan, Mullingar Harriers, ran 23.36, and Lizzie Lee, Leevale AC, 1st lady home, ran 26.33.
Gary Condon ran an excellent 26.42 to finish 29th overall and 2nd O/40, a great start to his season. Siobhan Butler continued where she left off in 2014 by smashing her PB by almost 2minutes, Siobhan ran 35.37 (1min 46 off her previous best, set in Raheny last year) and finished 10th O/45. Interestingly only 30 seconds separated athletes 5 to 10 in Siobhan's Category. Emer Hynes also smashed her Pb, recording an excellent 40.00, 1min 27sec off her previous best. Charlotte Stevens, as always ran an excellent race, recording a new Pb of 37.21, and 5th O/50. Charlotte took over 20 seconds off her previous best. Colm O'Heigeartaigh ran a fine 31.11, Suzanne Foot, 32.10 and 5th O/40 is back in form after her recent injury. Ashling Smith continued her impressive form in running 33.28 in her first time racing over 5miles. Leanne Geraghty was well pleased with her run, a fine 37.11 and it was great to see Marc Kierans back after a long lay off and running 38.41. Sandra Brady, making great progress since her return from injury, ran 40.37. Also running their first 5miler were Elaine Nuzun and Ana Molina who ran 46.18 and 47.36 respectively.
Tadgh Twomey, well known to most in Bray Runners, finished 2nd O/75 in 46.15. Maria Dolan, ex Bray Runners, finished 2nd O/45 in 30.10, Catherina McKieran winning the category in 27.41.
The Annual General Meeting of Bray Runners will take place on Thursday next, 22nd Jan, at 8.30 PM sharp. We would ask all members to make every effort to attend. Annual Membership Fee, 65 euro, can be paid to Dermot Brennan, on the night.
Thursday Training continues from St. Killians College, commencing at 6.30pm. Very well attended over the past couple of weeks. On Thursday 29th Jan., we are encouraging our Fit4life group to take part in the Greystones 2ml Fit4life race, which starts at 7.30pm. Further information at this weeks session.
Sunday 25th Jan, will see a large number of our athletes take part in Raheny 5ml. Good luck to all taking part.
Sunday 1st Feb., we will be well represented in Dungarvan 10m. Good luck to all taking part.
Sunday 8th Feb., Enniscorthy 10k, always a large group from our club, 15 last year, and Sli Cualann take part. Many of our athletes were category winners last year, plus our ladies team, Helen, Noelle, Diana and Denise, took 2nd place. Lets go 1 better this year. Sli Cualann mens team took 3rd place behind Raheny and SBR, can they go 2 better this year.
Sunday 8th March, Ballycotton 10ml. 27 of our athletes have entered this year. The Garryvoe Hotel is the one that most of our runners and friends use, if staying over.
Wicklow 5k Road Race C/ships. Date To Be Confirmed, generally held in April.
Monday 6th April, Leinster 10mile C/ships. Venue, Raheny. All categories included in this event. Category results from 2014 can be viewed at; http://www.athleticsleinster.org/images/results/results210414_leinster_10mile.pdf
Sunday 12th April, National 10k C/ships in conjunction with Great Ireland Run, Phoenix Park. 2014 results,
Men, http://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/results/National_10k_Senior_Mas_Men_Ind.pdf
Women. http://www.athleticsireland.ie/downloads/results/National_10k_Sen_Mas_Women_Ind.pdf
Monday 4th May, Leinster Road, 3k and 6k, C/ships. Venue, Gowran. Another race where we are always well represented.
In an effort to ensure our club is well represented at Leinster C/ships we would ask all our athletes to take part in at least one, or all 3 should you so wish, of the following in 2015, Leinster 10mile C/ships, on 6th April, Leinster Novice and Masters 3k and 6k Road C/ships on 4th May and Leinster Novice and Masters C/C C/ships on 25th October. In 2014 we won 3 individual medals from these C/ships, lets try and increase that number this year. Our athletes were part of Sli Cualann and Wicklow County teams who also won team medals at these C/ships in 2014.
Finally, we usually take up a collection, before Christmas, for our Thursday night session caretaker, who looks after our gear and makes sure the water is hot for showers etc. We forgot to do so in Dec, anyone who would like to make a small donation can do so at training on Thursday next or at our AGM, also on Thursday or pass on to Jason during the week.
